Fairy tales - the first literature, which introduces the baby. Mom tells straightforward stories in a soft, quiet voice, captivating or reassuring the child, introduces him to the concepts of good, evil and justice.
Fairy tales are an integral part of the childhood of almost every person. But besides entertainment, this is a real storehouse of folk wisdom, a legacy.
Each country has its own fairy tales, the plots of some are repeated, some are absolutely unique. In them are dreams, aspirations of millions of people, their observation of nature, society, reaction to events around them. It is impossible to overestimate the significance of such works.
We have collected 10 of the most famous Russian folk tales, which every Russian child has known since childhood, are popular and famous to this day, somehow influenced the formation of personality.
10. The Frog Princess
«The king had three sons ..."- this is how the tale begins "Princess Frog".
The king decided to marry his sons and approached the task creatively. He ordered his sons to shoot arrows in different directions, wherever he falls, there he should look for a bride.
The elders were lucky, but the arrow of the younger one fell into the swamp, where the frog found it. There is nothing to do, the prince took the find to the palace, where he was immediately laughed at. But the frog was not simple, but turned at night into the wise Vasilisa.
The tsar began to test the newly-made daughters-in-law: he would ask him to sew a shirt, prepare a pie or weave a carpet. And every time the frog of the younger prince deserved recognition. And in the end she danced so that no one could take his eyes off.
Then Ivan Tsarevich ran home, grabbed frog skin and burned so that his wife would remain human forever. That's just spoiled everything: he would wait a bit, and Vasilisa would forever become a woman. And so he was left without a frog, and without a wife.
The moral of the tale is quite simple: if you love a person for what he is in his soul, he will become the most beautiful creature. But patience is gold, if you hurry, you will make the king laugh.
9. Frost
Everyone remembers a beautiful Soviet film "Frost". In the fairy tale, according to which it was shot, it tells about a peasant family: a husband, a nonsense woman, her own daughter and stepdaughter Nastenka.
The stepmother plagued her step-daughter by exorbitant work, and in the end she decided to get rid of the world and sent her to the forest in winter. There he discovered the frozen girl Morozko. For the kindness and meekness the wizard bestowed wealth on Nastenka, and later the daring groom was found.
When Nastya returned home, out of envy, the stepmother equipped her own daughter in the forest for wealth. Yes, only a spoiled nonsense girl got a sleigh with pigs and chests with crows.
The plot of the evil stepmother and the unfortunate girl is very common. This is a tale of humility and kindness, forgiveness and reward, which awaits a person for his kind heart.
8. "Wintering of animals"
"Wintering of animals" talks about pets. The owner decided to kill them, only they fled to the forest. There the bull built a house, and the animals began to live and live.
The wolf and the bear found out about the house, and decided to take it away. The wolf entered the house, and there pets attacked him in a crowd, the gray barely escaped.
The bear looked, looked, and also decided that it’s more expensive for itself to climb these strange aliens.
Morality is clear even to the smallest: friendship is the key to success, if you stick together, you can defeat even the most powerful enemy.
7. At the command of the pike
It might seem like a fairy tale "By magic" nothing can be done about how lazy to be good, and some magical fish will fulfill all dreams.
Emelya went to get water and caught a pike, which in a human voice promised to fulfill any desire of the guy in exchange for freedom. And so it happened: buckets and rockers themselves went home, the stove went, firewood chopped by themselves.
As the king found out about miracles, he invited Emelya to the palace. But he saw the princess and immediately wished her love. The autocrat became angry, put the young in a barrel and threw him into the sea. But the barrel was washed ashore, where Emelya and Marya built a palace and played a wedding.
The tale says that sometimes you can rely on fate, and she herself will give what is due. But savvy will come in handy anyway.
6. Masha and the bear
Masha and her grandfather were warned: do not lag behind your friends, do not go to the forest alone. But Masha did not obey, lost her way and ended up with the bear.
Story "Masha and the Bear" clearly shows what could be if you do not obey the elders. But even if trouble happened, it is important to show cunning and ingenuity. Masha, for example, was able to get into the box with pies and make sure that the bear did not look there until the village itself.
5. Geese swans
Leaving home, parents strictly ordered Alyonushka to watch over her brother, but she played with her friends and did not notice how her brother was taken away Swan geese.
The girl rushed in pursuit, on the way she met magical helpers: a furnace with pies, an apple tree, a river. Three pieces, as is usually the case in fairy tales.
When Alyonushka found her brother and fled home, escaping from swan geese, helpers hid them from feathered pursuers.
The tale shows the baby that the most important thing in life is family and care for loved ones.
4. Wolf and seven kids
Story "The wolf and the seven Young goats" about the confrontation of the cunning wolf and seven kids. Mom left home and forbade the children to open the door to anyone other than her. Contrary to expectations, the kids obeyed and instantly bit the wolf, who was trying to get to their home.
Then the treacherous Wolf went to the blacksmith, and he forged a thin voice. Gray returned to the kids, and they no longer had a chance, they did not recognize the enemy, they opened the door to the wolf. He swallowed six kids at once, and one hid. It was the seventh kid who told his mother what had happened.
The tale shows that family and children are the most important things in life, so the Goat rushes in pursuit of the Wolf, lures him into a hole, and alive and healthy kids jump out of a torn belly.
3. Turnip
Favorite fairy tale “Turnip” clearly shows what strength lies in unity. Not a single grandfather, with either a grandmother or a granddaughter, could pull a huge turnip out of the ground. And only by all means, the whole yard managed to get the coveted vegetable.
Sometimes for success there is not enough drop of applied forces, for example, the help of a mouse, and no one’s participation is useless when it comes to a common cause.
2. Teremok
Tales similar to the plot of “Teremk” exist among many peoples. Originally "Teremok" - A rather gloomy story about the house and the world, which sheltered many animals. Although they were not friends in nature, they agreed to live together.
And then a bear came, big and strong, and crushed the house out of a feeling of extreme malice. The tale teaches us not to be such a bear, because anger leads only to destruction.
In Soviet times, the story was revised. The shaggy oppressor turned into a large club-footed Misha, who wanted to join the beasts, did not get into the Teremok and accidentally ruined him. Animals jumped out safe and sound and immediately rebuilt the house anew, better than before. And the meaning of the tale has changed radically.
1. Gingerbread Man
The Tale of the Gingerbread Man is one of the first that the baby is told. The story of revived bread, which rolled away from a woman with her grandfather and went to travel. On the way he met different animals, and everyone wanted to eat them. But savvy Gingerbread man sang a mocking song and left time after time. And only Fox managed to trick him, playing on the vanity, and feast on bread.
The moral lies on the surface: obey the elders and do not boast idle.
But scholars of folklore see another meaning of the tale. It displays the observations of our ancestors over the waning moon. In the original, each of the animals bit off a piece of a round Kolobok until there was a crust that the Fox ate.