Title: Russian fairytales
1Russian fairytales art
2Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov
a famous Russian artist
May 15, 1848 July 23, 1926
3- Russian folklore has always been a source of
inspiration for the Russian people, especially
for Russian artists. One of the most famous is
Viktor Vasnetsov. Through his illustrations
Russian fairy tales were introduced in all its
glory to people in all over the world. Vasnetsov
tried to understand the spirit of the Russian
people and pass it with his paintings. Today we
have the opportunity to immerse yourself in that
amazing and fascinating world!
4heroes
5Alyosha Popovich
Ilya Muromets
Dobrynya Nikitich
Bogatyrs
6Bogatyrs
- The Russian bylina feature bogatyrs,
knights-errant who served as protectors of their
homeland, and occasionally as adventurers. Some
of them are presumed to be historical figures,
while others are fictional and descend from
mythology. Three popular Russian knightsIlya
Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich
(famously painted by Victor Vasnetsov).
bylina the Russian name for fairytales, which
are based on real historical events
7Ivan Tsarevich riding the Gray Wolf
- The tsar told his two oldest sons that the one
who find the magic Firebird would receive half
his kingdom and be his heir. The older brothers
were too lazy to cope with the task. The younger
brother Ivan Tsarevich wandered for a very long
time, he lost his horse and met the Grey Wolf,
who decided to help him. Together, they found a
kingdom where the Firebird lived. The tsar of
this kingdom said that he would give Ivan the
Firebird in exchange for the most beautiful
princess Helen the Beautiful. Ivan rode the wolf
to her castle. The wolf carried her off, but Ivan
was able to assuage her fears. Ivan brought her
back to the Second tsar, but wept because they
had come to love each other. The wolf turned
itself into the form of the princess and had Ivan
exchange it for the Firebird. Ivan and Helen rode
off together with the Firebird. The wolf escaped
the Second tsar. It reached Ivan and Helen, and
Helen and Ivan rode the wolf. They returned to
his own kingdom with Helen and the Firebird. Ivan
married Helen, and they lived happily together.
8Kovyor-Samolyot
- A magic carpet, also called a flying carpet, is a
legendary carpet that can be used to transport
persons who are on it instantaneously or quickly
to their destination. In some tales Ivan used it
to steal the Firebird and rescue the tsarevna.
9Kovyor-Samolyot
The Firebird in a gold cage
Magic Carpet or Flying Carpet
10Sivka-Burka
- Sivka-Burka is a beautiful and very strong magic
horse, which father had given to his favorite
youngest of the three sons Ivan, because he was a
model son. The tsar (a king) made ??a contest for
the hand of Tsarevna who would get up to the
window of the tallest tower where the tsarevna
lives, he would marry her. Sivka-Burka helped
Ivan to win the tournament. Ivan and Tsarevna got
married and lived happily ever after.
11Princesses
12Tsarevna The Never-Laughing
- Once there was a very sad Tsarevna who never
laughed. The tsar (her father) had tried
everything already and announced the competition
for the award the one who can laugh tsarevna, he
would take her as a wife.
13Tsarevna The Never-Laughing
- All the tsarevichs from the neighboring kingdoms
gathered, but no one could have her laugh. Only a
simple peasant-worker Ivan the Fool was able to
make laugh the Tsarevna. The tsar had to keep his
word, and they got married and lived happily ever
after.
14Tsarevna The Frog or The Frog Princess
15Tsarevna The Frog
- The Russian variant of this tale includes the
Frog Princess or Tsarevna The Frog known also as
Vasilisa The Wise. - The tsar (the king) sets his three sons to marry,
and tests their chosen brides. The tsar tells
them to shoot arrows and find their brides where
the arrows land, and the youngest (Ivan
Tsarevich) brother's arrow landed in the mouth of
a frog in a swamp, who turns into a princess
Tsarevna The Frog is usually a beautiful,
intelligent, friendly, skilled girl. - The tsar assigns his three prospective
daughters-in-law various tasks, such as spinning
cloth and baking bread. In every task, the frog
far outdoes the lazy brides-to-be of the older
brothers. Still, the young tsarevich is ashamed
of his froggy bride, until she is magically
transformed into a princess. Her last test was
dancing which is on the painting.
16Snegurochka or The Snow Maiden
- A folk tale about a girl made of snow and named
Snegurochka. She is the daughter of Spring the
Beauty and Father Frost, and yearns for the
companionship of mortal humans. She grows with
and used to like a shepherd named Lel, but her
heart is unable to know love. Her mother takes
pity and gives her this ability, but as soon as
she falls in love, her heart warms and she melts.
- Snegurochka is also known as the granddaughter
and helper of Ded Moroz (the Russian version of
Father Christmas) during the New Year parties for
children.
17Tsarevna The Dead or The Sleeping Beauty
18villains
19Koschei The Deathless and Marya Morevna
20Koschei The Deathless
- Koschei is an evil, immortal man who kidnaps and
menaces young beautiful women with his magic. He
has been most frequently represented as a very
old and ugly-looking man. His name was derived
from the Russian word meaning 'bone', because
hes very raw boned and scraggy. - Koschei cannot be killed by conventional means
targeting his body. His soul (or death) is hidden
separate from his body inside a needle, which is
in an egg, which is in a duck, which is in a
hare, which is in an iron chest , which is buried
under a green oak tree, which is on the island
named Buyan in the Ocean. As long as his soul is
safe, he cannot die. If the egg or needle is
broken, Koschei will die. - Koschei took the wife of Ivan Tsarevich Marya
Morevna, when Ivan went to war. But Ivan had
rescue her when he found the way how to kill
Koschei.
21Baba Yaga
22Baba Yaga
- Baba Yaga is a supernatural being, who appears as
a ferocious-looking ugly very old woman. She is a
witch. Baba Yaga flies around in a mortar, wields
a broom (or just on a broom), and dwells deep in
the forest in a house usually described as
standing on chicken legs. - She steals and eats people, especially young
naughty children who go to play away from home to
her forest. Parents sometimes frighten their
children who misbehave by Baba Yaga.
23THE END