The unique identity of the Russian people and their traditions have long been passed down from generation to generation. Through oral folklore people comprehended the knowledge and customs of their distant ancestors. Thanks to fairy tales, children early age began to connect with the roots of their own family. The wisdom of centuries, embedded in magical and instructive stories, helped the child grow up as a worthy person.
Now kids don’t have to wait for adults to tell them amazing tales - they can read Russian folk tales on our website on their own. Having become acquainted with them, children will learn more about such concepts as intelligence, friendship, courage, resourcefulness, dexterity, and cunning. Not a single story will end without a wise conclusion that will help the child better understand the realities of the world around him. The heritage of our ancestors is of no small value for lovers of folk traditions in the 21st century.
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Russian folk tales occupy an important place among oral folk art and open up to young readers an amazing and magical world. Folk tales reflect the life and moral values Russian people, their kindness and sympathy for the weak. The main characters at first glance seem simple-minded, but they manage to overcome all obstacles and achieve their goal. Each story captivates with unforgettable adventures, colorful descriptions of the lives of the main characters, fantastic creatures and magical phenomena.
Fairy tales - poetic stories about extraordinary events and adventures involving fictional characters. In modern Russian, the concept of the word “fairy tale” has acquired its meaning since the 17th century. Until that point, the word "fable" was supposedly used in this meaning.
One of the main features of a fairy tale is that it is always based on an invented story, with a happy ending, where good defeats evil. The stories contain a certain hint that enables the child to learn to recognize good and evil and to comprehend life through clear examples.
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Reading fairy tales is one of the main and important stages on your child's path to life. Various stories make it clear that the world around us is quite contradictory and unpredictable. By listening to stories about the adventures of the main characters, children learn to value love, honesty, friendship and kindness.
Reading fairy tales is useful not only for children. Having grown up, we forget that in the end good always triumphs over evil, that all adversity is nothing, and a beautiful princess is waiting for her prince on a white horse. Give a little good mood and plunge into fairy world simple enough!
We were all children once and all of us, without exception, loved fairy tales. After all, in the world of fairy tales there is a special and extraordinary style, filled with our dreams and fantasies. Without even fairy tales real world loses its colors, becomes ordinary and boring. But where did everyone come from? famous heroes? Perhaps, once upon a time a real Baba Yaga and a goblin walked the earth? Let's figure it out together!
According to V. Dahl’s definition, “a fairy tale is a fictional story, an unprecedented and even unrealistic story, a legend.” But the New Illustrated Encyclopedia gives the following definition of a fairy tale: “this is one of the main genres of folklore, epic, mainly prose work magical, adventurous or everyday character with a focus on fiction.” And of course, one cannot help but recall the words of our great poet: “A fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it!” Good fellows lesson!"
That is, whatever one may say, a fairy tale is fiction... But everything in it is unusual, magical and very attractive. There is an immersion in a mysterious, enchanted world, where animals speak in a human voice, where objects and trees move on their own, where good necessarily defeats evil.
Each of us remembers how the Fox was punished for tricking the Bunny out of the hut (“The Fox and the Hare”), how the stupid Wolf, who took the word of the cunning Fox (“The Wolf and the Fox”), cruelly paid with his tail, how quickly they coped with a turnip (“Turnip”), when they decided to pull it together and also did not forget to call the Mouse, just as the strong forgot about the weak in the fairy tale “Teremok” and what this led to...
Smart, kind, correct, highly moral, embedded in fairy tales helps to bring up the best in our children human qualities. The fairy tale teaches life wisdom. And these values are eternal; they make up what we call spiritual culture.
Among other things, the invaluable nature of fairy tales lies in the fact that they provide an opportunity to introduce children to the life and way of life of the Russian people.
What does Russian village mean? What did a tree, a forest mean to a Russian person? And household items: dishes, clothes, shoes (the famous bast shoes alone are worth it!), musical instruments(balalaika, gusli). This is our opportunity to tell and show children how people lived in Russia before, how the culture of a great people took shape, of which we, their parents, grandparents, by the will of fate, became a part.
Russian folk tales are also an invaluable assistant in developing a child’s language and speech skills. Words and expressions from fairy tales with their ancient and deep meaning are embedded in our minds and live in us, no matter where we are.
Fairy tales provide an opportunity to expand your vocabulary on any topic (whether it be tales about animals, everyday life or magic). Traditional Russian repetitions, special melody, rare “forgotten” words, proverbs and sayings, which are so rich in Russian speech: all this makes it possible to make a fairy tale accessible, understandable for children’s consciousness, and helps to remember it easily and quickly. And all this develops children’s imagination, teaches them beautiful and coherent speech. (Who knows, maybe those fairy tales that they begin to invent after Russian folk tales will also one day enter the treasury of the language).
A fairy tale is special literary genre, a story unfolding in a timeless and spaceless dimension. Characters such a story - fictional characters, falling into difficult situations and emerging from them thanks to assistants, most often endowed with magical properties. At the same time, insidious villains plot various intrigues against them, but in the end good wins. The creation of fairy tales has an ancient history.
FROM THE HISTORY OF FAIRY TALES:
Fairy tales appeared in such ancient times that it is very difficult to accurately determine the time of their birth. We know just as little about their authors. Most likely, the fairy tales were composed by the same peasants and shepherds who often acted as the main characters of the story.
Has anyone wondered whether there are real events behind these legends, whether there were fairy-tale heroes the most ordinary people, whose life and adventures could become the basis for fairy tales. Why not? For example, a goblin could be someone who lived in the forest for a long time, was unaccustomed to communicating with people, but got along well with the forest and its inhabitants. Well, Vasilisa is a beauty - everything is clear here. But Koschey the Immortal looks like an old man who married a young girl.
But the situation is more interesting. Our land is located at the crossroads of roads from Europe to Asia, from south to north and vice versa. That is why we lived in close connection with neighboring peoples. From the north, we were contacted by the Vikings, who were a step higher in development than us. They brought us metal and weapons, their legends and fairy tales - and we brought them clothes, shoes and food, everything that our land is rich in. From there the fairy tale about Baba Yaga, where she was the evil old woman Heel on two bone legs, who lives in a separate hut on the outskirts of the forest, guards the souls of the dead and is a border point in the transition from earthly life to the afterlife. She is not particularly kind and day after day creates a lot of trials and troubles for those who walk this road. That is why the heroes of our fairy tales, driven into a remote corner by their troubles, come to Baba Yaga.
Transmitted fairy tales from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation, changing them along the way and adding new details.
Tales were told by adults and - contrary to our current understanding - not only by children, but also by adults.
Fairy tales taught us how to get out of difficult situations, overcome trials with honor, conquer fear - and every fairy tale ended with a happy ending.
Some scientists believe that the origins of fairy tales lie in primitive rituals. The rituals themselves were forgotten, but the stories were preserved as treasures of useful and instructive knowledge.
It is difficult to say when the first fairy tale appeared. This is probably not possible “either to say in a fairy tale or to describe with a pen.” But it is known that the first fairy tales were dedicated to natural phenomena and their main characters were the Sun, the Wind and the Moon.
A little later they took on a relatively human form. For example, the owner of water is Grandfather Vodyanoy, and Leshy is the owner of the forest and forest animals. It is these images that indicate that folk tales were created at a time when people humanized and animated all the elements and forces of nature.
Water One more important aspect beliefs primitive people, which is reflected in folk tales, is the veneration of birds and animals. Our ancestors believed that each clan and tribe comes from a specific animal, which was the patron of the clan (totem). That is why Voron Voronovich, Falcon or Eagle often act in Russian fairy tales.
Also, ancient rituals (for example, initiation of a boy into hunters and warriors) found their expression in folk tales. It is surprising that it was with the help of fairy tales that they came to us in an almost primordial form. Therefore, folk tales are very interesting for historians.
FAIRY TALES AND NATIONAL CHARACTER
Fairy tales reveal all the most important aspects of Russian life. Fairy tales are an inexhaustible source of information about national character. Their strength lies in the fact that they not only reveal it, but also create it. Fairy tales reveal many individual character traits of Russian people and their peculiarities. inner world and ideals.
Here is a typical dialogue (fairy tale “The Flying Ship”):
The old man asks the fool: “Where are you going?”
- “Yes, the king promised to give his daughter to the one who makes a flying ship.”
- “Can you make such a ship?”
- “No, I can’t!” - “So why are you going?” - “God knows!”
For this wonderful answer (because it is honest!) the old man helps the hero get the princess. This eternal wandering “I don’t know where”, in search of “I don’t know what” is inherent in all Russian fairy tales, and indeed in all Russian life in general.
Even in Russian fairy tales, as well as among the Russian people, faith in miracles is strong.
Of course, all fairy tales in the world are based on some extraordinary events. But nowhere does the miraculous dominate the plot as much as in Russians. It piles up, overwhelms the action and is always believed in, unconditionally and without a shadow of a doubt.
Artist: Anastasia Stolbova Russian fairy tales also testify to the special faith of the Russian person in the meaning of the spoken word. Thus, there is a separate cycle from the category of fairy tales-legends, in which the entire plot is tied to various kinds of accidentally escaped curses. It is characteristic that only Russian versions of such tales are known. Fairy tales also emphasize the importance of the spoken word, the need to keep it: you promised to marry the one who finds the arrow - you must fulfill it; if you kept your word and went to your father’s grave, you will be rewarded; made a promise to marry the one who stole the wings - fulfill it. All fairy tales are filled with these simple truths.
The word opens doors, turns the hut, breaks the spell. The sung song brings back the memory of the husband, who forgot and did not recognize his wife, the little goat with his quatrain (except for him, apparently, he does not know how to say anything, otherwise he would have explained what happened) saves his sister Alyonushka and himself. The word is believed, without any doubt. “I’ll be of use to you,” says some bunny, and the hero lets him go, confident (as is the reader) that this will happen.
Often heroes are rewarded for their suffering. This theme is also especially loved by Russian fairy tales. Often, sympathies are on the side of heroes (even more often - heroines) not because of their special qualities or the actions they perform, but because of the life circumstances - misfortune, orphanhood, poverty - in which they find themselves. In this case, salvation comes from the outside, from nowhere, not as a result of the active actions of the hero, but as the restoration of justice. Such fairy tales are designed to instill compassion, sympathy for one’s neighbor, and a feeling of love for all those who suffer. How can one not recall the thought of F. M. Dostoevsky that suffering is necessary for a person, because it strengthens and purifies the soul.
The attitude of the Russian people to work reflected in fairy tales seems peculiar. Here is a seemingly incomprehensible fairy tale about Emelya the Fool from the point of view of ideals.
He lay on the stove all his life, did nothing, and did not hide the reason, he answered “I’m lazy!” to all requests for help. Once I went out into the water and caught a magic pike. The continuation is well known to everyone: the pike persuaded him to let her go back into the hole, and for this she undertook to fulfill all of Emelya’s wishes. And here's pike command“, at my request,” a sleigh without a horse carries a fool to the city, the ax chops the wood itself, and they are put into the oven, the buckets march into the house without outside help. Moreover, Emelya also got the royal daughter, also not without the intervention of magic.
The ending, however, is still hopeful (in children's retellings for some reason it is often omitted): “The fool, seeing that all people are like people, and he alone was bad and stupid, wanted to become better and for this he said: “As a pike by command, and at my request, that I become such a fine fellow, that nothing like this should happen to me, and that I be extremely smart!” And as soon as he had time to speak, at that very moment he became so beautiful, and also smart, that everyone was surprised.”
This fairy tale is often interpreted as a reflection of the eternal tendency of Russian people to laziness and idleness.
She speaks, rather, about the severity of peasant labor, which gave rise to the desire to relax, which made one dream of a magical helper.
Yes, if you are lucky and catch a miracle pike, you can happily do nothing, lie on a warm stove and think about the Tsar’s daughter. All this, of course, is also unrealistic for the man who dreams of it, like a stove driving through the streets, and the usual difficult daily work awaits him, but you can dream about pleasant things.
The fairy tale also reveals another difference between Russian culture - it does not have the sanctity of the concept of labor, that special reverent attitude, on the verge of “work for the sake of labor itself,” which is characteristic, for example, of Germany or modern America. It is known, for example, that one of the common problems among Americans is the inability to relax, distract themselves from business, and understand that nothing will happen if they go on vacation for a week. For a Russian person there is no such problem - he knows how to relax and have fun, but perceives work as inevitable.
The famous philosopher I. Ilyin considered such “laziness” of the Russian person to be part of his creative, contemplative nature. “We were taught, first of all, by our flat space,” wrote the Russian thinker, “by our nature, with its distances and clouds, with its rivers, forests, thunderstorms and blizzards. Hence our insatiable gaze, our daydreaming, our contemplating “laziness” (A.S. Pushkin), behind which lies the power of creative imagination. Russian contemplation was given beauty that captivated the heart, and this beauty was introduced into everything - from fabric and lace to residential and fortified buildings.” There may be no zeal and exaltation of work, but there is a feeling of beauty, merging with nature. This also bears fruit - rich folk art, expressed, among other things, in a fairy-tale heritage.
The attitude towards wealth is clear. Greed is perceived as big vice. Poverty is a virtue.
This does not mean that there is no dream of prosperity: the difficulties of peasant life made us dream of a self-assembled tablecloth, of a stove in which “goose meat, pig meat, and pies - apparently and invisibly! One word to say - whatever the soul wants, everything is there! the bride received was also nice to dream about on long winter evenings.
But wealth comes to the heroes easily, casually, when they don’t even think about it, like additional prize to a good bride or saved wife. Those who strive for it as an end in itself are always punished and remain “with nothing.”
Russian theme folk tales inexhaustible! Huge number collections can be found on bookstore shelves. This post contains both luxury (gift) and inexpensive editions of collections of Russian folk tales in classical adaptations and with unforgettable illustrations.
1) Fairytale Rus'. Russian fairy tales
Nikolai Kochergin has rightfully gained fame as an outstanding artist and storyteller. He was equally successful in both step-by-step illustration of fairy tales and the creation of generalization illustrations that claim to be called fabulous paintings. In these Kochergin generalizations, fairy-tale Rus' sounds especially majestic. For the first time, all the full-color illustrations created by Nikolai Kochergin for Russian fairy tales are collected in one book.
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Tiny Khavroshechka
By pike guidance
Frog Princess
Baba Yaga
Morozko
Wooden eagle
Tale of rejuvenating apples and living water
Seven Simeons
Nikita Kozhemyaka
Ivan Tsarevich and gray wolf
Matyusha Ash
flying ship
Go there - I don’t know where, bring that - I don’t know what
Battle on Kalinov Bridge
Sivka-Burka
Copper, silver and golden kingdoms
The Tale of Vasilisa the Wise
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2) Terem-teremok. Russian folk tales for kids
This book is not just a collection of Russian folk tales about animals - it is an amazing, unique world of fabulous animals, which was created by the wonderful artist Evgeny Mikhailovich Rachev. He had a wonderful gift of turning an ordinary red fox into a cunning gossip, gray hare- into a cheerful village joker, and the cat - into a mischief maker and a quitter.
On the occasion of the 110th anniversary of Evgeniy Mikhailovich, this book is being published, for the illustrations for which he was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR.
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Kolobok.
Turnip.
Golden egg.
Teremok.
Wolf and kids.
Rooster and bean.
Zayushkina's hut.
The hare is bragging.
The cockerel is a golden comb.
Fox and blackbird.
Man and bear.
Crane and heron.
Fox - sister and wolf.
Fox and crane.
Cat and fox.
Fox with a rolling pin.
Fox and bear.
Masha and the bear.
A cat is a gray forehead, a goat and a ram.
Geese are swans.
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3) "Russian folk tales for kids"
A child-friendly small format and thick pages that can be flipped through and fiddled with without fear of tearing.
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4) "Russian Folk Tales" ed. Afanasyeva
Here is a collection of the most famous fairy tales and tales about animals collected by the famous Russian ethnographer A. N. Afanasyev, who wrote them down in their original, pristine form. In many ways, these fairy tales differ from those to which we have become accustomed since childhood. In them you will find not only unique features language, spirit and life of peasant Rus', but also new characters, and even unfamiliar plot endings. Rediscover the multifaceted, vibrant and rich world of Russian folk tales! The book contains wonderful illustrations I. Bilibin, V. Vasnetsov, E. Polenova, K. Makovsky.
Content:
Tales about animals.
Cat and fox.
Fox and black grouse.
Turnip.
The chicken also cocks.
Fox, hare and rooster.
Kolobok.
Mizgir.
For a little shoe you get a chicken, for a chicken you get a piece of meat.
Fox and crane.
Fox Confessor.
A man, a bear and a fox.
Wolf and goat.
The tale of Ersha Ershovich, Shchetinnikov's son.
Hen.
Crane and heron.
A story about a toothy pike.
Winter quarters of animals.
Cat, rooster and fox.
Fox midwife.
Fox-sister and wolf.
Death of a cockerel.
Tsar Maiden.
Sister Alyonushka, brother Ivanushka.
Sun, Moon and Raven Voronovich.
Tiny Khavroshechka.
Nesmeyana the princess.
Vasilisa the Beautiful.
Magic ring.
Finist's feather is the clear falcon.
Marya Morevna.
Baba Yaga.
The Sea King and Vasilisa the Wise.
The frog princess.
Sivko-burko.
A tale about a brave young man, rejuvenating apples and living water.
White duck.
Go there - I don’t know where, bring that - I don’t know what.
Golden shoe.
The Firebird and Vasilisa the Princess.
Morozko.
Elena the Wise.
Three kingdoms - copper, silver and gold.
Wonderful shirt
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5) Russian folk tales
This book includes seven fairy tales, illustrated by Nikolai Kochergin - wonderful artist, who had a brilliant sense of Russian folklore and children's books
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6) Russian folk tales
This book is suitable for your first acquaintance with fairy tales - the illustrations by Yuri Solovyov are bright, large, dynamic, just right for kids. The collection includes fairy tales “Ryaba Hen”, “Kolobok”, “Teremok”, “Hare, Fox and Rooster”, “Bubble, Straw and Bast Shoe”, “Masha and the Bear”, “Fox with a Rolling Pin”, “Sister Fox and gray wolf", "Three bears".
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7) Collection of fairy tales "Masha and the Bear"
The book will delight you with its content and design; it contains fairy tales with which children begin reading. The texts have not undergone the adaptation that is so popular now, which results in a reduction vocabulary, the richness of the language is preserved. The illustrations were made without the use of a computer.
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8) Russian fairy tales for little ones
The famous artist Nikolai Mikhailovich Kochergin, starting to work, spent a long time studying the history, life and traditions of the peoples of the world. The topic of Russian folklore was especially interesting for him. That is why the master of illustration created this unique, kind and bright fairy-tale world, which children like so much. The book includes Russian folk tales: “Masha and the Bear”, “At the Command of the Pike” and M. Gorky’s fairy tale “About Ivanushka the Fool”.
The very first works that little readers encounter are Russian folk tales. This is a fundamental element of folk art, with the help of which deep life wisdom is passed on from generation to generation. Fairy tales teach us to distinguish between good and evil, point out human vices and virtues, and convey enduring life, family, and everyday values. Read Russian folk tales to your children, a list of which is presented below.
Chicken Ryaba
The tale of the good hen Ryaba, who lives in the hut of her grandmother and grandfather and lays a golden egg that they could not break, is one of the first fairy tales. read by parents small children. The fairy tale, easy for children to understand, also tells about a mouse that broke a golden egg with its tail. After this, the grandfather and woman grieved, and the hen promised to lay them a new egg, not a golden one, but a simple one.
Masha and the Bear
An entertaining tale about the adventures of little Masha, who got lost and ended up in the Bear's hut. The formidable beast was delighted and ordered Masha to stay in his hut to live, otherwise he would eat her. But the little girl outwitted the Bear, and without knowing it, he took Masha back to her parents.
Vasilisa the Beautiful
The tale of good and to a beautiful girl, to whom her dying mother left a magic doll. The girl was tormented and bullied for a long time by her stepmother and her daughters, but the magic doll always helped her cope with everything. Once she even wove a canvas of unprecedented beauty, which came to the king. The ruler liked the fabric so much that he ordered a craftswoman to be brought to him so that she could sew shirts from this fabric. Seeing Vasilisa the Beautiful, the king fell in love with her and this was the end of all the girl’s suffering.
Teremok
The tale of how many different animals lived in the little house teaches the youngest readers friendship and hospitality. The little mouse, the runaway bunny, the frog-frog, the gray-barrel top, and the little fox-sister lived together in their little house until a club-toed bear asked to live with them. He was very big and destroyed the tower. But good inhabitants They didn’t lose their heads and built a new little house, bigger and better than the previous one.
Morozko
A winter's tale about a girl who lived with her father, stepmother and her daughter. The stepmother did not like her stepdaughter and persuaded the old man to take the girl into the forest to certain death. In the forest, the fierce Morozko froze the girl and asked, “Are you warm, girl?”, to which she answered him kind words. And then he took pity on her, warmed her and gave her rich gifts. The next morning the girl returned home, her stepmother saw the gifts and decided to send her own daughter for gifts. But the second daughter was rude to Morozko, and that’s why she froze in the forest.
In the work “The Cockerel and the Bean Seed,” the author, using the example of a cockerel choking on a grain, tells the story that in life, in order to get something, you must first give something. Having asked the chicken to go to the cow for butter, to lubricate the neck and swallow the grain, he activated a whole chain of other orders, which the chicken fulfilled with dignity, brought the butter and saved the cockerel.
Kolobok
The Kolobok fairy tale belongs to the category of works that are easy for young children to remember, since there are many repetitions of the plot in it. The author talks about how the grandmother baked a bun for the grandfather, and he came to life. Kolobok did not want to be eaten and ran away from his grandparents. On the way he met a hare, a wolf and a bear, from which he also rolled away, singing a song. And only the cunning fox was able to eat the kolobok, so he still did not escape his fate.
Frog Princess
The tale of the Frog Princess tells how the Tsarevich had to marry a frog, which was hit by an arrow that he shot on the orders of his father. The frog turned out to be enchanted by Vasilisa the Wise, who sheds the frog's skin while carrying out the king's tasks. Ivan Tsarevich, having learned that his wife is a beauty and a needlewoman, burns the skin and thereby dooms Vasilisa the Wise to imprisonment with Koshchei the Immortal. The prince, realizing his mistake, enters into an unequal battle with the monster and wins back his wife, after which they live happily ever after.
Geese-swans
Geese and Swans is a cautionary tale about how a little girl did not keep track of her brother and he was carried away by geese and swans. The girl goes in search of her brother, on the way she met a stove, an apple tree and a milk river, whose help she refused. And it would take the girl a long time to find her brother, if not for the hedgehog, who showed her the right path. She found her brother, but on the way back, if she had not used the help of the above-mentioned characters, she would not have been able to bring him home.
A fairy tale that teaches little children order is “The Three Bears.” In it, the author talks about a little girl who got lost and came across a hut of three bears. There she did a little housekeeping - she ate porridge from every bowl, sat on every chair, lay on every bed. A family of bears who returned home and saw that someone had used their things became very angry. The little hooligan was saved by running away from the indignant bears.
Porridge from an ax
The short tale “Porridge from an Axe” is about how one soldier went on leave and decided to spend the night with an old woman he met on the way. And the old woman was greedy, she deceived, saying that she had nothing to feed the guest. Then the soldier invited her to cook porridge from an axe. He asked for a cauldron and water, then by cunning he lured out the porridge and butter, ate it himself, fed the old woman, and then he also took the ax with him so that the old woman would be discouraged from lying.
turnip
The fairy tale "Turnip" is one of the most famous Russian folk tales aimed at children. Its plot is based on large number repetitions of characters' actions. A grandfather who asked his grandmother to help him pull out a turnip, and she in turn called her granddaughter, the granddaughter - the bug, the bug - the cat, the cat - the mouse, teach us that it is easier to cope with something together than separately.
Snow Maiden
The Snow Maiden is a fairy tale, according to the plot of which a grandfather and woman, who did not have children, decide to make a Snow Maiden in the winter. And she turned out so well for them that they began to call her daughter, and the Snow Maiden came to life. But then spring came and the Snow Maiden began to feel sad and hid from the sun. But, whatever happens, it cannot be avoided - the girlfriends invited the Snow Maiden to a party and she went, jumped over the fire and melted, shooting up in a cloud of white steam.
Winter hut of animals
The fairy tale “Winter Lodge of Animals” tells how a bull, a pig, a ram, a rooster and a goose ran away from an old man and an old woman in order to avoid their pitiful fate. Winter was approaching, and it was necessary to build a winter hut, but everyone refused to help the bull. And then the bull himself built a winter hut, and when the severe winter came, the animals began to ask him to spend the winter. The bull was kind and therefore allowed them to come to him. And the animals, in turn, repaid the bull for his kindness by driving away the fox, wolf and bear who wanted to eat them.
Fox-sister and wolf
The fairy tale about the little fox-sister and the wolf is one of the most famous folk tales for children; it is read in kindergartens and schools. And based on an interesting story about how a cunning fox tricked a wolf into depriving him of his tail, and rode home on top of a beaten wolf, saying “the beaten one is lucky for the unbeaten,” plays are staged and role-playing is organized.
At the behest of the pike
The fairy tale "Po pike command"about how the unlucky and lazy Emelya the fool caught a magical pike that fulfilled all his desires, he only had to say the cherished words “at the behest of the pike, at my will.” This is where his carefree life began - he carried water in buckets, chopped wood with an ax, and drove his sleigh without horses. Thanks to the magic pike, Emelya turned from a fool into an enviable and successful groom, whom Princess Marya herself fell in love with.
Elena the Wise
Reading the Russian folk tale “Elena the Wise” is a pleasure - here you have the devil, and maidens turning into doves, and a beautiful wise queen, and an all-seeing magical book of knowledge. Amazing story the story of how a simple soldier fell in love with Helen the Wise and married her by cunning appeals to children of any age.
Magic ring
IN a cautionary tale“The Magic Ring” the author told the story of a kind boy Martynka, who was able to achieve a lot thanks to his kindness. Instead of buying bread, he saves a dog and a cat, then rescues a beautiful princess from trouble, for which he receives a magic ring from the king. With his help, Martynka builds wonderful palaces and lays out beautiful gardens, but one day trouble overtakes him. And then everyone whom he did not leave in trouble came to Martynka’s aid.
Zayushkin's hut
The fairy tale “Zayushkina’s Hut” is a story about how a cunning little fox settled in the hut of a little Zayushka. Neither the bear nor the wolf were able to drive the uninvited guest out of the bunny's house, and only the brave cockerel was able to cope with the cunning fox, who should not have taken over someone else's hut.
Princess Nesmeyana
Princess Nesmeyana had everything one could wish for, but she was still sad. No matter how hard he tried, the Tsar Father could not cheer up his only daughter. Then he decided that whoever makes the princess laugh will marry her. The fairy tale “Princess Nesmeyana” tells the story of how a simple worker, without knowing it, made the saddest girl in the kingdom laugh and became her husband.
Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka
Brother Ivanushka did not listen to his sister Alyonushka, drank water from the hoof and turned into a little goat. A story full of adventures, where an evil witch drowned Alyonushka, and a little goat saved her and, throwing himself over his head three times, again became brother Ivanushka, is told in the fairy tale “Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka.”
flying ship
In the Russian folk tale “The Flying Ship,” young readers learn about how the king decided to give his daughter to the one who would build the flying ship. And in one village there lived three brothers, the youngest of them was considered a fool. So the eldest and middle brothers decided to take on building the ship, but they didn’t succeed because they didn’t listen to the advice of the old man they met. But the youngest listened, and his grandfather helped him build a real flying ship. This is how the younger brother turned from a fool into the husband of a beautiful princess.
Goby - tar barrel
Grandfather made a bull out of straw for his granddaughter Tanyusha, and he took it and came to life. Yes, it turned out to be no ordinary bull, he had a tar barrel. By cunning he forced the bear, wolf and hare, stuck to his barrel, to bring gifts to his grandfather. The wolf brought a bag of nuts, the bear brought a beehive of honey, and the bunny brought a head of cabbage and a red ribbon for Tanyusha. Although they did not bring gifts of their own free will, no one was deceived, because everyone promised, and promises must be kept.