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Grimm's Tale: Snow Maiden.

Snow Maiden.

On a winter day, while the snow was falling in flakes, one queen sat and sewed under the window, which had an ebony frame. She sewed and looked at the snow, and pricked her finger with a needle until it bled. And the queen thought to herself: "Oh, if I had a baby white as snow, ruddy like blood, and dark as ebony!"

And soon her desire was definitely fulfilled: her daughter was born to her - white as snow, ruddy as blood, and black-haired; and was named Snegurochka for her whiteness.

And as soon as the daughter was born, the queen mother died. A year later, the king married another. This second wife of his was a beauty, but also proud and arrogant, and could not stand that anyone could equal her in beauty.

Moreover, she had such a magic mirror in front of which she liked to stand, admire herself and say:


Then the mirror answered her:
You, queen, are dearer to everyone here.

And she walked away from the mirror, contented, contented, and knew that the mirror would not tell her lies.

The Snow Maiden, meanwhile, was growing up and getting prettier, and by the age of eight she was as beautiful as a clear day. And when the queen once asked the mirror:

Mirror, mirror, speak quickly,
Who is the most beautiful here, who is the sweetest of all? - the mirror answered her:

You, queen, are beautiful;
And yet the Snow Maiden is taller than beauty.

The queen was horrified, turned yellow, turned green with envy. From that hour, when she used to see the Snow Maiden, her heart was ready to burst into pieces from anger. And envy with pride, like weeds, began to grow in her heart, and grow wider and wider, so that at last neither day nor night did she have peace.

And then one day she called her kennel and said: “Take this girl out into the forest so that she doesn’t come across my eyes again. Kill her and, as proof that my order was carried out, bring me her lung and liver.”

The kennel obeyed, led the girl out of the palace into the forest, and when he took out his hunting knife to pierce the innocent heart of the Snow Maiden, she began to cry and ask: " kind person, do not kill me; I will run away into the dense forest and never return home.

The houndsman took pity on the pretty girl and said: "Well, go. God be with you, poor girl!" And he himself thought: "Soon they will tear you to pieces in the forest wild animals", - and yet it was like a stone fell from his heart when he spared the child.

Just at that time a young deer jumped out of the bushes; the kennel pinned him, took out a lung with a liver and brought them to the queen as proof that her order was carried out.

The cook was ordered to salt and boil them, and the evil woman ate them, imagining that she was eating the lung and liver of the Snow Maiden.

And then the poor thing found herself alone in a dense forest, and she became so frightened that she examined every leaf on the trees, and did not know what to do and how to be.

And she started to run, and ran over sharp stones and thorny bushes, and wild animals scurried past her back and forth, but they did not do her any harm.

She ran while her frisky little legs carried, almost until evening; when she was tired, she saw a small hut and entered it.

Everything in this hut was small, but it was so clean and beautiful that it was impossible to say. In the middle of the hut stood a table with seven small plates, and on each plate a spoon, and then seven knives and forks, and with each utensil a glass. Around the table stood seven cots, covered with snow-white bed linen.

The Snow Maiden, who was very hungry and thirsty, tasted vegetables and bread from each plate and drank a drop of wine from each glass, because she did not want to take everything from one. Then, tired from walking, she tried to lie down on one of the beds; but not one suited her in measure; one was too long, the other too short, and only the seventh was just right for her. In it she lay down, crossed herself and fell asleep.

When it got completely dark, her owners came to the hut - seven gnomes who dug in the mountains, extracting ore. They lit their seven candles, and when it became light in the hut, they saw that someone had visited them, because not everything was in the order in which they had left everything in their dwelling.

The first one said, "Who was sitting on my chair?" Second: "Who ate yes my plate?" Third: "Who broke off a piece of my bread?" Fourth: "Who has tasted my food?" Fifth: "Who ate with my fork?" Sixth: "Who cut with my knife?" Seventh: "Who drank from my cup?"

Then the first one turned around and saw that there was a small wrinkle on his bed; he immediately said: "Who touched my bed?" All the rest ran to the beds and shouted: "Someone lay down in mine and in mine too!"

And the seventh, looking into his bed, saw the sleeping Snow Maiden lying in it. He called the rest, and they ran and began to exclaim in amazement, and brought their seven candles to the bed to light the Snow Maiden. “Oh, my God!” they exclaimed. “How beautiful this little one is!” - and everyone was so delighted with her arrival that they did not dare to wake her up, and left her alone on that bed.

And the seventh gnome decided to spend the night like this: in the bed of each of his comrades, he had to sleep for one hour.

With the onset of morning, the Snow Maiden woke up and, seeing seven gnomes, got scared. They treated her very affectionately and asked her: "What is your name?" “My name is Snegurochka,” she answered. "How did you get into our house?" the gnomes asked her.

Then she told them that her stepmother ordered to kill her, and the kennel spared her - and so she ran all day until she came across their hut.

The gnomes said to her: “Would you like to look after our household chores - cook, wash for us, make beds, sew and knit? And if you do all this skillfully and neatly, then you can stay with us for a long time and in nothing you will be short of it." - "If you please," answered the Snow Maiden, "with great pleasure," - and stayed with them.

She kept the house of the gnomes in great order; in the morning they usually went to the mountains in search of copper and gold, in the evening they returned to their hut, and then food was always ready for them.

All day the Snow Maiden remained alone in the house, and therefore the good gnomes warned her and said: "Beware of your stepmother! She will soon find out where you are, so do not let anyone into the house except us."

And the queen-stepmother, after she ate the lung and liver of the Snow Maiden, suggested that she was now the first beauty in the whole country, and said:

Mirror, mirror, speak quickly,
Who is the most beautiful here, who is the sweetest of all?

Then the mirror answered her:

You are a beautiful queen



The queen was afraid; she knew that the mirror never lied, and she realized that the kennel had deceived her and that the Snow Maiden was alive.

And she began to think about how she would exterminate her stepdaughter, because envy did not give her peace and she certainly wanted to be the first beauty in the whole country.

When she finally came up with something, she painted her face, dressed as an old merchant and became completely unrecognizable.

In this form, she went on her way over the seven mountains to the hut of the seven dwarfs, knocked on their door and shouted: "Various goods, cheap, corrupt!"

The Snow Maiden looked out of the window and shouted to the merchant:

"Hello, auntie, what are you selling?" - "Good goods, the first grade," answered the merchant, "laces, ribbons of various colors," and she pulled out one lace, woven from motley silk. “Well, of course, I can let this merchant in here,” thought the Snow Maiden, unlocked the door and bought herself a beautiful lace. "Uh, child," the old woman said to the Snow Maiden, "what do you look like! Come here, let me lace up properly!"

The Snow Maiden did not suggest anything bad, turned her back on the old woman and let her lace herself up with a new lace: she laced herself up quickly and so tightly that the Snow Maiden immediately took her breath away and she fell dead to the ground. "Well, now you won't be the first beauty anymore!" - said the evil stepmother and hastily left.

Shortly thereafter, in the evening, the seven dwarfs returned home and how frightened they were when they saw the Snow Maiden sprawled on the ground; moreover, she did not move, and did not stir, she was as if dead.

They lifted her up and, seeing that she had died from too tight lacing, they immediately cut the lace, and she began to breathe again, at first a little, then completely came to life.

When the dwarves heard from her what had happened to her, they said: "This old merchant was your stepmother, the godless queen; beware and do not let anyone into the house in our absence."

And the evil woman, returning home, went to the mirror and asked:

Mirror, mirror, speak quickly,
Who is the most beautiful here, who is the sweetest of all?

And the mirror still answered her:

You are a beautiful queen
But still the Snow Maiden, behind the mountain
Lives in the house of the mountain gnomes,
Many will surpass you in beauty.

Hearing this, the evil stepmother was so frightened that all her blood rushed to her heart: she realized that the Snow Maiden had come to life again.

"Well, now," she said, "I'll think of something that will kill you right away!" - and with the help of various charms in which she was skilled, she made a poisonous comb. Then she changed clothes and assumed the image of another old woman.

She went over the seven mountains to the house of the seven dwarfs, knocked on their door and began to shout: "Goods, goods for sale!"

The Snow Maiden looked out of the window and said: “Come in, I don’t dare to let anyone into the house.” “Well, it’s true that you’re not forbidden to look at the goods,” said the old woman, pulled out a poisonous comb and showed it to the Snow Maiden. The girl liked the comb to such an extent that she allowed herself to be fooled and opened the door to the merchant.

When they agreed on the price, the old woman said: "Let me comb your hair properly." Nothing bad even entered the poor Snow Maiden's head, and she gave the old woman full freedom to comb her hair as she pleased; but as soon as she launched the comb into her hair, its poisonous properties acted, and the Snow Maiden lost consciousness. “Well, you, the perfection of beauty!” said the evil woman. “Now it’s over with you,” and she went away.

Fortunately, this happened in the evening, about the time when the dwarves returned home.

When they saw that the Snow Maiden was lying dead on the ground, they immediately suspected her stepmother, began to search around and found a poisonous comb in the girl's hair, and as soon as they took it out. The Snow Maiden came to her senses and told everything that had happened to her. Then they warned her again to be careful and not open the door to anyone.

And meanwhile the queen, having returned home, stood in front of the mirror and said:

Mirror, mirror, speak quickly,
Who is the most beautiful here, who is the sweetest of all?

And the mirror answered her, as before:

You are a beautiful queen
But still the Snow Maiden, behind the mountain
Lives in the house of the mountain gnomes,
Many will surpass you in beauty.

When the queen heard this, she trembled with rage. "The Snow Maiden must die!" she exclaimed. "Even if I had to die with her!"

Then she retired to a secret closet, into which no one but her entered, and there she made a poisonous, poisonous apple. In appearance, the apple was wonderful, pouring, with ruddy barrels, so that everyone, looking at it, wanted to taste it, but just bite off a piece - and you will die.

When the apple was made, the queen painted her face, disguised herself as a peasant woman and went over the seven mountains to the seven dwarfs.

She knocked at their house, and the Snow Maiden put her head out the window and said: “I don’t dare to let anyone in here, seven gnomes forbade me to do this.” - "But what is it to me?" answered the peasant woman. - "No," answered the Snow Maiden, "I dare not accept anything." - "Are you afraid of poison?" asked the peasant woman. And her apple was so skillfully cooked that only the ruddy half of it was poisoned.

The Snow Maiden really wanted to taste this wonderful apple, and when she saw that the peasant woman was eating her half, she could no longer refrain from this desire, stretched out her hand from the window and took the poisoned half of the apple.

But as soon as she bit off a piece of it, she fell dead on the floor. Then the queen-stepmother looked at her with malicious eyes, laughed out loud and said: “Here you are as white as snow, and ruddy as blood, and dark as ebony! Well, this time the gnomes will not be able to revive you!”

And when she, having come home, stood in front of the mirror and asked:

Mirror, mirror, speak quickly,
Who is the most beautiful here, who is the sweetest of all? -

The mirror finally answered her:

You, queen, are the sweetest here.

Here only her envious heart calmed down, as far as an envious heart can calm down.

The gnomes, having returned home in the evening, found the Snow Maiden sprawled on the floor, lifeless, dead. They lifted her up, began to look for the cause of her death - they looked for poison, unlaced her dress, combed her hair, washed her with water and wine; however, nothing could help her. The Snow Maiden was dead and remained dead.

They put her in a coffin and, sitting all seven around her body, they began to mourn and mourned for exactly three days in a row.

Already they were going to bury her, but she seemed fresh in appearance, she was as if alive, even her cheeks burned with the same wonderful blush. The dwarfs said: “No, we cannot lower her into the dark bowels of the earth,” and they ordered another, transparent crystal coffin for her, put the Snow Maiden in it, so that she could be seen from all sides, and on the lid they wrote in gold letters her name and that she was a royal daughter.

Then they took the coffin to the top of the mountain, and one of the dwarves constantly remained on guard with him. And even animals, even birds, approaching the coffin, mourned the Snow Maiden: first an owl flew in, then a raven, and finally a dove.

And for a long, long time the Snow Maiden lay in the coffin and did not change, and seemed to be sleeping, and was as before white as snow, ruddy as blood, dark as ebony.

It happened somehow that the prince drove into that forest and drove up to the house of the gnomes, intending to spend the night there. He saw the coffin on the mountain and the beautiful Snow Maiden in the coffin and read what was written on the lid of the coffin in gold letters.

Then he said to the dwarfs: "Give me the coffin, I will give you everything you want for it."

But the dwarfs answered: "We will not give him up for all the gold in the world." But the prince did not back down: “So give it to me, I can’t get enough of the Snow Maiden: it seems that life will not be sweet to me without her! Give it - and I will honor and appreciate it as a dear friend!”

The good gnomes took pity on hearing such an ardent speech from the lips of the prince, and gave him the coffin of the Snow Maiden.

The king ordered his servants to carry the coffin on their shoulders. They carried him and stumbled over some kind of twig, and from this concussion the piece of poisoned apple that she bit off jumped out of the Snow Maiden's throat.

As a piece of apple popped out, so she opened her eyes, lifted the lid of the coffin and herself rose alive in it.

The Snow Maiden agreed and went with him, and their wedding was played with great brilliance and splendor.

The evil stepmother of the Snow Maiden was also invited to this celebration. As soon as she dressed up for the wedding, she stood in front of the mirror and said:

Mirror, mirror, speak quickly,
Who is the most beautiful here, who is the sweetest of all?

But the mirror answered:

You are a beautiful queen
And yet the newlywed is taller than beauty.

The evil woman, hearing this, uttered a terrible curse, and then suddenly she became so frightened, so frightened that she could not control herself.

At first she did not want to go to the wedding at all, but she could not calm down and went to see the young queen. As soon as she crossed the threshold of the wedding chamber, she recognized the Snow Maiden in the queen and could not move from her place from horror.

But for her, iron shoes had long been prepared and placed on burning coals ... They were taken with pincers, dragged into the room and placed in front of the evil stepmother. Then she was forced to put her feet into these red-hot shoes and dance in them until she fell dead on the ground.

Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm about the most beautiful girl in the kingdom - the Snow Maiden. About how her mother died, and her stepmother did not love her very much and decided to die from the world. A very interesting adventure story.

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That was in the middle of winter. Snowflakes were falling like fluff from the sky, and the queen was sitting by the window - its frame was of ebony - and the queen was sewing. When she was sewing, she looked at the snow and pricked her finger with a needle, and three drops of blood fell on the snow. And the red on the white snow looked so beautiful that she thought to herself: “Now, if I had a child, white like this snow, and ruddy like blood, and black-haired like a tree on a window frame!”

And the queen soon gave birth to a daughter, and she was white as snow, blush like blood, and as black-haired as ebony, and that is why they called her the Snow Maiden. And when the child was born, the queen died.

A year later the king took another wife. This was a beautiful woman, but proud and arrogant, she could not stand it when anyone surpassed her in beauty. She had a magic mirror, and when she stood in front of it and looked into it, she would ask:

And the mirror answered:

You, queen, are the most beautiful in the country.

And she was pleased, because she knew that the mirror was telling the truth.

And the Snow Maiden grew up during this time and became more and more beautiful, and when she was seven years old, she was as beautiful as a clear day, and more beautiful than the queen herself. When the queen asked her mirror:

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most beautiful in our country?

The mirror replied:

But the Snow Maiden is a thousand times richer in beauty.

Then the queen was frightened, turned yellow, turned green with envy. She used to see the Snow Maiden - and her heart breaks, she disliked the girl so much. And envy and arrogance grew like weeds in her heart higher and higher, and from now on she had no rest day or night.

Then she called one of her rangers and said:

Take this girl into the woods, I can't see her anymore. You must kill her and bring me her lungs and liver as evidence.

The huntsman obeyed and led the girl into the forest; but when he pulled out his hunting knife and was about to pierce the innocent heart of the Snow Maiden, she began to cry and ask:

Ah, dear huntsman, let me live! I will run far, far into the dense forest and never return home.

And because she was so beautiful, the huntsman took pity on her and said:

So be it, run, poor girl!

And he thought to himself: “All the same, wild animals will soon eat you there,” and it was as if a stone had fallen from his heart when he did not have to kill the Snow Maiden.

And just at that time a young deer ran up, the huntsman stabbed him, cut out his lungs and liver and brought them to the queen as a sign of proof that her order had been carried out. The cook was ordered to boil them in salt water, and the evil woman ate them, thinking that they were the lungs and liver of the Snow Maiden.

The poor girl was left alone in the dense forest, and in fear she looked at all the leaves on the trees, not knowing how to proceed further, how to help her grief.

She started to run, and ran over sharp stones, through thorny thickets; and wild beasts jumped about her, but did not touch her. She ran as far as she could, but it was finally getting dark. Suddenly she saw a small hut and went into it to rest. And in that hut everything was so small, but beautiful and clean, which cannot be said in a fairy tale or described with a pen.

There was a table covered with a white tablecloth, and on it were seven small plates, next to each plate a spoon, and also seven small knives and forks, and seven small goblets. There were seven small beds in a row against the wall, and they were covered with snow-white bedspreads.

The Snow Maiden wanted to eat and drink, she took a little bit of vegetables and bread from each plate and drank a drop of wine from each goblet - she did not want to drink everything from one. And since she was very tired, she lay down in one of the beds, but none of them suited her: one was too long, the other too short; but the seventh turned out to be just right for her; she lay down in it and, surrendering herself to the mercy of the Lord, fell asleep.

When it was already completely dark, the owners of the hut came; there were seven dwarfs who mined ore in the mountains. They lit seven of their lamps, and when it became light in the hut, they noticed that they had someone, because not everything turned out to be in the order that it was before. And the first dwarf said:

Who was sitting in my chair?

Second:

Who ate this from my plate?

Third:

Who took a piece of my bread?

Fourth:

Who ate my vegetables?

Fifth:

Who took my fork?

Sixth:

And who cut with my knife?

The seventh asked:

Who was drinking from my little cup?

He was the first to look around and noticed a small wrinkle on his bed, and asked:

Who was that on my bed?

Then the rest ran up and began to say:

And someone was in mine too.

The seventh dwarf looked at his bed, he sees - the Snow Maiden lies in it and sleeps. Then he called the others; they ran up, began to scream in surprise, brought seven of their light bulbs and lit up the Snow Maiden.

Oh my god! Oh my god! they exclaimed. - What, however, a handsome child!

They were so happy that they did not wake her up and left her to sleep in bed. And the seventh dwarf slept with each of his comrades for an hour - and so the night passed.

Morning has come. The Snow Maiden woke up, saw seven dwarfs and got scared. But they were kind to her and asked her:

What is your name?

My name is Snegurochka, she answered.

How did you get into our hut? the dwarfs continued to ask.

And she told them that her stepmother wanted to kill her, but the huntsman took pity on her, and that she fled the whole day, until finally she found their hut.

The dwarfs asked:

Would you like to run a business with us? Cooking, whipping beds, washing, sewing and knitting, keeping everything clean and in order - if you agree to this, then you can stay with us, and you will have everything in abundance.

Well, - said the Snow Maiden, - with great pleasure, - and stayed with them.

Watch out for your stepmother: she will soon know that you are here. Look, don't let anyone into the house.

And the queen, having eaten the lungs and liver of the Snow Maiden, again began to think that she was now the very first beauty in the country. She went to the mirror and asked:

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most beautiful in our country?

And the mirror answered:

You are a beautiful queen

At the seven dwarfs outside the walls,

A thousand times richer in beauty!

The queen was frightened then - she knew that the mirror was telling the truth, and realized that the huntsman had deceived her, that the Snow Maiden was still alive. And she began to think again and wonder how to exterminate her. And she did not have peace of envy, because she was not the very first beauty in the country.

And in the end, she thought of something: she made up her face, disguised herself as an old merchant, and now it was impossible to recognize her. She went through the seven mountains to the seven dwarfs, knocked on the door and said:

The Snow Maiden looked out the window and said:

Hello dove! What are you selling?

Good goods, excellent goods, - she answered, - the laces are multi-colored, - and she took out one of them to show her, and it was woven from motley silk.

“This respectable woman can, perhaps, be allowed into the house,” thought the Snow Maiden. She pulled back the deadbolt and bought herself beautiful shoelaces.

Oh, how they suit you, girl, - said the old woman, - let me lace up your bodice properly.

The Snow Maiden, not foreseeing anything bad, stood in front of her and let her new shoelaces be tightened on her. And the old woman began to lace up, so quickly and so tightly that the Snow Maiden suffocated and fell dead to the ground.

This is because you were the most beautiful, - said the queen and quickly disappeared.

And soon, towards evening, seven dwarfs returned home, and how frightened they were when they saw that their dear Snow Maiden was lying on the floor - she would not move, she would not move, as if dead! They lifted it up and saw that it was tightly laced; then they cut the laces, and she began to breathe a little and gradually came to her senses.

When the dwarfs heard about how it all happened, they said:

The old merchant was actually an evil queen. Be careful, do not let anyone in when we are not at home.

Meanwhile, the evil woman returned home, went to the mirror and asked:

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most beautiful in our country?

The mirror answered her, as before:

You are a beautiful queen

But the Snow Maiden is there, beyond the mountains,

At the seven dwarfs outside the walls,

A thousand times richer in beauty!

When she heard such an answer, all the blood rushed to her heart, she was so frightened - she realized that the Snow Maiden had come to life again.

Well, now, - she said, - I will think of something that will surely destroy you, - and, knowing various witchcraft, she prepared a poisonous comb. Then she changed clothes and pretended to be another old woman. And she went over the seven mountains to the seven dwarfs, knocked on the door and said:

I sell good stuff! Selling!

The Snow Maiden looked out the window and said:

You can probably take a look, - said the old woman, took out a poisonous comb and, lifting it up, showed the Snow Maiden.

The girl liked him so much that she allowed herself to be deceived and opened the door. They agreed on a price, and the old woman said:

Well, now let me give you a good haircut.

Poor Snow Maiden, suspecting nothing, let the old woman comb her hair; but as soon as she touched her hair with a comb, the poison immediately began to act, and the girl fell senseless to the ground.

You, written beauty, - said the evil woman, - now the end has come to you! And having said that, she left.

But, fortunately, it was towards evening, and the seven dwarfs soon returned home. Noticing that the Snow Maiden was lying dead on the floor, they immediately suspected her stepmother of this, began to find out what was the matter, and found a poisonous comb; and as soon as they pulled him out, the Snow Maiden again came to her senses and told them about everything that had happened. Then the dwarfs once again warned her to be careful and not open the door to anyone.

And the queen returned home, sat down in front of the mirror and said:

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most beautiful in our country?

And the mirror answered, as before:

You are a beautiful queen

But the Snow Maiden is there, beyond the mountains,

At the seven dwarfs outside the walls,

A thousand times richer in beauty!

Hearing what the mirror was saying, she trembled and trembled all over with anger.

The Snow Maiden must die, she shouted, even if it cost me my own life!

And she went to a secret room where no one ever entered, and prepared there a poisonous, poisonous apple. It was very beautiful in appearance, white with red dots, and anyone who saw it would want to eat it; but whoever ate even a piece would certainly die.

When the apple was ready, the queen made up her face, dressed as a peasant woman and set off on her way - over the seven mountains, to the seven dwarfs. She knocked; The Snow Maiden stuck her head out the window and said:

It was not ordered to let anyone into the house - seven dwarfs forbade me to do so.

It is correct, - answered the peasant woman, - but where will I put my apples? Do you want me to give you one of them?

No, - said the Snow Maiden, - I was not ordered to take anything.

Are you afraid of poison? asked the old woman. - Look, I will cut the apple into two halves: you will eat the ruddy one, and I will eat the white one.

And the apple was made so cunningly that only its ruddy half was poisoned. The Snow Maiden wanted to taste a beautiful apple, and when she saw that the peasant woman was eating it, the girl could not resist, put her hand out of the window and took the poisoned half. As soon as she bit off a piece, she immediately fell dead to the ground. The queen looked at her with her terrible eyes, and, laughing loudly, said:

White as snow, ruddy as blood, black-haired as ebony! Now your dwarfs will never wake you up!

She returned home and began to ask the mirror:

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most beautiful in our country?

And the mirror answered at last:

You, queen, are the most beautiful in the whole country.

Then her envious heart calmed down, as far as such a heart can find peace.

The dwarfs, returning home in the evening, found the Snow Maiden lying on the ground, lifeless and dead. They picked her up and began to look for poison: they unlaced her, combed her hair, washed her with water and wine, but nothing helped - the poor girl, as she was dead, so she remained dead.

They put her in a coffin, all seven sat around her, began to mourn for her, and wept like this for three whole days. Then they decided to bury her, but she looked like she was alive - her cheeks were still beautiful and ruddy.

And they said:

How can you bury it in the ground?

And they ordered that a glass coffin be made for her, so that she could be seen from all sides, and they put her in that coffin, wrote her name in golden letters on it and that she was a king's daughter. They carried the coffin to the mountain, and always one of them remained on guard with her. And animals and birds also appeared to mourn the Snow Maiden: first an owl, then a raven, and finally a dove.

And for a long, long time the Snow Maiden lay in her coffin, and it seemed that she was sleeping - she was white as snow, blush like blood, and black-haired like ebony.

But one day it happened that the prince drove into that forest and ended up in the house of dwarfs to spend the night there. He saw a coffin on the mountain, and in it a beautiful Snow Maiden, and read what was written on it in golden letters. And then he said to the dwarfs:

Give me this coffin, I will give you everything you want for it.

But the dwarfs answered:

We won't give it up even for all the gold in the world.

Then he said:

So give it to me - I can’t live without seeing the Snow Maiden, I will deeply respect and honor her as my beloved.

When he said this, the good dwarfs took pity on him and gave him the coffin; and the prince ordered his servants to carry him on their shoulders. But it so happened that they stumbled in the bushes, and from the concussion a piece of the poisoned apple fell out of the Snow Maiden's throat. Then she opened her eyes, lifted the lid of the coffin, and then got up from it and came to life again.

Oh my God, where am I? - she exclaimed.

The king, overjoyed, replied:

You are with me, - and told her everything that happened, and said: - You are dearer to me than anything in the world; come with me to my father's castle and you will be my wife.

The Snow Maiden agreed and went with him; and they celebrated the marriage with great pomp.

But the evil stepmother of the Snow Maiden was also invited to the wedding feast. She dressed up in a beautiful dress, went to the mirror and said:

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most beautiful in our country?

And the mirror answered:

You, lady queen, are beautiful,

But the princess is a thousand times richer in beauty!

And then the evil woman uttered her curse, and she became so frightened, so frightened, that she did not know how to control herself. At first she decided not to go to the wedding at all, but she had no peace - she wanted to go and look at the young queen. She entered the palace and recognized the Snow Maiden, and from fear and horror - as she stood, she froze in place.

But iron shoes had already been placed for her on burning coals, they were brought, holding them with tongs, and placed in front of her. And she had to put her feet in red-hot shoes and dance in them until, at last, she fell dead to the ground.

On a winter day, while the snow was falling in flakes, one queen sat and sewed under the window, which had an ebony frame. She sewed and looked at the snow, and pricked her finger with a needle until it bled. And the queen thought to herself: "Oh, if I had a baby white as snow, ruddy like blood, and dark as ebony!"

And soon her desire was definitely fulfilled: her daughter was born to her - white as snow, ruddy as blood, and black-haired; and was named Snegurochka for her whiteness.

And as soon as the daughter was born, the queen mother died. A year later, the king married another. This second wife of his was a beauty, but also proud and arrogant, and could not stand that anyone could equal her in beauty.

Moreover, she had such a magic mirror in front of which she liked to stand, admire herself and say:

Then the mirror answered her:

You, queen, are dearer to everyone here.

And she walked away from the mirror, contented, contented, and knew that the mirror would not tell her lies.

The Snow Maiden, meanwhile, was growing up and getting prettier, and by the age of eight she was as beautiful as a clear day. And when the queen once asked the mirror:

Mirror, mirror, speak quickly,
Who is the most beautiful here, who is the sweetest of all?

The mirror answered her:

You, queen, are beautiful;
And yet the Snow Maiden is taller than beauty.

The queen was horrified, turned yellow, turned green with envy. From that hour, when she used to see the Snow Maiden, her heart was ready to burst into pieces from anger. And envy with pride, like weeds, began to grow in her heart, and grow wider and wider, so that at last neither day nor night did she have peace.

And then one day she called her kennel and said: “Take this girl out into the forest so that she doesn’t come into my eyes again. Kill her and, as proof that my order has been executed, bring me her lung and liver.”

The huntsman obeyed, led the girl out of the palace into the forest, and as soon as he took out his hunting knife to pierce the innocent heart of the Snow Maiden, she began to cry and ask: "Good man, do not kill me; I will run away to the dense forest and never return home."

The houndsman took pity on the pretty girl and said: "Well, go. God be with you, poor girl!" And he himself thought: "Wild animals will quickly tear you to pieces in the forest," - and yet it was like a stone fell from his heart when he spared the child.

Just at that time a young deer jumped out of the bushes; the kennel pinned him, took out a lung with a liver and brought them to the queen as proof that her order was carried out.

The cook was ordered to salt and boil them, and the evil woman ate them, imagining that she was eating the lung and liver of the Snow Maiden.

And then the poor thing found herself alone in a dense forest, and she became so frightened that she examined every leaf on the trees, and did not know what to do and how to be.

And she started to run, and ran over sharp stones and thorny bushes, and wild animals scurried past her back and forth, but they did not do her any harm.

She ran while her frisky little legs carried, almost until evening; when she was tired, she saw a small hut and entered it.

Everything in this hut was small, but it was so clean and beautiful that it was impossible to say. In the middle of the hut stood a table with seven small plates, and on each plate a spoon, and then seven knives and forks, and with each utensil a glass. Around the table stood seven cots, covered with snow-white bed linen.

The Snow Maiden, who was very hungry and thirsty, tasted vegetables and bread from each plate and drank a drop of wine from each glass, because she did not want to take everything from one. Then, tired from walking, she tried to lie down on one of the beds; but not one suited her in measure; one was too long, the other too short, and only the seventh was just right for her. In it she lay down, crossed herself and fell asleep.

When it got completely dark, her owners came to the hut - seven gnomes who dug in the mountains, extracting ore. They lit their seven candles, and when it became light in the hut, they saw that someone had visited them, because not everything was in the order in which they had left everything in their dwelling.

The first one said, "Who was sitting on my chair?" Second: "Who ate yes my plate?" Third: "Who broke off a piece of my bread?" Fourth: "Who has tasted my food?" Fifth: "Who ate with my fork?" Sixth: "Who cut with my knife?" Seventh: "Who drank from my cup?"

Then the first one turned around and saw that there was a small wrinkle on his bed; he immediately said: "Who touched my bed?" All the rest ran to the beds and shouted: "Someone lay down in mine and in mine too!"

And the seventh, looking into his bed, saw the sleeping Snow Maiden lying in it. He called the rest, and they ran and began to exclaim in amazement, and brought their seven candles to the bed to light the Snow Maiden. “Oh, my God!” they exclaimed. “How beautiful this little one is!” - and everyone was so delighted with her arrival that they did not dare to wake her up, and left her alone on that bed.

And the seventh gnome decided to spend the night like this: in the bed of each of his comrades, he had to sleep for one hour.

With the onset of morning, the Snow Maiden woke up and, seeing seven gnomes, got scared. They treated her very affectionately and asked her: "What is your name?" “My name is Snegurochka,” she answered. "How did you get into our house?" the gnomes asked her.

Then she told them that her stepmother ordered to kill her, and the kennel spared her - and so she ran all day until she came across their hut.

The gnomes said to her: “Would you like to look after our household chores - cook, wash for us, make beds, sew and knit? And if you do all this skillfully and neatly, then you can stay with us for a long time and in nothing you will suffer a lack." - "If you please, - answered the Snow Maiden, - with great pleasure," - and stayed with them.

She kept the house of the gnomes in great order; in the morning they usually went to the mountains in search of copper and gold, in the evening they returned to their hut, and then food was always ready for them.

All day the Snow Maiden remained alone in the house, and therefore the good gnomes warned her and said: "Beware of your stepmother! She will soon find out where you are, so do not let anyone into the house except us."

And the queen-stepmother, after she ate the lung and liver of the Snow Maiden, suggested that she was now the first beauty in the whole country, and said:

Mirror, mirror, speak quickly,
Who is the most beautiful here, who is the sweetest of all?

Then the mirror answered her:

You are a beautiful queen

The queen was afraid; she knew that the mirror never lied, and she realized that the kennel had deceived her and that the Snow Maiden was alive.

And she began to think about how she would exterminate her stepdaughter, because envy did not give her peace and she certainly wanted to be the first beauty in the whole country.

When she finally came up with something, she painted her face, dressed as an old merchant and became completely unrecognizable.

In this form, she went on her way over the seven mountains to the hut of the seven dwarfs, knocked on their door and shouted: "Various goods, cheap, corrupt!"

The Snow Maiden looked out of the window and shouted to the merchant:

"Hello, auntie, what are you selling?" - "Good product, the first grade," answered the merchant, "laces, ribbons of various colors," - and she pulled out one lace, woven from motley silk. “Well, I can certainly let this merchant in here,” thought the Snow Maiden, unlocked the door and bought herself a beautiful lace. "Uh, child," the old woman said to the Snow Maiden, "what do you look like! Come here, let me lace up properly!"

The Snow Maiden did not suggest anything bad, turned her back on the old woman and let her lace herself up with a new lace: she laced herself up quickly and so tightly that the Snow Maiden immediately took her breath away and she fell dead to the ground. "Well, now you won't be the first beauty anymore!" - said the evil stepmother and hastily left.

Shortly thereafter, in the evening, the seven dwarfs returned home and how frightened they were when they saw the Snow Maiden sprawled on the ground; moreover, she did not move, and did not stir, she was as if dead.

They lifted her up and, seeing that she had died from too tight lacing, they immediately cut the lace, and she began to breathe again, at first a little, then completely came to life.

When the dwarves heard from her what had happened to her, they said: "This old merchant was your stepmother, the godless queen; beware and do not let anyone into the house in our absence."

And the evil woman, returning home, went to the mirror and asked:

Mirror, mirror, speak quickly,
Who is the most beautiful here, who is the sweetest of all?

And the mirror still answered her:

You are a beautiful queen
But still the Snow Maiden, behind the mountain
Lives in the house of the mountain gnomes,
Many will surpass you in beauty.

Hearing this, the evil stepmother was so frightened that all her blood rushed to her heart: she realized that the Snow Maiden had come to life again.

"Well, now," she said, "I'll think of something that will kill you right away!" - and with the help of various charms in which she was skilled, she made a poisonous comb. Then she changed clothes and assumed the image of another old woman.

She went over the seven mountains to the house of the seven dwarfs, knocked on their door and began to shout: "Goods, goods for sale!"

The Snow Maiden looked out of the window and said: "Come in, I don't dare to let anyone into the house." “Well, it’s true that you’re not forbidden to look at the goods,” said the old woman, pulled out a poisonous comb and showed it to the Snow Maiden. The girl liked the comb to such an extent that she allowed herself to be fooled and opened the door to the merchant.

When they agreed on the price, the old woman said: "Let me comb your hair properly." Nothing bad even entered the poor Snow Maiden's head, and she gave the old woman full freedom to comb her hair as she pleased; but as soon as she launched the comb into her hair, its poisonous properties acted, and the Snow Maiden lost consciousness. "Come on, you, the perfection of beauty!" said the evil woman. "Now it's over with you," and she went away.

Fortunately, this happened in the evening, about the time when the dwarves returned home.

When they saw that the Snow Maiden was lying dead on the ground, they immediately suspected her stepmother, began to search around and found a poisonous comb in the girl's hair, and as soon as they took it out. The Snow Maiden came to her senses and told everything that had happened to her. Then they warned her again to be careful and not open the door to anyone.

And meanwhile the queen, having returned home, stood in front of the mirror and said:

Mirror, mirror, speak quickly,
Who is the most beautiful here, who is the sweetest of all?

And the mirror answered her, as before:

You are a beautiful queen
But still the Snow Maiden, behind the mountain
Lives in the house of the mountain gnomes,
Many will surpass you in beauty.

When the queen heard this, she trembled with rage. "The Snow Maiden must die!" she exclaimed. "Even if I had to die with her!"

Then she retired to a secret closet, into which no one but her entered, and there she made a poisonous, poisonous apple. In appearance, the apple was wonderful, pouring, with ruddy barrels, so that everyone, looking at it, wanted to taste it, but just bite off a piece - and you will die.

When the apple was made, the queen painted her face, disguised herself as a peasant woman and went over the seven mountains to the seven dwarfs.

She knocked at their house, and the Snow Maiden put her head out the window and said: “I don’t dare to let anyone in here, seven gnomes forbade me.” - "And what do I care about this?" - answered the peasant woman. - Where will I go with my apples? For one, perhaps, I will give you. - "No," answered the Snow Maiden, "I dare not accept anything." - "Are you afraid of poison?" asked the peasant woman. And her apple was so skillfully cooked that only the ruddy half of it was poisoned.

The Snow Maiden really wanted to taste this wonderful apple, and when she saw that the peasant woman was eating her half, she could no longer refrain from this desire, stretched out her hand from the window and took the poisoned half of the apple.

But as soon as she bit off a piece of it, she fell dead on the floor. Then the queen-stepmother looked at her with malicious eyes, laughed out loud and said: “Here you are as white as snow, and ruddy as blood, and dark as ebony! Well, this time the gnomes will not be able to revive you!”

And when she, having come home, stood in front of the mirror and asked:

Mirror, mirror, speak quickly,
Who is the most beautiful here, who is the sweetest of all? -

The mirror finally answered her:

You, queen, are the sweetest here.

Here only her envious heart calmed down, as far as an envious heart can calm down.

The gnomes, having returned home in the evening, found the Snow Maiden sprawled on the floor, lifeless, dead. They lifted her up, began to look for the cause of her death - they looked for poison, unlaced her dress, combed her hair, washed her with water and wine; however, nothing could help her. The Snow Maiden was dead and remained dead.

They put her in a coffin and, sitting all seven around her body, they began to mourn and mourned for exactly three days in a row.

Already they were going to bury her, but she seemed fresh in appearance, she was as if alive, even her cheeks burned with the same wonderful blush. The gnomes said: “No, we cannot lower her into the dark bowels of the earth,” and they ordered another, transparent crystal coffin for her, put the Snow Maiden in it, so that she could be seen from all sides, and on the lid they wrote her name and that she was a royal daughter.

Then they took the coffin to the top of the mountain, and one of the dwarves constantly remained on guard with him. And even animals, even birds, approaching the coffin, mourned the Snow Maiden: first an owl flew in, then a raven, and finally a dove.

And for a long, long time the Snow Maiden lay in the coffin and did not change, and seemed to be sleeping, and was as before white as snow, ruddy as blood, dark as ebony.

It happened somehow that the prince drove into that forest and drove up to the house of the gnomes, intending to spend the night there. He saw the coffin on the mountain and the beautiful Snow Maiden in the coffin and read what was written on the lid of the coffin in gold letters.

Then he said to the dwarfs: "Give me the coffin, I will give you everything you want for it."

But the dwarfs answered: "We will not give him up for all the gold in the world." But the prince did not back down: “So give it to me, I can’t get enough of the Snow Maiden: it seems that life will not be sweet to me without her! Give it - and I will honor and appreciate it as a dear friend!”

The good gnomes took pity on hearing such an ardent speech from the lips of the prince, and gave him the coffin of the Snow Maiden.

The king ordered his servants to carry the coffin on their shoulders. They carried him and stumbled over some kind of twig, and from this concussion the piece of poisoned apple that she bit off jumped out of the Snow Maiden's throat.

As a piece of apple popped out, so she opened her eyes, lifted the lid of the coffin and herself rose alive in it.

The Snow Maiden agreed and went with him, and their wedding was played with great brilliance and splendor.

The evil stepmother of the Snow Maiden was also invited to this celebration. As soon as she dressed up for the wedding, she stood in front of the mirror and said:

Mirror, mirror, speak quickly,
Who is the most beautiful here, who is the sweetest of all?

But the mirror answered:

You are a beautiful queen
And yet the newlywed is taller than beauty.

The evil woman, hearing this, uttered a terrible curse, and then suddenly she became so frightened, so frightened that she could not control herself.

At first she did not want to go to the wedding at all, but she could not calm down and went to see the young queen. As soon as she crossed the threshold of the wedding chamber, she recognized the Snow Maiden in the queen and could not move from her place from horror.

But iron shoes had long been prepared for her and placed on burning coals ... They were taken with pincers, dragged into the room and placed in front of the evil stepmother. Then she was forced to put her feet into these red-hot shoes and dance in them until she fell dead on the ground.

Brothers Grimm, fairy tale "Snow Maiden"

Genre: literary fairy tale

The main characters of the fairy tale "Snegurochka" and their characteristics

1. Snow Maiden. Young and beautiful princess. Very kind, hardworking, modest, trusting.
2. Evil queen. Arrogant and proud, cruel and ruthless.
3. Seven gnomes. Hardworking, kind, dedicated.
4. Royal. Young and beautiful, in love.

Plan for retelling the fairy tale "Snow Maiden"

1. Birth of the Snow Maiden.
2. Mirror of the new queen
3. Order for the huntsman
4. Pity of the huntsman
5. Deer liver and lungs
6. Gnomes' house
7. Getting to know the gnomes
8. Queen's lace
9. Poisoned Comb
10. poisoned apple
11. glass coffin
12. Prayer of the prince
13. Sluggish Servants
14. Wedding.
15. death of the queen

The shortest content of the fairy tale "Snow Maiden" for reader's diary in 6 sentences

1. The mother of the Snow Maiden died in childbirth and the king married a beautiful and evil queen
2. The queen decided to kill the Snow Maiden, and sent her to the forest with the huntsman
3. The huntsman released the Snow Maiden and she began to live in the forest with the seven dwarfs.
4. The stepmother tried to kill the Snow Maiden three times and finally the Snow Maiden died and she was put in a coffin.
5. The prince asked the gnomes for a coffin, and his servants stumbled and the Snow Maiden came to life
6. They played a wedding, and the stepmother was brutally executed.

The main idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe fairy tale "Snow Maiden"
Beauty and kindness will always win over envy and malice.

What does the fairy tale "Snow Maiden" teach
The fairy tale teaches to be kind, generous, responsive. Teaches not to disdain any work. It teaches you to be vigilant and not to talk to strangers, not to open doors for them. Teaches justice. It teaches that evil will punish itself. Learn not to envy someone else's happiness.

Review of the fairy tale "Snow Maiden"
I really liked this fairy tale and of course I liked the Snow Maiden the most. I liked her kindness, her beauty and even her naivety did not spoil her at all. The Snow Maiden was trustful of people, because there was no place for evil in her heart and they treated everyone well. I liked that the Snow Maiden survived and married the prince.

Proverbs to the fairy tale "Snow Maiden"
When doing evil, do not hope for good.
Evil punishes itself.
Envious and his bread is not sweet.
A good deed will not go unrewarded.
What is sin, such is punishment.

Read summary, a short retelling of the fairy tale "Snow Maiden"
In a distant country, a queen sewed and pricked her finger. Three drops of blood fell on the snow and the queen wanted her daughter to be born, with white skin, ruddy like blood and black-haired like a tree on a window frame.
And soon the queen gave birth to a girl, who was given the name Snegurochka, and died. And the king married another, very beautiful, but too proud and arrogant. The new queen had a magic mirror, which she liked to ask about her beauty. And this mirror regularly answered the queen that she was the most beautiful in the world.
But time passed and the Snow Maiden grew up. And then one day the mirror answered the queen that the Snow Maiden was a thousand times more beautiful than her. The queen was frightened and furious. She called the devoted huntsman and ordered him to take the Snow Maiden into the forest and kill her there. Bring her liver and lungs as proof.
The huntsman led the Snow Maiden into the forest, but his soul did not lie in villainy, and when the Snow Maiden begged not to kill her, the huntsman willingly let the girl go. However, he thought that wild animals would eat it anyway.
And he brought the queen a liver and a lung of a deer, which he immediately shot.
And the Snow Maiden rushed into the very thicket and not a single wild beast touched her. And the girl ran until she saw a small hut, which seemed to her very beautiful.
The Snow Maiden entered the hut and saw a table on which there were seven plates and seven beds.
The Snow Maiden ate a little, then decided to lie down. She tried all the beds, but only the smallest one suited her.
And now the Snow Maiden is sleeping, and seven gnomes, bearded miners, are returning to the house. They immediately see that someone has been eating their food and rumpled their beds. And the seventh dwarf finds the girl. And the gnomes freeze in admiration, the Snow Maiden was so beautiful.
The Snow Maiden stayed with the gnomes and began to manage their simple household.
Each time, leaving for work, the gnomes warned the Snow Maiden not to open the door to anyone and be afraid of her stepmother.
Meanwhile, the queen asked the mirror who was the most beautiful in the world. And the Mirror immediately answered that the Snow Maiden lives in the forest with the gnomes, and she is the most beautiful of all.
The queen realized that the huntsman had deceived her. She decided to personally kill the Snow Maiden herself. She disguised herself as a merchant and went into the forest. And there she stood under the windows of the house and began to praise her product - multi-colored shoelaces.
The Snow Maiden decided that the respectable merchant could be let into the house and bought several shoelaces. And the merchant began to lace it up with new laces. Yes, so hard that the Snow Maiden suffocated and died.
And the queen laughed wickedly and ran away.
When the gnomes returned, they saw the Snow Maiden lying motionless. But as soon as they loosened the lacing, the Snow Maiden came to life and breathed. More than ever, the dwarfs punished not to let anyone into the house.
And the queen found out about the failure of her plan and became even more angry. She disguised herself as an old woman and prepared a poisonous comb. She came to the forest and began to praise her goods. The Snow Maiden liked the comb so much that she forgot about the order of the gnomes and opened the doors. And the old woman began to comb it and stuck a comb in her hair. And the Snow Maiden died immediately.
In the evening the dwarfs returned and removed the comb from their hair. The Snow Maiden immediately came to life and the gnomes scolded her strongly for opening the doors to just anyone.
For a long time, shortly, the queen learned that her second plan had failed. Now she decided to act for sure and prepared a poisonous apple. She disguised herself as a peasant woman and went to the Snow Maiden.
But she, taught by bitter experience, did not want to let the peasant woman in. Then the peasant woman cut the apple in half and ate the white, non-poisonous half herself, and handed the ruddy poisonous half to the Snow Maiden through the window. Only the Snow Maiden ate an apple when she died.
In the evening the gnomes came and saw the dead Snow Maiden. But no matter what they did to the girl, she did not come to life. Then the gnomes put the body of the Snow Maiden in a glass coffin, wrote her name on it and took it up the mountain. And they themselves began to guard this coffin.
But one day the prince drove into that forest and saw a coffin on the mountain. He began to ask the dwarves to give him the coffin, but they refused even for all the gold in the world. And then the King simply asked to give him a coffin, promising that he would honor the Snow Maiden as his beloved.
And the dwarfs gave the coffin to the Prince. The servants carried the coffin and stumbled. A piece of the poisoned apple fell out and the Snow Maiden came to life. The prince immediately offered her to become his wife, and the Snow Maiden agreed.
And they began to prepare for the wedding, and even the evil Queen was invited. She, out of habit, asked the mirror who was the most beautiful in the world and heard that the young princess was the most beautiful of all.
The queen did not want to go to the wedding, but she could not stand it, so she wanted to look at the princess. And when she saw it, she recognized the Snow Maiden in her and froze in place.
And hot shoes were prepared for her, in which she danced until she fell dead.

Drawings and illustrations for the fairy tale "Snow Maiden"

It was in the middle of winter. Snowflakes were falling like fluff from the sky, and the queen was sitting by the window - its frame was of ebony - and the queen was sewing. When she was sewing, she looked at the snow and pricked her finger with a needle, and three drops of blood fell on the snow. And the red on the white snow looked so beautiful that she thought to herself: “Now, if I had a child, white like this snow, and ruddy like blood, and black-haired like a tree on a window frame!”

And the queen soon gave birth to a daughter, and she was white as snow, blush like blood, and as black-haired as ebony, and that is why they called her the Snow Maiden. And when the child was born, the queen died.

A year later the king took another wife. This was a beautiful woman, but proud and arrogant, she could not stand it when anyone surpassed her in beauty. She had a magic mirror, and when she stood in front of it and looked into it, she would ask:

And the mirror answered:

You, queen, are the most beautiful in the country.

And she was pleased, because she knew that the mirror was telling the truth.

And the Snow Maiden grew up during this time and became more and more beautiful, and when she was seven years old, she was as beautiful as a clear day, and more beautiful than the queen herself. When the queen asked her mirror:

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most beautiful in our country?

The mirror replied:

But the Snow Maiden is a thousand times richer in beauty.

Then the queen was frightened, turned yellow, turned green with envy. She used to see the Snow Maiden - and her heart breaks, she disliked the girl so much. And envy and arrogance grew like weeds in her heart higher and higher, and from now on she had no rest day or night.

Then she called one of her rangers and said:

Take this girl into the woods, I can't see her anymore. You must kill her and bring me her lungs and liver as evidence.

The huntsman obeyed and led the girl into the forest; but when he pulled out his hunting knife and was about to pierce the innocent heart of the Snow Maiden, she began to cry and ask:

Ah, dear huntsman, let me live! I will run far, far into the dense forest and never return home.

And because she was so beautiful, the huntsman took pity on her and said:

So be it, run, poor girl!

And he thought to himself: “All the same, wild animals will soon eat you there,” and it was as if a stone had fallen from his heart when he did not have to kill the Snow Maiden.

And just at that time a young deer ran up, the huntsman stabbed him, cut out his lungs and liver and brought them to the queen as a sign of proof that her order had been carried out. The cook was ordered to boil them in salt water, and the evil woman ate them, thinking that they were the lungs and liver of the Snow Maiden.

The poor girl was left alone in the dense forest, and in fear she looked at all the leaves on the trees, not knowing how to proceed further, how to help her grief.

She started to run, and ran over sharp stones, through thorny thickets; and wild beasts jumped about her, but did not touch her. She ran as far as she could, but it was finally getting dark. Suddenly she saw a small hut and went into it to rest. And in that hut everything was so small, but beautiful and clean, which cannot be said in a fairy tale or described with a pen.

There was a table covered with a white tablecloth, and on it were seven small plates, next to each plate a spoon, and also seven small knives and forks, and seven small goblets. There were seven small beds in a row against the wall, and they were covered with snow-white bedspreads.

The Snow Maiden wanted to eat and drink, she took a little bit of vegetables and bread from each plate and drank a drop of wine from each goblet - she did not want to drink everything from one. And since she was very tired, she lay down in one of the beds, but none of them suited her: one was too long, the other too short; but the seventh turned out to be just right for her; she lay down in it and, surrendering herself to the mercy of the Lord, fell asleep.

When it was already completely dark, the owners of the hut came; there were seven dwarfs who mined ore in the mountains. They lit seven of their lamps, and when it became light in the hut, they noticed that they had someone, because not everything turned out to be in the order that it was before. And the first dwarf said:

Who was sitting in my chair?

Who ate this from my plate?

Who took a piece of my bread?

Fourth:

Who ate my vegetables?

Who took my fork?

And who cut with my knife?

The seventh asked:

Who was drinking from my little cup?

He was the first to look around and noticed a small wrinkle on his bed, and asked:

Who was that on my bed?

Then the rest ran up and began to say:

And someone was in mine too.

The seventh dwarf looked at his bed, he sees - the Snow Maiden lies in it and sleeps. Then he called the others; they ran up, began to scream in surprise, brought seven of their light bulbs and lit up the Snow Maiden.

Oh my god! Oh my god! they exclaimed. - What, however, a handsome child!

They were so happy that they did not wake her up and left her to sleep in bed. And the seventh dwarf slept with each of his comrades for an hour - and so the night passed.

Morning has come. The Snow Maiden woke up, saw seven dwarfs and got scared. But they were kind to her and asked her:

What is your name?

My name is Snegurochka, she answered.

How did you get into our hut? the dwarfs continued to ask.

And she told them that her stepmother wanted to kill her, but the huntsman took pity on her, and that she fled the whole day, until finally she found their hut.

The dwarfs asked:

Would you like to run a business with us? Cooking, whipping beds, washing, sewing and knitting, keeping everything clean and in order - if you agree to this, then you can stay with us, and you will have everything in abundance.

Well, - said the Snow Maiden, - with great pleasure, - and stayed with them.

Watch out for your stepmother: she will soon know that you are here. Look, don't let anyone into the house.

And the queen, having eaten the lungs and liver of the Snow Maiden, again began to think that she was now the very first beauty in the country. She went to the mirror and asked:

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most beautiful in our country?

And the mirror answered:

You are a beautiful queen

But the Snow Maiden is there, beyond the mountains,

At the seven dwarfs outside the walls,

A thousand times richer in beauty!

The queen was frightened then - she knew that the mirror was telling the truth, and realized that the huntsman had deceived her, that the Snow Maiden was still alive. And she began to think again and wonder how to exterminate her. And she did not have peace of envy, because she was not the very first beauty in the country.

And in the end, she thought of something: she made up her face, disguised herself as an old merchant, and now it was impossible to recognize her. She went through the seven mountains to the seven dwarfs, knocked on the door and said:

The Snow Maiden looked out the window and said:

Hello dove! What are you selling?

Good goods, excellent goods, - she answered, - the laces are multi-colored, - and she took out one of them to show her, and it was woven from motley silk.

“This respectable woman can, perhaps, be allowed into the house,” thought the Snow Maiden. She pulled back the deadbolt and bought herself beautiful shoelaces.

Oh, how they suit you, girl, - said the old woman, - let me lace up your bodice properly.

The Snow Maiden, not foreseeing anything bad, stood in front of her and let her new shoelaces be tightened on her. And the old woman began to lace up, so quickly and so tightly that the Snow Maiden suffocated and fell dead to the ground.

This is because you were the most beautiful, - said the queen and quickly disappeared.

And soon, towards evening, seven dwarfs returned home, and how frightened they were when they saw that their dear Snow Maiden was lying on the floor - she would not move, she would not move, as if dead! They lifted it up and saw that it was tightly laced; then they cut the laces, and she began to breathe a little and gradually came to her senses.

When the dwarfs heard about how it all happened, they said:

The old merchant was actually an evil queen. Be careful, do not let anyone in when we are not at home.

Meanwhile, the evil woman returned home, went to the mirror and asked:

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most beautiful in our country?

The mirror answered her, as before:

You are a beautiful queen

But the Snow Maiden is there, beyond the mountains,

At the seven dwarfs outside the walls,

A thousand times richer in beauty!

When she heard such an answer, all the blood rushed to her heart, she was so frightened - she realized that the Snow Maiden had come to life again.

Well, now, - she said, - I will think of something that will surely destroy you, - and, knowing various witchcraft, she prepared a poisonous comb. Then she changed clothes and pretended to be another old woman. And she went over the seven mountains to the seven dwarfs, knocked on the door and said:

I sell good stuff! Selling!

The Snow Maiden looked out the window and said:

You can probably take a look, - said the old woman, took out a poisonous comb and, lifting it up, showed the Snow Maiden.

The girl liked him so much that she allowed herself to be deceived and opened the door. They agreed on a price, and the old woman said:

Well, now let me give you a good haircut.

Poor Snow Maiden, suspecting nothing, let the old woman comb her hair; but as soon as she touched her hair with a comb, the poison immediately began to act, and the girl fell senseless to the ground.

You, written beauty, - said the evil woman, - now the end has come to you! And having said that, she left.

But, fortunately, it was towards evening, and the seven dwarfs soon returned home. Noticing that the Snow Maiden was lying dead on the floor, they immediately suspected her stepmother of this, began to find out what was the matter, and found a poisonous comb; and as soon as they pulled him out, the Snow Maiden again came to her senses and told them about everything that had happened. Then the dwarfs once again warned her to be careful and not open the door to anyone.

And the queen returned home, sat down in front of the mirror and said:

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most beautiful in our country?

And the mirror answered, as before:

You are a beautiful queen

But the Snow Maiden is there, beyond the mountains,

At the seven dwarfs outside the walls,

A thousand times richer in beauty!

Hearing what the mirror was saying, she trembled and trembled all over with anger.

The Snow Maiden must die, she shouted, even if it cost me my own life!

And she went to a secret room where no one ever entered, and prepared there a poisonous, poisonous apple. It was very beautiful in appearance, white with red dots, and anyone who saw it would want to eat it; but whoever ate even a piece would certainly die.

When the apple was ready, the queen made up her face, dressed as a peasant woman and set off on her way - over the seven mountains, to the seven dwarfs. She knocked; The Snow Maiden stuck her head out the window and said:

It was not ordered to let anyone into the house - seven dwarfs forbade me to do so.

It is correct, - answered the peasant woman, - but where will I put my apples? Do you want me to give you one of them?

No, - said the Snow Maiden, - I was not ordered to take anything.

Are you afraid of poison? asked the old woman. - Look, I will cut the apple into two halves: you will eat the ruddy one, and I will eat the white one.

And the apple was made so cunningly that only its ruddy half was poisoned. The Snow Maiden wanted to taste a beautiful apple, and when she saw that the peasant woman was eating it, the girl could not resist, put her hand out of the window and took the poisoned half. As soon as she bit off a piece, she immediately fell dead to the ground. The queen looked at her with her terrible eyes, and, laughing loudly, said:

White as snow, ruddy as blood, black-haired as ebony! Now your dwarfs will never wake you up!

She returned home and began to ask the mirror:

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most beautiful in our country?

And the mirror answered at last:

You, queen, are the most beautiful in the whole country.

Then her envious heart calmed down, as far as such a heart can find peace.

The dwarfs, returning home in the evening, found the Snow Maiden lying on the ground, lifeless and dead. They picked her up and began to look for poison: they unlaced her, combed her hair, washed her with water and wine, but nothing helped - the poor girl, as she was dead, so she remained dead.

They put her in a coffin, all seven sat around her, began to mourn for her, and wept like this for three whole days. Then they decided to bury her, but she looked like she was alive - her cheeks were still beautiful and ruddy.

And they said:

How can you bury it in the ground?

And they ordered that a glass coffin be made for her, so that she could be seen from all sides, and they put her in that coffin, wrote her name in golden letters on it and that she was a king's daughter. They carried the coffin to the mountain, and always one of them remained on guard with her. And animals and birds also appeared to mourn the Snow Maiden: first an owl, then a raven, and finally a dove.

And for a long, long time the Snow Maiden lay in her coffin, and it seemed that she was sleeping - she was white as snow, blush like blood, and black-haired like ebony.

But one day it happened that the prince drove into that forest and ended up in the house of dwarfs to spend the night there. He saw a coffin on the mountain, and in it a beautiful Snow Maiden, and read what was written on it in golden letters. And then he said to the dwarfs:

Give me this coffin, I will give you everything you want for it.

But the dwarfs answered:

We won't give it up even for all the gold in the world.

Then he said:

So give it to me - I can’t live without seeing the Snow Maiden, I will deeply respect and honor her as my beloved.

When he said this, the good dwarfs took pity on him and gave him the coffin; and the prince ordered his servants to carry him on their shoulders. But it so happened that they stumbled in the bushes, and from the concussion a piece of the poisoned apple fell out of the Snow Maiden's throat. Then she opened her eyes, lifted the lid of the coffin, and then got up from it and came to life again.

Oh my God, where am I? - she exclaimed.

The king, overjoyed, replied:

You are with me, - and told her everything that happened, and said: - You are dearer to me than anything in the world; come with me to my father's castle and you will be my wife.

The Snow Maiden agreed and went with him; and they celebrated the marriage with great pomp.

But the evil stepmother of the Snow Maiden was also invited to the wedding feast. She dressed up in a beautiful dress, went to the mirror and said:

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Who is the most beautiful in our country?

And the mirror answered:

You, lady queen, are beautiful,

But the princess is a thousand times richer in beauty!

And then the evil woman uttered her curse, and she became so frightened, so frightened, that she did not know how to control herself. At first she decided not to go to the wedding at all, but she had no peace - she wanted to go and look at the young queen. She entered the palace and recognized the Snow Maiden, and from fear and horror - as she stood, she froze in place.

But iron shoes had already been placed for her on burning coals, they were brought, holding them with tongs, and placed in front of her. And she had to put her feet in red-hot shoes and dance in them until, at last, she fell dead to the ground.