The Tale of Rejuvenating Apples and Living Water
In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a king, and he had three sons: the eldest was called Fedor, the second Vasily, and the youngest Ivan.
The king was very old and his eyes were poor, but he had heard that far away, in the thirtieth kingdom, there was a garden with rejuvenating apples and a well with living water. If you eat this apple for an old man, he will become younger, and if you wash the eyes of a blind man with this water, he will see. The king gathers a feast for the whole world, invites princes and boyars to the feast and says to them:
- Who, guys, would get out of the chosen ones, get out of the hunters, travel to distant lands, to the thirtieth kingdom, bring rejuvenating apples and a jug of living water with twelve stigmas? I would give this rider half the kingdom.
Here the larger one began to be buried behind the middle one, and the middle one behind the smaller one, but from the smaller one there was no answer.
Tsarevich Fyodor comes out and says:
- There is no desire to give the kingdom to us people. I will go along this path and bring you, Father Tsar, rejuvenating apples and a jug of twelve stigmas of living water.
Fyodor Tsarevich went to the stable yard, chose an unridden horse for himself, put on an unbridled bridle, took an unwhipped whip, put twelve girths with a girth - not for the sake of beauty, but for the sake of strength... Fyodor Tsarevich set off on the road. They saw that he was sitting down, but did not see in which direction he rolled away...
He rode close, far, low, or high, he rode day until evening - from the red sun to sunset. And it reaches Rostan, three roads. There is a stone slab lying on the ridges, with an inscription written on it: “If you go to the right, you will save yourself, but you will lose your horse. You go to the left - to save the horse, to lose yourself. If you go straight, you’ll be married.” 
Fyodor Tsarevich thought: “Let’s go where I’ll be married.” And he turned onto the path where a married man should be. He drove and drove and reached the tower under the golden roof. Then a beautiful maiden runs out and says:
- Tsar’s son, I’ll take you out of the saddle, come with me to eat bread and salt and sleep and rest. - No, girl, I don’t want bread and salt, I can’t while away the road with sleep. I need to move forward.
- Tsar’s son, don’t rush to go, but hurry to do what you love.
Then the beautiful maiden took him out of the saddle and led him into the mansion. She fed him, gave him something to drink and put him to sleep on the bed. As soon as Tsarevich Fyodor lay down against the wall, this girl quickly turned the bed, and he flew underground, into a deep hole...
Whether long or short, the king again gathers a feast, calls the princes and boyars and says to them:
- Here, guys, who among the hunters would get out and bring me rejuvenating apples and living water, a jug with twelve stigmas? I would give this rider half the kingdom.
Here again the larger one is buried for the middle one, and the middle one for the smaller one, but there is no answer from the smaller one. The second son, Vasily Tsarevich, comes out:
- Father, I don’t want to give the kingdom into the wrong hands. I'll go to the road, bring these things, and hand them over to you.
Tsarevich Vasily goes to the stable yard, chooses an unridden horse, bridles an unbridled bridle, takes an unwhipped whip, puts twelve girths with a girth. They saw how he sat down, but did not see in which direction he rolled away... 
So he reaches the rosstans, where the stone slab lies, and sees: “If you go to the right, you will save yourself, but you will lose your horse. You go to the left - to save the horse, to lose yourself. If you go straight, you’ll be married.” Vasily Tsarevich thought and thought and went along the road, where should a married man be. I reached a tower with a golden roof. A beautiful maiden runs out to him and asks him to eat some bread and salt and lie down to rest.
- Tsar’s son, don’t rush to go, but hurry to do what you like and dear... Then she took him out of the saddle, took him to the mansion, fed him, gave him something to drink and put him to bed.
As soon as Tsarevich Vasily lay down against the wall, she turned the bed again, and he flew underground. 
And then they ask:
-Who is flying?
- Vasily the Tsarevich. Who's sitting?
- Fyodor Tsarevich.
- Here, bro, we got it!
How long or short - for the third time the king gathers a feast, calls the princes and boyars:
- Who among the hunters would choose to bring rejuvenating apples and living water in a jug with twelve stigmas? I would give this rider half the kingdom.
Here again the larger one is buried behind the middle one, the middle one behind the smaller one, but there is no answer from the smaller one. Ivan Tsarevich comes out and says:
- Give me, father, blessing, from a wild head to quick legs, to go to the thirtieth kingdom - to look for you rejuvenating apples and living water and look for more of my brothers.
The king gave him a blessing.
The Tale of Rejuvenating Apples and Living Water
In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a king, and he had three sons: the eldest was called Fedor, the second Vasily, and the youngest Ivan.
The king was very old and his eyes were poor, but he had heard that far away, in the thirtieth kingdom, there was a garden with rejuvenating apples and a well with living water. If you eat this apple for an old man, he will become younger, and if you wash the eyes of a blind man with this water, he will see.
The king gathers a feast for the whole world, invites princes and boyars to the feast and says to them:
Who, guys, would get out of the chosen ones, get out of the hunters, travel to distant lands, to the thirtieth kingdom, bring rejuvenating apples and a jug of living water with twelve stigmas? I would give this rider half the kingdom.
Here the larger one began to be buried behind the middle one, and the middle one behind the smaller one, but from the smaller one there was no answer.
Tsarevich Fyodor comes out and says:
There is no desire to give up the kingdom to us people. I will go along this path and bring you, Father Tsar, rejuvenating apples and a jug of twelve stigmas of living water.
Fyodor Tsarevich went to the stable yard, chooses an unridden horse for himself, bridles an unbridled bridle, takes an unwhipped whip, puts on twelve girths with a girth - not for the sake of beauty, but for the sake of strength... Fyodor Tsarevich set off on the path. They saw that he was sitting down, but did not see in which direction he rolled away...
He rode close, far, low, or high, he rode day until the evening, the red sun until sunset. And it reaches Rostan, three roads. There is a stone slab lying on the ridges, with the inscription written on it:
“If you go to the right, you’ll save yourself and lose your horse. If you go to the left, you will save your horse and lose yourself. If you go straight, you’ll be married.”
Fyodor Tsarevich thought about it; “Let’s go where I’ll be married.”
And he turned onto the path where a married man should be. He drove and drove and reached the tower under the golden roof. Then a beautiful maiden runs out and says to him:
Tsar's son, I will take you out of the saddle, come with me to eat bread and salt and sleep and rest.
No, girl, I don’t want bread and salt, and I can’t while away the road with sleep. I need to move forward.
Tsar’s son, don’t rush to go, but hurry to do what you love.
Then the beautiful maiden took him out of the saddle and led him into the mansion. She fed him, gave him something to drink and put him to sleep on the bed.
As soon as Tsarevich Fyodor lay down against the wall, this girl quickly turned the bed, and he flew underground, into a deep hole...
Whether long or short, the tsar again gathers a feast, calls the princes and boyars and says to them:
Look, guys, who among the hunters would come out and bring me rejuvenating apples and living water, a jug with twelve stigmas? I would give this rider half the kingdom.
Here again the larger one is buried for the middle one, and the middle one for the smaller one, but there is no answer from the smaller one.
The second son, Vasily Tsarevich, comes out:
Father, I don’t want to give the kingdom into the wrong hands. I'll go to the road, bring these things, and hand them over to you.
Tsarevich Vasily goes to the stable yard, chooses an unridden horse, bridles an unbridled bridle, takes an unwhipped whip, puts on twelve girths with a girth.
Vasily Tsarevich went. They saw how he sat down, but did not see in which direction he rolled away... So he reaches the rosstan, where the slab-stone lies, and sees:
“If you go to the right, you’ll save yourself and lose your horse. You go to the left - to save the horse, to lose yourself. You’ll go straight away and get married.”
Vasily Tsarevich thought and thought and went on the road, where should a married man be. I reached a tower with a golden roof. A beautiful maiden runs out to him and asks him to eat some bread and salt and go to bed.
Tsar’s son, don’t rush to go, but hurry to do what you love...
Then she took him out of the saddle, led him into the mansion, fed him, gave him something to drink and put him to bed.
As soon as Tsarevich Vasily lay down against the wall, she turned the bed again, and he flew underground.
And then they ask:
Who's flying?
Vasily the Tsarevich. Who's sitting?
Fyodor Tsarevich.
There you go, bro!
How long or short - for the third time the king gathers a feast, calls the princes and boyars:
Who among the hunters would choose to bring rejuvenating apples and living water in a jug with twelve stigmas? I would give this rider half the kingdom.
Here again the larger one is buried behind the middle one, the middle one behind the smaller one, but there is no answer from the smaller one.
Ivan Tsarevich comes out and says:
Let me, father, blessing, from my wild head to my quick feet, go to the thirtieth kingdom - look for you rejuvenating apples and living water, and also look for my brothers.
The king gave him a blessing. Ivan Tsarevich went to the stable yard to choose a horse according to his mind. Whichever horse he looks at, he trembles; the horse he puts his hand on, he falls off his feet...
Ivan Tsarevich could not choose a horse wisely. He goes and hangs his head. A backwater grandmother meets him.
Hello, child, Ivan Tsarevich. Why are you walking around sad and sad?
How can I, grandma, not be sad - I can’t find a horse by reason.
You should have asked me a long time ago. A good horse stands chained in the cellar, on an iron chain. If you can take him, you will have a horse to your liking.
Ivan Tsarevich comes to the cellar, kicked an iron slab, and the slab from the cellar rolled up. He jumped up to the good horse, and the horse stood on his shoulders with its front legs. Ivan Tsarevich stands and does not move. The horse tore off the iron chain, jumped out of the cellar and pulled out Tsarevich Ivan. And then Ivan Tsarevich bridled him with an unbridled bridle, saddled him with an unridden saddle, put on twelve girths with a girth - not for the sake of beauty, for the sake of the glory of a brave man.
Ivan Tsarevich set off on his journey. They saw that he was landing, but did not see in which direction he rolled away... He reached the rosstan and thought:
“To go to the right - to lose my horse - where would I be without a horse? To go straight - to be married - is not why I set out on the road. Go left to save the horse; this is the best road for me.”
And he turned along the road where to save a horse is to lose yourself.
He rode for a long time, for a short time, low or high, through green meadows, over stone mountains, he rode day until the evening, the red sun until sunset - and he came across a hut.
There is a hut on a chicken leg, with one window.
The hut turned its back to the forest, and its front to Ivan Tsarevich. He went into it, and there was an old Baba Yaga sitting there. The silk tow is tossed, and the threads are thrown across the beds.
Fu, fu, he says, the Russian spirit has never been heard of, never seen, but now the Russian spirit has come on its own.
And Ivan Tsarevich to her:
Oh, you, Baba Yaga, bone leg, if you don’t catch the bird, you fiddle with it, if you don’t recognize the fellow, you blaspheme. You should have jumped up now, fed me, a good fellow, a dear person, and made me a bed for the night. I would lie down, you would sit at the head of the bed, begin to ask, and I would begin to say whose and where from.
So Baba Yaga took care of everything - she fed Ivan Tsarevich, gave him something to drink and put him to bed. She sat down at the head and began to ask:
Whose dear man are you, good fellow, and where are you from? What land are you? What father, mother's son?
I, grandmother, am from such and such a kingdom, from such and such a state, the royal son Ivan Tsarevich. I am going to distant lands, to distant lakes, to the thirtieth kingdom for living water and rejuvenating apples.
Well, my dear child, you have a long way to go: living water and melodious apples are with a strong hero, the maiden Sineglazka, she is my dear niece. I don't know if you'll get the go-ahead...
Many young people passed by, but not many spoke politely. Take my horse, child. My horse will be more spirited, he will take you to my middle sister, she will teach you.
Ivan Tsarevich gets up early in the morning and washes himself white. He thanks Baba Yaga for the overnight stay and rode off on her horse.
A bed, a ridge - a crossbar in a hut.
Suddenly he says to the horse:
Stop! Dropped the glove.
And the horse answers:
At the time you spoke, I had already ridden two hundred miles...
Ivan Tsarevich is traveling close or far. The day and night are shortening. And he saw ahead a hut on a chicken leg, with one window.
Hut, hut, turn your back to the forest, turn your front to me! As I enter you, so I leave you.
The hut turned its back to the forest, and its front to it.
Suddenly a horse was heard neighing, and the horse under Ivan Tsarevich responded.
The horses were single herd.
Baba Yaga, even older than that one, heard this and said:
Apparently my sister came to visit me. And goes out onto the porch:
Fu, fu, the Russian spirit has never been heard of, never seen, but now the Russian spirit has come on its own.
And Ivan Tsarevich to her:
Oh, you, Baba Yaga, bone leg, greet the guest with his dress, see him off with his mind. You would have removed my horse, I, a good fellow, a dear person, would have been fed, watered and put to bed...
Baba Yaga took care of everything - she removed the horse, and fed Ivan Tsarevich, gave him something to drink, put him to bed and began asking who he was, where he was from and where he was going.
I, grandmother, am from such and such a kingdom, from such and such a state, the royal son Ivan Tsarevich. I’m going for living water and rejuvenating apples to the strong hero, the maiden Sineglazka...
Well, dear child, I don’t know if you’ll get the go-ahead. It’s wise for you, it’s wise to get to the girl Sineglazka!
And you, grandmother, give your head to my mighty shoulders, guide me to my mind.
Many young people passed by, but not many spoke politely. Take my horse, child, and go to my elder sister. She will teach me better what to do.
Here Ivan Tsarevich spent the night with this old woman, in the morning he gets up early and washes himself white. He thanks Baba Yaga for the lodging for the night and rode on her horse, And this horse is even more spirited than that
Suddenly Ivan Tsarevich says:
Stop! Dropped the glove.
And the horse answers:
At the time you spoke, I had already ridden three hundred miles.
It doesn't take long for the deed to be done, it doesn't take long for the fairy tale to tell. Ivan Tsarevich travels from day to evening, the sun is red until sunset. He runs into a hut on a chicken leg, with one window.
Hut, hut, turn your back to the forest, turn your front to me! I don’t have to live forever, but only spend one night.
Suddenly the horse neighed, and under Ivan Tsarevich the horse responded. An old Baba Yaga, even older than that one, comes out onto the porch. She looked - her sister’s horse, and the rider was foreign, a wonderful fellow...
Here Ivan Tsarevich politely bowed to her and asked to spend the night. Nothing to do! They don’t carry overnight accommodation with them - there’s room for everyone: on foot, on horseback, poor and rich.
Baba Yaga dealt with the whole matter - she removed the horse, and fed Ivan Tsarevich, gave him something to drink and began asking who he was, where he was from and where he was going.
I, grandmother, of such and such a kingdom, such and such a state, the royal son Ivan Tsarevich. Your younger sister had it, she sent it to your middle sister, and your middle sister sent it to you. Give your head to my mighty shoulders, guide me to my mind, how can I get living water and rejuvenating apples from the maiden Sineglazka.
So be it, I will help you, Ivan Tsarevich. The girl Sineglazka, my niece, is a strong and mighty hero. Around her kingdom there is a wall three fathoms high, a fathom thick, and at the gate of the guard there are thirty warriors. They won't even let you through the gate. You need to ride in the middle of the night, ride on my good horse. When you reach the wall, hit the horse’s sides with an unwhipped whip. The horse will jump over the wall. Tie your horse and go into the garden. You will see an apple tree with rejuvenating apples, and under the apple tree there is a well. Pick three apples and don’t take any more. And draw from the well of living water a pitcher of twelve stigmas. The girl Sineglazka will be sleeping, don’t go into her mansion, but mount your horse and hit him on the steep sides. He will take you over the wall.
Ivan Tsarevich did not spend the night with this old woman, but sat on her good horse and rode off into the night. This horse gallops, jumps over moss-swamps, sweeps rivers and lakes with its tail.
How long, short, low, or high does it take Ivan Tsarevich to reach the high wall in the middle of the night? Thirty mighty warriors sleep at the guard's gate. He presses his good horse, beats him with an unwhipped whip. The horse got angry and jumped over the wall. Ivan Tsarevich gets off his horse, enters the garden and sees an apple tree with silver leaves, golden apples, and under the apple tree there is a well. Ivan Tsarevich picked three apples, but did not take any more, but scooped up a jug with twelve stigmas from the well of living water. And he wanted to see for himself the strong, mighty hero, the maiden Sineglazka.
Ivan Tsarevich enters the tower, and there are six woodpile-hero maidens sleeping on one side and six on the other side, and in the middle the maiden Sineglazka is scattered, sleeping, like a strong river rapids rustling.
Ivan Tsarevich could not stand it, kissed her, kissed her and left.
He sat on a good horse, and the horse said to him in a human voice:
You didn’t listen, Ivan Tsarevich, and entered the mansion to the maiden Sineglazka! Now I can't jump over the walls.
Ivan Tsarevich beats his horse with an unlashed whip.
Oh, you horse, a wolf's food, a bag of grass, we can't spend the night here, but lose our heads!
The horse became more angry than ever and jumped over the wall, but hit it with one horseshoe - the strings on the wall began to sing and the bells began to ring.
The girl Sineglazka woke up and saw the theft:
Get up, we have a big theft!
She ordered her heroic horse to be saddled and rushed with twelve logs of wood in pursuit of Ivan Tsarevich.
Ivan Tsarevich drives his horse at full speed, and the maiden Sineglazka chases after him. He reaches the eldest Baba Yaga, and she already has a horse bred and ready. He jumped off his horse and drove forward again... Ivan Tsarevich was out the door, and the girl Sineglazka was at the door and asked Baba Yaga:
Grandma, was there a beast prowling around here?
No, child.
Grandma, didn’t a fellow pass by here?
No, child. And you eat milk on the way.
I wish I could eat, grandma, but it would take a long time to milk the cow.
What are you, child, I can handle it quickly...
Baba Yaga went to milk the cow, milking, not in a hurry. The girl Sineglazka ate milk and again chased after Ivan Tsarevich.
Ivan Tsarevich reaches the middle Baba Yaga, changed his horse and drove again. He is at the door, and the girl Sineglazka is at the door:
Grandma, wasn’t the beast prowling, wasn’t a good fellow passing by?
No, child. And you would eat pancakes on the way.
Yes, you will bake for a long time.
Baba Yaga baked some pancakes and took her time.
The girl Sineglazka ate and again chased after Ivan Tsarevich.
He reaches the youngest Baba Yaga, gets off his horse, sits on his heroic horse and drives again. He goes out the door, the girl Sineglazka goes through the door and asks Baba Yaga if a good fellow has passed by.
No, child. And you could take a steam bath out of the way. !
Yes, you will be drowning for a long time.
What are you, child, I’ll do it quickly...
Baba Yaga heated the bathhouse and prepared everything. The girl Sineglazka took a steam bath, rolled around and again drove into the sugon (in pursuit). Her horse gallops from hill to hill, sweeping rivers and lakes with its tail. She began to overtake Ivan Tsarevich.
He sees himself being chased: twelve warriors with the thirteenth - the girl Sineglazka - are planning to run over him and take his head off his shoulders. He began to stop his horse, the girl Sineglazka jumped up and shouted to him:
Why, thief, did you drink from my well without asking and didn’t cover the well!
Well, let's split up into three horse leaps, let's try the strength.
Then Ivan Tsarevich and the maiden Sineglazka galloped up on three horses' horses, took fighting clubs, long spears, and sharp sabers. And they came together three times, they broke their clubs, they destroyed their spears and sabers - they could not knock each other off their horses. There was no need for them to ride off on good horses; they jumped off their horses and grabbed each other.
We fought from morning to evening - the sun was red until sunset. Ivan Tsarevich's frisky leg sprained and he fell on the damp ground. The girl Sineglazka kneeled on his white chest and pulled out a damask dagger - to flog his white chest. Ivan Tsarevich says to her:
Don’t ruin me, girl Sineglazka, better take me by my white hands, lift me from the damp ground, kiss me on the sugary lips.
Then the girl Sineglazka raised Ivan Tsarevich from the damp ground and kissed his sugar lips. And they pitched their tent in an open field, on a wide expanse, in green meadows. Here they walked for three days and three nights. Here they got engaged and exchanged rings.
The girl Sineglazka says to him:
I’ll go home - and you go home, but make sure you don’t turn off anywhere... In three years, wait for me in your kingdom.
They mounted their horses and rode off... Whether it took a long time or a short time, it didn’t take long for the job to be done, soon the fairy tale was told, Tsarevich Ivan reached the Rosstans, three roads, where the slab-stone was, and thought:
“That’s good! I’m going home, but my brothers are missing.”
And he did not listen to the maiden Sineglazka, he turned onto the road where a married man should be... And he runs into a tower under a golden roof. Here, under Ivan Tsarevich, the horse neighed, and the brothers’ horses responded. The horses were single herd...
Ivan Tsarevich went up to the porch, tapped the ring, and the tops of the tower staggered and the windows became crooked. A beautiful maiden runs out.
Ah, Ivan Tsarevich, I have been waiting for you for a long time! Come with me to eat bread and salt and sleep and rest.
She took him to the mansion and began to treat him. Ivan Tsarevich does not eat so much as he throws it under the table, he does not drink so much as he pours it under the table. The beautiful maiden led him to the bedroom:
Go to bed, Ivan Tsarevich, sleep and rest. And Ivan Tsarevich pushed her onto the bed, quickly turned the bed, and the girl flew underground, into a deep hole.
Ivan Tsarevich leaned over the pit and shouted;
Who's alive there?
And from the pit they answer:
Fyodor Tsarevich and Vasily Tsarevich.
He took them out of the hole - their faces were black, they had already begun to grow overgrown with earth. Ivan Tsarevich washed his brothers alive - they became the same again.
They mounted their horses and rode off... Whether it was long or short, they pressed until they reached the exit. Ivan Tsarevich says to his brothers:
Guard my horse, and I will lie down and rest.
He lay down on the silken grass and fell into a heroic sleep.
Fyodor Tsarevich says to Vasily Tsarevich:
If we return without living water, without rejuvenating apples, there will be little honor for us, our father will send us to graze geese...
Vasily Tsarevich answers:
Let's let Tsarevich Ivan fall into the abyss, and we'll take these things and give them into his father's hands.
So they took out the rejuvenating apples and a jug of living water from his bosom, and they took him and threw him into the abyss. Ivan Tsarevich flew there for three days and three nights.
Ivan Tsarevich fell on the very seashore, came to his senses and saw: only sky and water, and under an old oak tree by the sea the chicks were squeaking - the weather was beating them.
Ivan Tsarevich took off his caftan and covered the chicks, and he himself took refuge under the oak tree.
The weather has calmed down, the big bird Nagai is flying. She flew in, sat down under an oak tree and asked the chicks:
My dear children, did the bad weather kill you?
Don’t scream, mother, a Russian man saved us, covered us with his caftan.
Bird Nagai asks Ivan Tsarevich:
Why did you come here, dear man?
My brothers threw me into the abyss for rejuvenating apples and living water.
You saved my children, ask me what you want: gold, silver, or a precious stone.
I don’t need anything, Naked Bird: neither gold, nor silver, nor precious stone. Is it possible for me to get to my native country?
The naked bird answers him:
Get me two vats - twelve pounds each - of meat.
So Ivan Tsarevich shot geese and swans at the seaside, put them in two vats, placed one vat on the Nagai-bird’s right shoulder, and the other vat on her left, and sat down on her ridge. Nagai began to feed the bird, it rose and flies into the heights.
She flies, and he feeds and feeds her... How long or short did they fly, Ivan Tsarevich fed both vats. And the Nagai bird turns around again. He took a knife, cut a piece from his leg and gave it to the Nagai Bird. She flies and flies and turns around again. He cut off the meat from the other leg and served it. There's only so far left to fly. The naked bird turns around again. He cut the meat off his chest and served it to her.
Then the Nagai Bird carried Ivan Tsarevich to his native side.
It was good that you fed me all the way, but you never ate anything sweeter than the last morsel.
Ivan Tsarevich shows her the wounds. The naked bird burped, vomited three pieces:
Put it in place.
Ivan Tsarevich put it there - the meat grew to the bones.
Now get off me, Ivan Tsarevich, I’ll fly home.
The naked bird rose into the heights, and Ivan Tsarevich went along the road to his native side.
He came to the capital and learned that Fyodor Tsarevich and Vasily Tsarevich brought living water and rejuvenating apples to their father and the king was healed; He was still in good health and sharp-eyed.
Ivan Tsarevich did not go to his father or mother, but he gathered the drunkards, the tavern goli and let's walk around the taverns.
At that time, far away, in the thirtieth kingdom, the strong hero Sineglazka gave birth to two sons.
They are growing by leaps and bounds.
Soon the fairy tale is told, but the deed is not done soon - three years have passed. Sineglazka took her sons, gathered an army and went to look for Ivan Tsarevich.
She came to his kingdom and in an open field, in a wide expanse, on green meadows, she pitched a white linen tent. From the tent she covered the road with colored cloth. And he sends the king to the capital to say:
Tsar, give up the prince. If you don’t give it up, I’ll trample the whole kingdom, I’ll burn it, and I’ll take you completely.
The Tsar got scared and sent the eldest, Fyodor the Tsarevich. Tsarevich Fyodor walks along the colored cloth and approaches the white linen tent. Two boys run out:
No, kids, this is your uncle.
What do you want to do with him?
And you, kids, treat him well.
Then these two boys took canes and began to whip Fyodor Tsarevich below the back. They beat him and beat him, and he barely escaped.
And Sineglazka again sends to the king:
Give up the prince...
The king was even more frightened and sent the middle one - Vasily the Tsarevich. He comes to the tent. Two boys run out:
Mother, mother, isn’t this our father coming?
No, kids, this is your uncle. Treat him well.
Two boys, let's scratch their uncle with canes again. They beat and beat, until Vasily Tsarevich barely lost his legs. And Sineglazka sends to the king for the third time:
Go look for your third son, Ivan Tsarevich. If you don’t find it, I’ll trample and burn the whole kingdom.
The Tsar became even more frightened and sent for Tsarevich Fyodor and Tsarevich Vasily, telling them to find their brother, Ivan Tsarevich. Then the brothers fell at their father’s feet and confessed everything: how they took living water and rejuvenating apples from sleepy Ivan Tsarevich, and threw him into the abyss.
The king heard this and burst into tears. And at that time, Ivan Tsarevich himself goes to Sineglazka and the tavern’s horse goes with him. They tear the cloth under their feet and throw it to the sides.
He approaches the white linen tent. Two boys run out:
Mother, mother, some drunkard is coming to us with a tavern drink!
And Sineglazka to them:
Take him by the white hands and lead him into the tent. This is your dear father. He suffered innocently for three years.
Here Tsarevich Ivan was taken by the white hands and led into the tent. Blue Eyes washed him and combed his hair, changed his clothes and put him to bed. And Goli brought the tavern a glass each, and they went home.
The next day Sineglazka and Ivan Tsarevich arrived at the palace. Then a feast began for the whole world - an honest feast and for the wedding. There was little honor for Tsarevich Fyodor and Tsarevich Vasily, they were driven out of the yard - where to spend the night, where for two nights, and for the third, there was nowhere to spend the night...
Ivan Tsarevich did not stay here, but left with Sineglazka to her maiden kingdom.
This is where the fairy tale ends.
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The Tale of Rejuvenating Apples and Living Water
In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a king, and he had three sons: the eldest was called Fedor, the second Vasily, and the youngest Ivan.
The king was very old and his eyes were poor, but he had heard that far away, in the thirtieth kingdom, there was a garden with rejuvenating apples and a well with living water. If you eat this apple for an old man, he will become younger, and if you wash the eyes of a blind man with this water, he will see.
The king gathers a feast for the whole world, invites princes and boyars to the feast and says to them:
Who, guys, would get out of the chosen ones, get out of the hunters, travel to distant lands, to the thirtieth kingdom, bring rejuvenating apples and a jug of living water with twelve stigmas? I would give this rider half the kingdom.
Here the larger one began to be buried behind the middle one, and the middle one behind the smaller one, but from the smaller one there was no answer. Tsarevich Fyodor comes out and says:
There is no desire to give up the kingdom to us people. I will go along this path and bring you, Father Tsar, rejuvenating apples and a jug of twelve stigmas of living water.
Fyodor Tsarevich went to the stable yard, chose an unridden horse for himself, bridled an unbridled bridle, took an unwhipped whip, put on twelve girths with a girth - not for the sake of beauty, but for the sake of strength... Fyodor Tsarevich set off on the road. They saw that he was sitting down, but did not see in which direction he rolled away...
He rode close, far, low, or high, he rode day until evening - the red sun until sunset. And it reaches Rostan, three roads. There is a stone slab lying on the ridges, with the inscription written on it:
Fyodor Tsarevich thought: “Let’s go where I’ll be married.”
And he turned onto the path where a married man should be. He drove and drove and reached the tower under the golden roof. Then a beautiful maiden runs out and says to him:
Tsar's son, I will take you out of the saddle, come with me to eat bread and salt and sleep and rest.
No, girl, I don’t want bread and salt, and I can’t while away the road with sleep. I need to move forward.
Tsar’s son, don’t rush to go, but hurry to do what you love.
Then the beautiful maiden took him out of the saddle and led him into the mansion. She fed him, gave him something to drink and put him to sleep on the bed.
As soon as Tsarevich Fyodor lay down against the wall, this girl quickly turned the bed, and he flew underground, into a deep hole...
Whether long or short, the tsar again gathers a feast, calls the princes and boyars and says to them:
Look, guys, who among the hunters would come out and bring me rejuvenating apples and living water, a jug with twelve stigmas? I would give this rider half the kingdom.
Here again the larger one is buried for the middle one, and the middle one for the smaller one, but there is no answer from the smaller one.
The second son, Vasily Tsarevich, comes out:
Father, I don’t want to give the kingdom into the wrong hands. I'll go to the road, bring these things, and hand them over to you.
Tsarevich Vasily goes to the stable yard, chooses an unridden horse, bridles an unbridled bridle, takes an unwhipped whip, puts on twelve girths with a girth.
Vasily Tsarevich went. They saw how he sat down, but did not see in which direction he rolled away... So he reaches the rosstan, where the slab-stone lies, and sees:
“If you go to the right, you will save yourself, but you will lose your horse. You go to the left - to save the horse, to lose yourself. If you go straight, you’ll be married.”
Vasily Tsarevich thought and thought and went on the road, where should a married man be. I reached a tower with a golden roof. A beautiful maiden runs out to him and asks him to eat some bread and salt and lie down to rest.
Tsar's son, don't rush to go, but hurry to do what you like...
Then she took him out of the saddle, led him into the mansion, fed him, gave him something to drink and put him to bed.
As soon as Tsarevich Vasily lay down against the wall, she turned the bed again, and he flew underground.
And then they ask:
Who's flying?
Vasily the Tsarevich. Who's sitting?
Fyodor Tsarevich.
There you go, bro!
How long or short - for the third time the king gathers a feast, calls the princes and boyars:
Who among the hunters would choose to bring rejuvenating apples and living water in a jug with twelve stigmas? I would give this rider half the kingdom.
Here again the larger one is buried behind the middle one, the middle one behind the smaller one, but there is no answer from the smaller one. Ivan Tsarevich comes out and says:
Let me, father, blessing, from a wild head to quick legs, go to the thirtieth kingdom - look for you rejuvenating apples and living water and look for my brothers.
The king gave him a blessing. Tsarevich Ivan went to the stable yard to choose a horse according to his judgment. Whichever horse he looks at, he trembles; whichever he puts his hand on, he falls off his feet...
Ivan Tsarevich could not choose a horse wisely. He goes and hangs his head. A backwater grandmother meets him.
Hello, child Ivan Tsarevich! Why are you walking around sad and sad?
How can I, grandma, not be sad - I can’t find a horse by reason.
You should have asked me a long time ago. A good horse stands chained in the cellar, on an iron chain. If you can take him, you will have a horse to your liking.
Ivan Tsarevich comes to the cellar, kicked an iron slab, and the slab from the cellar rolled up. He jumped up to the good horse, and the horse stood on his shoulders with its front legs. Ivan Tsarevich stands there and doesn’t move. The horse tore off the iron chain, jumped out of the cellar and pulled out Tsarevich Ivan. And then Ivan Tsarevich bridled him with an unbridled bridle, saddled him with an unridden saddle, put on twelve girths with a girth - not for the sake of beauty, for the sake of the glory of a brave man.
Ivan Tsarevich set off on his journey. They saw that he was landing, but did not see in which direction he rolled away... He reached the rosstan and thought:
“To go to the right means to lose your horse. Where would I be without a horse? To go straight - to be married. That’s not why I set out on the road. Go left to save the horse. This road is the best for me."
And he turned along the road where to save a horse is to lose yourself. He rode long, short, low, high, through green meadows, over stone mountains, rode from day to evening - the red sun until sunset - and came upon a hut.
There is a hut on a chicken leg, with one window.
The hut turned its back to the forest, and its front to Ivan Tsarevich. He went into it, and there sat an old Baba Yaga, throwing a silk tow and throwing threads across the beds.
Fu, fu, he says, the Russian spirit has never been heard of, never seen, but now the Russian spirit has come on its own.
And Ivan Tsarevich to her:
Oh, you, Baba Yaga - a bone leg, if you don’t catch the bird, you fiddle with it, if you don’t recognize the fellow, you blaspheme. You should have jumped up now, fed me, a good fellow, a dear person, and made me a bed for the night. I would lie down, you would sit at the head of the bed, begin to ask, and I would begin to say - whose and where.
So Baba Yaga took care of everything - she fed Ivan Tsarevich, gave him something to drink and put him to bed; sat down at the head of the room and began to ask:
Whose dear man are you, good fellow, and where are you from? What land are you? What father, mother's son?
I, grandmother, am from such and such a kingdom, from such and such a state, the royal son Ivan Tsarevich. I am going to distant lands, to distant lakes, to the thirtieth kingdom for living water and rejuvenating apples.
Well, my dear child, you have a long way to go: living water and rejuvenating apples are with the strong hero, the maiden Sineglazka, she is my dear niece. I don't know if you'll get the go-ahead....
Many young people passed by, but not many spoke politely. Take my horse, child. My horse will be more spirited, he will take you to my middle sister, she will teach you.
Ivan Tsarevich gets up early in the morning and washes himself white. He thanks Baba Yaga for the overnight stay and rode off on her horse. Suddenly he says to the horse:
Stop! Dropped the glove.
And the horse answers:
At the time you spoke, I had already ridden two hundred miles...
Ivan Tsarevich is traveling close or far. The day and night are shortening. And he saw ahead a hut on a chicken leg, with one window.
Hut, hut, turn your back to the forest, turn your front to me! As I enter you, so I leave you.
The hut turned its back to the forest, and its front to it.
Suddenly a horse was heard neighing, and the horse under Ivan Tsarevich responded.
The horses were herd horses.
Baba Yaga, even older than that one, heard this and said:
Apparently my sister came to visit me.
And goes out onto the porch:
Fu-fu, the Russian spirit has never been heard of, never seen, but today the Russian spirit itself has come.
And Ivan Tsarevich to her:
Oh, you, Baba Yaga - a bone leg, greet the guest with his dress, see him off with his mind. You would take my horse away, feed me, a good fellow, a dear person, give me something to drink and put me to bed...
Baba Yaga took care of everything - she removed the horse, and fed Ivan Tsarevich, gave him something to drink, put him to bed and began asking who he was, where he was from and where he was going.
I, grandmother, am from such and such a kingdom, from such and such a state, the royal son Ivan Tsarevich. I’m going for living water and rejuvenating apples to the strong hero, the maiden Sineglazka...
Well, dear child, I don’t know if you’ll get the go-ahead. It’s wise for you, it’s wise to get to the girl Sineglazka!
And you, grandmother, give your head to my mighty shoulders, guide me to my mind.
Many young people passed by, but not many spoke politely. Take my horse, child, and go to my elder sister. She will teach me better what to do.
Bot Ivan Tsarevich spent the night with this old woman; in the morning he gets up early and washes himself white. He thanks Baba Yaga for the overnight stay and rode off on her horse. And this horse is even more spirited.
Suddenly Ivan Tsarevich says:
Stop! Dropped the glove. And the horse answers:
At the time you spoke, I had already ridden three hundred miles. It doesn't take long for the deed to be done, it doesn't take long for the fairy tale to tell. Ivan Tsarevich travels from day to evening - the sun is red until sunset. He runs into a hut on a chicken leg, with one window.
Hut, hut, turn your back to the forest, turn your front to me! I don’t have to live forever, but only spend one night.
Suddenly the horse neighed, and under Ivan Tsarevich the horse responded. An old Baba Yaga, even older than that one, comes out onto the porch. She looked - her sister’s horse, and the rider was foreign, a wonderful fellow...
Here Ivan Tsarevich politely bowed to her and asked to spend the night. Nothing to do! They don’t carry overnight accommodation with them - there’s room for everyone: on foot and on horseback, both poor and rich.
Baba Yaga took care of the whole matter - she removed the horse, and fed and gave Ivan Tsarevich something to drink and began asking who he was, where he was from and where he was going.
I, grandmother, of such and such a kingdom, such and such a state, the royal son Ivan Tsarevich. Your younger sister had it, she sent it to your middle sister, and your middle sister sent it to you. Give your head to my mighty shoulders, guide me to my mind, how can I get living water and rejuvenating apples from the maiden Sineglazka.
So be it, I will help you, Ivan Tsarevich. The girl Sineglazka, my niece, is a strong and mighty hero. Around her kingdom there is a wall three fathoms high, a fathom thick, and at the gate of the guard there are thirty warriors. They won't even let you through the gate. You need to ride in the middle of the night, ride on my good horse. When you reach the wall, hit the horse’s sides with a whip. The horse will jump over the wall. Tie your horse and go into the garden. You will see an apple tree with rejuvenating apples, and under the apple tree there is a well. Pick three apples and don’t take any more. And draw from the well of living water a pitcher of twelve stigmas. The girl Sineglazka will be sleeping, don’t go into her mansion, but mount your horse and hit him on the steep sides. He will take you over the wall.
Ivan Tsarevich did not spend the night with this old woman, but sat on her good horse and rode off into the night. This horse gallops, jumps over moss-swamps, sweeps rivers and lakes with its tail.
How long, short, low, or high does it take Ivan Tsarevich to reach the high wall in the middle of the night? The guards are sleeping at the gate - thirty mighty heroes. He presses his good horse, beats him with an unwhipped whip. The horse got angry and jumped over the wall. Ivan Tsarevich gets off his horse, enters the garden and sees an apple tree with silver leaves, golden apples, and under the apple tree there is a well. Ivan Tsarevich picked three apples, but did not take any more, but scooped up a jug with twelve stigmas from the well of living water. And he wanted to see for himself the strong, mighty hero, the maiden Sineglazka.
Ivan Tsarevich enters the tower, and there they are sleeping: on one side there are six woodpiles - heroic maidens and on the other side six, and in the middle the maiden Sineglazka is scattered about, sleeping, like a strong river rapids rustling.
Ivan Tsarevich could not stand it, kissed her, kissed her and went out... He sat on a good horse, and the horse said to him in a human voice:
You didn’t listen, Ivan Tsarevich, and entered the mansion to the maiden Sineglazka! Now I can't jump over the walls.
Ivan Tsarevich beats his horse with an unlashed whip. - Oh, you horse, a wolf's food, a bag of grass, we can't spend the night here, but lose our heads!
The horse became more angry than ever and jumped over the wall, but hit it with one horseshoe - the strings on the wall began to sing and the bells began to ring.
The girl Sineglazka woke up and saw the theft:
Get up, we have a big theft!
She ordered her heroic horse to be saddled and rushed with twelve logs of wood in pursuit of Ivan Tsarevich.
Ivan Tsarevich drives his horse at full speed, and the maiden Sineglazka chases after him. He reaches the eldest Baba Yaga, and she already has a horse bred and ready. He jumped off his horse and drove forward again... Ivan Tsarevich was out the door, and the maiden Sineglazka was at the door and asked Baba Yaga:
Grandma, was there a beast prowling around here? - No, child.
Grandma, didn’t a fellow pass by here?
No, child. And you eat milk on the way.
I wish I could eat, grandma, but it would take a long time to milk the cow.
What are you, child, I can handle it quickly...
Baba Yaga went to milk the cow - she was milking, not in a hurry. The girl Sineglazka ate milk and again chased after Ivan Tsarevich.
Ivan Tsarevich reaches the middle Baba Yaga, changed his horse and drove again. He is at the door, and the girl Sineglazka is at the door:
Grandma, wasn’t the beast prowling, wasn’t a good fellow passing by?
No, child. And you would eat pancakes on the way.
Yes, you will bake for a long time.
Baba Yaga baked some pancakes - she bakes them and takes her time. The girl Sineglazka ate and again chased after Ivan Tsarevich.
He reaches the youngest Baba Yaga, gets off his horse, sits on his heroic horse and drives again. He goes out the door, the girl Sineglazka goes through the door and asks Baba Yaga if a good fellow has passed by.
No, child. And you could take a steam bath out of the way.
Yes, you will be drowning for a long time.
What are you, child, I’ll do it quickly...
Baba Yaga heated the bathhouse and prepared everything. The girl Sineglazka took a steam bath, rolled around and again drove her into the baggage. Her horse gallops from hill to hill, sweeping rivers and lakes with its tail. She began to overtake Ivan Tsarevich.
He sees himself being chased: twelve warriors with the thirteenth - the girl Sineglazka - are planning to run over him and take his head off his shoulders. He began to stop his horse, the girl Sineglazka jumped up and shouted to him:
Why, thief, did you drink from my well without asking and didn’t cover the well!
Well, let's split into three horse-spouts, let's try the strength.
Then Ivan Tsarevich and the maiden Sineglazka galloped up on three horses' horses, took fighting clubs, long spears, and sharp sabers. And they came together three times, they broke their clubs, they destroyed their spears and sabers - they could not knock each other off their horses. There was no need for them to ride off on good horses; they jumped off their horses and grabbed each other.
We fought from morning to evening - the sun was red until sunset. Ivan Tsarevich's frisky leg sprained and he fell on the damp ground. The girl Sineglazka kneeled on his white chest and pulled out a damask dagger - to flog his white chest.
Ivan Tsarevich says to her:
Don’t ruin me, girl Sineglazka, better take me by my white hands, lift me from the damp ground, kiss me on the sugary lips.
Then the girl Sineglazka raised Ivan Tsarevich from the damp ground and kissed his sugar lips. And they pitched their tent in an open field, on a wide expanse, in green meadows. Here they walked for three days and three nights. Here they got engaged and exchanged rings.
The girl Sineglazka says to him:
I’ll go home - and you go home, but make sure you don’t turn off anywhere... In three years, wait for me in your kingdom.
They mounted their horses and rode off... How long, how short, it doesn’t take long for the job to be done, soon the fairy tale is told, - Tsarevich Ivan reaches the Rosstans, three roads, where there is a slab-stone, and thinks:
“That’s good! I’m going home, but my brothers are missing.”
And he did not listen to the maiden Sineglazka, he turned onto the road where a married man should be... And he runs into a tower under a golden roof. Here, under Ivan Tsarevich, the horse neighed, and the brothers’ horses responded. The horses were single herd...
Ivan Tsarevich went up to the porch, tapped the ring - the domes on the tower shook, the windows became crooked. A beautiful maiden runs out.
Ah, Ivan Tsarevich, I have been waiting for you for a long time! Come with me to eat bread and salt and sleep and rest.
She took him to the mansion and began to treat him. Ivan Tsarevich does not eat so much as he throws it under the table, he does not drink so much as he pours it under the table. The beautiful maiden led him to the bedroom.
Go to bed, Ivan Tsarevich, sleep and rest.
And Ivan Tsarevich pushed her onto the bed, quickly turned the bed, and the girl flew underground, into a deep hole. Ivan Tsarevich leaned over the pit and shouted:
Who's alive there? And from the pit they answer:
Fyodor Tsarevich and Vasily Tsarevich.
He took them out of the hole - their faces were black, they had already begun to grow overgrown with earth. Ivan Tsarevich washed the brothers with living water - they became the same again.
They got on their horses and rode off... How long or how short did it take them to reach Rostan. Ivan Tsarevich says to his brothers:
Guard my horse, and I will lie down and rest.
He lay down on the silken grass and fell into a heroic sleep. And Fyodor Tsarevich says to Vasily Tsarevich:
If we return without living water, without rejuvenating apples, there will be little honor for us; our father will send us to graze geese...
Vasily Tsarevich answers:
Let's let Tsarevich Ivan fall into the abyss, and we'll take these things and give them into his father's hands.
So they took out the rejuvenating apples and a jug of living water from his bosom, and they took him and threw him into the abyss. Ivan Tsarevich flew there for three days and three nights.
Ivan Tsarevich fell on the very seashore, came to his senses and saw only the sky and water, and under an old oak tree by the sea the chicks were squeaking - the weather was beating them.
Ivan Tsarevich took off his caftan and covered the chicks, and he hid under an oak tree.
The weather has calmed down, the big bird Nagai is flying.
She flew in, sat down under an oak tree and asked the chicks:
My dear children, did the bad weather kill you?
Don’t scream, mother, a Russian man saved us, covered us with his caftan.
Bird Nagai asks Ivan Tsarevich:
Why did you come here, dear man?
My brothers threw me into the abyss for rejuvenating apples and living water.
You saved my children, ask me what you want: gold, silver, or a precious stone.
I don’t need anything, Naked Bird: neither gold, nor silver, nor precious stone. Is it possible for me to get to my native country?
The naked bird answers him:
Get me two vats - twelve pounds each - of meat.
So Ivan Tsarevich shot geese and swans at the seaside, put them in two vats, placed one vat on the Nagai-bird’s right shoulder, and the other vat on her left, and sat down on her ridge. Nagai began to feed the bird, it rose and flies into the heights.
She flies, and he feeds and feeds her... How long or short did they fly, Ivan Tsarevich fed both vats. And the Nagai bird turns around again. He took a knife, cut a piece from his leg and gave it to the Nagai Bird. She flies and flies and turns around again. He cut off the meat from the other leg and served it. There's only so far left to fly. The naked bird turns around again. He cut the meat off his chest and served it to her.
Then the Nagai Bird carried Ivan Tsarevich to his native side.
It was good that you fed me all the way, but you never ate anything sweeter than the last morsel.
Ivan Tsarevich shows her the wounds. The naked bird burped, vomited three pieces:
Put it in place.
Ivan Tsarevich put it there - the meat grew to the bones.
Now get off me, Ivan Tsarevich, I’ll fly home.
The naked bird rose into the heights, and Ivan Tsarevich went along the road to his native side.
He came to the capital and learned that Fyodor Tsarevich and Vasily Tsarevich had brought living water and rejuvenating apples to their father, and the Tsar was healed: he was still in good health and sharp-eyed.
Ivan Tsarevich did not go to his father or mother, but he gathered the drunkards, the tavern goli and let's walk around the taverns.
At that time, far away, in the thirtieth kingdom, the strong hero Sineglazka gave birth to two sons. They are growing by leaps and bounds. Soon the fairy tale is told, but the deed is not done soon - three years have passed. Sineglazka took her sons, gathered an army and went to look for Ivan Tsarevich.
She came to his kingdom and in an open field, in a wide expanse, on green meadows, she pitched a white linen tent. From the tent she covered the road with colored cloth. And he sends the king to the capital to say:
Tsar, give up the prince. If you don’t give it up, I’ll trample the whole kingdom, I’ll burn it, and I’ll take you completely.
The Tsar got scared and sent the eldest, Fyodor the Tsarevich. Tsarevich Fyodor walks along the colored cloth and approaches the white linen tent. Two boys run out:
No, kids, this is your uncle.
What do you want to do with him?
And you, kids, treat him well.
Then these two boys took canes and began to whip Fyodor Tsarevich below the back. They beat him and beat him, and he barely escaped. And Sineglazka again sends to the king:
Give up the prince...
The king was even more frightened and sent the middle one - Vasily the Tsarevich. He comes to the tent. Two boys run out:
Mother, mother, isn’t this our father coming?
No, kids, this is your uncle. Treat him well.
Two boys, let's scratch their uncle with canes again. They beat and beat, until Vasily Tsarevich barely lost his legs. Sineglazka sends to the king for the third time:
Go and look for your third son, Ivan Tsarevich. If you don’t find it, I’ll trample and burn the whole kingdom.
The Tsar became even more frightened and sent for Tsarevich Fyodor and Tsarevich Vasily, telling them to find their brother, Ivan Tsarevich. Then the brothers fell at their father’s feet and confessed everything: how they took living water and rejuvenating apples from sleepy Ivan Tsarevich, and threw him into the abyss.
The king heard this and burst into tears. And at that time, Ivan Tsarevich himself goes to Sineglazka, and with him goes the tavern's loaf. They tear the cloth under their feet and throw it to the sides.
He approaches the white linen tent. Two boys run out:
Mother, mother, some drunkard is coming to us with a tavern drink!
And Sineglazka to them:
Take him by the white hands and lead him into the tent. This is your dear father. He suffered innocently for three years.
Here Tsarevich Ivan was taken by the white hands and led into the tent. Blue Eyes washed him and combed his hair, changed his clothes and put him to bed. And Goli brought the tavern a glass each, and they went home.
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Russian folk tale"About rejuvenating apples and living water"
Genre: folk fairy tale
The main characters of the fairy tale “About rejuvenating apples and living water” and their characteristics
- Ivan Tsarevich. Brave, kind, responsible. I thought about business, not about entertainment. Smart and brave. Fell in love with Sineglazka.
- Sineglazka. A very strong girl, brave, brave, smart, beautiful. Restored justice.
- Fedor and Vasily. Ivan's brothers. Envious, cruel, stupid, thinking only about entertainment. Traitors and murderers.
- Tsar. Old, frail.
- Baba Yagas. Three sisters. Scary, but kind, they helped Ivan.
- Bird Nagai. Grateful, strong, fair.
- The king is getting old and sick
- Fedor hits the road
- Fedor in the cellar
- Vasily hits the road
- Vasily in the cellar
- Ivan chooses his horse
- Ivan is going straight
- Younger Baba Yaga and her horse
- Average Baba Yaga and her horse
- Elder Baba Yaga and her horse
- Apple orchard and well
- Kiss
- Chase
- Battle
- Betrothal and exchange of rings
- Liberation of the Brothers
- Betrayal
- Bird Nagai and her chicks
- Ivan Tsarevich is a drunkard
- Return of Sineglazka
- Lessons for brothers
- Wedding.
The shortest summary of the fairy tale “About rejuvenating apples and living water” for reader's diary in 6 sentences
- The old king sends his eldest sons for rejuvenating apples and living water, but they end up in the basement of a treacherous girl
- Ivan chooses a horse for himself, meets the Baba Yagas and finds his way to the rejuvenating apples
- Ivan picks apples, draws living water and kisses Sineglazka
- Sineglazka catches up with Ivan Tsarevich and they get engaged after the battle
- Ivan saves his brothers, but they betray him and Ivan is saved by the Nagai bird
- Sineglazka comes to the Tsar with her sons, beats her older brothers and marries Ivan Tsarevich.
Happiness must be earned.
What does the fairy tale “About rejuvenating apples and living water” teach?
This fairy tale teaches us to be brave and honest, to help others. Teaches politeness and nobility. Teaches you not to be distracted from achieving the main goal, teaches you to choose the right direction. Teaches loyalty and that traitors do not deserve respect. Teaches that love comes unexpectedly.
Review of the fairy tale “About rejuvenating apples and living water”
I really liked the fairy tale “About rejuvenating apples and living water.” There are a lot of really interesting adventures in it that befall the brave and noble Ivan Tsarevich. But he copes with everything and in the end he deservedly receives the first beauty as his wife - Sineglazka. I especially liked Baba Yaga in this fairy tale, who turned out to be so kind and understanding, I liked Sineglazka, the heroic girl who even defeated Ivan Tsarevich in a fair fight. And I liked the bird Nagai, kind and fair.
Proverbs for the fairy tale "About rejuvenating apples and living water"
No matter how much the rope twists, it will end.
If there is no good in him, there is little truth in him.
Whatever you go for, you will find.
Summary, brief retelling of the fairy tale “About rejuvenating apples and living water”
Once upon a time there lived a king and he had three prince sons. Now the king became old and his eyes weakened. He heard about rejuvenating apples and a well of living water. He gathered a feast, asked the boyars and princes who wanted to go for apples and living water, and promised to give up half the kingdom.
The eldest Tsarevich Fyodor decided to go himself. He reached a crossroads and saw a stone on which it was written that if you go to the right you will lose your horse, if you go to the left you will lose yourself, if you go straight you will be married.
Fyodor went straight, saw the tower, and there was a beautiful girl. She invited Fyodor to the mansion, gave him something to drink, fed, and put him to bed. As soon as Fyodor lay down, the bed turned over and the prince fell into the deep cellar.
Fyodor did not return, the tsar again gathered a feast. Vasily, the middle son is setting off on the road. And again he chooses the path where the married man should be and ends up in the cellar.
Then the turn of the youngest son, Ivan, came. He was looking for a horse, but could not find it, but the old woman suggested that he look in the cellar. Ivan found a noble horse, saddled it, tamed it and rode off on his way.
He reached the stone, felt sorry for the horse, didn’t want to get married, and went straight.
He arrives at a hut on chicken legs, and Baba Yaga is there. She wanted to eat Ivan Tsarevich first, but he shamed her. Baba Yaga fed him, gave him something to drink, and began asking him questions. And Ivan talked about rejuvenating apples.
Baba Yaga sympathized, and said that the apples belonged to her niece, the strong girl Sineglazka. He gives Ivan another horse and sends him to his sister.
And Ivan dropped his glove and wanted to return, but the horse told him that he had already ridden 200 miles. Ivan Tsarevich reached another Baba Yaga. She fed him again, gave him something to drink, gave him a new horse, and sent him to his older sister.
This horse is even faster, but Ivan dropped his glove, and he had already galloped 300 miles.
Ivan reached the eldest Baba Yaga. She fed him, gave him something to drink, told him how to get apples and draw living water from the well. She just told me not to go to Sineglazka’s. She gave me a horse, even better than the previous ones.
Ivan drove on. He reached a high wall, whipped the horse with his whip, and he jumped over the wall. Ivan picked three apples, scooped up some water, and he wanted to see Blue Eyes. He didn’t listen to Baba Yaga and went into the tower. I couldn’t resist kissing Sineglazka, who was sleeping.
He went out to the horse, and he told him that since Ivan kissed Sineglazka, he should not jump over the high wall. But Ivan strokes him with a whip, the horse got angry and jumped over the wall. Only the security string was struck and the bells began to ring.
Sineglazka chased Ivan Tsarevich. And the Baba Yagi detain her on purpose, they help Ivan. But Sineglazka still caught up with Ivan and began to fight.
They fought for a long time, Sineglazka drove Ivan up to his chest into the ground, she was going to kill her, and Ivan offered to kiss her. Sineglazka agreed, they walked in the tent for three days, got engaged, and exchanged rings.
Sineglazka promised to welcome him to Ivan’s kingdom in three years.
Ivan went back. I decided to find the brothers and turned to where the married man should be. A beautiful girl met him and wanted to put him to bed. Yes, Ivan threw her onto the bed, the girl fell into the cellar and fell through. Ivan shouts into the cellar and asks if anyone is alive. The brothers answer him - they say Fyodor, and Vasily the princes are sitting here. Ivan pulled the brothers out and went home.
As soon as we got up to rest, Ivan fell asleep. And Fyodor and Vasily became jealous, threw Ivan into the abyss, and went home with apples and living water.
Ivan flew into the abyss for three days and fell on the seashore. He saw the chicks being hit by bad weather, covered them with a caftan, and went to bed.
The Nagai bird has arrived and asks the chicks if they have been hit by bad weather. And they talk about the caftan. The bird Nagai decided to thank Ivan Tsarevich and offered gold. And he asks to go home. The Nagai bird ordered two vats of 12 pounds of meat each. Ivan collected the meat and flew off. There is a little bit left, but the meat is gone. Then Ivan cut off his calves and threw them to the bird.
The bird arrived and said that the last pieces were strange. Ivan showed her his wounds, the Nagai bird spat out the meat and the eggs grew back into place.
Ivan learned that Fyodor and Vasily had healed his father with apples and living water, but did not go to the palace. He gathered drunkards and goli from the tavern, and began to go out for a walk.
And at that time Sineglazka had two sons. She and her sons came to the king, set up camp, and demanded a prince. Threatens to ruin the country. The Tsar got scared and sent Fedor.
The children saw Fyodor and thought their father was coming, but Sineglazka said that it was his uncle and ordered him to be treated well. Fyodor's sons whipped him, and Sineglazka again demands the prince.
Tsar Vasily sent. This one was caned.
The blue-eyed Ivan Tsarevich demands. And the older brothers obeyed the king and said that they had thrown Ivan into the abyss. The king was afraid.
And Ivan Tsarevich himself goes to Sineglazka. The boys mistook him for a drunkard, and Sineglazka says that his father is theirs. There was a feast, but Fyodor and Vasily were driven out of the yard. And then Sineglazka and Ivan Tsarevich went to her maiden kingdom.
Signs fairy tale in the fairy tale "About rejuvenating apples and living water"
- Triple repetitions - three sons, three roads, three apples, Ivan flew into the abyss for three days.
- Magical creatures - Baba Yaga, Nagai bird
- Magic items - rejuvenating apples, living water
- The action takes place in a magical fairy-tale world.
- The main character passes the test and receives a reward.
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ABOUT one king was very old and had become poor in his eyes, but he heard that nine nine ninety-minutes, in the tenth kingdom, there is a garden with rejuvenating apples, and in it a well with living water: if you eat this apple for an old man, he will become younger, and anoint his eyes with this water the blind - he will see. This king had three sons. So he sends the elder on horseback to this garden for an apple and water: the king wants to be young and see. The son mounted a horse and went to a distant kingdom; I drove and drove and came to one pillar; On this pillar there are three roads written: the first is for the horse to be fed, but the horse itself is hungry, the second is for the horse not to be alive, and the third is for the horse to be hungry, but for the horse itself to be fed.
So he thought and thought and drove along a satisfying road; I drove and drove and saw a nice, nice house in a field. He drove up to him, looked and looked, opened the gate, did not break his hat, did not bow his head, and galloped into the yard. The owner of this courtyard, a widow woman not too old, called the young man to her: “You are welcome, dear guest!” She brought him into the hut, sat him down at the table, chopped up all sorts of food and brought him plenty of honey to drink. Well, the fellow had a good time and fell down to sleep on the bench. The hostess says to him: “It’s no honor for the fellow, no praise for the daredevil to go to bed alone! Lie with my daughter, the beautiful Dunya.” He's happy about that. Dunya tells him: “Lie closer to me, it will be warmer for us!” He moved towards her and fell through the bed: there they forced him to grind raw rye, but he couldn’t get out! The father of the eldest son waited and waited, and lost his anticipation.
The king sent his second son to bring him an apple and water. He followed the same path and met the same fate as his elder brother. From waiting for his sons for a long time, the king was burning painfully.
The youngest son began to ask his father for permission to go to that garden; and his father never wants to let him go and tells him: “Woe to you, son! When your older brothers have disappeared, and you are young, like a young man, you are more likely to disappear.” But he begs, promises his father that he will try for his father better than any young man. His father thought and thought and blessed him to take the same road. On the way to the widow's house, the same thing happened to him as to his older brothers. He rode up to the widow's courtyard, got off his horse, knocked at the gate and asked to spend the night. The hostess was delighted with him, as well as with this, and asked him: “You are welcome, our unexpected guest!” She sat him down at the table, gave him all kinds of food and drink, no matter how heaped up! So he had enough to eat and wanted to lie down on the bench. The hostess says: “It’s no honor for the fellow, no praise for the daredevil to go to bed alone! Lie with my beautiful Dunya." And he says: “No, auntie! This is not suitable for a passing person, but he needs a fist to the head, and to the side like that. If only you, auntie, would heat a bathhouse for me and let me and your daughter into it.”
So the widow heated the bathhouse hot and hot and escorted him and the beautiful Dunya there. Dunya, just like her mother, was malicious, she brought him forward and locked the door to the bathhouse, while she stood in the hallway. But the brave fellow pushed the door and Dunya forward. He had three rods: one iron, another lead, and the third cast iron, and with these rods he began to tail Dunya. She screams, begs him; and he says: “Tell me, evil Dunka, where did my brothers go?” She said that they grind raw rye underground. He let her in. They came to the hut, tied a ladder to the ladder and took the brothers out of there. He let them go home; but they are ashamed to appear to their father - because they went to bed with Dunya and were no good for hell, and they went to wander through the fields and forests.
And the good fellow drove on, rode and rode, drove up to one yard, entered a hut: there was a beautiful maiden sitting there, weaving utirki. He said: “God help you, red maiden!” And she told him: “Thank you! What, good fellow, are you trying to get away with it or are you torturing it?” - “I’m torturing things, pretty girl! - said the fellow. “I’m going nine nine miles away, to the tenth kingdom, to the garden - for rejuvenating apples and for living water for my old and blind father.” She told him: “Well, it’s wise for you, wise, wise to get to this garden; however, go, my other sister lives on the road, go see her: she knows better than me and will teach you what to do.” So he drove and drove to another sister, he got there; just like with the first one, he greeted her, told her about himself and where he was going. She told him to leave his horse with her, and on her two-winged horse to go to her older sister, who would teach him what to do: how to go to the garden and get an apple and water. So he drove and drove and came to the third sister. This one gave him her horse with four wings and ordered: “Look, our aunt, a terrible witch, lives in this garden; when you approach the garden, don’t feel sorry for my horse, give it a good drive so that it immediately flies over the wall; and if it catches on the wall, there are strings with bells on the wall, the strings will start playing, the bells will ring, she will wake up, and then you won’t get away from her! She has a horse with six wings; You should trim the veins of that horse’s wings so that he won’t catch you on him.”
He did just that. He flew over the wall on his horse, and the horse’s tail caught quite a string; the strings began to tinkle, the bells began to ring, but quietly: the witch woke up, but did not clearly understand the voice of the strings and bells, she yawned again and fell asleep. And the brave fellow galloped off with a rejuvenating apple and living water; visiting his sisters, he changed horses from them and again rushed to his own land on his own. Early in the morning, the terrible witch noticed that an apple and water had been stolen from her garden; She immediately mounted her six-winged horse, galloped up to her first niece, and asked her: “Did anyone pass here?” The niece said: “The brave fellow passed by, a long time ago!” She galloped on, asked another and a third; they told her the same thing. She galloped some more and almost caught up, but the brave fellow made his way to his land and was not afraid of her: she didn’t dare to gallop here, she just looked at him, wheezed with anger and sang to him: “Well, you’re a good thief.” -thief! Good luck on your success! You managed to gallop away from me, but you will certainly disappear from your brothers!” So she cast a spell on him and turned him home.
Our brave man comes to his land and sees that his brothers, vagabonds, are sleeping in the field. He let his horse go, did not wake them up, lay down nearby and fell asleep. The brothers woke up, saw that their brother had returned to his land, they lightly took the rejuvenating apple from his sleepy bosom, and they took it and threw it into the abyss. He flew there for three days, fell into an underground dark kingdom, where people do everything with fire. No matter where he goes, all the people are so sad and cry. He asks about their troubles. They told him that the king had only one daughter - the beautiful princess Polyusha, and that tomorrow they would take her to the snake to be eaten; in this kingdom, every month they give the seven-headed snake a maiden, and that’s how the maidens have a line - that’s the law they have! Now it’s the turn of the king’s daughter. Our fellow learned well about this and went straight to the king, telling him: “I will save, king, your daughter from the serpent, only you yourself do for me what I will ask you for later.” The king was delighted and promised to do everything for him and to marry his daughter to him.
Then that day came: they took the beautiful princess Polyusha to the sea, to a three-walled fortress, and the daredevil went with her. He took with him an iron stick weighing five pounds. Two people remained there with the princess to wait for the snake; They waited and waited, chattering about something for the time being. He told her about his adventure and that he had living water. So the good fellow said to the beautiful princess Polyusha: “Look for lice in my head for now, and if I fall asleep and a snake flies in, then wake me up with my stick, otherwise you won’t wake me up!” - and lay down on her lap. She began to search in his head; he fell asleep. A snake flew in and began to hover over the princess. She began to wake up the young man, push him with her hands, and hit him with a stick (as he ordered) she felt sorry for him; I didn’t wake up and started crying; her tear fell onto his face - he woke up and cried out: “Oh, how you burned me with something!” And the snake began to descend on them. The good fellow took his five-pound stick, waved it - and suddenly knocked off five heads of the snake, swung it backhand at another - and knocked off the last two; He collected all these heads, put them under the wall, and threw the body into the sea.
But some darling child saw all this and lightly crept from behind the wall, cut off the young man’s head and threw him into the sea, and ordered the beautiful princess Polyusha to tell her father, the king, that he had protected her, and if she did not say so, then he will strangle her. There was nothing to do, Polyusha cried and cried, and they went to their father, the king. The king shot them. She told him that this fellow saved her. The king, God knows how glad he was, immediately began planning the wedding. Guests arrived from other lands: kings, kings and princes, everyone was drinking, walking and having fun; One princess, a tough one, will go into a corner under the barn and burst into burning tears there about her brave fellow.
So she decided to ask her father to send him to catch fish in the sea, and she herself went with the fishermen to the sea; They pulled in the net, pulled out fish and who knows how many! She looked and said: “No, this is not my fish!” They pulled him into another, pulled out the head and torso of the brave young man. Polyusha quickly ran up to him, found a bottle of living water in his bosom, put her head to his body, wet it with water from the bottle - and he came to life. She told him how the guy she hated wanted to take her. The daredevil consoled her and told her to go home, and he himself would come and know what to do.
So a daredevil came to the royal chamber, all the guests there were drunk - they were playing and dancing. He said that he could play songs in different voices. Everyone was happy for him, they forced him to play. He played some kind of funny bass tune for them - the guests melted so much that he played it painfully, friend to friend praised him; and there he played such a terrible song that all the guests began to cry. So the daredevil asked the king who saved his daughter? The king said that this fellow is. “Come on, king, let’s go to that fortress and with all your guests; If he gets snake heads there, I will believe that he saved Princess Polyusha.” Everyone came to the fortress. The fellow pulled and pulled and didn’t pull out a single head, he couldn’t help it. But the fellow just took it and pulled it out. Here the princess told the whole truth, who had guarded her. Everyone admitted that the daredevil had protected the Tsar’s daughter; and they tied the kid by the horse’s tail and led him across the field.
The king wants the brave young man to marry his daughter; but the daredevil says: “No, king, I don’t need anything, just take me out into our white light: I have not yet finished my answer to the priest, he is now waiting for me with living water - after all, he lives blind.” The king cannot figure out how to raise him into the world; but the daughter does not want to part with him - she wanted to go up with him, she tells her father that they have a spoonbill bird: she can carry them there, if only she had something to eat on the way.
So Polyusha ordered to kill a whole bull for the butterfly bird and store it with her. Then they said goodbye to the underground king, sat on the bird’s ridge and flew into God’s white light. Where the bird was fed more, it rose higher in height with them; so the whole bull was sent to the bird. There is nothing to do, they are afraid that she will not lower them down again. Polyusha took, cut off a piece of the pole and gave it to the bird; and she just raised them to this light and said: “Well, you fed me well all the way, but I have never eaten sweeter than the last piece in my life!” Polyusha unwrapped her pole for her, the bird gasped and burped: the piece was still intact. The good fellow again put him to the Lyakh, soaked him in living water - and healed the Lyakh for the princess.
Then they went home. Father, the Nashensky king, met them, and God knows how happy he was! The daredevil sees that his father has become younger from that apple, but is still blind. He immediately anointed his eyes with living water. The king began to see; here he kissed his daredevil son and his bride from the dark kingdom. The daredevil told how his brothers took his apple and threw it into the dungeon. The brothers were so scared - they abandoned themselves into the river! And the daredevil married that princess Polyusha and had a wonderful feast; I dined there, drank honey, and what kind of cabbage they have - otherwise now the company is empty!
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AND There was a king with a queen, he had three sons. He sends his sons to find his youth. So the princes set off on a journey, they come to a pillar from which there are three roads, and on that pillar it is written: go to the right - the young man will be fed, but the horse will be hungry; go to the left - the fellow will be hungry, but the horse will be full; to go straight - not to be alive. The eldest prince went to the right, the middle one to the left, and the youngest one to take the straight road. No matter how long or how little the younger brother rode, he came across a deep ditch. I didn’t think long about how to cross it; got blessed, whipped his horse, jumped to the other side and saw a hut near a dense forest - standing on chicken legs. “Hut, hut! Turn your back to the forest and your front to me.” The hut turned around. The prince enters it; Baba Yaga sits there. “Fu-fu! - speaks. - Until now, the Russian spirit has not been seen, not heard, but the Russian spirit is still in sight, rushing about in the mouth! What, good fellow, are you trying to get away with business or are you torturing things? - “Oh, you old bastard! If you weren't the one speaking, I wouldn't be listening. First, give me something to drink and feed, and then ask.” She gave him something to drink and feed, asked for news and gave him her winged horse: “Go, my father, to my middle sister.”
He drove for a long time or a short time - he saw a hut, entered - Baba Yaga was sitting there: “Fu-fu! - speaks. - Until now, the Russian spirit has not been seen, not heard, but the Russian spirit is still in sight, rushing about in the mouth! What, good fellow, are you trying to do things or are you getting away with it?” - “Oh, auntie! Give me something to drink and feed, then ask.” She gave her something to drink and feed and began to ask: “What destinies brought you to these distant countries?” - “My father sent me to look for my youth.” - “Well, take my best horse instead and go to my older sister.”
The prince immediately set off on the road; No matter how long or how long he drove, he again sees a hut on chicken legs. “Hut, hut! Stand with your front to me and your back to the forest.” The hut turned around; entered - Baba Yaga was sitting there: “Fu-fu! Until now, the Russian spirit has never been seen, never heard of, but still the Russian spirit appears in sight and rushes to the lips! What, good fellow, are you trying to do things or are you getting away with it?” - “Oh, old bastard! You didn’t feed me, didn’t give me something to drink, but you’re asking for news.” Baba Yaga fed him, gave him something to drink, asked him for news and gave him a horse better than the previous two: “Ride with God! There is a kingdom not far away - don’t go through the gates, there are lions guarding the gates, but fly your horse well and jump right over the tine, but be careful not to catch the strings, otherwise the whole kingdom will be agitated: then you won’t be alive! And as soon as you jump over the tine, immediately go into the palace - into the back room, slowly open the door and see the Tsar-Maiden sleeping; she has a bottle of living water hidden under her pillow. Take the bottle and hurry back, don’t look at her beauty.”
The prince did everything as Baba Yaga taught him; only he couldn’t stand one thing - he coveted the girl’s beauty... He began to sit on the horse - the horse’s legs buckled, he began to jump over the tine - and touched a string. Instantly the whole kingdom woke up, the Tsar-Maiden also stood up and ordered the horse to be saddled; and Baba Yaga already found out what had happened to the good fellow, and was prepared to answer; As soon as she had time to let the prince go, the Tsar Maiden flies in and finds Baba Yaga all disheveled. The Tsar-Maiden says to her: “How dare you allow such a scoundrel to reach my kingdom? I had him, drank kvass, but didn’t cover it.” - “Mother, Tsar Maiden! Tea, you can see how disheveled my hair is; I fought with him for a long time, but I couldn’t cope.” The other two Baba Yagas said the same thing. The Tsar Maiden rushed after the prince and was just about to grab him when he jumped over the ditch. The Tsar-Maiden says after him: “Wait for me in three years; I’ll come by ship.”
The prince, out of joy, did not see how he drove up to the pillar and how he turned away from it to the left; he arrives at the silver mountain - a tent is pitched on the mountain, a horse stands near the tent, eating white wheat and drinking honey, and in the tent lies a good fellow - his own brother. The younger prince tells him: “Let’s go look for his older brother.” We saddled our horses and rode to the right; They drive up to the golden mountain - a tent is pitched on the mountain, near it a horse eats white wheat, drinks honey, and in the tent lies a good fellow - their elder brother. They woke him up and all went together to that post where three roads meet; sat down here to rest. The two older brothers began to question the younger brother: “Have you found your father’s youth?” - "Found". - "How and where?" He told them everything as it happened, lay down on the grass and fell asleep. The brothers chopped him into small pieces and scattered him across an open field; They took a bottle of living water with them and went to their father.
Suddenly the firebird flies in, collects all the scattered pieces, puts them together as a person should; then she brought dead water in her mouth, sprinkled it - all the pieces grew together; She brought living water, sprinkled it - the prince came to life, stood up and said: “How long have I slept!” The firebird answers: “You would have slept forever, if not for me!” The prince thanked her and went home; his father disliked him and sent him out of sight; So he wandered around in different corners for three whole years.
And when three years have passed, the Tsar-Maiden sails on a ship and sends a letter to the Tsar asking him to send the culprit to her; and if she resists, she will burn and cut down the entire kingdom to the ground. The king sends his eldest son to her; he went to the ship. Two boys, two sons of the Tsar Maiden, saw him and began to ask their mother: “Isn’t this our father?” - “No, this is your uncle.” - “How can we meet him?” - “Take the whip and lead it back.” The eldest prince returned home as if he had eaten too much! And the Tsar-Maiden, with the same threats, demands the extradition of the culprit; The king sends out another son - and the same thing happened to him as to the first.
Then the king ordered to look for the younger prince, and as soon as he was found, his father began to send him to the ship to the Tsar Maiden. And he says: “Then I’ll go when a crystal bridge is built right up to the ship, and there will be a lot of different dishes and wines on the bridge.” There was nothing to do, they built a bridge, prepared food, stored wine and honey. The prince gathered his comrades and said: “Come with me as a guide, eat and drink, do not regret anything!” Here he is walking across the bridge, and the boys are shouting: “Mother! Who is this?" - “This is your father.” - “How can we meet him?” - “Take me by the arms and lead me.” Here they kissed, hugged, made love; and then they went to the king and told him everything that happened. The king drove the older sons out of the courtyard, and with the younger ones he began to live together and make good money.
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IN in a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a king; The king had three sons: two were smart, the third was a fool. Once the king had a dream that far away, in the thirtieth state, there was a red maiden with water flowing from her hands and feet: whoever drinks this water will become thirty years younger. And the king was very old; He called his children and thoughtful people and said to them: “Will anyone be able to unravel my dream?” The thoughtful people answered the king: “Your Majesty! We have never seen, but only heard about such a beautiful girl! But we don’t know how to get there.” The big son, Dmitry Tsarevich, spoke here: “Father! Bless me to go in all four directions, to see people, to show myself, to find out about the red maiden.” His father gave him his parental blessing. “Take,” he says, “as much treasury as you want and as many troops as you need.”
Dmitry Tsarevich took one hundred thousand troops and set off on the road; he travels for a day, he travels for a week, he travels for a month, and two, and three, no one asks anyone - no one knows about the red maiden, and he drove into such deserted places that there is only heaven and earth. He drove his horse further - and in front of him there was a high, high mountain! You can't open your eyes! Somehow I climbed up this mountain and found an ancient, gray-haired old man there. “Hello, grandpa!” - “Hello, good fellow! What, are you trying to get things done or are you torturing things?” - “I’m torturing things.” - “What do you want?” - “Yes, I heard that far away, in the thirtieth state, there is a red maiden - kissing water flows from her hands and feet: whoever gets this water and drinks it will be thirty years younger.” - “Well, brother, you won’t get there!” - “Why is this so?” - “Because there are three wide rivers on the way, there are three transports on those rivers: on the first transport they will cut off your right hand, on the second - your left leg, and on the third they will remove your head.” Dmitry Tsarevich became tense, hung his violent head below his mighty shoulders and thought: “It’s either my father’s head or my own to spare!” I’m going back.” He came down from the mountain, returned to his father and said: “No, father, I couldn’t find him; I’ve never heard of that girl anywhere!”
The middle son, Vasily Tsarevich, began to ask: “Father! Bless me, maybe I’ll find it.” - “Go, son!” Vasily Tsarevich took one hundred thousand troops with him and set off on the road; he travels for a day, travels for a week, travels for a month, and two, and three, and stops at such deserted places that there are only forests and swamps. Here I found Baba Yaga’s bone leg, vein. “Hello, Baba Yaga bone leg!” - “Hello, good fellow! What, are you trying to get things done or are you torturing things?” - “I’m torturing things! I heard that far away, in the thirtieth state, there is a red maiden - kissing water flows from her hands and feet.” - “Yes, father, yes! But you won’t get there.” - “Why is this so?” - “Because there are three transportations on the way: on the first transportation they will cut off your right hand, on the second - your left leg, and on the third - your head is off.” Vasily Tsarevich thought about it: “It’s either to spare your father’s head, or to take care of your own!” I’ll go back and pick you up and say hello.” He returned and said to his father: “No, father, I couldn’t find it; I’ve never heard of that girl anywhere!”
The youngest son, Ivan Tsarevich, began to ask: “Father! Bless me if I find it.” The father blessed: “Go, dear son! Take as many troops and treasuries as you need.” - “I don’t need anything, just give me a good horse and a treasure sword.” Ivan Tsarevich sat down on his horse, took his treasure sword and set off on his journey; he rides for a day, he rides for a week, he rides for a month, and two, and three, and he comes to such places that his horse is knee-deep in water, chest-deep in grass, and he, a good fellow, has nothing to eat. I saw a hut on chicken legs, went in there, and in the hut sat Baba Yaga with a bone leg. “Hello, grandma!” - “Hello, Ivan Tsarevich! What, are you trying to get things done or are you torturing things?” - “What’s the matter! I’m going to the thirtieth state: there, they say, there is a red maiden - kissing water flows from her hands and feet.” - “Yes, father! Although I didn’t see it by sight, I heard it by hearing; But you won’t be able to reach her.” - “Why is this so?” - “Because there are three transportations on the way: on the first transportation they will cut off your right hand, on the second - your left leg, and on the third - your head.” - “Well, grandma, one head is not poor! I’ll go, God willing.” - “Oh, Ivan Tsarevich! It’s better to go back, you’re still a young man - you’ve never been to dangerous places, you’ve never seen great fears.” - “No, if you take up the tug, don’t say that it’s not hefty!”
He said goodbye to Baba Yaga and drove on: he travels for a day, two and three, and arrives at the first carriage. The carriers on the other side are sleeping. "What to do? - thinks Ivan Tsarevich. “If I shout, I’ll deafen you forever; if I whistle, I’ll sink the carriage.” He gave a half whistle; the carriers immediately jumped up and ferried him across the river. “What kind of work do you want, brothers?” - “Give me your right hand.” - “Well, I need a hand myself!” The prince waved his sword left and right, killed all the carriers, mounted his horse and galloped off. On the other two transports I got off the same way. He approaches the thirtieth state, a wild man stands at the turn - as tall as a forest, as thick as a large shock, holding a stocky oak tree in his hands. The giant says to Ivan Tsarevich: “Where are you going, worm?” - “I’m going to the thirtieth kingdom, I want to see the red maiden, who has kissing water pouring from her hands and feet.” - “Where are you going, shorty! I have been guarding her kingdom for a hundred years; no match for you - mighty heroes came here, and even they fell from my strong hand; What about you? How to eat a worm!
The prince saw that he could not cope with the giant, and turned to the side; He walked and walked and found himself in a dense forest. There is a hut in the forest, and in the hut an ancient old woman sits; she saw a good fellow and said: “Hello, Ivan Tsarevich! Why did God bring you?” He told her everything without concealment; The old woman gave him a magic potion and a ball. “Go,” he says, “to an open field, make a fire and throw this potion into the fire; look, stand behind the wind yourself. This magical potion will make the giant fall into a deep sleep; you cut off his head, roll him into a ball and follow him. The ball will take you to the very places where the red maiden reigns; She lives in a large golden palace and often goes with her army to the green meadows to amuse herself: she walks for nine days, and then sleeps in heroic sleep for nine days.” Ivan Tsarevich thanked the old woman and drove off into an open field; He lit a fire in an open field and threw a magic potion into the fire. A violent wind blew the smoke in the direction where the wild man stood on guard; His vision became clouded, he lay down on the damp ground and fell soundly asleep. Ivan Tsarevich cut off his head, rolled it into a ball and moved on.
I drove and drove - the golden palace was visible; He turned off the road, let his horse go onto the grass, and climbed into the bushes. As soon as he managed to hide, dust rises in a column from the golden palace: the red maiden leaves with her army to amuse herself in the green meadows. The prince looks - the entire army is made up of only girls: she is good, and she is even better! And the most beautiful, most beloved of all is the queen herself. For nine days she walked in the green meadows, and the prince did not take his eyes off her and could not get enough of her. On the tenth day he goes to the golden palace: a red maiden lies on a downy bed, resting in a heroic sleep - healing water flows from her hands and feet; Her faithful army also sleeps with her. Ivan Tsarevich took two vials of kissing water; the brave heart could not stand it - he crushed the girl’s beauty, left the palace, mounted his good horse and galloped home.
The red maiden slept for nine days, and when she woke up, she became terribly angry, stamped her feet and shouted in a loud voice: “What scoundrel was here? I drank my kvass and didn’t cover it with anything.” She jumped onto her fast-flying mare and set off in pursuit of Ivan Tsarevich: the mare is running, the earth is trembling! She caught up with the good fellow, hit him with a sword and hit him right in the chest. The prince fell to the damp ground; clear eyes close, scarlet blood bakes. The red maiden looked at him and was overcome with great pity: look for another such handsome man in the whole world! She put her white hand to his wound, moistened it with healing water - and suddenly the wound healed, and Ivan Tsarevich stood up healthy and unharmed. “Will you marry me?” - “I’ll take it, red maiden!” - “Well, go home and wait for me in three years.”
Ivan Tsarevich said goodbye to his betrothed bride and began to continue his journey. He approaches his kingdom, and his older brothers have set guards everywhere to prevent him from reaching his father. The guards immediately let it be known that Ivan Tsarevich was coming; His older brothers met him on the road, got him drunk, took away the bottles of healing water, and threw him into the abyss. Ivan Tsarevich found himself in the next world...
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AND Yes there was a king; the tsar had three sons: Fedor, Yegor and Ivan; Ivan was not entirely smart. The king sends his eldest son for living water, for sweet, youthful apples; he drove off and reached Rosstania. There is a pillar here, there is a painting on the pillar: go to the right - drink and eat, go to the left - destroy the little head; he went to the right and came to the house; enters the hut, and then the girl says to him: “Fyodor Tsarevich! Go to bed with me." He lay down; she took it and pushed him to God knows where. The king, without waiting long for him, sends another son. This one went and arrives to the same place; enters the hut. This girl also left in the same way. The king sends his third son: “You go!”
The youngest son went, reached the same place and said: “I’m going to ruin my father’s head!” - and went left; he reaches the hut, enters there, and in the hut the yagishna sits at the spindle whorl, spins a silk yarn on a golden spindle and says: “Where, Russian braid, Ivan Tsarevich went?” He replies: “Give me something to drink and feed, and ask everything.” She gave her something to drink and feed and asks: he says: “I went along living water, along sweet, youthful apples - to where White Swan Zakharyevna lives.” Yagishna says: “You can hardly get it! Will I help,” and gives him his horse. He sat down and drove off; reaches another Yagishna sister. He went into the hut, she said to him: “Fu-fu, the Russian braid was never heard of, not seen, but now she came to the yard; Where did Ivan Tsarevich go?” He replies: “First, give me something to drink and feed, then ask questions.” She gave him something to drink and feed; he says: “I went to get living water, sweet, youthful apples - to where White Swan Zakharyevna lives.” - “You can hardly get it!” - the woman said and gave him her horse.
The prince rode to the third yagishna; enters the hut, she says: “Fu-fu, the Russian braid was never heard of, not seen, now the Russian braid itself has come to the yard; Where did Ivan Tsarevich go?” - “First, give me something to drink and feed, and ask questions.” She gave him something to drink and feed; he says: “I followed the living water, the sweet, youthful apples.” - “It’s difficult, prince! You can hardly get it." Then he gives him his horse, a seven-hundred club and punishes: “When you begin to approach the city, hit the horse with the club so that it jumps over the sima.” So he did: he jumped over the sima, put his horse against the post and went to the chambers of the White Swan Zakharyevna. The servants won't let him in; and he breaks through: “I,” he says, “carry a note to the White Swan.” He reached the chambers of the White Swan Zakharyevna; At that time she was fast asleep, tossed about on the downy bed, and living water stood under her head. He took some water, kissed the girl and joked with her a little; then, having picked up some youthful apples, he went back. His horse jumped over it and touched the edge. Suddenly all the bells rang, all the bells rang, the whole city woke up. White Lebed Zakharyevna ran around - she beats one nanny, hits another, shouts: “Get up! Someone was in the house, drank some water, but didn’t close the well.”
Meanwhile, the prince drove to the first yagishna and changed the horse; and Lebed Zakharyevna was chasing him, came to the yagishna whose horse the prince had just changed, and asked: “Where did you go? Your horse is sweaty." She answers: “I went to the field to drive out the cattle.” Ivan Tsarevich changed the horse from the second yagishna; and Lebed Zakharyevna comes after him and says: “Where, Yagishna, did you go? Your horse is sweaty." - “I went to the field to drive out the cattle, that’s why my horse was sweating.” Ivan Tsarevich reached the last yagishna and changed his horse; and Lebed Zakharyevna keeps chasing, comes after him, asks the yagishna: “Why is your horse sweaty?” She answers: “I went to the field to drive out the cattle.”
From here she returned home; and Ivan Tsarevich went to his brothers. Comes to the house where they were; The girl jumped out onto the porch and said: “Welcome!” Then she invites him to sleep with her. The prince says: “Give me something to drink and feed, and then put me to bed.” She gave her something to drink and feed and again said: “Lie with me!” The prince answers: “You go to bed first!” She lay down in front, and he pushed her off; the girl flew off to an unknown destination. Ivan Tsarevich thinks: “Well, I’ll open this trap; aren’t my brothers there?” I opened it and they are sitting here; says to them: “Come out, brothers! What are you doing here? Aren't you ashamed?" We got ready and went home together to our father. On the way, the older brothers decided to kill the younger one; Ivan Tsarevich recognized their thoughts and said: “Don’t beat me; I’ll give you everything!” They did not agree to this, killed him and scattered the bones across an open field. Ivan Tsarevich's horse collected his bones in one place and sprinkled them with living water; he has a braid with a braid, joint with joint fused; The prince came to life and said: “I slept for a long time, but soon I got up!” Comes to his father in a shoe; his father, seeing him, said to him: “Where did you go? Go and clean the necessary places.”
Meanwhile, White Swan Zakharyevna goes to the royal meadows and sends a letter to the king asking him to hand over the culprit to her. The king sends his eldest son. The children of the White Swan, seeing him, shout: “There goes our father! What are we going to treat him with?” And the mother says: “No, this is not your father, but your uncle; treat him with what you have in your hands.” And they each had a club; They beat up his sides so much that he barely made it home. Then the king sends his second son; This one is coming, the children were delighted and shouted: “There’s our father coming!” And the mother says: “No, this is your uncle.” - “What are we going to treat him with?” - “And serve what you have in your hands!” They stained his sides just like their older brother. White Lebed Zakharyevna also sends to the Tsar to tell him to expel the culprit. The king finally sends his youngest son; he wanders - he is wearing thin little shoes and a thin shoe. The children shout: “There’s a beggar coming!” And the mother says: “No, this is your father.” - “What are we going to treat him with?” - “What did God send!” When Ivan Tsarevich arrived, she put good lopot (clothing) on him, and they went to the king. Upon arrival, Ivan Tsarevich told his father his adventure: how he got it from his brothers’ trap and how they killed him. The father got angry, demoted them and assigned them to low positions, and took his youngest son as his heir.
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B It used to be that in a certain kingdom, in a certain state, Tsar Efimyan had three sons: the first son - Pavel, the second son - Fedor and the third son - Ivan Zapechny. Tsar Efimyan began to grow old and, gathering his strength, asked: “Who would go for young and living water? I would do good to him." And the bara thought: “Oprichno your son, Tsarevich Pavel, has no one to go.” The Tsar gives him a thousand rubles and his good horse. Pavel Tsarevich sits on that good horse and whips; I rode for a long time, came to Rostan - on Rostan there is an oak tree, on the oak tree there is a sign: to go to the right - you will be dead, and to go to the left - you will end up with Irina’s soft feather bed, sleep softly and slurp jelly! Irina, a soft feather bed, greets Pavel the Tsarevich: “Come on, Pavel the Tsarevich, get wet and take off your shoes, put on your colored dress - even if it’s a thousand rubles or two, nothing of yours will be lost!” She gave me something to drink and feed, and laid her down on a down jacket to sleep: “Lie down against the wall, and I’ll lie down on the edge!” She grabbed him under the middle, smashed the floor with it, and he flew into the cellar, and the cellar was thirty fathoms deep; threw the curls towards him: “When you learn to spin, then I’ll give you something to eat!”
Tsar Efimyan could not wait for his son and began to gather his strength again; asks: “Who would travel on living and young water? I would do good to him." The bara thought and thought and said: “Oprichno your son, Fyodor Tsarevich, has no one to go.” Tsar Efimyan gives him two thousand rubles and his good horse; Fyodor Tsarevich sat on that horse and rode for a long time; when I got to the same Rosstani - there was an oak tree on the Rosstani, on the oak there was a sign: to go to the right - you would be dead, and to go to the left - you would get to Irina’s soft feather bed, sleep softly and slurp jelly. Irina’s soft feather bed, greeting her, purrs: “Come on, Fyodor Tsarevich, and where have you gone, my dear? Where has God taken you? She fed me, gave her something to drink, and laid her down on a down jacket to sleep: “Lie down against the wall, and I’ll lie down on the edge!” She grabbed him under the middle and kicked him through the floor; he fell into the same demonic cellar.
Tsar Efimyan could not wait for his son Fyodor, he began to gather his strength: “Who would ride on living, young water? I would do good to him." And a large council was assembled, at which they also decided that there was no one to go to the oprichnina of your son Ivan Tsarevich. Ivan Tsarevich began to strain and became sad, and in the evening he came to his grandmother in the backyard. The backstreet grandmother says: “What, Ivan Tsarevich, is he strained and sad?” - “How can I not grieve and be sad? "Bachka sends the living, the young water, to distant lands, to the thirtieth land, to the white sea - to a wonderful kingdom, but my father does not have a good horse." - “How come your father doesn’t have a good horse? There is a good horse, locked behind three doors, and is already breaking through the third doors with his hoof! This horse will serve you faithfully. And a shaggy old man is guarding the horse; come, slap the old man’s bald head painfully, and he’ll give you a good horse.” According to what was said, as if written, Ivan Tsarevich grabbed the horse by the reins and wrapped it around himself three times; the horse prayed in a human voice to Ivan Tsarevich that I will serve you with faith and truth. This horse has smoke pouring out of his ears, sparks pouring out of his nostrils, and flames blazing from his mouth. Ivan Tsarevich sits on the good horse, whips it along its thick ribs, and the horse gallops higher than a standing forest, lower than a walking cloud, passes mountains, rivers and lakes between its legs, and covers fields and meadows with its tail.
The prince rode for a long time and reached the same oak tree - there is an oak tree on Rosstani, and it is written on the oak tree: to go to the right - you will be dead, and to go to the left - to get to Irina’s soft feather bed, sleep softly and slurp jelly. He says: “Apparently, my brothers have gone to sip some jelly!” He himself goes to the right along the living and young water; I drove for a long time and reached my grandmother’s backyard. The backstreet grandmother meets Ivan Tsarevich: “Where have you gone, honey?” - “Grandma is a backwater! Give me something to drink and feed, let me sleep on a down jacket, sit in my head and start asking questions.” She fed him, gave him something to drink, and put him to bed. “I,” says the prince, “went across the living and fresh water to distant lands, to the thirtieth land - to the wonderful kingdom.” - "Ivan Tsarevich! You won't be alive." - “Maybe God will help!”
Ivan Tsarevich gets up early in the morning and washes himself lightly; the backwater grandmother fed him breakfast and gives him an even better horse and says: “For an hour and a half, only the guards sleep in the divine kingdom; do not snooze!" He arrived in that kingdom; the horse ran and jumped over the stone wall; The prince stood the horse up against a post - against a gilded ring, and took in fresh and young water, and thought with his mind: “There’s still no time for a quarter of an hour, I’ll go and see the girl.” And he sees: twelve girls are sleeping, all as one; The Tsar Maiden could recognize the Tsar by this - she was sleeping, breathing, as if a leaf had fallen from an oak tree. And he decided to exchange personalized rings with her: he took her ring to himself, and gave his ring to her, and comes to the horse. The horse speaks in human language: “Oh, Ivan Tsarevich! I can't take you away; go roll out in the dew, wear out the semi-precious dress.” Tsarevich Ivan did this and mounted his good horse; the horse ran, jumped over the city wall, and touched a string with its hind leg; the strings began to sing, the bells began to hum, the guards rioted, what kind of fly was there in the city?
In time, the Tsar-Maiden awakens and sends her guards: “Come and realize!”, and in the meantime he comes to the back-door grandmother; “What, Ivan Tsarevich, did you hesitate for a long time?” He gives him a brush, a flint, a platform: “If they start to catch you, throw down the brush and say three times: stand, thicket, from earth to sky, so that there is no passage for horseback, pedestrians, or birds to pass through!” The guards, having run into a thicket, returned to the blacksmith, forged axes, galloped up and wanted to cut through this thicket, they looked - there was nothing. “He’s fooling, obviously!” - and they left everything here. They began to realize it again; The prince threw the flint and said three times: “Stand, flint mountain, from earth to sky, from east to west!” The guards, having reached the mountain, returned to the blacksmith, forged molotov, galloped up - nothing: “The damned one is fooling!” Here the hammers were thrown. The third time, when they began to reach him, he threw the platform and said three times: “Float, river of fire!” - and a river became, across which the guards paved a bridge.
At that time the prince went far away. Not having caught up with that gap, the guards turned back; and Ivan Tsarevich came to the oak tree on Rosstani: “Should I go see my brothers, are they alive or not?” Irina comes to Irina with a soft feather bed, and Irina meets Ivan Tsarevich with a soft feather bed. “Where did you go,” he says? Where has God taken you? Undress, get wet, put your colored dress on the table - even if it’s a thousand, even if it’s two, nothing of yours will be lost!” She gave me something to drink and feed, and laid her down on a down jacket to sleep. “Lie against the wall!” He says: “I don’t sleep against the wall, but I sleep on the edge.” She needed to lie down against the wall herself; The prince grabbed her under the middle and pushed her through the floor, and Irina’s soft feather bed flew into the cellar, and he lowered the end of the rope, pulled out his brother and said: “Drag everyone along each other and go home!”
He himself mounts his good horse; Having reached the old oak tree, he lowers his horse into an open field to feed and goes to bed. An old man comes to him and says: “Oh, Ivan Tsarevich, they will kill you!” - “You’re lying, old man; get out of sight! The older brothers, going home, agreed among themselves and killed Ivan Tsarevich, took away the living and young water; They came to their father and gave him that water, alive and young. He drank and became better than the old man. Here comes the old man to Ivan Tsarevich - only one spinal bone remained; he sits under the spinal bone, a raven flew in to peck, he grabbed the raven by the leg and said: “Black crow! Collect a braid for this carcass; If you do not gather, I will bring out your entire family.” The black crow roared, they began to wear out the scythe from all sides; the old man began to put bone to bone, put the scythe together, blew - the body became, blew once - he moved, blew three times - the good fellow jumped up: “Well, old man! How I fell asleep." - “If it weren’t for me, you would still be sleeping!” The prince woke up - naked, and said to the old man: “Dress me!” The old man blew and got dressed. Tsarevich Ivan comes to the Efimyan kingdom, he hires himself out to roll forties in the Tsar’s circle; I poured myself two buckets of green wine a day for my work, and lived so painfully cheerfully for quite a long time.
The Tsar-Maiden comes to the Efimyan kingdom on a ship, built viburnum bridges - worn into three edges, hammered in with three nails; at the ends there were walkways, along the walkways there were little birds, singing and singing in all sorts of words, in different voices; The bridge is covered with red cloth. And she writes to Tsar Efimyan: “Give me the guilty man!” The king sends his son Paul: “Come with an answer.” He took off his shoes and walked barefoot - he must not get the cloth dirty; goes downhill. The Tsar Maiden had two sons - they were born from Ivan Tsarevich; they say: “Here comes the prince who took the living water!” - “No, not that one! Feed him sea porridge: if it’s not his fault, don’t go!” They took him and slammed him against the ship; Pavel Tsarevich barely left the ship. He writes a second time to Tsar Efimyan: “Give me the guilty man!” Tsar Efimyan sends another son, Fyodor; This one went and took the slippers off his feet. “Put on,” he says, “don’t get the red cloth dirty!” Seeing him, the Tsar Maiden gave the same order: to feed him sea porridge. “It’s not your fault - don’t go!” He barely left the ship alive.
And menacingly for the third time he writes to Tsar Efimyan: “Tsar Efimyan! Give me the guilty man." He doesn’t know who to send, he strained himself and ordered the yaryshki to look everywhere for the culprit; and Ivan Tsarevich, walking on the circle, says: “Apparently, it’s my fault, my head is needed too! Come with me, all you drunkards! I will also treat and amuse you. In my name, tear the cloth, take the birds and break the bridges!” Because of this, there was a commotion under the mountain; The Tsar Maiden's children were afraid and told her that the enemy was approaching. And she responded: “What an enemy! Then your brother comes, he has such a grip!” Ivan Tsarevich came to the ship, embraced the Tsar-maiden, kissed her on the lips; She left the ship from the shore and went to the wonderful kingdom, married him there, and they began to live and be, and now they live, chewing bread.
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AND il king, this king had three sons; The king says to his children: “I dreamed that in a certain kingdom, three hundred lands away, in a state of three hundred, there was Helen the Beautiful, and she had living and dead water and youthful apples; can you kids get it?” The eldest two sons say: “Bless us, father! We'll go get it." He blessed them, and they went; and the third son, eight years old, remained at home. Two years later, the last son began to ask that “I too will go after my brothers; anything and I’ll help them.” And the father says: “Where can you go to the other side from a young age?” Then the king thought and let him go, and his son began to say to him: “Father! Give me a horse." The king says: “Well, go and choose: I have five hundred horses in my stable.” He went; whichever horse hits on the rump, he will fall off his feet; out of five hundred horses, he did not choose a single horse for himself and tells his father that “I, father, did not choose a single horse from you; Now I’ll go into an open field, into green meadows - won’t I choose the horses in the herds?”
I went into an open field; I walked for a long, long time, in an empty place there was a hut, and in the hut there was an old old woman sitting. Ivan Tsarevich asks her: “What, grandmother, do you know where the herds are and whether there are any good horses in the herds?” The old woman holds the answer: “What’s better - your father has five hundred horses!” Tsarevich Ivan says that “my father doesn’t have a single horse for me.” - “If so, go ahead, Ivan Tsarevich, here there is a village, near the village there is a mountain, on this mountain lies a hero instead of a dog; Just ask the priests: is it possible to bury this hero? The hero has a horse behind twelve iron doors, behind twelve copper locks, on twelve chains; He has one sword and four people carry it on a stretcher.” The priests took charge and buried this hero; and Ivan Tsarevich assembled a funeral table and bought all sorts of provisions from food, wine, vodka, tables and chairs, knives and spoons. And the Orthodox people dined; says Ivan Tsarevich: “Take, Orthodox people, whatever you need!”
They immediately began to carry what anyone needed, and carried it home; Only Ivan Tsarevich was left on the mountain, and the dead hero said to him: “I thank you, young Ivan Tsarevich, for burying me in honesty, and I give you my horse: it stands in the state cellar behind twelve iron doors, behind twelve copper locks, on twelve chains; I give you both my sword and my armor. If you can, own it to your health!” Ivan Tsarevich went to the state cellar and began to break down the doors; he will break through the door with his fist, and the horse will break the chain. So Ivan Tsarevich broke all the doors, and the horse broke all the chains. And this horse wanted to go free; but Ivan Tsarevich grabbed her by the mane and said: “Stop, horse, wolf meat, forty-alt nag! Who should ride you if not us, good fellows?” He put a bridle on the horse and saddled him; He put on heroic armor on himself, took the sword in his right hand and began to wave the sword, just like a goose feather.
He sets off on his journey; I traveled for a long time or for a short time, passed through all the lands and ended up in a state of three hundred, where there was only forest and water. There is a path in the forest - you just need to go on foot and ride on horseback; Ivan Tsarevich set off along that path and came to the hut. I entered this hut; a red girl lives there. The girl says to him: “Where is God taking you?” Ivan Tsarevich answers: “To your sister, Elena the Beautiful, to get living and dead water and youthful apples and her portrait.” - “Sit down, good fellow, on my flying falcon; and leave your horse with me.” He sat on the falcon and flew away. It flew and flew, and the hut still stood; I entered - a red girl was sitting in the hut. Tsarevich Ivan asks: “How can I get to your sister, Elena the Beautiful?” The girl says: “Sit on my falcon, and leave yours with me, and you will fly to her house; There are twelve churches there, and all the cords are stretched from each church. Try as best you can to fly over quickly and not get caught in the cords.”
Ivan Tsarevich flew to the house of Elena the Beautiful; entered one upper room, then another: girls are sleeping in both - one more beautiful than the other! I stepped into the third upper room, and there Elena the Beautiful herself rested, and there was living and dead water on her table, and her portrait was right there; and from this upper room there is a passage to the garden, where there are youthful apples. Ivan Tsarevich took living and dead water and a portrait of Helen the Beautiful, and fell in love with her; then he jumped into the garden, picked five apples, tied them in a scarf and left the house; He sat on the falcon and flew, and how he began to fly over the cords, and said to himself: “What a brave warrior I am! Let me hook you on the cords.” He hooked it on the cords, and in all the churches the bells rang, and Elena the Beautiful woke up and said: “What an ignoramus he was, he opened the kneading bowl and put two half-shells in ridicule!” Now she shouted: “Give me my good horse, I’ll catch him on the road.”
And Ivan Tsarevich flew to Elena’s sister’s hut, exchanged one falcon for another and flew forward again. Following him, Elena the Beautiful came to her sister and said to her: “What are you assigned for? You don't see anything! Some ignorant person opened my kneader and put two half-cups on the tire.” The sister answers: “I was on the road myself, I took care of my falcon and didn’t see anyone here.” Elena the Beautiful again went to catch up with Ivan Tsarevich; and Ivan Tsarevich came to another hut and exchanged the falcon for a heroic horse. Elena the Beautiful comes to another sister and says: “What are you looking at! Why are you here? Some ignoramus was with me, he opened the kneader but didn’t cover it, and put two half-shelves in for fun.” The sister answers: “Please see my falcon, covered in sweat! I just came from the road myself.”
Ivan Tsarevich arrived at the third hut, and the old woman gave him a handkerchief: “If they are chasing you, then throw this handkerchief.” Elena the Beautiful comes to the old woman and says: “What are you looking at, what are you assigned for? Some ignoramus was with me, he opened the kneader but didn’t cover it, and put two half-shelves in for fun.” The old woman answers: “I just came from the road.”
Elena the Beautiful again chased Ivan Tsarevich, and as she began to catch up with him, Ivan Tsarevich threw his handkerchief - and there was a terrible sea that it was impossible to walk or drive through. Elena the Beautiful drove up to the shore and shouted across the sea: “Who was this in my kingdom, the king-prince or the king-prince?” Ivan Tsarevich answers: “I am neither a king nor a king, but a young royal son.” - “Wait for me! - said Elena the Beautiful. “In twelve years I will come to you on twelve ships.”
Ivan Tsarevich turned away from the sea and took a different road - not where he had gone before, and galloped to a large house; I drove into the yard, there was a turned pillar in the yard, a gilded ring was nailed to the pillar; He tied his horse to a gilded ring, gave him white wheat and went to the upper room. A red maiden sits in the upper room and says to him: “It’s wrong, Orthodox, you’ve come here! A witch lives here, she flies along the roads on a falcon and catches baptized people to her ordeal. I myself have been infested here for twelve years; If you take me with you, then I will teach you good things: when the witch flies in and starts putting you on the bed, then look at the wall and don’t lie down!” So the witch flew in and began to put him against the wall; but he doesn’t lie against the wall. “I,” he says, “need to go out to the horse.” The witch herself lay down against the wall, and Ivan Tsarevich was on the edge, and immediately unscrewed all three screws - the witch ended up in the cellar.
He took the red maiden with him and went; You never know how much space you have driven, and you see that there is a hole in the road, and two people are lying near this hole. Tsarevich Ivan asks: “What kind of people are you and what are you waiting for?” - “Ah, Ivan Tsarevich! After all, we are your brothers." - “What were you, brothers, looking for?” - “Yes, a beautiful girl is imprisoned here.” Ivan Tsarevich told them: “Take it, brothers, and hold it from me, living and dead water and youthful apples, and lower me into this hole; I’ll get you a beautiful girl from there. As soon as you pull the girl out, lower the rope behind me.” Ivan Tsarevich immediately sank into the pit, found a beautiful girl there and tied her with a rope. The big brothers-princes began to drag, pulled out the girl and said: “We won’t lower the rope to him; Now we have everything: living and dead water, youthful apples, and a portrait of Helen the Beautiful, and a bride for each.” They decided to take Ivan Tsarevich’s horse; they began to catch him, but the horse was not given to them; never caught!
So the older brothers went to their father's home; and Ivan Tsarevich is in that pit and is shedding tears. He walked there for who knows how much time and came to the lower world. I saw a hut, in that hut an old old woman was sitting, and Tsarevich Ivan said: “Is it possible, grandmother, to somehow take me to the upper world?” The old woman answers him: “No, Father Ivan Tsarevich, it’s impossible! Is it like this: our king has three daughters, and they take his daughters to the snakes to be eaten; If you help the king, he will not leave you either. Ride with God; I will give you my horse, and armor, and sword.”
Ivan Tsarevich saddled a fast horse, put on cast iron armor, took a sword in his hands and rode to the place where the snake flies. I arrived, and there the princess had been sitting on a pebble for a long time, waiting for the fierce snake. Ivan Tsarevich asks her: “Why are you waiting here, princess?” She says sadly: “Go away, good fellow! They brought me here as a snake to be eaten.” - “Well, look in my head; and as soon as the waves sway in the sea, wake me up now.” He lay down on her lap and fell asleep. The waves in the sea began to sway, the red maiden began to wake up Ivan Tsarevich and could not wake him up. Out of great grief, a tear fell from her eyes and fell on the prince’s cheek; he woke up and said: “Oh, how you burned me with your tears!”
An eight-headed snake flew in to eat the Tsar’s daughter and said to Ivan Tsarevich: “Why are you here, you shirtless flea?” And Ivan Tsarevich says to the snake: “Why are you here, you head nit? You eat baptized people, but you are never satisfied!” - “I’ll eat you too!” - “No, try to flounder with strong, powerful shoulders first.” The serpent says: “Make a bridge over the sea, and we will go to war with you.” - “What! After all, I am a baptized person, and you are unbaptized; make a bridge." The serpent just blew, and an ice bridge became across the sea. They went to fight. The snake moved away and hit Ivan Tsarevich - only knocking his hat off his head; and Ivan Tsarevich rode around on his heroic horse and hit the snake - he immediately killed him. Now he jumped off his horse and put this snake under a stone; he drove up to the red maiden to say goodbye, and the tsar’s daughter gave him her gold ring as a souvenir. At that very time, the king sent Makarka, bald and cross-armed, to remove his daughter’s bones when the snake flew away. Makarka saw how Ivan Tsarevich killed the snake; ran to the princess and said: “Tell your father that I saved you from death; Otherwise, I’ll kill you now!” She got scared and said: “Okay, have it your way!” We arrived at the palace, Makarka said to the king: “I saved your daughter, killed the snake and put it under a stone.”
After some time, another snake sends an order to the king to bring his daughter to him to be devoured. Makarka says to the king: “Give me a good saber, I’ll kill the snake again!” And he took another king’s daughter, a snake, to be devoured; He brought her and sat her on a stone, and he climbed the tallest pine tree. She sits on a stone and sheds tears; Ivan Tsarevich arrives, gets off his horse, sits down next to the girl and says: “Look in my head, and as soon as the waves sway in the sea, wake me up now!” When the waves began to sway in the sea, she began to wake him up and could not wake him up until a hot tear fell on his cheek. He woke up and said: “How long have you not woken me up!” A ten-headed snake flew in and said to Tsarevich Ivan: “Why are you turning around, you shirtless flea?” And Ivan Tsarevich says to the snake: “What are you, you head nit, coming here and eating baptized people?” - “I’ll eat you too!” - “No, try to fight with me first!” - “Well, make a bridge over the sea.” - “I am a baptized person, and you are unbaptized; do it!"
The serpent just blew, and an ice bridge became. So they went to fight. The snake moved away and hit Ivan Tsarevich - he only staggered while sitting on his horse; and Ivan Tsarevich struck the snake with his sword and cut off its five heads; then he struck again and killed the snake to death. The princess gave him a gold ring; he took it and went home to the old woman. Then the bald, cross-armed Makarka climbed down from the pine tree, took his saber, beat and beat against a stone, beat and beat, and broke it to the very handle; came to the princess and said: “Look, tell your father that I saved you from death, otherwise I will kill you!” They arrived at the palace, and Makarka said to the king: “I saved your daughter from death; That’s how hard I tried, I broke the whole saber!” The king promised to give his youngest daughter married
Then a twelve-headed serpent writes, demanding the king’s daughter to be eaten. Makarka took the third princess to the snake to be devoured, sat her on a stone, and out of passion he himself climbed higher than before onto a tree. The princess sits and weeps bitterly; Ivan Tsarevich comes to her and says: “Look in my head, and how the waves sway in the sea, now wake me up!” The waves began to sway and she began to wake him up; he jumped up and mounted his good horse. A snake with twelve heads flew in and said: “What are you doing here, you shirtless flea?” - “What are you, you head nit, you fly here and just eat people?” - “I’ll eat you too!” - “No, let’s flounder with our mighty heroic shoulders.” The snake says: “You think: you killed my brothers, so you’ll kill me? No, brother, I’m not like that!”
They went out onto the field and began to fight. As soon as Ivan Tsarevich rode off on his horse, he cut off six heads of the snake; the snake asks: “Give me a rest!” And Ivan Tsarevich’s horse says: “Don’t let me rest for a single minute!” He also struck and killed the snake with his sword. The princess gave him her gold ring; Ivan Tsarevich took the snake, put it under a stone, and went to the old woman. Makarka immediately climbed down from the tree, took the princess and led her to the king. The Tsar rejoiced so much that it is impossible to say, he thanks Makarka, calls all the Orthodox people to him with music and says: “Whoever plays, I will give him a lot of joy.”
All the people and all the musicians gathered; and Ivan Tsarevich bought himself a three-kopeck balalaika, came to the Tsar’s house and played so hard that the whole world-people were surprised; his balalaika strums and pronounces: “Girl, girl! Don’t forget me on the other side.” The royal daughters began to bring him vodka; he drank from one princess and threw a gold ring into the glass - the same one that she gave him; drank from another - did the same; drank from the third, began to take out the ring... Then the princesses recognized him and shouted in one voice: “Here is the one who delivered us, and not the bald Makarka!” Makarka argued, saying that “it was I who killed all the snakes; come, I’ll show you where I put the snake bodies.” Let's go have a look. Makarka wanted to lift the stone, but he tried and tried and could not lift it. “Oh,” he says, “it’s like a stone has sat down!” And Ivan Tsarevich approached, now he lifted the stone and showed the bodies and heads of snakes. The Tsar ordered Makarka to be shot from cannons.
Then Ivan Tsarevich began to ask the Tsar to take him to the upper world; the tsar ordered to call the falcon bird and ordered the falcon to deliver Tsarevich Ivan to the next world. The falcon says to the king: “Give me four boards of beef, so that each board has a hundred pounds.” The king prepared beef; the falcon tied four pieces of beef to itself, put Ivan Tsarevich on it and flew away; flew and flew and began to ask for food. Ivan Tsarevich began to throw it to him, scattered all the beef, and he asked again; The prince began to throw empty planks at him, abandoned them too - he kept asking for everything; He began to throw his dress, and then he scattered it, there was nothing more to throw, but the falcon still asked. “Otherwise,” he says, “I’ll go down to the bottom!” Ivan Tsarevich tore off his calves and threw them to him, the falcon ate them and flew with the prince into the upper light; Then the falcon coughed and threw away his calves and dress.
So Ivan Tsarevich came to his father and said hello; the father says: “What, son, I told you: don’t go! But your older brothers brought me everything: living water, dead water, youthful apples, and a portrait of Helen the Beautiful.” Ivan Tsarevich answered his father: “What should we do? Their happiness!
Twelve years have passed, Elena the Beautiful arrives by sea on twelve ships and brought two sons with her. As soon as she arrived, she started firing at the cannons and said: “Give me the culprit!” Elena the Beautiful blew, and a crystal bridge was made from her ships to the royal palace. The king says to his big sons: “Go, children! It must be your fault." So they walked across the crystal bridge; Elena the Beautiful looked through the telescope and said to her children: “Come, children, lead your uncles through two iron rods.” They went as they conceived to flog them with rods, but God forbid they carry away their legs! It was with great effort that the princes reached their palace.
Elena the Beautiful began firing cannons again. “Serve,” he says, “the guilty one!” So the king began to send his youngest son: “It must be you, Ivan Tsarevich, who did something weird!” Ivan Tsarevich walked across the crystal bridge; Elena the Beautiful looks through the spyglass and says: “Come, children, take your father by the arms and lead him here with honor.” After that, Elena the Beautiful married Ivan Tsarevich, and Ivan Tsarevich told his father how the brothers lowered him into a hole and how they took from him living and dead water, youthful apples and a portrait of Elena the Beautiful. The king ordered them to be killed now with cannons; They took them, God's servants, into an open field and executed them. And Ivan Tsarevich began to live with Elena the Beautiful.
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IN in a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a king; he had three sons: Dmitry, Ivan and Vasily princes. Their father became blind and said to his sons: “My beloved children! Go to Sonya the hero for living water and dead water - to treat my eyes.” The eldest and middle sons went to get living and dead water, but the youngest son stayed at home. The father waited for a long time for his eldest sons, but could not wait and began to say to the youngest: “My dear son! Now I’m old and blind, but I can’t wait for your brothers.” Then the youngest son Vasily Tsarevich began to say to his father: “Father! Bless me, I’ll go look for my brothers.” The king answered: “No, my friend, you are still young; and besides, who will I stay with? I dismissed everyone, only you are left with me.” - “Well, father, whether you bless or not, I’ll go in every possible way.” His father blessed him, and he set off on the little path to find his brothers.
How long or how short - Tsarevich Vasily comes to the forge; Eight craftsmen are working in that forge - well done! Vasily Tsarevich tells them: “God help, good guys!” - “Welcome, Vasily Tsarevich!” - “Forge me, good fellows, a club worth twenty pounds.” The fellows began to blow, forge, shift from shovel to shovel, and forged the club in four hours. Vasily Tsarevich took the club, went outside the forge, threw it up and put his little finger up - the club broke in half; came to the forge and said: “No, brothers, this club is not in my hand! Forge me a forty-pound club.” The fellows began to blow, forge, shift from shovel to shovel, and forged the club at six o’clock. Vasily Tsarevich went outside the forge, threw the club up and put his knee up - the club broke in half. He comes to the forge and again says: “This club, brothers, is not in my hand! Forge me a sixty-pound club.” The fellows began to blow, forge from shovel to shovel, and forged the club at eight o’clock. Vasily Tsarevich went outside the forge, threw the club up and put his head up - the club only bent; came to the forge and said: “Well, brothers, this club suits my hand!”
He threw away the money for the club and went on his way; he walked and walked, whether low, high, close, or far, he came to the bridge. A horse walks here in the meadow; Tsarevich Vasily salted the water in the river, the horse began to drink, and did not drink half of it. “No,” says the prince, “this horse is not for me!” Whether Tsarevich Vasily walked close, far, low, or high, he came again to the bridge. Another horse walks across the meadow; Vasily Tsarevich salted the water in the river, the horse began to drink and drank half of it. “No,” he says, “and this horse is too big for me!” Vasily Tsarevich went on a path, walked either low, or high, close, or far, and again he came to the bridge. A horse of extraordinary beauty walks across the meadow, something that cannot be said in a fairy tale or written with a pen. Tsarevich Vasily salted the water in the river, and the horse drank it all dry. Well, he really liked this horse; Vasily Tsarevich ran up and jumped on top of him. The horse began to carry him through the mosses, through the swamps, and wanted to completely knock him over; and Vasily Tsarevich beats him with his club. So the horse calmed down and said: “Why, good fellow, are you beating me? What do you want from me? - “Do me a service, take me to Sonya the hero - to get living and dead water.” The good horse began to say: “Go you, Vasily Tsarevich! Let me walk for three days, and for three dawns of the evening, three dawns of the morning to roll on the fresh grass.” Vasily Tsarevich let go of the horse, and he went to bed and slept through three morning dawns and three evening dawns. A horse came running and began to wake him up: “Why have you been sleeping for so long, Vasily Tsarevich? It's time to hit the road."
He got up, mounted his horse and rode off; comes to Sonya the hero - he needs to climb a hundred fathoms up. “Be careful, dear horse, don’t catch your hoof on a single string!” The horse got up, jumped over the walls, without touching a single string. Vasily Tsarevich got off his horse and went into the house; enters the bedroom, Sonya the hero is fast asleep. He took the keys from under the pillow, took out water, both living and dead: he put two vials of dead water in his pocket, and tied two vials of living water under his arms. He went out into the yard, sat on his horse and said: “My dear horse! Rise higher, don’t catch any strings, just hook the last one.” The horse caught the last string - immediately the string began to jingle and the bells began to ring. Sonya the hero woke up and said: “What kind of ignoramus was I?”
Vasily Tsarevich came to the sea; sees that his brothers are building ships and asks: “What are you, brothers, doing here?” - “We are building ships to go for living and dead water.” - “You better go home! I’m bringing my father both living and dead water.” Tsarevich Vasily said this, lay down to rest, and fell asleep; the brothers took two bottles from his pocket, and they pushed him into a garbage pit. Two or three hours passed, Tsarevich Vasily woke up and thought: “Lord! Where I am?" He saw his club with him and said: “Well, thank God, he’s not completely gone yet!” He took the club, leaned on it and jumped out of the hole. The good fellow went along the road to his kingdom; Meanwhile, his brothers arrived home and began to sprinkle dead water on their father; No matter how much you spray, not even a penny is of any use! The older princes did not know what to do. After that, the younger prince came, sprinkled his father with living water - and he began to see better than before, began to thank Vasily the prince and refused him his entire kingdom.
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N and on the waters, on the lands, in the Russian cities there was a king; he had three sons, the last son Ivan Tsarevich. Under that kingdom there was a mountain that no one could go to or go to. The king hears: there is knocking and thunder on the mountain, but it is unknown why, and he sends his first son to find out why there is knocking and thunder on the mountain. The first son rode only up to a third of the mountain and turned back; came to his father and said: “My lord, father! I went according to your orders, I could hardly climb up to a third of the mountain.” After some time, the king sent his middle son, who reached half the mountain, but could no longer do so and turned back. Then the king sends his youngest son, Ivan Tsarevich.
Ivan Tsarevich chose a good horse for himself in the royal stables, said goodbye to his father and disappeared from sight in a minute; He rode up the mountain, as if a falcon had taken off, and saw there a courtyard. Ivan Tsarevich gets off his good horse and enters the hut; An old Baba Yaga sits on a chair in a hut and spins thin silk. “Hello, old Baba Yaga!” - says Ivan Tsarevich. “Hello, good fellow! Until now, the Russian braid has never been seen or heard of, but now it has come to the yard itself.” And she began to ask him: “What clan are you, what cities and what father are you son of?” Ivan Tsarevich answers her: “I am the son of the Russian Tsar, Ivan Tsarevich; I’m going to your mountains to find out what’s that knocking and thundering noise?” Baba Yaga told him: “On our mountains there is knocking and thunder, that the red beauty, the black braid of the Tsar-Maiden is rolling.” - “How far is it from that Tsar-Maiden?” - asked Ivan Tsarevich. “Two more as far as you’ve traveled!” - said Baba Yaga, gave him something to drink, fed him and put him to bed; and in the morning Ivan Tsarevich got up early, said goodbye to the old Yaga Baba and rode forward.
He had been driving for exactly four months, and he saw that the yard was standing; He got off his horse, entered the hut, and the old Baba Yaga was sitting in the hut. "Hello, Baba Yaga!" - said Ivan Tsarevich. “Great, child! How far is your journey? How did God bring you?” He told her everything; Baba Yaga gave him something to drink and feed and put him to bed, and in the morning Ivan Tsarevich gets up early, said goodbye to Baba Yaga and rode forward. Again he rode for exactly four months and saw that there was a yard; gets off his good horse, enters the hut, and Baba Yaga sits in the hut. “Hello, old Baba Yaga!” - said Ivan Tsarevich. “Hello, Ivan Tsarevich! Where has God taken you? He told her everything, where and why he was going. “Many kings and princes came to our Tsar Maiden,” said Baba Yaga, “but they didn’t come back alive!” It has a circle of hail, the walls are high, and strings are stretched on the walls, and if you touch even one string, then suddenly the strings will sing, the drums will beat, all the heroes and guards will be indignant and they will kill you.”
Having waited for the dark night, Ivan Tsarevich sat on his horse, and his good horse galloped over the high walls without touching a single string. Ivan Tsarevich got off his horse - and the heroes and guards were all asleep at that time - and went straight to the royal chambers - to the bedroom of the Tsar Maiden; The Tsar Maiden was also sleeping. The good fellow looked at her indescribable beauty and, forgetting that death was behind him, kissed her sweetly. He left the bedroom, mounted his good horse and rode out of the city; the horse rose and touched stretched strings. Immediately the strings hummed, the drums thundered, the heroes, the guards and the entire army were indignant, and the red beauty, black braided Tsar Maiden woke up and found out that someone was in her bedroom and that because of this she became pregnant. She orders the carriage to be laid, takes provisions for a whole year and goes after Ivan Tsarevich. She got to the old yaga-baba and said to her very angrily: “Why didn’t you grab such a person? He came to my kingdom and dared to come into my bedroom and kiss me.” Baba Yaga answers her: “I couldn’t restrain this man, and you can hardly grab him!” The Tsar Maiden went further to reach and reached the middle yaga-baba: “Why didn’t you keep such a person?” The old Baba Yaga answered her: “Where can I, an old woman, keep a good fellow? And you can hardly catch up with him!”
The Tsar-Maiden set off on the road again; I didn’t get to the eldest Baba Yaga a little and gave birth to a son. Her son grew not by age, but by hour: someone who is three months old, she is three months old; Those who have three years old, she has one of three months. She arrived before the last yaga-baba and asked: “Why didn’t you grab the good fellow?” - “Where can I, an old woman, grab a good fellow?” Without beckoning at all, the Tsar Maiden rushed forward, reached the mountain and saw that Ivan Tsarevich was descending halfway up the mountain, and she herself followed him down the mountain. She approached his kingdom - she set up white tents, covered the entire road to the city with red cloth and sent an envoy to the king with a request: “Whoever was from his kingdom who came into her chambers at night, so that the king would give him to her. If you don’t hand me over, then I will captivate your entire kingdom, burn it with fire, and shake it with a firebrand.”
The king calls his eldest son and sends him to answer the maiden king. The prince went and reached the places where the red cloth was laid, washed his feet white and walked barefoot. The son of the Tsar-Maiden saw him and said to his mother: “Here comes my father!” - “No, dear son! Then your uncle comes." As soon as the eldest prince came to the Tsar Maiden, she gave him one stitch and knocked out two joints from his back: why is he going to answer innocently? The next day she again demanded that the king blame him; the king sends his middle son. The prince reaches the red cloth, takes off his boots and walks barefoot. The Tsar Maiden gave him a stitch and knocked out two joints from his back.
On the third day, the king sends his youngest son, Ivan Tsarevich. Ivan Tsarevich mounts his good horse, rides to those red cloths and drives all the cloth into the mud. The son of the Tsar-Maiden saw him and said to his mother: “What a fool is coming!” - “Dear son! “Your father is coming,” answered the Tsar-Maiden; she came out to meet him, took him by the white hands, kissed his sugar lips and led him into white tents, sat him down at oak tables, fed and watered him to his fill. Then they went to the king and accepted a legal marriage and, having spent a short time in this kingdom, went on ships to the possession of the king-maiden; there they reigned long and prosperously.
