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Title: Russian fairytales


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Russian fairytales art
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Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov
a famous Russian artist
May 15, 1848 July 23, 1926
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  • 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!

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heroes
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Alyosha Popovich
Ilya Muromets
Dobrynya Nikitich
Bogatyrs
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Bogatyrs
  • 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
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Ivan 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.

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Kovyor-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.

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Kovyor-Samolyot
The Firebird in a gold cage
Magic Carpet or Flying Carpet
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Sivka-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.

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Princesses
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Tsarevna 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.

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Tsarevna 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.

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Tsarevna The Frog or The Frog Princess
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Tsarevna 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.

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Snegurochka 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.

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Tsarevna The Dead or The Sleeping Beauty
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villains
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Koschei The Deathless and Marya Morevna
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Koschei 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.

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Baba Yaga
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Baba 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.

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