Princess Frog

In a certain kingdom, in some States, there lived a king, and he had three sons. Younger called Prince Ivan.

He called one day the king's sons and said to them:

- My dear children, you are now all on the age, it's time you and think about the bride!

- Whom do we, sir, woo?

- Did you take an arrow, pull their bows tight and let the arrows in different directions. Where the arrow will fall - there and woo.

Brothers went on a father's yard, pulled his taut bow and shot.

Older brother shot an arrow. Arrow fell on Boyarsky Dvor, and raised its Boyar daughter.

Middle brother shot an arrow - the arrow flew to a rich merchant in the yard. She raised her merchant's daughter.

He shot an arrow Prince Ivan - his arrow flew straight into a swamp, and raised her frog-wah ...

Older brothers both went to look for his arrows, once they have found one - boyar mansion in the other - on the merchant's yard. And Ivan Tsarevich could not find his arrow. For two days he walked in the woods and on the mountains, and on the third day, went into a swamp. Look - there sitting frog-wah, he holds an arrow.

Prince Ivan was about to flee and abandon its findings, and the frog and says:

- Kwa-Kwa, Prince Ivan! Come to me, take his arrow, and take me to get married.

He saddened by Ivan Tsarevich and answers:

- How can I marry you take? People laughed at me!

- Take, Prince Ivan, you will not regret!

Thought, thought Prince Ivan, took the frog-wah, wrapped it in a handkerchief and brought it to his kingdom-state.

Older brothers came to my father and tell where to whose arrow struck.

I told Ivan Tsarevich. Steel brothers laugh at him, and his father says:

- Take wah, nothing can be done!

That played three weddings, married princes: senior prince - on boyaryshne, medium - on the merchant's daughter, and Prince Ivan - at the frog-wah.

The next day after the wedding, the king called his sons and said:

- Well, my dear sons, and now all three of you are married. I want to know me, you know how your wife's bread oven. Let them in the morning bake me a loaf of bread.

Princes bowed and went to his father. Prince Ivan returned to his cheerless chamber, below the shoulders exuberant head hung.

- Kwa-Kwa, Prince Ivan, - says the frog-wah - that you so sad? Or he heard from his father unkind word?

- How can I not be sad! - Answers Ivan Tsarevich. - I ordered my father to you in the morning she baked a loaf of bread ...

- Do not grieve, Ivan Tsarevich! Lay'd better sleep-rest: sleep on it!

Lay the wah prince sleep, and she threw off her frog skin, and turned into a beautiful maiden Vasilisa the Wise - so beautiful that no tale to tell, nor pen describe!

She took frequent sieve, fine sieve, sift wheat flour, knead the dough white baked loaf - loose so soft, izukrasila loaf of different patterns tricky: at the sides - the city with palaces, gardens, but the towers on top - birds flying, from the bottom - animals ryskuchie ...

In the morning wakes wah Ivan Tsarevich:

- It's time, Prince Ivan, get up, caravans Carry!

She put the loaf on a gold platter, Prince Ivan spent the father.

They came and the elder brothers brought their caravans, but they, and see not what: we Boyar daughter burnt bread, from a merchant - a crude but turned crooked.

King first took a loaf of the senior prince, looked at him and ordered to carry the dogs yard.

I took the average, looked and said:

- This is only a loaf of great need will be there!

Turn came to Prince Ivan. King took the loaf from him and said:

- That this bread only on great holidays there!

And then he gave his sons a new order:

- I want to know me as your wife know how to do needlework. Take the silk, gold and silver, and they let their hands on the night vytkut me on the carpet!

Senior princes returned to their wives, gave them the king's orders. Steel wife clicking mamushek, nannies and red women - to benefits they weave carpets.Immediately Mammy, but nanny red girl came and began to weave carpets but embroider - one silver, one gold, one silk.

A Prince Ivan returned home humorless, below the shoulders exuberant head hung.

- Kwa-Kwa, Prince Ivan, - says the frog-wah - why so sad? Or he heard from his father, the word evil?

- How can I not grieve! - Answers Ivan Tsarevich. - Father ordered for one night to weave his patterned carpet!

- Do not grieve, Ivan Tsarevich! Lay'd better sleep-rest: sleep on it!

Wah put him to bed, and she threw off her frog skin turned red girl Vasilisa the Wise and began to weave a carpet. Where kolnet needle time - a flower will bloom where kolnet another time - are tricky patterns where kolnet third - the birds fly ...

The sun had not yet risen, but the carpet really ready.

Here are the three brothers came to the king, brought his every carpet. King first took the carpet from the older prince, looked at it and said:

- This carpet only horses from the rain cover!

Adopted on average, I looked and said:

- Only at his gate lay!

Adopted by Prince Ivan, I looked and said:

- But the carpet in my front room on the big holidays spread!

And then the king gave a new order to all three prince came to him at the feast with their wives: the king wanted to see which one is better dances.

Princes went to their wives.

Goes Ivan Tsarevich, sadness, he thinks: "How I'll take my wah on the king's feast? .."

He came home cheerless. Wah asks him:

- What again, Ivan Tsarevich, mirthless, below the shoulders exuberant head hung? What zapechalilsya?

- How can I not be sad! - Says Ivan Tsarevich. - My father told me you tomorrow to his feast brought ...

- Do not worry, Prince Ivan! Lay-ka da sleep: sleep on it!

The next day, it was time to go to the banquet, and wah said the prince:

- Well, Prince Ivan, go one on the royal feast, and I'll be behind you. As you hear the sound of thunder Yes - do not be frightened, saying, "It is clear in my frog korobchonke rides!"

Prince Ivan went to the king to the banquet alone.

And older brothers came to the palace with their wives, dressed up, decked. They are so over Ivan Tsarevich laugh:

- What are you, brother, no wife come from? If I could bring her a kerchief, he would give us all hear her croaking!

Suddenly rose a knock but the thunder - the whole palace shook, swayed. All the guests were alarmed, they jumped up from their seats. A Prince Ivan says:

- Do not be afraid, dear guests! It is clear, my frog in his korobchonke rides!

All ran to the windows and see: running runners, couriers gallop, followed by the gilded carriage rides, a triple bay horses harnessed.

The carriage drove up to the porch, and went out of her Vasilisa the Wise - very clear as the sun shines.

All her marvel, admire, surprise can not utter a word.

Vasilisa the Wise She took Prince Ivan by the hand and led him to the tables of oak, with the patterned tablecloth ...

Were the guests eat, drink, be merry.

Vasilisa the Wise drank from the cup - no finishes, the remnants of the left sleeve itself pours. Swan eating fried - the bones of the right hand throws.

The wives of senior princes saw this - and there too: why not dopyut - poured into the sleeve, then not finishing - put in another. And what, what - and that they do not know.

As guests stood up from the table, the music began, I started dancing. Vasilisa the Wise went dancing with Ivan Tsarevich. He waved his left sleeve - the lake was waved right - floated on the lake white swans. The king and all the guests were given diva. And how she stopped dancing, everything disappeared: the lake and the swans.

Come dance to the wife of senior princes.

As waved their left sleeves - splattered all guests;They waved as the right - Costa Ogryzko showered, very little bone king eye knocked out. The king was angry and ordered them to drive out of the closet.

When the feast was at an end, Prince Ivan seized a moment and ran home. I spotted frog skin and burned it in the fire.

Vasilisa the Wise came home, enough - there is no frog skin! She called looking for her. Looked and looked - and found no Prince Ivan says:

- Ah, Prince Ivan, what have you done! If you'd waited three more days, I would have been thy eternal.And now goodbye, look for me to distant lands to distant seas tridesyatom kingdom, sunflower state, have Koshchey Immortal. As three pairs of iron boots wear out like three iron bread izgryzesh - only then razyschesh me ...

She said she turned white swan and flew out the window.

I grieve Prince Ivan. Shells, took a bow but the arrows, put the iron boots, put in a backpack three iron bread and went to look for his wife, Vasilisa the Wise.

How long was briefly whether near or far it - soon Tale told, but not soon deal done - two pairs of boots worn out iron, two iron izgryz bread, for the third started. And then he met an old man.

- Hello, Grandpa! - Says Ivan Tsarevich.

- Hello, my good fellow! What are looking for where the way you hold?

Ivan Tsarevich told the old man his grief.

- Ah, Prince Ivan, - says the old man - what are you burnt frog skin? Do not you put it on, do not you shoot it and it was!

Vasilisa the Wise-wise cunning of his father, Koshchey Immortal, freak, he was angry for her and ordered her to three years kvakusheyu be. Well, nothing to do, words can not fix troubles. Here's a ball: where he would roll, and there you go.

Prince Ivan thanked the old man and went for a ball.

Rolling a ball on the high mountains, rolling on the dark woods, rolling on the green meadows, rolling on the swamps, rolling on remote places, and Ivan Tsarevich all goes so go for it - do not stop to rest or for an hour.

Shel-going, a third pair of iron boots hysteria third izgryz iron bread, and came to dense forest. I come across a bear meet him.

"Let me kill a bear! - Thinks Ivan Tsarevich. - After all, I have no food no more. "

He took aim, and the bear suddenly, and said to him in a human voice:

- Do not kill me, Prince Ivan! Someday I will be of use to you.

Do not touch Ivan Tsarevich bear regretted went on.

He goes clean field, looking - and it flies high over a drake.

Prince Ivan drew his bow, would like to put in a sharp arrow Drake and Drake and said to him in a human:

- Do not kill me, Prince Ivan! There will be time - I'll be of use.

Regretted Prince Ivan Drake - did not touch him, he went on starving.

Suddenly, he runs to meet him slanting hare.

"I'll kill that hare! - Thinks the prince. - It's too hungry ... "

He pulled his taut bow, took aim, and the hare said to him in a human voice:

- Do not destroy me, Prince Ivan! There will be time - I'll be of use.

And it repented the prince went on.

He went to the blue sea, and saw on the shore, on the yellow sand, lies the pike fish. Says Ivan Tsarevich:

- Well, right now that pike eat! My urine no more - so hungry!

- Ah, Prince Ivan, - rumors pike - have mercy on me, do not eat me, come better in the blue sea!

Prince Ivan took pity on a pike, threw it into the sea, and went to a ball at his bank.

For a long time or a short - he rolled a ball into the woods to the hut. Should that hut on chicken legs, turns around him.

Says Ivan Tsarevich:

- Hut, hut, turn his back to the forest, to me before!

Hut at his word turned his back to the forest, and him forward. Prince Ivan came into the hut and saw lying on the stove Baba Yaga - the leg bone. She saw the prince and said:

- Why me Welcome, my good fellow? Willy-nilly?

- Oh, Baba Yaga - the leg bone, you would feed me before, so drunk in the bath evaporated, then we would inquire!

- And it's true! - Meets Baba Yaga.

She fed the Prince Ivan, drunk, in a bath evaporated, and the prince told her that he was looking for his wife, Vasilisa the Wise.

- I know I know! - Said Baba Yaga. - It is now the villain Koshchey Immortal. It will be difficult to get it is not easy to cope with Koshcheev: it neither boom nor a bullet does not kill. Because he is not afraid of anyone or.

- Yes, it is there where his death?

- His death - at the end of the needle, that needle - in the egg, the egg - duck in, that duck - in a hare, the hare - forged in the casket and the casket - on top of old oak. And the oak tree in a dense forest grows.

She told Baba Yaga Prince Ivan, how to get the oak.Prince thanked her and left.

For a long time, he made his way along the dense forests, swamps wading in elm and finally came to Koshcheev oak. Should the oak top in the clouds rests, roots for a hundred miles in the land spread, branches closed the red sun. And at the very top of it - the casket forged.

Looks Ivan Tsarevich on oak and does not know what to do, how to get the casket.

"Oh - I think - somewhere bear? He would have helped me! "

Only the thought and the bear was right there: he ran and eversion of the oak roots. Casket from the top down and broke into small pieces.

Hare jumped out of the casket and took to his heels.

"Somewhere my bunny? - Thinks the prince. - It certainly caught this hare would be ... "

I do not have time to think, and the hare was right there: another hare caught, grabbed and ripped in half.He departed from the rabbit and duck rose high in the sky.

"Somewhere my duck?" - Thinks the prince.

And for duck drake flies - in the head bite. He dropped a duck egg, and the egg fell into the blue sea ...

He grieves Prince Ivan, standing on the shore and says:

- Somewhere my pike? She took me to an egg from the bottom of the sea!

Suddenly swam to shore pike fish between his teeth and holding an egg.

- So, Ivan Tsarevich!

Delighted Prince, broke the egg, took the needle and the tip broke off her. And only broke - died Bag of Bones, ashes scattered.

Prince Ivan went to Koshcheeva Chamber. Then came to him and Vasilisa the Wise says:

- Well, Prince Ivan, you managed to find me, and now I'll be your whole life!

Prince Ivan chose the best horse from the stables Koshcheeva, sat on him and Vasilisa the Wise returned to his kingdom-state.

And they live together in love and harmony.