Title of the piece: " donkey skin".
Number of pages: 56.
Genre of the work: fairy tale.
Main characters: Princess by nickname Donkey skin, Prince, King, Lilac fairy.
Characteristics of the main characters:
donkey skin- a beautiful princess who had to run away from home so that her own father would not marry her.
Economic and resourceful.
Fell in love with the King.
royal- Curious, smart and daring.
Fell in love and suffered.
Really appreciated the beauty of the Donkey skin.
Sorceress Lilac- kind, sympathetic and fair.
Helped Donkey Skin.
Summary of the fairy tale "Donkey skin" for the reader's diary
The King and Queen had a beautiful daughter.
Such beautiful princess not found anywhere else.
When the Queen died, she ordered her husband to marry another woman who would be more beautiful than her.
The old King was looking for another wife, but all without success.
Until he decided to marry his own daughter.
The good fairy Lilac decided to help the girl and gave various tasks for the King.
But he coped with all of them and even killed a donkey that brought gold coins to the kingdom.
Then the Princess put on a donkey skin and fled from the palace.
She started working on the farm.
There she was met by a handsome Prince and fell in love.
He ordered a cake to be baked for him.
The princess put the ring that the young man had found into the cake.
But this ring did not fit any of the young ladies.
Only a farm girl managed to put it on.
The Prince married the Princess and had a magnificent wedding.
The King, the girl's father, was also invited to the celebration.
He asked her forgiveness and made her the ruler of the Kingdom.
Plan for retelling the work "Donkey Skin"
1. King and Queen.
2. Beautiful Princess.
3. Donkey bringing gold.
4. Death of the Queen and last words.
5. Clouding of the King.
6. The Good Fairy helps the Princess.
7. Three tasks.
8. Donkey skin and escape from the kingdom.
9. Farm worker.
10. The prince returns from hunting.
11. The longing of the Prince.
12. Pie with a ring.
13. The princess puts on the ring and sheds her skin.
14. Wedding of the Prince and Princess.
15. The king recognizes his daughter.
The main idea of \u200b\u200bthe fairy tale "Donkey Skin"
The main idea of the work is that it is necessary to evaluate a person not by external data and beauty, but by the breadth and richness of his inner world.
A sensitive and kind heart paints a person better than appearance.
What does the fairy tale "Donkey skin" teach
The story teaches us many things:
1. Believe in goodness and do good yourself.
2. Do not hold grudges and forgive your loved ones.
3. Appreciate a person not for appearance, but for his good heart.
4. Do not give up in a difficult situation, but find a way out of it.
5. Be hardworking, patient and persistent.
A brief review of the fairy tale "Donkey Skin" for the reader's diary
I liked the tale "Donkey skin" very much.
Her plot is unusual: the father decides to marry his own daughter, but the girl escapes from the palace under the Donkey skin.
I believe that in this situation, the Princess did the right thing and did not let her father make a serious mistake.
For me, the main character of the fairy tale is an example of kindness, cordiality, intelligence and patience.
The girl was not afraid of the dirty work on the farm, but happily did everything.
As a reward for her difficult trials, she received a generous gift of fate.
The Prince fell in love with her and married her.
I also liked the princess because she was able to forgive her father, and her father, in turn, realized what a mistake he could make.
The fairy tale teaches us sanity, kindness and the ability to forgive the mistakes of others.
What proverbs are suitable for the work "Donkey skin"
"They meet by clothes, but see off by the mind."
"The view is good, but you don't judge by the look."
"Do not judge a person by appearance."
"Do good and expect good."
"Wrong, but confess."
The excerpt from the piece that struck me the most:
Dear father and mother!
I myself do not know who is the girl whom I fell in love with so passionately.
Charles Perrault can be called one of the most beloved storytellers of all time. After all, such wonderful and fairy tales like "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Puss in Boots" and many others. But today we will talk about another wonderful story that Charles Perrault wrote - "Donkey Skin". We offer a brief look at the content of this fairy tale, based on which several films were shot - in 1970 in France, with Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais in the lead roles, and in 1982 in the USSR, with Vera Novikova, Alexander Galibin, Vladimir Etush and others famous actors.
So, the fairy tale "Donkey Skin" begins with the fact that in one kingdom there lived a king. He was immensely kind and happy, because his wife was the most beautiful woman in the world, and their only daughter was hardly inferior to her mother in beauty and virtue. The kingdom prospered due to wise rule. But still not only to him, because in one of the stables lived an old donkey, which had a wonderful property - to defecate gold.
Once a misfortune happened - the queen became seriously ill and soon died. But before her death, she managed to express her last wish. She wanted her husband to marry again, but the main condition was that his chosen one was more beautiful than the queen herself. No matter how much later they looked for a new wife for the widower, they did not find it. But one day he saw his own daughter in the garden, who surpassed her mother in beauty, and, falling in love with her, decided to marry her. The girl was shocked by such a wish of her father and asked for help from her godmother, the Lilac Sorceress. She advised her to ask the king an impossible task - to kill the gold-bearing donkey and give her his skin. The princess obeyed and puzzled the pope. He grieved, but agreed, and soon the donkey skin lay at the feet of the princess. But the girl did not want to give up and marry her father, because this is a great sin. Therefore, again on the advice of her godmother, she put this skin on herself, smeared herself with mud and ran away from the palace at night.
In this form, she wandered around the city until kind people warmed her up by taking her to work in the barnyard. The nickname "Donkey Skin" stuck behind her, she was so black and scary. But one day she decided to transform back into a princess and, locking herself in her closet, tapped on the floor with a magic wand that her godmother had given her before escaping. Immediately before her appeared a chest with her beautiful clothes. The girl washed, combed her hair, changed clothes and began to show off in front of the mirror. The prince, who was visiting the hosts who worked for Donkey Skin, accidentally saw her through the keyhole and fell in love. Returning home from the guests, he fell ill and said that only a pie would save him, which would be prepared by a girl living in a closet with such and such people. Zamarashka was informed of this news and ordered to bake a pie. She rejoiced, and, once again putting on her luxurious clothes, she locked herself in and began to cook. But she accidentally dropped her ring into the dough, which the prince discovered when he was eating a pie.
He announced that he would marry the girl who would fit the ring, regardless of whether she was a princess or a beggar. Many girls flocked to try on - everyone wanted to become the wife of such a handsome man. Donkey Skin was forcibly brought in, although she had managed to change into her usual luxurious clothes when she heard a knock on her door. She threw on a donkey skin over her beautiful dress and went to the palace, accompanied by laughing guards. The prince put a ring on her finger, and it fit her. Then she threw off her vile skin and appeared before everyone in all her glory. Soon they played a wedding, to which the girl's father was also invited. It turned out that while his daughter was gone, he managed to marry a beautiful widow - the queen of a neighboring country, so now he was very happy for his daughter and blessed her marriage with the prince. This is how Ch. Perrault's fairy tale “Donkey Skin” ended happily.
Perro Charles fairy tale "Donkey skin"
The main characters of the fairy tale "Donkey Skin" and their characteristics
- Princess Donkeyskin, very beautiful and hardworking. She did not shun black work, she was patient and humble. Kind and affectionate.
- The prince, young and handsome, fell in love with the princess and took her to wife
- The king's father went crazy seeing the beauty of his daughter, but at the end of the tale he corrected himself.
- Lilac-sorceress, fairy godmother, kind and wise.
- Peaceful life in the kingdom
- Donkey and gold
- death of the queen
- King's intention
- Three princess dresses
- donkey skin
- Farm work
- sick prince
- Donkey skin pie
- ring in the pie
- Fitting
- A happy ending
- When the queen died, the king decided to marry his own daughter, she was so beautiful.
- At the request of his daughter, the king sewed three dresses and killed a donkey that brought gold coins.
- On the advice of the Lilac Sorceress, the princess runs in a donkey skin and works on a farm
- The prince sees the princess through the keyhole and falls in love
- The prince finds in a pie prepared by Donkeyskin a ring
- The ring is suitable only for the princess, the wedding and the blessing of the father.
Only those who are not afraid to overcome difficulties are worthy of happiness.
What does the fairy tale "Donkey skin" teach
This fairy tale teaches us not to give up in the face of difficulties, teaches us to be persistent and hardworking, teaches us patience and faith in the best. The tale teaches that goodness will always be rewarded.
Review of the fairy tale "Donkey Skin"
I don't really like this tale, because in it in question about ugly things, like the king's intention to marry his own daughter. But of course I like the main character herself, she is a brave and determined girl who was not embarrassed by dirty work, even though she was a princess and was used to a completely different treatment.
Proverbs to the fairy tale "Donkey skin"
Don't judge people by their appearance.
The road will be mastered by the walking one.
You never know in advance where you will find, where you will lose.
Summary, brief retelling fairy tales "Donkey skin"
In one kingdom lived a happy king with his queen, and their young and beautiful daughter, a princess. Everything in the kingdom was good and the simple donkey was especially valued here, which gave gold coins every morning.
But one day the queen fell ill and realized that she was dying. She took the word from the king that he would definitely marry after her death, but only to one who would be more beautiful and slimmer than her.
The queen died and the courtiers began to ask the king to marry again, but he kept dissuaded. Suddenly one day he saw his daughter in the garden and decided to marry her, she was so beautiful.
The princess was horrified and ran to her godmother, the Lilac fairy sorceress, who advised her to ask the king for a sky-colored dress.
The king called the tailors and two days later the beautiful dress was ready.
Then the lilac sorceress advised me to ask for a dress in the color of the month. This dress was ready the next day.
Then the princess asked for a dress the color of the sun, but this dress, adorned with diamonds, was quickly sewn.
Then the lilac sorceress advised the princess to ask for the skin of a donkey, and the king killed the donkey and gave his daughter his skin. Then the fairy told the princess to wrap herself in a skin and leave the palace, and on the way she gave her a magic wand so that the princess could summon her dresses.
The princess in the donkey skin was gone and no one could find her. And she got a job on the farm to do the most menial work and everyone considered her a mess.
One day she saw her reflection in the lake and got scared. Then she washed herself and saw that her beauty had returned to her.
At that time, a young prince happened on the farm. And the princess in her closet at that time changed into a dress the color of the sky. The prince accidentally looked through the keyhole and saw a beautiful stranger. He asked the farmer about her, but he knew nothing.
Then the prince returned to the palace and fell ill. Nobody could heal him. And so the prince asked that they bring him a cake that Donkeyskin would cook.
The princess changed into her dress and made a delicious cake, but accidentally dropped her ring into the dough.
The prince found the ring and got even sicker. He told his father, the king, that he wanted to marry someone who would fit this ring.
Everyone tried to wear a ring, but it did not suit anyone. Then the king called for Donkeyskin. The princess dressed in a dress the color of the sun and threw a donkey skin over it. The ring immediately approached her and the prince fell on his knees in front of her. The princess rushed to pick it up and the donkey skin fell off.
Everyone was amazed by the beauty of the princess. And then the Lilac-sorceress came down and told the story of the princess.
They immediately decided to play a wedding and sent invitations to everyone, including the father of the princess. He arrived with his new wife, the Queen Dowager, recognized his daughter and blessed the marriage. And then he handed over the management of his kingdom to the princess.
Drawings and illustrations for the fairy tale "Donkey Skin"
Charles Perrault
"Tales of my mother Goose, or Stories and tales of bygone times with teachings"
donkey skin
A poetic tale begins with a description happy life a brilliant king, his fair and faithful wife, and their lovely little daughter. They lived in a magnificent palace, in a rich and flourishing country. In the royal stable, next to the frisky horses, "a well-fed donkey hung its ears peacefully." “The Lord so adjusted his womb that if he sometimes crap, it was with gold and silver.”
But here, “in the prime of her magnificent years, the ruler’s wife was suddenly stricken with an illness.” Dying, she asks her husband "to go down the aisle a second time only with the chosen one, who will finally be more beautiful and worthy of me." The husband “swore to her through a river of crazy tears in everything she was waiting for ... Among widowers, he was one of the noisiest! He cried so much, sobbed so much ... ”However,“ a year has not passed, as we are talking about shameless matchmaking. But the beauty of the deceased is surpassed only by her own daughter, and the father, inflamed with a criminal passion, decides to marry the princess. In desperation, she goes to her godmother - a good fairy who lives "in the wilderness of forests, in cave darkness, between shells, corals, mother-of-pearl." In order to upset the terrible wedding, the godmother advises the girl to demand from her father a wedding dress of the shade of clear days. "The task is cunning - it is not feasible in any way." But the king of tailors called the masters and ordered from high throne chairs to tomorrow the gift was ready - otherwise how could he have hung them for an hour! And in the morning they bring "a wonderful gift from the tailors." Then the fairy advises the goddaughter to demand silk "lunar, unusual - he will not be able to get it." The king calls the embroiderers - and in four days the dress is ready. The princess, with delight, almost submits to her father, but, "forced by her godmother", asks for an outfit of "wonderful sunny flowers." The king threatens the jeweler terrible torture- and in less than a week he creates "porphyry of porphyry." - What an incredible thing - new clothes! - the fairy whispers contemptuously and orders to demand from the sovereign the skin of a precious donkey. But the passion of the king is stronger than stinginess - and the skin is immediately brought to the princess.
Here, “the stern godmother found that disgust is inappropriate on the paths of good,” and on the advice of the fairy, the princess promises the king to marry him, and herself, throwing a vile skin over her shoulders and smearing her face with soot, runs out of the palace. The girl puts wonderful dresses in a box. The fairy gives the goddaughter a magic twig: “As long as it is in your hand, the box will crawl after you in the distance, like a mole hiding under the ground.”
The royal messengers look for the fugitive all over the country in vain. The courtiers are in despair: “no wedding, that means no feasts, no cakes, that means no cakes ... The chaplain was most upset of all: he did not have time to eat in the morning and said goodbye to the wedding treat.”
And the princess, dressed as a beggar, wanders along the road, looking for “at least the place of a poultry house, even a swineherd. But the poor slobs themselves spit after them.” Finally, a farmer takes the unfortunate woman as a servant - “clean up the pig stalls and wash the greasy rags. Now in the closet behind the kitchen is the princess's yard. The impudent villagers and “the masculine disgustingly disturb her”, and even mock the poor thing. Her only joys are that, locking herself up in her closet on Sunday, washing herself, dressing up in one or another marvelous dress and turning around in front of the mirror. “Ah, the moonlight pales her a little, and the sun makes her a little fatter ... A blue dress is the best of all!”
And in these parts "the king, luxurious and omnipotent, kept a brilliant poultry yard." This park was often visited by the prince with a crowd of courtiers. "The princess has already fallen in love with him from a distance." Oh, if he loved girls in donkey skin! the beauty sighed. And the prince - "a heroic look, a fighting grip" - somehow came across a poor hut at dawn and saw through the crack a beautiful princess in a marvelous outfit. Struck by her noble appearance, the young man did not dare to enter the shack, but, returning to the palace, “did not eat, did not drink, did not dance; he lost interest in hunting, opera, amusements, and friends,” and thought only of the mysterious beauty. He was told that a dirty beggar woman, Donkey Skin, lived in a squalid hut. The prince does not believe. “He weeps bitterly, he weeps,” and demands that Donkeyskin bake him a pie. The loving queen mother will not contradict her son, and the princess, “hearing these news”, hurries to knead the dough. “They say: working extraordinarily, she ... quite, quite by accident! - dropped a ring into the dough. But "my opinion - there was her calculation." After all, she saw how the prince looked at her through the crack!
Having received the pie, the patient "devoured it with such greedy passion that, really, it seems like a fair amount of luck that he did not swallow the ring." Since the young man in those days "was losing weight terribly ... the doctors decided unanimously: the prince is dying of love." Everyone begs him to marry - but he agrees to marry only one who can put a tiny ring with an emerald on her finger. All virgins and widows begin to thin their fingers.
However, neither the noblewomen, nor the cute grisettes, nor the cooks and laborers, the ring fit. But then "from under the skin of a donkey appeared a fist that looked like a lily." Laughter stops. Everyone is shocked. The princess goes to change - and an hour later appears in the palace, shining with dazzling beauty and luxurious outfit. The king and queen are happy, the prince is happy. Bishops from all over the world are called to the wedding. The sensible father of the princess, seeing his daughter, cries for joy. The prince is delighted: “what a lucky chance that his father-in-law is such a mighty ruler.” “Sudden thunder… The queen of the fairies, the witness of the misfortunes of the past, descends her goddaughter forever to glorify virtue…”
Moral: "It is better to endure terrible suffering than to change the debt of honor." After all, “youth is able to satisfy itself with a crust of bread and water, while it keeps an outfit in a golden casket.”
Blue Beard
There was once a very rich man who had a blue beard. She so disfigured him that, seeing this man, all the women fled in fear. His neighbor, a noble lady, had two daughters of wondrous beauty. He asked to marry any of these girls to him. But none of them wanted to have a spouse with a blue beard. They did not like the fact that this man had already been married several times and no one knew what fate befell his wives.
Bluebeard invited the girls, their mother, friends and girlfriends to one of his luxurious country houses, where they had fun for a whole week. And now it began to seem to the youngest daughter that the beard of the owner of the house was not so blue, and that he himself was a very respectable person. Soon the wedding was decided.
A month later, Bluebeard told his wife that he was leaving on business for six weeks. He asked her not to be bored, to have fun, to call her friends, gave her the keys to all the chambers, pantries, caskets and chests - and forbade her to enter only one small room.
His wife promised to obey him, and he left. Immediately, without waiting for the messengers, the girlfriends came running. They were eager to see all the riches of Bluebeard, but they were afraid to come in his presence. Now, admiring the house full of priceless treasures, the guests enviously extolled the happiness of the newlywed, but she could only think about a small room ...
Finally, the woman abandoned the guests and rushed headlong down the secret staircase, almost breaking her neck. Curiosity conquered fear - and the beauty tremblingly unlocked the door ... In the dark room, the floor was covered with gore, and the bodies of Bluebeard's former wives, whom he had killed, hung on the walls. In horror, the newlywed dropped the key. Picking it up, she locked the door and, trembling, rushed to her room. There, the woman noticed that the key was stained with blood. The unfortunate woman cleaned the stain for a long time, but the key was magic, and the blood, wiped off on one side, appeared on the other ...
Bluebeard returned the same evening. His wife greeted him with ostentatious delight. The next day he demanded the keys from the poor thing. Her hands trembled so much that he immediately guessed everything and asked: “Where is the key to the small room?” After various excuses, I had to bring a dirty key. Why is he covered in blood? asked Bluebeard. Did you enter the small room? Well, ma'am, that's where you'll stay now."
The woman, sobbing, threw herself at her husband's feet. Beautiful and sad, she would have softened even a stone, but Bluebeard's heart was harder than stone. “Let me at least pray before I die,” the poor thing asked. "Give you seven minutes!" the villain replied. Left alone, the woman called her sister and said to her: “Sister Anna, look if my brothers are coming? They promised to visit me today.” The girl climbed the tower and from time to time said to the unfortunate woman: “There is nothing to see, only the sun is burning and the grass is shining in the sun.” And Bluebeard, clutching a large knife in his hand, shouted: “Come here!” - "One more minute!" - answered the poor thing, and kept asking sister Anna, could you see the brothers? The girl noticed clouds of dust in the distance - but it was a herd of sheep. At last she saw two riders on the horizon...
Then Bluebeard roared throughout the house. The trembling wife came out to him, and he, grabbing her by the hair, was about to cut off her head, but at that moment a dragoon and a musketeer burst into the house. Drawing their swords, they rushed at the villain. He tried to run, but the brothers of the beauty pierced him with steel blades.
The wife inherited all the wealth of Bluebeard. She gave a dowry to her sister Anna when she married a young nobleman who had long loved her; the young widow helped each of the brothers to achieve the captain's rank, and then she herself married a good man who helped her forget the horrors of her first marriage.
Moral: “Yes, curiosity is a scourge. It confuses everyone, it was born on the mountain to mortals.
Riquet with a tuft
One queen had such an ugly son that the courtiers doubted for a long time whether he was a man. But the good fairy assured that he would be very smart and would be able to endow with his mind the person he loves. Indeed, as soon as he learned to babble, the child began to say sweet things. He had a small tuft on his head, which is why the prince was nicknamed: Rike with a tuft.
Seven years later, the queen of a neighboring country gave birth to two daughters; seeing the first - beautiful as day - the mother was so delighted that she almost became ill, while the second girl turned out to be extremely ugly. But the same fairy predicted that the ugly woman would be very smart, and the beauty would be stupid and awkward, but she would be able to endow beauty with someone she liked.
The girls grew up - and the beauty always had much less success than her smart sister. And then one day in the forest, where the silly girl went to mourn her bitter lot, the unfortunate woman met with the freak Ricke. Having fallen in love with her from portraits, he came to the neighboring kingdom ... The girl told Rika about her trouble, and he said that if the princess decides to marry him in a year, she will immediately become wiser. The beauty foolishly agreed - and immediately spoke so witty and elegant that Riquet thought if he had not given her more intelligence than he had left to himself? ..
The girl returned to the palace, amazed everyone with her mind and soon became her father's main adviser; all the fans turned away from her ugly sister, and the fame of the beautiful and wise princess thundered all over the world. A lot of princes wooed the beauty, but she made fun of them all, until finally one rich, handsome and smart prince appeared ...
Walking through the forest and thinking about the choice of the groom, the girl suddenly heard a dull noise under her feet. At the same moment, the earth opened up, and the princess saw people preparing a sumptuous feast. “This is for Riquet, tomorrow is his wedding,” they explained to the beauty. And then the shocked princess remembered that exactly a year had passed since her meeting with the freak.
And soon Rike himself appeared in a magnificent wedding dress. However, the wiser princess flatly refused to marry such an ugly man. And then Riquet revealed to her that she could endow her chosen one with beauty. The princess sincerely wished that Riquet became the most beautiful and amiable prince in the world - and a miracle happened!
True, others argue that the point here is not magic, but love. The princess, admired by the intelligence and loyalty of her admirer, stopped noticing his ugliness. The hump began to give the prince's bearing a special importance, the terrible limp turned into a manner of leaning a little to one side, the slanting eyes acquired a captivating languor, and the big red nose seemed mysterious and even heroic.
The king gladly agreed to marry his daughter to such a wise prince, and the next day they played a wedding, for which the smart Rick had everything ready.
Donkey skin. In a rich kingdom, where even a donkey crap with gold and silver, the queen died. Before her death, she took an oath that the king would marry only a girl more beautiful than the queen. Such was the daughter of the king and queen himself. The king intends to marry his own daughter. The princess, in desperation, turns to the fairy godmother and she advises to give impossible tasks to the king, but the king was able to fulfill everything and presented her with an outfit in the shade of a clear day, from moon silk and sunny flowers, as well as the skin of a precious donkey. The princess assures her father that she will marry, but puts the outfits in a box, hides under the skin and, having smeared her face with soot, runs away. The princess gets a job cleaning pigsties and washing rags. Sometimes he takes out his dresses and dresses up. Once the prince spied on her dressing up in a fabulous outfit and fell in love.
The prince in love wanted the girl to bake him a cake. The princess, on an errand, dropped her ring into the pie. The prince found him and vowed to marry the owner of the ring. The women of the kingdom could not put a tiny ring on their fingers and the ring fit only the donkey skin. The princess put on a precious outfit and came to the palace. The prince, his parents and the father of the princess were happy on the wedding day of the lovers.
Blue Beard. In the neighborhood of a lady who had the most beautiful daughters, there lived a rich widower with a blue beard. He used to be married, but no one knew where his wife was now. He decided to marry again and came to the lady to woo her daughters, and in order to convince one of the beauties to become his wife, he invited them to live with him.
Soon the wedding of Bluebeard took place with the youngest daughter of a neighbor. A month later, Bluebeard left and, leaving the keys to all the halls and chambers, demanded that his wife never enter one room.
Immediately, relatives, friends and girlfriends came to visit the newlywed, but she, struck by curiosity, left them and went to inspect the forbidden room. Opening it, she dropped the key on the floor, covered in the blood of previous wives. No matter how much she cleaned the key, the blood stains did not leave it. Returning home, Bluebeard, seeing blood on the key, realized that his wife had disobeyed and, grabbing her, tried to cut off her head, but the wife's brothers ran into the house and stabbed him with sharp blades.
The wife inherited all the wealth, provided for her family, and she herself remarried a kind man.
Rike with a tuft. In the kingdoms, two queens had children. One queen gave birth to a boy, but her son was so ugly that for a long time they did not believe that it was a child. And another queen gave birth to two daughters. The first girl was charming as an angel, but the second was terribly ugly. The good fairy, visiting both queens, assured that children born scary would be extremely smart, and the beauty would be stupid and extremely awkward. And so it happened. Rike the boy and the ugly princess were as smart as the beautiful princess was stupid. One day, the silly girl ran away into the forest, where she wept for her fate. There she met Rick. Ricke offered her to become his wife in a year, and in return he would share his mind with the princess. She agrees. At the same moment, the beauty grew wiser and, having returned to the palace, the clever woman, the king appointed her chief adviser.
Rumors about the smart and beautiful princess spread all over the world and suitors began to arrive. The princess even chose one of them as her husband, when suddenly she saw that many people had come to prepare the wedding feast. It turned out that a year had already passed. Rike himself arrived, but the princess refused to marry the freak. Then Riquet said that as he shared his mind, so the princess can endow him with beauty. The smart princess agreed and after the wedding, Riquet became a handsome prince.
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Donkey skin - Charles Perrault
The tale tells of a king who became mad with grief after the death of his beloved wife and wanted to marry his daughter. The princess tried to stop him, but could not and was forced to flee the palace, wearing a donkey skin. It was not easy for the poor girl to live outside the palace, but happiness found her in the form of a handsome prince ...
donkey skin read
There was once a rich and powerful king. He had as much gold and soldiers as no other king had even dreamed of.
His wife was the most beautiful and intelligent woman in the world. The king and queen lived together and happily, but often grieved that they had no children. Finally, they decided to take some girl and raise her as their own daughter. The opportunity soon presented itself. One close friend of the king died, leaving behind his daughter, a young princess. The king and queen immediately transported her to their palace.
The girl grew and every day became more beautiful and more beautiful. This pleased the king and queen, and, looking at their pupil, they forgot that they did not have their own children.
One day, the queen fell seriously ill. Day by day she got worse and worse. The king did not leave the bed of his wife for days and nights. And she grew weaker and weaker, and the doctors unanimously said that the queen would no longer get out of bed. The queen herself soon realized this. Feeling the approach of death, she called the king and said to him in a weak voice:
I know that I will die soon. Before I die, I want to ask you only one thing: if you decide to marry a second time, then marry only that woman who will be more beautiful and better than me.
The king, sobbing loudly, promised the queen that her wish would be granted, and she died.
Having buried his wife, the king could not find a place for himself with grief, did not eat or drink anything, and became so old that all his ministers were horrified by such a change.
One day, when the king, sighing and crying, was sitting in his room, the ministers came to him and began to ask him to stop grieving and get married as soon as possible.
But the king didn't even want to hear about it. However, the ministers did not lag behind him and assured him that the king should certainly marry. But no matter how hard the ministers tried, their persuasion did not convince the king. Finally, they so annoyed him with their harassment that one day the king said to them:
I promised the late queen that I would marry a second time if I found a woman who was more beautiful and better than her, but there is no such woman in the whole world. That's why I never get married.
The ministers were glad that the king had given up at least a little, and began to show him portraits of the most wonderful beauties every day, so that the king would choose a wife from these portraits, but the king said that the dead queen was better, and the ministers left with nothing.
Finally, the most important minister came one day to the king and said to him:
King! Does your pupil seem to you, both in intelligence and beauty, worse than the late queen? She is so smart and beautiful that you won't find a better wife! Marry her!
It seemed to the king that his young pupil, the princess, was indeed better and more beautiful than the queen, and, without refusing more, he agreed to marry the pupil.
The ministers and all the courtiers were pleased, but this seemed terrible to the princess. She did not want to become the wife of the old king. However, the king did not listen to her objections and ordered her to prepare for the wedding as soon as possible.
The young princess was in despair. She didn't know what to do. Finally, she remembered the sorceress Lilac, her aunt, and decided to consult with her. That same night she went to the sorceress in a golden carriage drawn by a big old ram who knew all the roads.
The sorceress listened attentively to the story of the princess.
If you do exactly what I tell you to do," she said, "nothing bad will happen. First of all, ask the king for a dress blue as the sky. He can't get you a dress like that.
The princess thanked the sorceress for her advice and returned home. The next morning she told the king that she would not agree to marry him until she received from him a dress as blue as the sky.
The king immediately summoned the best craftsmen and ordered them to sew a dress as blue as the sky.
If you do not please the princess,” he added, “I will order you all to be hanged.
The next day, the masters brought the ordered dress, and in comparison with it, the blue sky itself, surrounded by golden clouds, seemed not so beautiful.
Upon receiving the dress, the princess was not so much delighted as frightened. She again went to the sorceress and asked what she should do now. The sorceress was very annoyed that her plan did not work out, and ordered the princess to demand a moon-colored dress from the king.
The king could not refuse anything to the princess. He sent for the most skillful craftsmen that there were in the kingdom, and in such a formidable voice gave them an order that in less than a day the masters had already brought the dress.
At the sight of this beautiful outfit, the princess sunbathed even more.
The sorceress Lilac appeared to the princess and, having learned about the second failure, told her:
On both occasions, the king succeeded in fulfilling your request. Let's see if he can do it now, when you demand from him a dress shining like the sun. It is unlikely that he will be able to get such a dress. In any case, we will buy time.
The princess agreed and demanded such a dress from the king. The king without hesitation gave all the diamonds and rubies from his crown, if only the dress shone like the sun. Therefore, when the dress was brought and unfolded, everyone immediately screwed up their eyes: it really shone like a real sun.
One princess was not happy. She went to her room, saying that her eyes ached from the brilliance, and there she began to weep bitterly. The sorceress Lilac was very sad that all her advice came to nothing.
Well, now, my child, - she said to the princess, - demand from the king the skin of his beloved donkey. He certainly won't give it to you!
And I must say that the donkey, the skin of which the sorceress ordered to demand from the king, was not an ordinary donkey. Every morning, instead of manure, he covered his bedding with shiny gold coins. It is clear why the king loved and protected this donkey so much.
The princess was overjoyed. She was sure that the king would never agree to kill the donkey. She ran cheerfully to the king and demanded a donkey skin.
Although the king was surprised at such a strange demand, he did not hesitate to fulfill it. The donkey was killed and its skin solemnly brought to the princess. Now she really didn't know what to do. But then the sorceress Lilac appeared to her.
Don't worry so much, honey! - she said. - Maybe it's all for the best. Wrap yourself in a donkey skin and get out of the palace as soon as possible. Take nothing with you: the chest with your dresses will follow you underground. Here's my magic wand. When you need a chest, strike the ground with your wand and it will appear before you. But leave quickly, do not delay.
The princess kissed the sorceress, pulled on a nasty donkey skin, smeared her face with soot so that no one would recognize her, and left the palace.
The disappearance of the princess caused a great stir. The king sent out a thousand horsemen and many archers on foot in pursuit of the princess. But the sorceress made the princess invisible to the eyes of the royal servants. Therefore, the king had to abandon the futile search.
And meanwhile the princess was on her way. She went into many houses and asked to be taken at least as a maid.
But no one wanted to take the princess with them, because in a donkey's skin she seemed unusually ugly.
Finally she came to some big house. The mistress of this house agreed to accept the poor princess as her worker. The princess thanked the hostess and asked what she should do. The mistress told her to wash clothes, look after turkeys, herd sheep and clean pig troughs.
The princess was placed in the kitchen. From the very first day, the servants began to mock her rudely. However, we got used to it little by little. In addition, she worked very hard, and the mistress did not allow her to be offended.
One day, sitting on the bank of a stream, the princess looked into the water as if into a mirror.
Looking at herself in a nasty donkey skin, she was frightened. The princess felt ashamed that she was so dirty, and, quickly throwing off her donkey skin, she bathed in the stream. But when she returned home, she again had to put on a nasty skin.
Fortunately, the next day was a holiday and the princess was not forced to work. She took advantage of this and decided to dress up in one of her rich dresses.
The princess hit the ground with her magic wand, and a chest of outfits appeared before her. The princess took out a blue dress that she received from the king, went to her little room and began to dress up.
She looked at herself in the mirror, admired the wonderful outfit, and since then every holiday she dressed up in her rich dresses. But, except for sheep and turkeys, no one knew about it. Everyone saw her in an ugly donkey skin and nicknamed her - Donkey Skin.
It happened somehow, the young prince was returning from hunting and stopped by to rest in the house where Donkey Skin lived as workers. He rested a little, and then began to wander about the house and the yard.
By chance, he wandered into a dark corridor. At the end of the corridor was a locked door. The prince was very curious, and he wanted to know who lives behind this door. He looked into the crack. What was his surprise when he saw in a small cramped room a beautiful elegant princess! He ran to the mistress to find out who lives in this little room.
They told him: the girl Donkey Skin lives there, she wears a donkey skin instead of a dress, so dirty and greasy that no one wants to look at her or talk to her. They took Donkey Skin into the house to graze sheep and clean pig troughs.
The king knew nothing more. He returned to the palace, but could not forget the beauty, whom he accidentally saw through the door crack. He regretted that he had not gone into the room then and made the acquaintance of her.
The prince made a promise to himself that next time he would certainly do it.
Thinking constantly about the wonderful beauty, the prince fell seriously ill. His mother and father were in despair. They called for doctors, but the doctors couldn't do anything. At last they said to the queen: her son must have fallen ill from some great grief. The queen began to ask her son what happened to him, but he did not answer her. But when the queen knelt down and began to cry, he said:
I want Donkeyskin to bake a cake and bring it back as soon as it's ready.
The queen was surprised at such a strange desire. She called the courtiers and asked who this Donkey Skin was.
Ah, that filthy bastard! - explained one courtier. She lives not far from here and tends sheep and turkeys.
Well, whoever this Donkeyskin is, said the queen, let her bake a pie for the prince at once!
The courtiers ran to Donkeyskin and gave her the queen's order, adding that she should carry it out as best and quickly as possible.
The princess locked herself in her little room, threw off her donkey skin, washed her face and hands, put on a clean dress and began to cook a cake. She took the best flour, and the freshest butter and eggs.
While kneading the dough, on purpose or by accident, she dropped a ring from her finger. It fell into the dough and stayed there. And when the cake was baked, the princess put on a nasty skin, left the room, gave the cake to the courtier and asked him if she should go with him to the prince. But the courtier did not even want to answer her and ran with the pie to the palace.
The prince snatched the cake from the hands of the courtier and began to eat it so hastily that all the doctors shook their heads and shrugged.
Such swiftness portends little good! they said.
Indeed, the king's son ate the pie with such greed that he almost choked on a ring that ended up in one of the pieces of the pie. But the prince quickly took the ring out of his mouth and after that began to eat the pie not so hastily. He looked at the ring for a long time. It was so small that only the prettiest finger in the world could fit. The prince kissed the ring every now and then, then hid it under his pillow and took it out every minute when he thought that no one was looking at him.
All this time he thought about the Donkey Skin, but he was afraid to talk about it aloud. Therefore, his illness intensified, and the doctors did not know what to think. Finally, they announced to the queen that her son was sick from love. The queen rushed to her son along with the king, who was also upset and upset.
My son, - said the saddened king, - tell us the girl you love. We promise that we will marry you to her, even if she is the last servant!
The queen, embracing her son, confirmed the promise of the king. The prince, touched by the tears and kindness of his parents, said to them:
Dear father and mother! I myself do not know who is the girl whom I fell in love with so passionately. I'm marrying someone who will fit this ring, whoever she is.
And he took out a donkey-skin ring from under the pillow and showed it to the king and queen.
The king and queen took the ring, examined it with curiosity and, deciding that only the most beautiful girl could fit such a ring, agreed with the prince.
The king ordered the drums to be struck immediately and the runners to be sent throughout the city to call all the girls to the palace to try on the ring.
Walkers ran through the streets and proclaimed that the girl who would fit the ring would marry the young prince.
First, the princesses came to the palace, then the ladies of the court, but no matter how hard they tried to make their fingers thinner, not one could put on a ring. I had to invite a seamstress. They were pretty, but their fingers were too thick to fit into the ring.
Finally it was the turn of the maids, but they, too, failed. Everyone has already measured the ring. No one had to fit it! Then the prince ordered to call cooks, dishwashers, swineherds. They were brought in, but their hardened fingers could not get into the ring any further than a fingernail.
Did they bring that Donkey Skin who just baked a pie? asked the king.
The courtiers laughed and answered him:
Donkey Skin was not invited to the palace because she was too dirty and nasty.
Now send for her! - ordered the king.
Then the courtiers, laughing quietly, ran after the Donkey Skin.
The princess heard the beat of the drums and the cries of the walkers, and guessed that her ring had raised all this turmoil. She was very happy when she saw that they were following her. She quickly brushed her hair and dressed up in a moon-colored dress. As soon as the princess heard that they were knocking on the door and calling her to the prince, she hastily threw a donkey skin over her dress and opened the door.
The courtiers mockingly announced to Donkeyskin that the king wanted to marry his son to her, and took her to the palace.
Surprised by the unusual appearance of the Donkey Skin, the prince could not believe that this was the same girl whom he had seen so beautiful and elegant through the door crack. Saddened and embarrassed, the prince asked her:
Do you live at the end of a dark corridor, in that big house where I recently stopped by from hunting?
Yes, she answered.
Show me your hand,” continued the prince.
Imagine the amazement of the king and queen and all the courtiers when a small tender hand appeared from under the black, soiled skin and when the ring fit the girl. Then the princess threw off her donkey skin. The prince, struck by her beauty, forgot about his illness and threw himself at her feet, beside himself with joy.
The king and queen also embraced her and asked if she wanted to marry their son.
The princess, embarrassed by all this, was just about to say something, when suddenly the ceiling opened up, and the sorceress Lilac descended into the hall on a chariot of lilac flowers and branches and told everyone present the story of the princess.
The king and queen, having listened to the story of the sorceress, fell in love with the princess even more and immediately married her to their son.
At the wedding, the kings gathered different countries. Some rode in carriages, others on horseback, and the furthest on elephants, on tigers, on eagles.
The wedding was celebrated with luxury and pomp, which can only be imagined. But the prince and his young wife paid little attention to all this splendor: they looked only at each other and only saw each other.
(Translation by M. Bulatov, illustrations by A. Reipolsky, Lenizdat, 1992, fairyroom.ru)
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