Summary: "Sister Alenushka and brother Ivanushka." Russian fairy tale

In the darkness of millennia, pagan times began to form tales. Depending on the talent of the narrator, additional adventures of heroes were added to them, or, on the contrary, the excess was cut off. Each fairy tale had a lot of options. But most importantly, she taught that for a good person everything will end with good. Each fairy tale had its own morals. Tales were not recorded until the middle of the 18th century. Scientific fascination with Russian folklore began in the 19th century.

"What a delight these fairy tales!"

Following our genius, these words could be repeated by AN Tolstoy. To him, like all the children of his generation, Russian fairy tales were close. Being already a famous writer, he repeatedly turned to folklore. He in his youth published a collection of "Sorochi Skazki", then there were "Mermaid Tales", and only then the writer literally processed forty-three Russian fairy tales. Today we will consider the folk tale "The Sister Alenushka and the Brother Ivanushka" (summary). The author for the people of our time is not the people, but AN Tolstoy, because in its processing she speaks with us in our language, without using obsolete words and expressions. Her plot is extremely compressed, and the moral is clear to the smallest listeners. Until we began to expound a short summary ("Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka") of a fairy tale about the uneasy life of a sister and a brother, we will briefly describe her author. Or rather, about his life and work on fairy tales.

The writer's life path

Alexey Tolstoy (1883-1945) was born in Nikolayevsk in the family of Count, the leader of the district nobility. His childhood and how he began to study at home, the master of words described in a remarkable story "Childhood of Nikita." There is also his mother Alexandra Leontievna. The teenager graduates from the school in Samara, and then begins to study at the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology. Realizing that his vocation is literature, he leaves his studies and begins to print a little. At first they were poems, then Alexei Tolstoy drew attention to prose.

During the First World War, he sent to the rear of the article from the front life. After the revolution, he went abroad for a long time. Living in Paris and Berlin, the writer yearns for home. At the petition of AM Gorky, he is allowed to return home. He is actively working on major fascinating novels, which are the pride of our prose. But even at this time he manages to process Russian fairy tales. One of them, which our Russian artists also loved, we now consider a brief summary. "Sister Alenushka and Brother Ivanushka" - a short story, but instructive.

Listening to a fairy tale

The parents of Alyonushka and Ivanushka died. The little sister was almost a girl, and the brother is still very small. The girl went to work and took the brother with her. We began to tell a short summary ("Sister Alenushka and Brother Ivanushka") of a fairy tale story. They go a long way under the hot sun. Ivanushka wanted to drink. He wanted to drink some water from the trail from the cow's hoof, and then from the horse's trail. But my sister explained that he would become a calf or foal. They go on, it's getting hotter and hotter. See a trace full of water, from the goat hoof. Ivanushka did not listen to her sister, that if she drank water, she would become a kid, and drink water. Alyonushka looked around, her brother was calling, and a white little kid was running toward her. It can always be a disaster if little children do not listen to the elders: mom and dad, brother or sister, aunt or uncle. Alyonushka sat down and cried. A merchant comes by, stops and asks about what the red girl is crying about. Alyonushka told him everything. Then the merchant called her in marriage and promised that they would not abandon the kid. The summary ("Sister Alenushka and brother Ivanushka) of a fairy tale is still happily going on.

What happened next

She married a merchant girl, and they began to live together in common. Once the merchant left on business, and to the window of Alyonushka the witch approached and tenderly began to call her to swim. Alenushka, not feeling anything wrong, followed her. Here is another morality. You can not walk neither large nor small for strangers, because the witch led Alyonushka to the river and drowned. And she turned into a red girl, dressed in her dress, and even the merchant did not recognize the substitution. One kid knew everything. He became sad, stopped eating and drinking and started running to the beach, calling his sister back. The witch found this and persuaded the merchant to slaughter the kid. Tom sorry, but he did not deny the witch. This is how the fairy tale "Sister Alenushka and Brother Ivanushka" continues terribly and dramatically, the brief content of which we are now retelling.

How to end a fairy tale

The kid was asked to die before the death on the bank and began complaining to his sister that soon they would kill him and steal the meat. Alyonushka replies that she can not swim, because the stones heavy to her are tied, the grass of her leg is tangled and the sand heavy fell on her breast. The merchant's servant heard this conversation, ran home, told his master everything. Good people came with nets and dragged Alenushka ashore. In the key water she was dipped, and Alyonushka became even more beautiful. Kid three times (according to Russian legends this is a magical number) turned over his head and again became a pretty boy. The witch was executed for her evil deeds.

So well ends the instructive and entertaining work "The Sister Alenushka and the Brother Ivanushka", the brief content of which we told and explained.