In the first edition of 1812 - that is, in the most bloody and terrible. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, like Charles Perrault together with the Italian storyteller Giambattista Basile, they did not invent plots, but rewrote folk legends for subsequent generations. From the primary sources, the blood runs cold: graves, severed heels, sadistic punishments, rapes and other "unfabulous" details. AiF.ru has collected original stories that you should not tell the kids at all at night.
Cinderella
It is believed that the earliest version of Cinderella was invented in Ancient Egypt: while the beautiful prostitute Fodoris was bathing in the river, the eagle stole her sandal and took it to the pharaoh, who admired the small size of the shoes and eventually married the harlot.
The Italian Giambattista Basile, who recorded the collection folk legends"Tale of fairy tales", everything is much worse. His Cinderella, or rather Zezolla, is not at all the unfortunate girl that we know from Disney cartoons and children's performances. She did not want to endure humiliation from her stepmother, so she broke her stepmother's neck with the lid of the chest, taking her nanny as an accomplice. The nanny immediately fussed and became the second stepmother for the girl, in addition, she turned out to have six evil daughters, of course, the girl did not shine to kill everyone. Saved the case: one day the king saw the girl and fell in love. Zezolla was quickly found by His Majesty's servants, but she managed to escape, dropping - no, not glass slipper! - a rough pianella with a cork sole, such as the women of Naples wore. The further scheme is clear: a nationwide manhunt and a wedding. So the murderer of the stepmother became the queen.
Actress Anna Levanova as Cinderella in the play "Cinderella" directed by Ekaterina Polovtseva at the Sovremennik Theater. Photo: RIA Novosti / Sergey Pyatakov
61 years after the Italian version, Charles Perrault released his fairy tale. It was she who became the basis for all the "vanilla" contemporary interpretations. True, in Perrault's version, it is not the godmother who helps the girl, but the deceased mother: a white bird lives on her grave, fulfilling wishes.
The Brothers Grimm also interpreted the plot of Cinderella in their own way: in their opinion, the bad sisters of the poor orphan should have received what they deserved. Trying to squeeze into the cherished shoe, one of the sisters chopped off her finger, and the second - her heel. But the sacrifice was in vain - the doves warned the prince:
Look, look
And the shoe is covered in blood...
The same flying warriors of justice eventually pecked out the eyes of the sisters - this is where the fairy tale ends.
red Riding Hood
The story of a girl and a hungry wolf has been known in Europe since the 14th century. The contents of the basket changed depending on the location, but the story itself was much more unfortunate for Cinderella. After killing a grandmother, the wolf not only eats her, but prepares a tasty treat from her body, and a certain drink from her blood. Hiding in bed, he watches as Little Red Riding Hood devours her grandmother with gusto. The grandmother's cat tries to warn the girl, but she also dies terrible death(the wolf throws heavy wooden shoes at her). Little Red Riding Hood does not seem to be embarrassed, and after a hearty dinner, she obediently undresses and goes to bed, where the wolf is waiting for her. In most versions, this is where it all ends - they say, rightly so for a stupid girl!
Illustration in the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood". Photo: Public Domain / Gustave Dore
Subsequently, Charles Perrault composed an optimistic ending for this story and added a moral for everyone whom all sorts of strangers invite to their bed:
Little kids for no reason(And especially girls,
Beauties and spoiled women),
On the way, meeting all sorts of men,
You can not listen to insidious speeches, -
Otherwise, the wolf may eat them.
I said wolf! Wolves can't be counted
But there are others in between.
Dodgers so puffy
What, sweetly exuding flattery,
The maiden's honor is guarded,
Accompany their walks home,
Spend them bye-bye through the dark back streets ...
But the wolf, alas, is more modest than it seems,
That is why he is always crafty and scary!
Sleeping Beauty
The modern version of the kiss that woke up the beauty is just baby talk compared to the original story, which was recorded for posterity by the same Giambattista Basile. The beauty from his fairy tale named Thalia was also cursed in the form of a spindle prick, after which the princess fell into a sound sleep. The inconsolable king father left in little house in the forest, but could not imagine what would happen next. Years later, another king drove by, went into the house and saw Sleeping Beauty. Without thinking twice, he transferred her to the bed and, so to speak, took advantage of the situation, and then left and forgot about everything on for a long time. And the beauty, raped in a dream, gave birth to twins nine months later - a son named the Sun and a daughter, the Moon. It was they who woke Thalia: the boy, in search of his mother's breast, began to suck her finger and accidentally sucked out the poisoned thorn. Further more. The lustful king again came to an abandoned house and found offspring there.
Illustration in the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty". Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org / AndreasPraefcke
He promised the girl mountains of gold and again left for his kingdom, where, by the way, his legal wife was waiting for him. The wife of the king, having learned about the lovebird, decided to exterminate her along with the whole brood and at the same time punish the unfaithful husband. She ordered the kids to be killed and made into meat pies for the king, and the princess to be burned. Just before the fire, the screams of the beauty were heard by the king, who ran and burned not her, but the annoying evil queen. And finally, the good news: the twins were not eaten because the cook turned out to be a normal person and saved the kids by replacing them with a lamb.
The defender of maiden honor, Charles Perrault, of course, greatly changed the tale, but could not resist the “morality” at the end of the story. His advice reads:
Wait a littleFor the husband to turn up
Handsome and rich, moreover,
It is quite possible and understandable.
But a hundred long years
Lying in bed, waiting
For ladies it's so unpleasant
No one can sleep....
Snow White
The fairy tale about Snow White was flooded by the Brothers Grimm interesting details which in our humane time seem wild. The first version was published in 1812, supplemented in 1854. The beginning of the tale no longer bode well: “One winter snowy day, the queen sits and sews by the window with an ebony frame. By chance, she pricks her finger with a needle, drops three drops of blood and thinks: “Oh, if I had a baby, white as snow, ruddy like blood and dark as ebony.” But the sorceress appears really creepy here: she eats (as she herself thinks) the heart of the murdered Snow White, and then, realizing that she was mistaken, comes up with all new sophisticated ways to kill her. Among them are a choke string for a dress, a poisonous comb, and a poisoned apple, which we know worked. The ending is also interesting: when everything goes well for Snow White, the turn of the sorceress comes. As punishment for her sins, she dances in red-hot iron shoes until she falls dead.
Frame from the cartoon "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
The beauty and the Beast
The original source of the tale is nothing less ancient greek myth about the beautiful Psyche, whose beauty was envied by everyone, from older sisters to the goddess Aphrodite. The girl was chained to a rock in the hope of feeding the monster, but miraculously she was saved by an "invisible creature". It was male, of course, because it made Psyche his wife on the condition that she would not torment him with questions. But, of course, female curiosity took over, and Psyche found out that her husband was not a monster at all, but the beautiful Cupid. The husband of Psyche was offended and flew away without promising to return. Meanwhile, Psyche's mother-in-law Aphrodite, who was against this marriage from the very beginning, decided to completely exhaust her daughter-in-law, forcing her to perform various difficult tasks: for example, to bring The Golden Fleece with mad sheep and water from the river dead styx. But Psyche did everything, and there Amur returned to the family, and they lived happily ever after. And the stupid envious sisters rushed off the cliff, hoping in vain that there would be an “invisible spirit” on them too.
Closer to modern history version was writtenGabriel Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuvein 1740. Everything is complicated in it: the Beast, in fact, is an unfortunate orphan. His father died, and his mother was forced to defend her kingdom from enemies, so she entrusted the upbringing of her son to someone else's aunt. She turned out to be an evil sorceress, in addition, she wanted to seduce the boy, and when she was refused, she turned him into a terrible beast. Beauty also has her own skeletons in her closet: she is not actually a native, but stepdaughter merchant. Her real father- the king who sinned with the stray good fairy. But the evil sorceress also claims the king, so it was decided to give the daughter of her rival to the merchant, who just died youngest daughter. Well, and a curious fact about the sisters of the Beauty: when the beast lets her go to visit her relatives, the “kind” girls deliberately force her to linger in the hope that the monster will go berserk and eat her. By the way, this subtle related moment is shown in the latest film version of "Beauty and the Beast" withVincent Cassel and Leah Seydoux.
Frame from the film "Beauty and the Beast"
Once upon a time, our parents read to us at night these fascinating tales, then we read the same stories to our children and, probably, our children will read them to their babies.
Is there even one person who would never hear romantic story about the gentle, kind beauty Snow White and the Prince Charming, about the brave and resourceful children Hansel and Gretta, or about the long-haired beauty Rapunzel, imprisoned in the very high tower castle? Most likely, there are no such people, and if there are, then there are not so many of them. The authors of these fairy tales, beloved by children and adults, which have been heard every day in thousands of children's bedrooms for almost two hundred years, are the Brothers Grimm. As early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Grimm brothers, linguists and researchers of German culture, began to collect and write down German folk tales. But, as it turned out, the fairy tales recorded by the Grimm brothers, far from always familiar to us, were so kind and romantic. Modern man who will read original fairy tales these writers are likely to be horrified by incredibly violent and bloody plots and another question is whether mom or dad will want to read these scary stories to their baby before bed.
Now there are different opinions as to whether it is worth recalling what the original stories told by the Brothers Grimm were in the first edition. But, for example, the editor of the publication, which for the first time after two hundred years of oblivion released the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in their original version without cuts, says that it is time for parents and publishers to return to the original of these fairy tales.
Rapunzel was conceived by her prince, the evil queen from the fairy tale of Snow White was actually the biological mother of a beautiful princess who plotted to kill her own child, and the hungry mother in another story is so mad and desperate that she tells her daughters, “I have to kill you because I need something to eat.” These versions of the tales have never before been published in English or any language other than German, but the first edition of Grimm's Tales contains versions of the stories adults in Germany told their children at bedtime over two hundred years ago. .
In December 1812, the Grimm brothers (Jacob and Wilhelm) published the first version of their fairy tales and soon became famous storytellers all over the world. In 1815, the writers released the second volume of fairy tales, and over time, the brothers go even further and reprint the book six times, polishing the stories and adding to them Christian motives to make these fairy tales more suitable for children. Before the release of the seventh edition of fairy tales, the Brothers Grimm removed numerous references to fairies. Today we all know exactly those versions of fairy tales that were contained in the seventh reprint, released already in 1857 - it was this that became the most famous collection fairy tales in the world.
Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, says he often wondered why the first edition of Grimm's Tales had never been translated into English (or any other) language before, and finally decided to do it myself. According to Professor Zipes, although modern editions of fairy tales contain about 100 stories that were included in the first edition, but all these stories have been noticeably changed. Thus, the versions of the stories that are familiar to most readers today differ significantly from the stories that were told in the first edition.
Princeton University Press recently released the original version of the Brothers Grimm's book, which consists of 156 stories in their original form. The edition, illustrated by the artist Andrea Dezhe (Andrea Dezso), shows a completely different side of the well-known fairy tales, and also includes some terrible, completely unfamiliar fairy tales that the authors themselves once simply threw out of all subsequent editions republished by the Brothers Grimm.
For example, scary tale entitled "Children Played at Slaughtering" (Children Played at Slaughtering) truly lives up to its name, as it tells about a group of children playing butcher and pig. This terrible tale ends predictably: the boy slits the throat of his younger brother, and then he himself is stabbed in the heart by an angry mother. Unfortunately, having rushed to the children playing with the knife, the mother left another of her children in the bathtub, where he drowned. From the inability to live on, the mother hanged herself; when the husband returned home, he was so depressed that he also died soon after. The tale "Hungry Children" (Children of Famine) is just as creepy: a mother threatens her daughters to kill them because there is nothing else to eat. The children offer their mother their pieces of bread, but this cannot satisfy her hunger, and she says: "You must die, otherwise we will all wither." The children suggest: “We will go to bed and sleep without getting up until the Day of Judgment comes.” They did just that. “No one was able to wake them from their sleep. Meanwhile, their mother has left them, and no one knows where she went.”
If we recall Rapunzel, then she gives herself to the kidnapper, and after spending a lot of “fun time” in the tower with her prince, she is surprised: “Tell me, mother Gothel, why do my clothes become too tight? She doesn't suit me anymore." And the stepmother Snow White and the stepmother of Hansel and Gretel in the original version of the fairy tales were their own mothers. Professor Zipes believes that in later editions the Brothers Grimm changed this because motherhood became sacred. So what is it own mother Snow White told the huntsman, “Kill her and bring me her lungs and liver as proof of a completed job. After that, I'll cook them with salt and eat them," and Hansel and Gretel's biological mother abandoned them in the forest.
Professor Zipes suggests that the changes that the Brothers Grimm later made to their tales were "a reflection of the state of social behavior, which existed for many centuries and suggested the presence of jealousy between the young stepmother and stepdaughter. The scientist notes: “In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many women died during childbirth, and numerous cases are known when the father remarried a younger woman who may have been close in age eldest daughter father."
In the original version of Cinderella, in order to achieve marriage to the prince, the stepsisters performed the extraordinary act of cutting off parts of their legs so that the feet fit the size of a golden shoe. But all to no avail - in the end, the prince saw blood pouring out of the shoes. In the Zipes translation, the mother says stepsister Cinderella: "Here's a knife. If the shoe is still too tight for you, then cut off a piece of your foot. It will hurt a little. But what does it matter?
Zipes describes the changes that were made to a "massive" number of stories, about forty or even fifty tales, as in the first edition they were too violent, and by the seventh, the most famous edition all over the world, all the horrors were either deleted, or radically changed. “The first edition was not published for children or family reading. These tales were not for children at all. Everything changed only when, after the publication of the first two editions of fairy tales for adults, the Brothers Grimm changed their attitude towards these fairy tales and decided to create milder versions intended for middle-class families. This led Wilhelm to edit and heavily censor many of the tales already published.
As Professor Zipes points out, Wilhelm Grimm removed all stories that might offend the religious sensibilities of the middle class, such as the story of children playing slaughter. Zipes also notes that Wilhelm "added a lot of Christian expressions and proverbs", embellished the tales stylistically, and eliminated fairies because this connected many stories with French fairy tales. Zipes says: "Remember that this was during the Napoleonic Wars, during the period when the French occupied Germany." “So, in the fairy tale Briar Rose, better known as Sleeping Beauty, the fairies turn into wise women. In addition, the crab, and not the frog at all, announces to the queen that she is pregnant.
According to academic views, the original stories are closer to the colloquial tradition, in addition, they are "more offhand, dynamic and vibrant." Marina Warner in her introductory remarks to The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm says that Professor Zipes "redrawn the map we all thought we knew" and made the Grimm fairy tales "wonderfully weird again ". Zipes writes that the originals "have retained the poignant and naïve taste of the colloquial tradition" and that the tales are "amazing stories precisely because they are so straightforward and unpretentious", with the Brothers Grimm adding their "sentimental Christian and puritanical ideology" to them.
But, according to Zipes, these stories still remain suitable tales for the night. "It's time for parents and publishers to remember what the original stories told by the Brothers Grimm were like." Zipes adds: “Grimm's tales have their natural origins in folk, and these tales can be enjoyed by adults and children alike. If there is something disgusting, the reader can decide for himself whether he will read them. We don't need puritanical censorship to tell us what is good and what is bad for us."
Of course, most likely, many would be interested in reading the original fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, which, as we have thought until now, are beautiful and kind. But still, before reading to your child at night not that light pink-sky-blue story, but an older, scary, very scary tale, which makes the blood freeze in the veins, you should think carefully where the baby will sleep later - in his bed or on long years move to bed with parents.
According to The Guardian
In the UK, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm were published in the first edition of 1812 - that is, in the most bloody and creepy. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, like Charles Perrault together with the Italian storyteller Giambattista Basile, they did not invent plots, but rewrote folk legends for subsequent generations. From the primary sources, the blood runs cold: graves, severed heels, sadistic punishments, rapes and other "unfabulous" details. AiF.ru has collected original stories that you should not tell the kids at all at night.
Cinderella
It is believed that the earliest version of Cinderella was invented in Ancient Egypt: while the beautiful prostitute Fodoris was swimming in the river, the eagle stole her sandal and took it to the pharaoh, who admired the small size of the shoe and eventually married the harlot.
The Italian Giambattista Basile, who wrote down the collection of folk legends "The Tale of Tales", is much worse. His Cinderella, or rather Zezolla, is not at all the unfortunate girl that we know from Disney cartoons and children's performances. She did not want to endure humiliation from her stepmother, so she broke her stepmother's neck with the lid of the chest, taking her nanny as an accomplice. The nanny immediately fussed and became the second stepmother for the girl, in addition, she turned out to have six evil daughters, of course, the girl did not shine to kill everyone. Saved the case: one day the king saw the girl and fell in love. Zezolla was quickly found by His Majesty's servants, but she managed to escape, dropping - no, not a glass slipper! - a rough pianella with a cork sole, which was worn by the women of Naples. The further scheme is clear: a nationwide manhunt and a wedding. So the murderer of the stepmother became the queen.
Actress Anna Levanova as Cinderella in the play "Cinderella" directed by Ekaterina Polovtseva at the Sovremennik Theater.
61 years after the Italian version, Charles Perrault released his fairy tale. It was she who became the basis for all the "vanilla" modern interpretations. True, in Perrault's version, it is not the godmother who helps the girl, but the deceased mother: a white bird lives on her grave, fulfilling wishes.
The Brothers Grimm also interpreted the plot of Cinderella in their own way: in their opinion, the bad sisters of the poor orphan should have received what they deserved. Trying to squeeze into the cherished shoe, one of the sisters chopped off her finger, and the second - her heel. But the sacrifice was in vain - the doves warned the prince:
Look, look
And the shoe is covered in blood...
The same flying warriors of justice eventually pecked out the eyes of the sisters - this is the end of the fairy tale.
red Riding Hood
The story of a girl and a hungry wolf has been known in Europe since the 14th century. The contents of the basket changed depending on the location, but the story itself was much more unfortunate for Cinderella. After killing a grandmother, the wolf not only eats her, but prepares a tasty treat from her body, and a certain drink from her blood. Hiding in bed, he watches as Little Red Riding Hood devours her grandmother with gusto. The grandmother's cat tries to warn the girl, but she also dies a terrible death (the wolf throws heavy wooden shoes at her). Little Red Riding Hood does not seem to be embarrassed, and after a hearty dinner, she obediently undresses and goes to bed, where the wolf is waiting for her. In most versions, this is where it all ends - they say, rightly so for a stupid girl!
Illustration in the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood". Gustave Dore
Subsequently, Charles Perrault composed an optimistic ending for this story and added a moral for everyone whom all sorts of strangers invite to their bed:
Little kids for no reason
(And especially girls,
Beauties and spoiled women),
On the way, meeting all sorts of men,
You can’t listen to insidious speeches, -
Otherwise, the wolf may eat them.
I said wolf! Wolves can't be counted
But there are others in between.
Dodgers so puffy
What, sweetly exuding flattery,
The maiden's honor is guarded,
Accompany their walks home,
Spend them bye-bye through the dark back streets ...
But the wolf, alas, is more modest than it seems,
That is why he is always crafty and scary!
Sleeping Beauty
The modern version of the kiss that woke up the beauty is just baby talk compared to the original story, which was recorded for posterity by the same Giambattista Basile. The beauty from his fairy tale named Thalia was also cursed in the form of a spindle prick, after which the princess fell into a sound sleep. The inconsolable king-father left in a small house in the forest, but could not imagine what would happen next. Years later, another king drove by, went into the house and saw Sleeping Beauty. Without thinking twice, he carried her to the bed and, so to speak, took advantage of the situation, and then left and forgot about everything for a long time. And the beauty, raped in a dream, gave birth to twins nine months later - a son named the Sun and a daughter, the Moon. It was they who woke Thalia: the boy, in search of his mother's breast, began to suck her finger and accidentally sucked out the poisoned thorn. Further more. The lustful king again came to an abandoned house and found offspring there.
Illustration in the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty". AndreasPraefcke
He promised the girl mountains of gold and again left for his kingdom, where, by the way, his legal wife was waiting for him. The wife of the king, having learned about the lovebird, decided to exterminate her along with the whole brood and at the same time punish the unfaithful husband. She ordered the kids to be killed and made into meat pies for the king, and the princess to be burned. Just before the fire, the screams of the beauty were heard by the king, who ran and burned not her, but the annoying evil queen. And finally, the good news: the twins were not eaten, because the cook turned out to be a normal person and saved the kids by replacing them with a lamb.
The defender of maiden honor, Charles Perrault, of course, greatly changed the tale, but could not resist the “morality” at the end of the story. His advice reads:
Wait a little
For the husband to turn up
Handsome and rich, moreover,
It is quite possible and understandable.
But a hundred long years
Lying in bed, waiting
For ladies it's so unpleasant
No one can sleep....
Snow White
The Grimm brothers flooded the fairy tale about Snow White with interesting details that seem wild in our humane time. The first version was published in 1812, supplemented in 1854. The beginning of the tale no longer bode well: “One winter snowy day, the queen sits and sews by the window with an ebony frame. By chance, she pricks her finger with a needle, drops three drops of blood and thinks: “Oh, if I had a baby, white as snow, ruddy like blood and dark as ebony.” But the sorceress appears really creepy here: she eats (as she herself thinks) the heart of the murdered Snow White, and then, realizing that she was mistaken, comes up with all new sophisticated ways to kill her. These include a choke string for a dress, a poisonous comb, and a poisoned apple that we know worked. The ending is also interesting: when everything goes well for Snow White, the turn of the sorceress comes. As punishment for her sins, she dances in red-hot iron shoes until she falls dead.
Frame from the cartoon "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
The beauty and the Beast
The primary source of the tale is nothing less than the ancient Greek myth of the beautiful Psyche, whose beauty was envied by everyone, from older sisters to the goddess Aphrodite. The girl was chained to a rock in the hope of feeding the monster, but miraculously she was saved by an "invisible creature". It was male, of course, because it made Psyche his wife on the condition that she would not torment him with questions. But, of course, female curiosity took over, and Psyche found out that her husband was not a monster at all, but the beautiful Cupid. The husband of Psyche was offended and flew away without promising to return. Meanwhile, Psyche's mother-in-law Aphrodite, who was against this marriage from the very beginning, decided to completely exhaust her daughter-in-law, forcing her to perform various difficult tasks: for example, to bring the golden fleece from mad sheep and water from the river of the dead Styx. But Psyche did everything, and there Amur returned to the family, and they lived happily ever after. And the stupid envious sisters rushed off the cliff, hoping in vain that there would be an “invisible spirit” on them too.
A version closer to modern history was writtenGabriel Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuvein 1740. Everything is complicated in it: the Beast, in fact, is an unfortunate orphan. His father died, and his mother was forced to defend her kingdom from enemies, so she entrusted the upbringing of her son to someone else's aunt. She turned out to be an evil sorceress, in addition, she wanted to seduce the boy, and when she was refused, she turned him into a terrible beast. Beauty also has her own skeletons in the closet: she is not really a native, but the adopted daughter of a merchant. Her real father is a king who sinned with a stray good fairy. But the evil sorceress also claims the king, so it was decided to give the daughter of her rival to the merchant, whose youngest daughter had just died. Well, and a curious fact about the sisters of the Beauty: when the beast lets her go to visit her relatives, the “kind” girls deliberately force her to linger in the hope that the monster will go berserk and eat her. By the way, this subtle related moment is shown in the latest film version of "Beauty and the Beast" withVincent Cassel and Leah Seydoux.
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- Tales of Wilhelm Hauff Tales of Wilhelm Hauff Hauff Wilhelm (29.11.1802 - 18.11.1827) - German writer, best known as the author of fairy tales for children. Considered a representative of the artistic literary style Biedermeier. Wilhelm Gauf is not so famous and popular world storyteller, but the tales of Gauf must be read to children. In his works, the author, with the subtlety and unobtrusiveness of a real psychologist, put a deep meaning that prompts reflection. Hauff wrote his Märchen for the children of Baron Hegel - fairy tales, they were first published in the Almanac of Tales of January 1826 for the Sons and Daughters of Noble Estates. There were such works by Gauf as "Caliph-Stork", " Little Muck”, some others that immediately gained popularity in German-speaking countries. Focusing initially on oriental folklore, later he begins to use European legends in fairy tales.
- Tales of Vladimir Odoevsky Tales of Vladimir Odoevsky In the history of Russian culture, Vladimir Odoevsky entered as a literary and musical critic, prose writer, museum and library worker. He did a lot for Russian children's literature. During his lifetime, he published several books for children's reading: "Town in a snuffbox" (1834-1847), "Tales and stories for children of grandfather Iriney" (1838-1840), "Collection of children's songs of grandfather Iriney" (1847), "Children's book for Sundays» (1849). Creating fairy tales for children, V. F. Odoevsky often turned to folklore stories. And not only to the Russians. The most popular are two fairy tales by V. F. Odoevsky - “Moroz Ivanovich” and “The Town in a Snuffbox”.
- Tales of Vsevolod Garshin Tales of Vsevolod Garshin Garshin V.M. - Russian writer, poet, critic. Fame gained after the publication of his first work "4 days". The number of fairy tales written by Garshin is not at all large - only five. And almost all of them are school curriculum. Fairy tales “The Traveling Frog”, “The Tale of the Toad and the Rose”, “That which was not” are known to every child. All Garshin's tales are imbued with deep meaning, the designation of facts without unnecessary metaphors and the all-consuming sadness that passes through each of his tales, each story.
- Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) - Danish writer, storyteller, poet, playwright, essayist, author worldwide famous fairy tales for children and adults. Reading Andersen's fairy tales is fascinating at any age, and they give children and adults the freedom to fly dreams and fantasies. In every fairy tale of Hans Christian there are deep thoughts about the meaning of life, human morality, sin and virtues, often not noticeable at first glance. Andersen's most popular fairy tales: The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, Nightingale, Swineherd, Chamomile, Flint, Wild Swans, Tin Soldier, Princess and the Pea, Ugly Duckling.
- Tales of Mikhail Plyatskovsky Tales of Mikhail Plyatskovsky Mikhail Spartakovich Plyatskovsky - Soviet poet- songwriter, playwright Even in his student years, he began to compose songs - both poems and melodies. The first professional song "March of Cosmonauts" was written in 1961 with S. Zaslavsky. There is hardly a person who has never heard such lines: "it's better to sing in unison", "friendship begins with a smile." Little raccoon from Soviet cartoon and the cat Leopold sing songs based on the verses of the popular songwriter Mikhail Spartakovich Plyatskovsky. Plyatskovsky's fairy tales teach children the rules and norms of behavior, simulate familiar situations and introduce them to the world. Some stories not only teach kindness, but also ridicule bad traits the nature of children.
- Tales of Samuil Marshak Tales of Samuil Marshak Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (1887 - 1964) - Russian Soviet poet, translator, playwright, literary critic. Known as the author of fairy tales for children, satirical works, as well as "adult", serious lyrics. Among Marshak's dramatic works, the fairy tale plays "Twelve Months", "Clever Things", "Cat's House" are especially popular. Marshak's poems and fairy tales begin to be read from the very first days in kindergartens, then they are put on lower grades learn by heart.
- Tales of Gennady Mikhailovich Tsyferov Tales of Gennady Mikhailovich Tsyferov Gennady Mikhailovich Tsyferov - Soviet storyteller, screenwriter, playwright. Most big success Animation brought Gennady Mikhailovich. During the cooperation with the Soyuzmultfilm studio, in collaboration with Genrikh Sapgir, more than twenty-five cartoons were released, including "The Train from Romashkov", "My Green Crocodile", "Like a Frog Looking for Dad", "Losharik", "How to become big" . Cute and good stories Tsyferov are familiar to each of us. The heroes who live in the books of this wonderful children's writer will always come to the aid of each other. His famous fairy tales: “There was an elephant in the world”, “About a chicken, the sun and a bear cub”, “About an eccentric frog”, “About a steamboat”, “A story about a pig”, etc. Collections of fairy tales: “How a frog was looking for dad”, “ Multi-colored giraffe”, “Engine from Romashkovo”, “How to become big and other stories”, “Bear cub diary”.
- Tales of Sergei Mikhalkov Tales of Sergei Mikhalkov Mikhalkov Sergei Vladimirovich (1913 - 2009) - writer, writer, poet, fabulist, playwright, war correspondent during the Great Patriotic War, lyricist of two hymns Soviet Union and anthem Russian Federation. They begin to read Mikhalkov's poems in the kindergarten, choosing "Uncle Styopa" or the equally famous rhyme "What do you have?". The author takes us back to the Soviet past, but over the years his works do not become obsolete, but only acquire charm. Mikhalkov's children's poems have long become classics.
- Tales of Suteev Vladimir Grigorievich Tales of Suteev Vladimir Grigorievich Suteev - Russian Soviet children's writer, illustrator and animator. One of the founders Soviet animation. Born in the family of a doctor. The father was a gifted person, his passion for art was passed on to his son. FROM youthful years Vladimir Suteev, as an illustrator, periodically published in the magazines "Pioneer", "Murzilka", "Friendly guys", "Iskorka", in the newspaper " Pioneer Truth". Studied at MVTU im. Bauman. Since 1923 - an illustrator of books for children. Suteev illustrated books by K. Chukovsky, S. Marshak, S. Mikhalkov, A. Barto, D. Rodari, as well as own works. The tales that V. G. Suteev composed himself are written laconically. Yes, he does not need verbosity: everything that is not said will be drawn. The artist works as a multiplier, capturing every movement of the character to get a solid, logically clear action and a vivid, memorable image.
- Tales of Tolstoy Alexei Nikolaevich Tales of Tolstoy Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy A.N. - a Russian writer, an extremely versatile and prolific writer who wrote in all kinds and genres (two collections of poems, more than forty plays, scripts, fairy tales, journalistic and other articles, etc.), primarily a prose writer, a master of fascinating narration. Genres in creativity: prose, short story, story, play, libretto, satire, essay, journalism, historical novel, Science fiction, fairy tale, poem. popular tale Tolstoy A. N .: "The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio", which is a successful alteration of the fairy tale Italian writer XIX century. Collodi "Pinocchio", entered the golden fund of world children's literature.
- Tales of Leo Tolstoy Tales of Tolstoy Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Lev Nikolayevich (1828 - 1910) - one of the greatest Russian writers and thinkers. Thanks to him, not only works that are part of the treasury of world literature appeared, but also a whole religious and moral trend - Tolstoyism. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy wrote many instructive, lively and interesting tales, fables, poems and stories. His pen also includes many small, but beautiful fairy tales for children: Three bears, As Uncle Semyon told about what happened to him in the forest, Lion and a dog, The Tale of Ivan the Fool and his two brothers, Two brothers, Worker Yemelyan and an empty drum, and many others. Tolstoy was very serious about writing little fairy tales for children, he worked hard on them. Tales and stories of Lev Nikolaevich are still in books for reading in elementary school.
- Tales of Charles Perrault The Tales of Charles Perrault Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a French storyteller, critic and poet, and was a member of the French Academy. It is probably impossible to find a person who would not know the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and gray wolf, about a boy from a finger or other equally memorable characters, colorful and so close not only to a child, but also to an adult. But they all owe their appearance wonderful writer Charles Perrault. Each of his fairy tales is folk epic, its writer processed and developed the plot, resulting in such delightful works that are still read today with great admiration.
- Ukrainian folk tales Ukrainian folk tales Ukrainian folk tales have much in common in their style and content with Russian folk tales. AT Ukrainian fairy tale much attention is paid to everyday realities. Ukrainian folklore the folk tale is very vividly described. All traditions, holidays and customs can be seen in the plots of folk tales. How Ukrainians lived, what they had and what they didn’t have, what they dreamed about and how they went towards their goals is just as clearly laid down in the meaning fairy tales. The most popular Ukrainian folk tales: Mitten, Goat Dereza, Pokatigoroshka, Serko, the tale about Ivasik, Kolosok and others.
- Riddles for children with answers Riddles for children with answers. Big selection riddles with answers for fun and intellectual activities with children. A riddle is just a quatrain or one sentence containing a question. In riddles, wisdom and the desire to know more, to recognize, to strive for something new are mixed. Therefore, we often encounter them in fairy tales and legends. Riddles can be solved on the way to school, kindergarten, used in different competitions and quizzes. Riddles help the development of your child.
- Riddles about animals with answers Riddles about animals are very fond of children of different ages. Animal world diverse, so there are many mysteries about domestic and wild animals. Riddles about animals are a great way to introduce children to different animals, birds and insects. Thanks to these riddles, children will remember, for example, that an elephant has a trunk, a bunny has big ears, and a hedgehog has prickly needles. This section presents the most popular children's riddles about animals with answers.
- Riddles about nature with answers Riddles for children about nature with answers In this section you will find riddles about the seasons, about flowers, about trees and even about the sun. When entering school, the child must know the seasons and the names of the months. And riddles about the seasons will help with this. Riddles about flowers are very beautiful, funny and will allow children to learn the names of flowers, both indoor and garden. Riddles about trees are very entertaining, children will find out which trees bloom in spring, which trees bear sweet fruits and how they look. Also, children learn a lot about the sun and planets.
- Riddles about food with answers Delicious riddles for children with answers. In order for children to eat this or that food, many parents come up with all kinds of games. We offer you funny food riddles that will help your child relate to nutrition with positive side. Here you will find riddles about vegetables and fruits, about mushrooms and berries, about sweets.
- Riddles about the world with answers Riddles about the world with answers In this category of riddles, there is almost everything that concerns a person and the world around him. Riddles about professions are very useful for children, because at a young age the first abilities and talents of a child appear. And he will first think about who he wants to become. This category also includes funny riddles about clothes, about transport and cars, about a wide variety of objects that surround us.
- Riddles for kids with answers Riddles for the little ones with answers. In this section, your kids will get acquainted with each letter. With the help of such riddles, children will quickly memorize the alphabet, learn how to correctly add syllables and read words. Also in this section there are riddles about the family, about notes and music, about numbers and school. Funny riddles will distract the baby from bad mood. Riddles for the little ones are simple, humorous. Children are happy to solve them, remember and develop in the process of playing.
- Interesting riddles with answers Interesting riddles for children with answers. In this section you will find your favorite fairytale heroes. Riddles about fairy tales with answers help magically turn funny moments into a real show of fabulous connoisseurs. BUT funny riddles perfect for April 1st, Maslenitsa and other holidays. Riddles of snag will be appreciated not only by children, but also by parents. The ending of the riddle can be unexpected and ridiculous. Riddles tricks improve mood and broaden the horizons of children. Also in this section there are riddles for children's holidays. Your guests will definitely not be bored!
