Snow queen drawings for school. Illustrations by different artists for the fairy tale by G.Kh

There was snow in the yard.
- It's swarming white bees! - said the old grandmother.
“Do they also have a queen?” - the boy asked; he knew real bees had one.
- Eat! Grandma answered. - Snowflakes surround her in a thick swarm, but she is larger than all of them and never stays on the ground - she always rushes on a black cloud. Often at night she flies through the city streets and looks into the windows; that's why they are covered with ice patterns, like flowers!
- Seen, seen! - the children said and believed that all this was the absolute truth.
- A The Snow Queen can't get in here? - once asked the girl.
- Let him try! - said the boy. - I'll put it on a warm stove, so it will melt!
But the grandmother patted him on the head and started talking about something else.
In the evening, when Kai was already at home and had almost completely undressed, about to go to bed, he climbed onto a chair by the window and looked into the small thawed window glass circle. Snowflakes fluttered outside the window; one of them, a larger one, fell on the edge of the flower box and began to grow, grow, until finally it turned into a woman wrapped in the thinnest white tulle, woven, it seemed, from millions of snow stars. She was so lovely, so tender, all of a dazzling white ice and yet alive! Her eyes sparkled like stars, but there was neither warmth nor meekness in them. She nodded to the boy and beckoned him with her hand.

Artist Benvenuti

Artist Christian Birmingham

Artist Christian Birmingham

Artist Christian Birmingham

Artist Angela Barrett

Artist Edmund Dulac

Artist H. J. Ford

Kai and Gerda sat and examined a book with pictures - animals and birds; the big clock tower struck five.
- Ai! the boy suddenly exclaimed. - I was stabbed right in the heart, and something got into my eye!
The girl threw her arm around his neck, he blinked, but there seemed to be nothing in his eye.
- It must have jumped out! - he said.
But that's the point, it's not. Two fragments of the devil's mirror fell into his heart and into his eye, in which, as we, of course, remember, everything great and good seemed insignificant and ugly, and evil and evil was reflected even brighter, the bad sides of each thing came out even sharper. Poor Kai! Now his heart should have turned into a piece of ice!

Artist Nika Goltz

The snowflakes kept growing and finally turned into big white hens. Suddenly they scattered to the sides, the big sledge stopped, and the man sitting in it stood up. She was tall, slender, dazzling white woman- The Snow Queen; and her fur coat and hat were made of snow.
- Nice ride! - she said. But are you completely cold? Get into my coat!
And, putting the boy into her sleigh, she wrapped him in her fur coat; Kai seemed to sink into a snowdrift.
Are you still dead? she asked and kissed him on the forehead.
Wu! Kiss her was colder than ice, pierced him with cold through and through and reached the very heart, and without that it was already half icy. For one minute it seemed to Kai that he was about to die, but no, on the contrary, it became easier, he even completely stopped feeling cold.
- My sleds! Don't forget my sled! he said.
And the sledge was tied on the back of one of the white hens, which flew with them after the big sledge. The Snow Queen kissed Kai again, and he forgot Gerda, his grandmother, and all the household.
- I won't kiss you again! - she said. "Or I'll kiss you to death!"
Kai looked at her; she was so good! He could not have imagined a smarter, more charming face. Now she did not seem to him icy, as she had been sitting outside the window and nodding her head to him; now she seemed perfect to him.

Artist Angela Barrett

Artist Christian Birmingham

Artist Anastasia Arkhipova

Artist Vladislav Yerko

The boat was drifting farther and farther; Gerda sat quietly, in nothing but stockings; her red shoes followed the boat, but could not overtake her.
The banks of the river were very beautiful; everywhere one could see the most wonderful flowers, tall, spreading trees, meadows on which sheep and cows grazed, but nowhere was a single human soul.
“Maybe the river is taking me to Kai?” - thought Gerda, cheered up, stood on her nose and admired the beautiful green shores for a long, long time. But here she sailed to the big cherry orchard, in which a house with colored glass in the windows and a thatched roof sheltered. At the door were two wooden soldier and saluted with guns all who passed by.
Gerda screamed at them - she mistook them for the living - but they, of course, did not answer her. So she swam even closer to them, the boat approached almost to the very shore, and the girl screamed even louder. Leaning on a stick, an old, very old woman in a large straw hat painted with wonderful flowers came out of the house.
- Oh, you poor baby! - said the old woman. - How did you get on such a big fast river and climbed so far?
With these words, the old woman entered the water, hooked the boat with her stick, pulled it to the shore and landed Gerda.

Artist Arthur Rackham

Artist Edmund Dulac

Forest pigeons in a cage quietly cooed; the other doves were already asleep; the little robber wrapped one arm around Gerda's neck - she had a knife in the other - and began to snore, but Gerda could not close her eyes, not knowing whether they would kill her or leave her alive. The robbers sat around the fire, sang songs and drank, and the old robber woman tumbled. It was terrible to look at this poor girl.
Suddenly the wood pigeons cooed:
- Kurr! Kurr! We saw Kai! A white hen carried his sled on her back, and he sat in the Snow Queen's sleigh. They flew over the forest when we chicks were still in the nest; she breathed on us, and everyone died, except for the two of us! Kurr! Kurr!
- What are you saying? exclaimed Gerda. Where did the Snow Queen go?
- She flew, probably, to Lapland - there is eternal snow and ice! Ask the reindeer what is leashed here!
- Yes, there is eternal snow and ice, it's a miracle how good it is! - said the reindeer. - There you jump at will on the endless sparkling icy plains! The summer tent of the Snow Queen will be spread there, and her permanent palaces will be at North Pole, on the island of Svalbard!

Artist Nika Goltz

Then the little robber opened the door, lured the dogs into the house, cut the rope with which the deer was tied with her sharp knife, and said to him:
- Well, live! Yes, look at the girl. Gerda held out both hands to the little robber in huge mittens and said goodbye to her. The reindeer set off at full speed through the stumps and bumps through the forest, through the swamps and steppes.

Artist Christian Birmingham

Here is my native northern lights! - said the deer. - Look how it burns!
And he ran on, not stopping day or night.

Artist Christian Birmingham

Artist Anastasia Arkhipova

The deer stopped at a miserable hut; the roof went down to the ground, and the door was so low that people had to crawl through it on all fours. At home there was an old Lapland woman who was frying fish by the light of a fat lamp.

Artist Arthur Rackham

When Gerda warmed up, ate and drank, the Laplander wrote a few words on dried cod, ordered Gerda to take good care of her, then tied the girl to the back of a deer, and he rushed off again. The sky again fukalo and threw out pillars of wonderful blue flame. So the deer ran with Gerda to Finnmark and knocked on the Finnish chimney - she didn’t even have doors.
Well, the heat was in her home! The Finn herself, a short, dirty woman, went about half-naked. She quickly pulled off Gerda's entire dress, mittens and boots - otherwise the girl would have been too hot - she put a piece of ice on the deer's head and then began to read what was written on the dried cod. She read everything from word to word three times, until she memorized it, and then she put the cod into the cauldron - after all, the fish was good for food, and nothing was wasted with the Finn.

Artist Angela Barrett

Stronger than it is, I can't make it. Don't you see how great her power is? Don't you see that both people and animals serve her? After all, she walked around half the world barefoot! It's not for us to borrow her strength! The strength is in her sweet, innocent childish heart. If she herself cannot penetrate into the halls of the Snow Queen and extract the fragments from Kai's heart, then we will not help her even more! Two miles from here begins the Snow Queen's garden. Take the girl there, let her down by a large bush covered with red berries, and, without delay, come back!
With these words, the Finn planted Gerda on the back of a deer, and he rushed to run as fast as he could.
- Hey, I'm without warm boots! Hey, I'm not wearing gloves! cried Gerda, finding herself in the cold.

Artist Vladislav Yerko

Artist Nika Goltz

But the deer did not dare to stop until he ran to a bush with red berries; then he lowered the girl down, kissed her on the very lips, and large brilliant tears rolled from his eyes. Then he shot back like an arrow. The poor girl was left all alone, in the bitter cold, without shoes, without mittens.

Artist Edmund Dulac

Artist Boris Diodorov

Artist Valery Alfeevsky

She ran forward as fast as she could; a whole regiment of snow flakes rushed towards her, but they did not fall from the sky - the sky was completely clear, and the northern lights were burning on it - no, they ran along the ground straight at Gerda and, as they approached, became larger and larger. Gerda remembered the big beautiful flakes under the burning glass, but these were much larger, more terrible, than the most amazing views and forms and all living things. These were the advance detachments of the Snow Queen's army. Some resembled large ugly hedgehogs, others - hundred-headed snakes, others - fat bear cubs with tousled hair. But they all sparkled with the same whiteness, they were all living snowflakes.

Artist Anastasia Arkhipova

Artist Arthur Rackham

Artist Nika Goltz

Gerda began to read "Our Father"; it was so cold that the girl's breath immediately turned into a thick fog. This fog thickened and thickened, but then small, bright angels began to stand out from it, which, having stepped on the ground, grew into large formidable angels with helmets on their heads and spears and shields in their hands. Their number kept increasing, and when Gerda finished her prayer, a whole legion had already formed around her. The angels took the snow monsters on spears, and they crumbled into thousands of snowflakes. Gerda could now boldly go forward; the angels stroked her arms and legs, and she was no longer so cold.

Artist Angela Barrett

Artist Christian Birmingham

The walls of the halls of the Snow Queen were swept by a blizzard, the windows and doors were done by violent winds. Hundreds of huge, aurora-lit halls stretched one after another; the largest stretched for many, many miles. How cold, how deserted it was in those white, brightly shining halls! Fun never came here! Even if rare time there would be a bear party here with dances to the music of the storm, in which they could distinguish themselves with grace and the ability to walk on hind legs polar bears, or a party of cards was formed with quarrels and fights, or, finally, little white gossips of chanterelles agreed to talk over a cup of coffee - no, this never happened! Cold, deserted, dead! The northern lights flashed and burned so regularly that it was possible to calculate with accuracy at what minute the light would increase and at what time it would weaken. In the middle of the largest deserted snow hall was a frozen lake. The ice cracked on it into thousands of pieces, even and marvelously regular. In the middle of the lake stood the throne of the Snow Queen; on it she sat when she was at home, saying that she was sitting on the mirror of the mind; in her opinion, it was the only and best mirror in the world.

Artist Edmund Dulac

Kai turned completely blue, almost turned black from the cold, but did not notice this - the kisses of the Snow Queen made him insensitive to the cold, and his very heart became a piece of ice. Kai fiddled with flat, pointed ice floes, laying them in all sorts of frets. After all, there is such a game - folding figures from wooden planks, which is called the "Chinese puzzle". Kai also folded various intricate figures from ice floes, and this was called the "ice game of the mind." In his eyes, these figures were a miracle of art, and folding them was an occupation of the first importance. This was because he had a shard of a magic mirror in his eye! He put together whole words from ice floes, but he could not put together what he especially wanted - the word "eternity". The Snow Queen said to him: "If you add this word, you will be your own master, and I will give you all the world and a pair of new skates." But he couldn't put it down.

Artist Christian Birmingham

At this time, Gerda entered the huge gate, made by violent winds. She recited the evening prayer, and the winds subsided as if asleep. She freely entered the huge deserted ice hall and saw Kai. The girl immediately recognized him, threw herself on his neck, hugged him tightly and exclaimed:
- Kai, my dear Kai! Finally I found you!
But he sat still the same motionless and cold. Then Gerda wept; her hot tears fell on his chest, penetrated into his heart, melted his icy crust and melted the fragment. Kai looked at Gerda, and she sang:

Roses are blooming... Beauty, beauty!
We will soon see the Christ child.

Kai suddenly burst into tears and cried so long and so hard that the shard flowed out of his eye along with his tears. Then he recognized Gerda and was very happy.
- Gerda! My dear Gerda! Where have you been for so long? Where was I myself? And he looked around. - How cold it is here, deserted!
And he clung tightly to Gerda. She laughed and cried with joy.

Artist Nika Goltz

There was snow in the yard.
- It's white bees swarming! said the old grandmother.
“Do they also have a queen?” the boy asked; he knew real bees had one.
- Eat! Grandma answered. - Snowflakes surround her in a dense swarm, but she is larger than all of them and never remains on the ground - she always rushes on a black cloud. Often at night she flies through the city streets and looks into the windows; that's why they are covered with ice patterns, like flowers!
- Seen, seen! - the children said and believed that all this was the absolute truth.
"Can't the Snow Queen come in here?" the girl asked once.
- Let him try! the boy said. - I'll put it on a warm stove, so it will melt!
But the grandmother patted him on the head and started talking about something else.
In the evening, when Kai was already at home and had almost completely undressed, about to go to bed, he climbed onto a chair by the window and looked into a small circle thawed on the window pane. Snowflakes fluttered outside the window; one of them, a larger one, fell on the edge of the flower box and began to grow, grow, until finally it turned into a woman wrapped in the thinnest white tulle, woven, it seemed, from millions of snow stars. She was so lovely, so tender, all of dazzling white ice and yet alive! Her eyes sparkled like stars, but there was neither warmth nor meekness in them. She nodded to the boy and beckoned him with her hand.

Artist Christian Birmingham

Artist Christian Birmingham

Artist Christian Birmingham

Artist Angela Barrett

Artist Edmund Dulac

Artist Benvenuti

Artist H. J. Ford

Kai and Gerda sat and looked at a book with pictures - animals and birds; the big clock tower struck five.
- Ai! the boy suddenly exclaimed. - I was stabbed right in the heart, and something got into my eye!
The girl threw her arm around his neck, he blinked, but there seemed to be nothing in his eye.
It must have jumped out! - he said.
But that's the point, it's not. Two fragments of the devil's mirror fell into his heart and into his eye, in which, as we, of course, remember, everything great and good seemed insignificant and ugly, and evil and evil was reflected even brighter, the bad sides of each thing came out even sharper. Poor Kai! Now his heart should have turned into a piece of ice!

Artist Nika Goltz

The snowflakes kept growing and finally turned into big white hens. Suddenly they scattered to the sides, the big sledge stopped, and the man sitting in it stood up. It was a tall, slender, dazzling white woman - the Snow Queen; and her fur coat and hat were made of snow.
- Nice ride! - she said. "But are you completely cold?" Get into my coat!
And, putting the boy into her sleigh, she wrapped him in her fur coat; Kai seemed to sink into a snowdrift.
"Are you still dead?" she asked and kissed him on the forehead.
Wu! Her kiss was colder than ice, pierced him with cold through and through and reached the very heart, and it was already half icy. For one minute it seemed to Kai that he was about to die, but no, on the contrary, it became easier, he even completely stopped feeling cold.
- My sleds! Don't forget my sled! he said.
And the sledge was tied on the back of one of the white hens, which flew with them after the big sledge. The Snow Queen kissed Kai again, and he forgot Gerda, his grandmother, and all the household.
"I won't kiss you again!" - she said. "Or I'll kiss you to death!"
Kai looked at her; she was so good! He could not have imagined a smarter, more charming face. Now she did not seem to him icy, as she had been sitting outside the window and nodding her head to him; now she seemed perfect to him.

Artist Angela Barrett

Artist Christian Birmingham

Artist Anastasia Arkhipova

Artist Vladislav Yerko

The boat was drifting farther and farther; Gerda sat quietly, in nothing but stockings; her red shoes followed the boat, but could not overtake her.
The banks of the river were very beautiful; everywhere one could see the most wonderful flowers, tall, sprawling trees, meadows on which sheep and cows grazed, but nowhere was a single human soul to be seen.
“Maybe the river is taking me to Kai?” - thought Gerda, cheered up, stood on her nose and admired the beautiful green shores for a long, long time. But then she sailed to a large cherry orchard, in which a house with colored glass in the windows and a thatched roof sheltered. Two wooden soldiers stood at the door and saluted everyone who passed by with their guns.
Gerda screamed at them - she mistook them for living ones - but they, of course, did not answer her. So she swam even closer to them, the boat approached almost to the very shore, and the girl screamed even louder. Out of the house came out, leaning on a stick, an old, very old woman in a big straw hat painted with wonderful flowers.
“Oh, you poor little one! said the old woman. “How did you get on such a big fast river and get so far?”
With these words, the old woman entered the water, hooked the boat with her stick, pulled it to the shore and landed Gerda.

Artist Arthur Rackham

Artist Edmund Dulac

Wood pigeons in a cage quietly cooed; the other doves were already asleep; the little robber wrapped one arm around Gerda's neck - she had a knife in the other - and began to snore, but Gerda could not close her eyes, not knowing whether they would kill her or let her live. The robbers sat around the fire, sang songs and drank, and the old robber woman tumbled. It was terrible to look at this poor girl.
Suddenly the wood pigeons cooed:
— Kurr! Kurr! We saw Kai! A white hen carried his sled on her back, and he sat in the Snow Queen's sleigh. They flew over the forest when we chicks were still in the nest; she breathed on us, and everyone died, except for the two of us! Kurr! Kurr!
- What are you saying? exclaimed Gerda. Where did the Snow Queen go?
- She probably flew to Lapland - there is eternal snow and ice! Ask the reindeer what is leashed here!
- Yes, there is eternal snow and ice, it's a miracle how good it is! said the reindeer. - There you jump at will on the endless sparkling icy plains! The Snow Queen's summer tent will be spread there, and her permanent palaces will be at the North Pole, on the island of Svalbard!

Artist Nika Goltz

Then the little robber opened the door, lured the dogs into the house, cut the rope with which the deer was tied with her sharp knife, and said to him:
- Well, live! Yes, look at the girl. Gerda held out both hands to the little robber in huge mittens and said goodbye to her. The reindeer set off at full speed through the stumps and bumps through the forest, through the swamps and steppes.

Artist Christian Birmingham

- Here is my native northern lights! the deer said. - Look how it's burning!
And he ran on, not stopping day or night.

Artist Christian Birmingham

Artist Anastasia Arkhipova

The deer stopped at a miserable hut; the roof went down to the ground, and the door was so low that people had to crawl through it on all fours. At home there was an old Lapland woman who was frying fish by the light of a fat lamp.

Artist Arthur Rackham

When Gerda warmed up, ate and drank, the Laplander wrote a few words on dried cod, ordered Gerda to take good care of her, then tied the girl to the back of a deer, and he rushed off again. The sky again fukalo and threw out pillars of wonderful blue flame. So the deer ran with Gerda to Finnmark and knocked on the Finnish chimney - she didn’t even have doors.
Well, the heat was in her home! The Finn herself, a short, dirty woman, went about half-naked. She quickly pulled off Gerda's entire dress, mittens and boots - otherwise the girl would have been too hot - put a piece of ice on the deer's head and then began to read what was written on the dried cod. She read everything from word to word three times, until she memorized it, and then she put the cod into the cauldron - after all, the fish was good for food, and nothing was wasted with the Finn.

Artist Angela Barrett

“Stronger than it is, I can’t make it. Don't you see how great her power is? Don't you see that both people and animals serve her? After all, she walked around half the world barefoot! It's not for us to borrow her strength! The strength is in her sweet, innocent baby heart. If she herself cannot penetrate into the halls of the Snow Queen and extract the fragments from Kai's heart, then we will not help her even more! Two miles from here begins the Snow Queen's garden. Take the girl there, let her down by a large bush covered with red berries, and, without delay, come back!
With these words, the Finn planted Gerda on the back of a deer, and he rushed to run as fast as he could.
- Oh, I'm without warm boots! Hey, I'm not wearing gloves! cried Gerda, finding herself in the cold.

Artist Vladislav Yerko

Artist Nika Goltz

But the deer did not dare to stop until he ran to a bush with red berries; then he lowered the girl down, kissed her on the very lips, and large brilliant tears rolled from his eyes. Then he shot back like an arrow. The poor girl was left all alone, in the bitter cold, without shoes, without mittens.

Artist Edmund Dulac

Artist Boris Diodorov

Artist Valery Alfeevsky

She ran forward as fast as she could; a whole regiment of snow flakes rushed towards her, but they did not fall from the sky - the sky was completely clear, and the northern lights were blazing on it - no, they ran along the ground straight at Gerda and, as they approached, became larger and larger. Gerda remembered the big beautiful flakes under the burning glass, but these were much larger, scarier, of the most amazing shapes and forms, and all alive. These were the advance detachments of the Snow Queen's troops. Some resembled large ugly hedgehogs, others - hundred-headed snakes, others - fat bear cubs with tousled hair. But they all sparkled with the same whiteness, they were all living snowflakes.

Artist Anastasia Arkhipova

Artist Arthur Rackham

Artist Nika Goltz

Gerda began to read "Our Father"; it was so cold that the girl's breath immediately turned into a thick fog. This fog thickened and thickened, but then small, bright angels began to stand out from it, which, having stepped on the ground, grew into large formidable angels with helmets on their heads and spears and shields in their hands. Their number kept increasing, and when Gerda finished her prayer, a whole legion had already formed around her. The angels took the snow monsters on spears, and they crumbled into thousands of snowflakes. Gerda could now boldly go forward; the angels stroked her arms and legs, and she was no longer so cold.

Artist Angela Barrett

Artist Christian Birmingham

The walls of the halls of the Snow Queen were swept by a blizzard, the windows and doors were done by violent winds. Hundreds of huge, aurora-lit halls stretched one after another; the largest stretched for many, many miles. How cold, how deserted it was in those white, brightly shining halls! Fun never came here! At least once a bear party would be held here with dances to the music of the storm, in which polar bears could distinguish themselves with grace and the ability to walk on their hind legs, or a party of cards with quarrels and a fight would be made, or, finally, they would agree to a conversation over a cup of coffee little white chanterelle gossips - no, that never happened! Cold, deserted, dead! The northern lights flashed and burned so regularly that it was possible to calculate with accuracy at what minute the light would increase and at what time it would weaken. In the middle of the largest deserted snow hall was a frozen lake. The ice cracked on it into thousands of pieces, even and marvelously regular. In the middle of the lake stood the throne of the Snow Queen; on it she sat when she was at home, saying that she was sitting on the mirror of the mind; in her opinion, it was the only and best mirror in the world.

Artist Edmund Dulac

Kai turned completely blue, almost turned black from the cold, but did not notice this - the kisses of the Snow Queen made him insensitive to the cold, and his very heart became a piece of ice. Kai fiddled with flat, pointed ice floes, laying them in all sorts of frets. After all, there is such a game - folding figures from wooden planks, which is called the "Chinese puzzle". Kai also folded various intricate figures from ice floes, and this was called the "ice game of the mind." In his eyes, these figures were a miracle of art, and folding them was an occupation of the first importance. This was because he had a shard of a magic mirror in his eye! He put together whole words from ice floes, but he could not put together what he especially wanted - the word "eternity". The Snow Queen said to him: "If you add this word, you will be your own master, and I will give you all the world and a pair of new skates." But he couldn't put it down.

Artist Christian Birmingham

At this time, Gerda entered the huge gate, made by violent winds. She recited the evening prayer, and the winds subsided as if asleep. She freely entered the huge deserted ice hall and saw Kai. The girl immediately recognized him, threw herself on his neck, hugged him tightly and exclaimed:
— Kai, my dear Kai! Finally I found you!
But he sat still the same motionless and cold. Then Gerda wept; her hot tears fell on his chest, penetrated into his heart, melted his icy crust and melted the fragment. Kai looked at Gerda, and she sang:

Roses are blooming... Beauty, beauty!
We will soon see the Christ child.

Kai suddenly burst into tears and cried so long and so hard that the shard flowed out of his eye along with his tears. Then he recognized Gerda and was very happy.
— Gerda! My dear Gerda! Where have you been for so long? Where was I myself? And he looked around. How cold it is here, deserted!
And he clung tightly to Gerda. She laughed and cried with joy.

Artist Nika Goltz

Artist Vladislav Yerko

The boat was drifting farther and farther; Gerda sat quietly, in nothing but stockings; her red shoes followed the boat, but could not overtake her.
The banks of the river were very beautiful; everywhere one could see the most wonderful flowers, tall, sprawling trees, meadows on which sheep and cows grazed, but nowhere was a single human soul to be seen.
“Maybe the river is taking me to Kai?” - thought Gerda, cheered up, stood on her nose and admired the beautiful green shores for a long, long time. But then she sailed to a large cherry orchard, in which a house with colored glass in the windows and a thatched roof sheltered. Two wooden soldiers stood at the door and saluted everyone who passed by with their guns.
Gerda screamed at them - she mistook them for living ones - but they, of course, did not answer her. So she swam even closer to them, the boat approached almost to the very shore, and the girl screamed even louder. Out of the house came out, leaning on a stick, an old, very old woman in a big straw hat painted with wonderful flowers.
“Oh, you poor little one! said the old woman. “How did you get on such a big fast river and get so far?”
With these words, the old woman entered the water, hooked the boat with her stick, pulled it to the shore and landed Gerda.

Artist Christian Birmingham

Artist Edmund Dulac

Artist Arthur Rackham

Artist Nika Goltz

Wood pigeons in a cage quietly cooed; the other doves were already asleep; the little robber wrapped one arm around Gerda's neck - she had a knife in the other - and began to snore, but Gerda could not close her eyes, not knowing whether they would kill her or let her live. The robbers sat around the fire, sang songs and drank, and the old robber woman tumbled. It was terrible to look at this poor girl.
Suddenly the wood pigeons cooed:
— Kurr! Kurr! We saw Kai! A white hen carried his sled on her back, and he sat in the Snow Queen's sleigh. They flew over the forest when we chicks were still in the nest; she breathed on us, and everyone died, except for the two of us! Kurr! Kurr!
- What are you saying? exclaimed Gerda. Where did the Snow Queen go?
- She probably flew to Lapland - there is eternal snow and ice! Ask the reindeer what is leashed here!
- Yes, there is eternal snow and ice, it's a miracle how good it is! said the reindeer. - There you jump at will on the endless sparkling icy plains! The Snow Queen's summer tent will be spread there, and her permanent palaces will be at the North Pole, on the island of Svalbard!

Then the little robber opened the door, lured the dogs into the house, cut the rope with which the deer was tied with her sharp knife, and said to him:
- Well, live! Yes, look at the girl. Gerda held out both hands to the little robber in huge mittens and said goodbye to her. The reindeer set off at full speed through the stumps and bumps through the forest, through the swamps and steppes.

Artist Christian Birmingham

Here is my native northern lights! the deer said. - Look how it's burning!
And he ran on, not stopping day or night.

Artist Christian Birmingham

Artist Anastasia Arkhipova

The deer stopped at a miserable hut; the roof went down to the ground, and the door was so low that people had to crawl through it on all fours. At home there was an old Lapland woman who was frying fish by the light of a fat lamp.

Artist Arthur Rackham

When Gerda warmed up, ate and drank, the Laplander wrote a few words on dried cod, ordered Gerda to take good care of her, then tied the girl to the back of a deer, and he rushed off again. The sky again fukalo and threw out pillars of wonderful blue flame. So the deer ran with Gerda to Finnmark and knocked on the Finnish chimney - she didn’t even have doors.
Well, the heat was in her home! The Finn herself, a short, dirty woman, went about half-naked. She quickly pulled off Gerda's entire dress, mittens and boots - otherwise the girl would have been too hot - put a piece of ice on the deer's head and then began to read what was written on the dried cod. She read everything from word to word three times, until she memorized it, and then she put the cod into the cauldron - after all, the fish was good for food, and nothing was wasted with the Finn.

Artist Angela Barrett

Stronger than it is, I can't make it. Don't you see how great her power is? Don't you see that both people and animals serve her? After all, she walked around half the world barefoot! It's not for us to borrow her strength! The strength is in her sweet, innocent baby heart. If she herself cannot penetrate into the halls of the Snow Queen and extract the fragments from Kai's heart, then we will not help her even more! Two miles from here begins the Snow Queen's garden. Take the girl there, let her down by a large bush covered with red berries, and, without delay, come back!
With these words, the Finn planted Gerda on the back of a deer, and he rushed to run as fast as he could.
- Oh, I'm without warm boots! Hey, I'm not wearing gloves! cried Gerda, finding herself in the cold.

Artist Vladislav Yerko

Artist Nika Goltz

But the deer did not dare to stop until he ran to a bush with red berries; then he lowered the girl down, kissed her on the very lips, and large brilliant tears rolled from his eyes. Then he shot back like an arrow. The poor girl was left all alone, in the bitter cold, without shoes, without mittens.

Artist Edmund Dulac

Artist Boris Diodorov

She ran forward as fast as she could; a whole regiment of snow flakes rushed towards her, but they did not fall from the sky - the sky was completely clear, and the northern lights were blazing on it - no, they ran along the ground straight at Gerda and, as they approached, became larger and larger. Gerda remembered the big beautiful flakes under the burning glass, but these were much larger, scarier, of the most amazing shapes and forms, and all alive. These were the advance detachments of the Snow Queen's troops. Some resembled large ugly hedgehogs, others - hundred-headed snakes, others - fat bear cubs with tousled hair. But they all sparkled with the same whiteness, they were all living snowflakes.

Artist Anastasia Arkhipova

Artist Arthur Rackham

Artist Nika Goltz

Gerda began to read "Our Father"; it was so cold that the girl's breath immediately turned into a thick fog. This fog thickened and thickened, but then small, bright angels began to stand out from it, which, having stepped on the ground, grew into large formidable angels with helmets on their heads and spears and shields in their hands. Their number kept increasing, and when Gerda finished her prayer, a whole legion had already formed around her. The angels took the snow monsters on spears, and they crumbled into thousands of snowflakes. Gerda could now boldly go forward; the angels stroked her arms and legs, and she was no longer so cold.

Artist Angela Barrett

Artist Christian Birmingham

The walls of the halls of the Snow Queen were swept by a blizzard, the windows and doors were done by violent winds. Hundreds of huge, aurora-lit halls stretched one after another; the largest stretched for many, many miles. How cold, how deserted it was in those white, brightly shining halls! Fun never came here! At least once a bear party would be held here with dances to the music of the storm, in which polar bears could distinguish themselves with grace and the ability to walk on their hind legs, or a party of cards with quarrels and a fight would be made, or, finally, they would agree to a conversation over a cup of coffee little white chanterelle gossips - no, that never happened! Cold, deserted, dead! The northern lights flashed and burned so regularly that it was possible to calculate with accuracy at what minute the light would increase and at what time it would weaken. In the middle of the largest deserted snow hall was a frozen lake. The ice cracked on it into thousands of pieces, even and marvelously regular. In the middle of the lake stood the throne of the Snow Queen; on it she sat when she was at home, saying that she was sitting on the mirror of the mind; in her opinion, it was the only and best mirror in the world.

Artist Edmund Dulac

Kai turned completely blue, almost turned black from the cold, but did not notice this - the kisses of the Snow Queen made him insensitive to the cold, and his very heart became a piece of ice. Kai fiddled with flat, pointed ice floes, laying them in all sorts of frets. After all, there is such a game - folding figures from wooden planks, which is called the "Chinese puzzle". Kai also folded various intricate figures from ice floes, and this was called the "ice game of the mind." In his eyes, these figures were a miracle of art, and folding them was an occupation of the first importance. This was because he had a shard of a magic mirror in his eye! He put together whole words from ice floes, but he could not put together what he especially wanted - the word "eternity". The Snow Queen said to him: "If you add this word, you will be your own master, and I will give you all the world and a pair of new skates." But he couldn't put it down.

Artist Christian Birmingham

At this time, Gerda entered the huge gate, made by violent winds. She recited the evening prayer, and the winds subsided as if asleep. She freely entered the huge deserted ice hall and saw Kai. The girl immediately recognized him, threw herself on his neck, hugged him tightly and exclaimed:
— Kai, my dear Kai! Finally I found you!
But he sat still the same motionless and cold. Then Gerda wept; her hot tears fell on his chest, penetrated into his heart, melted his icy crust and melted the fragment. Kai looked at Gerda, and she sang:

Roses are blooming... Beauty, beauty!
We will soon see the Christ child.

Kai suddenly burst into tears and cried so long and so hard that the shard flowed out of his eye along with his tears. Then he recognized Gerda and was very happy.
— Gerda! My dear Gerda! Where have you been for so long? Where was I myself? And he looked around. How cold it is here, deserted!
And he clung tightly to Gerda. She laughed and cried with joy.
Artist Nika Goltz

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Do they have their own queen? And the grandmother answers him that this is the Snow Queen, she rushes in the sky on a black cloud and covers everything with snow. As you may have guessed, today we will learn how to draw a snow queen. The image of a cold lady came from a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Like any, this one should also, of course, be icy. In this she kept the poor boy Kai, whose heart turned into a piece of ice.

The image of a lady who commands frost and winter exists in many nationalities and their fairy tales. In Scandinavian folklore, this is the Ice Maiden, in Japanese culture- Yuuki-onna. They all look amazing if you want to see the drawing lessons of these characters too.

Interesting observations about the Snow Queen from Andersen's fairy tale:

• For the entire time of the story, the lady appears on stage only a few times, the rest of the time she goes on business and leaves Kai to the mercy of fate. Two questions: where does she wear it and why did the little boy give it up?
• An interesting method was chosen when creating an image in a cartoon. The actress performed her scenes, they were shot on film, and only then they looked through and transferred all the movements to paper.
• And when Kai and the queen are flying on a sleigh, the birds cover their chicks from gusts of cold wind. Where do the chicks come from in winter?

Slowly but surely we come to the most important.

How to draw a snow queen with a pencil step by step

Step one. Draw the figure of a woman fluffy dress And long hair.Step two. Draw small legs at the bottom of the dress, make the dress wavy. Let's draw a palm beautiful hair let's loosen it a bit and put a crown on top. Step three. On the hem of the dress we will hold another parallel line, on shoes and sleeves draw ribbons tied around. Let's make curls from the hair and draw a face. In addition, on the left side of the face we will add a small body art, and outline the crown. Step four. Let's take care of the dress. Need to create a beautiful snow pattern. Let's rely a little on our imagination. Step five. With the bottom part done, smoothly move on to the top. Tightly draw the corset of the dress so that it looks warm. Ready. Take colored pencils and color the snow queen. Then show your drawings. You can attach your work in the comments below. More interesting characters cartoons and fairy tales you will find over here.

The Snow Queen is one of the main characters of the well-known fairy tale of the same name by the Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. This is an imperious proud proud owner of the kingdom of eternal cold, ice and snow. She lives in the north and few people can see her. She can bewitch a person and turn his heart into a piece of ice. Then a person becomes indifferent to everyone, angry and thinks only of himself. And so it happened with the boy Kai. He ended up in the Snow Queen's palace. And his sister Gerda found him there and saved him from the spell of the Queen. We think many people have read this book. And if not, be sure to read it. And we will teach you how to draw a portrait of the Snow Queen in stages with a pencil.

Stage 1. First, let's sketch the lines along which we will draw the heroine's face. This is a cross, consisting of two intersecting straight lines, located slightly to the left of the middle of the sheet. This cross crosses the circle.

Stage 3. By horizontal line draw the eyes of the heroine. First, we will make the upper and lower eyelids, frame them with rather thick cilia, especially on upper eyelids. We draw the eyes a little elongated, elongated. Snow Queen - happy beautiful woman and her eyes should be cold and expressionless.

Stage 4. Between the eyelids, we show eyeballs with pupils. In the pupils it is necessary to reflect light reflections. Draw eyebrows on top of the eyes, their shape is also elongated. Eyebrows are shifted to the center.

Stage 5. Along the middle vertical line draw the features of a thin long nose. The bridge of the nose is thin, the width of the nose itself to the nostrils is also thin, but the nostrils are already slightly widened to the sides. Under the nose we make the mouth of the heroine of our lesson. The upper and lower lip should be shown rather thin and slightly stretched. The Snow Queen almost never laughs, she is always dissatisfied and therefore her whole expression should show displeasure.

Stage 6. Now we rise above the forehead and draw the borders of the crown of the character. Her crown is located quite high on her head. The Queen has an open high forehead. The upper edges of the crown are drawn with sharp, jerky lines, they look like broken pieces of ice.

Stage 7. According to the triangles of the crown, we draw, as it were, the faces of ice crystals. They look like tree branches. This main feature, from which small minor dashes depart.

Stage 9. Behind the crown we make out the Queen's veil. It is long and descends from the very head down to the borders of the picture.

Stage 10. Here is such a Snow Queen as a result in black and white.