Analysis of the fairy tale about Tsar Berendey, interesting facts on reading on the topic. “The Tale of Tsar Berendey” (Zhukovsky): analysis, characteristics of the main characters. Final word from the teacher.

In the summer of 1831 V.A. Zhukovsky lived with his pupil in Tsarskoe Selo, and A.S. was there at that time. Pushkin with his young wife. A kind of creative competition arises between the poets - both write fairy tales. The result is Pushkin's "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" and three Zhukovskys - "The Tale of Tsar Berendey", "The Sleeping Princess" and the unfinished "War of Mice and Frogs". The first of them is called magnificently, in the traditions of literature of the 18th century.

It is believed that this fairy tale is based on a plot told to Pushkin by his nanny Arina Rodionovna. Even if this is so, and this is most likely the plot of the fairy tale “The Sea King and Vasilisa the Wise,” Zhukovsky not only presented it in his own way, but also added episodes and details from other fairy tales. One feels that the poet is familiar with oral folk art, he studied it deeply and carefully, selecting what was valuable and poetic.

“The Tale of Tsar Berendey” is written in hexameter, one of Zhukovsky’s favorite meters. The hexameter “Tales of Tsar Berendey” is so “adapted” to the Russian language that it perfectly conveys the Russian fairy-tale flavor. It is so original and seems so natural in this work that it suggests some third form of speech besides prose and verse.

The plot as a whole follows the folk one. Some details introduced by Zhukovsky slightly violate the logic. For example, Koschey the Immortal reigns in the underworld. This is quite natural - he is an evil spirit of darkness. Moreover, his palace “was carved entirely from carbuncle stone.” If we recall the fairy tale “The Red Carbuncle” translated in 1816 by Zhukovsky, this stone was presented to the hero by Satan.

Koschey

Let's take a closer look at Koshchei's portrait. Pearls, claws instead of hands, green eyes - all this is a portrait of the king of the sea, not the underground. Perhaps the portrait retains a hint of the hero of a folk tale.

Each character of Zhukovsky is individual, character traits are manifested in actions. Not having caught up with the fugitives (Ivan Tsarevich and Marya Princess), Koschey, in anger, “mercilessly crossed every single servant.” Such behavior is typical of some tyrant landowner, and not of the omnipotent ruler of the underworld. Koschey loves buffoonery. When Ivan Tsarevich meets, he crawls on his knees, which causes Koshchei to laugh, and he changes his anger to mercy. Also a very recognizable detail. The fantastic is supported by the quite convincing realistic. Around the fairy-tale palace, which, by order of Koshchei, Ivan Tsarevich must build, there is supposed to be “a regular garden, and in the garden a pond with crucian carp.” There is a similar detail in the description of Mishensky, the estate of Zhukovsky’s father, where the poet spent his childhood and youth.

Marya the Princess

Princess Marya is not only the daughter of Koshchei, a wise sorceress, but also a lovely girl, gentle, meek, loving. Perhaps this image was created with the thought of the unforgettable Masha Protasova, a person of extraordinary charm and refined soul. Princess Marya remains a “white stone by the road” in anticipation of her betrothed; she turns into an azure flower without waiting for Ivan the Tsarevich. “The dewdrops of tears on the blue leaves sparkled.” The heroine of a folk tale is not distinguished by such sophistication; she knows in advance how events will unfold. The heroine of Zhukovsky (“The Tale of Tsar Berendey”) suffers, is insulted, is ready for self-sacrifice, but also to fight for happiness. So, the name was changed not by chance.

Ivan Tsarevich

Ivan Tsarevich also has a pronounced character. He is brave, a trip to the underworld does not scare him. Full of royal dignity. When meeting Marya the Princess, he is tactful and noble. “Having modestly walked away, he stood behind a bush.” He is religious, like his parents. The cross and amulet help him get rid of Koshchei's pursuit.

By individualizing his heroes, Zhukovsky strives to convey their inner world and make them more interesting for the reader. For the same purpose, he introduces a portrait, a landscape, and a description of interior details. Such means of expression are not typical for folk tales.

Language features

In the field of language, the poet also violates the usual canons. Along with traditional fairy tale expressions (“neither can be said in a fairy tale, nor described with a pen”, “two deaths cannot happen, but one cannot be avoided”, “neither light nor dawn”, “not seen by sight, not heard of”, “by mustache flowed, but didn’t get into the mouth” and many others), constant epithets (“red maiden”, “dense forest”, “white stone”, etc.) Zhukovsky introduces comparisons that are completely atypical for folklore (“with a voice as clear as strings”, “in a voice as sweet as a flute”, “jumped up like crazy”, “the king shook himself off like Gogol”, etc.). In “The Tale of Tsar Berendey” there are no repetitions characteristic of oral folk art. The poet limits himself to laconic remarks: “he told everything,” “he revealed a terrible secret,” etc. All of Zhukovsky’s innovations, of course, distance his tale from the folk tale, but make it more poetic, beautiful, and fascinating.

Zhukovsky V. fairy tale "The Tale of Tsar Berendey"

Genre: literary fairy tale in verse

The main characters of the fairy tale "The Tale of Tsar Berendey" and their characteristics

1. Tsar Berendey. Frivolously promised to give away something he didn’t know about
2. Koschey the Bessmertny, evil, insidious, furious, cunning.
3. Ivan Tsarevich. Frivolous, handsome, playful, lazy.
4. Marya the Princess. Smart, loyal, kind and beautiful.
5. Old man. Kind and caring.

1. Childless Tsar Berendey
2. Long absence
3. Well
4. Berendey's promise
5. Newborn son
6. Ivan Tsarevich on the hunt
7. Mysterious old man
8. Mystery Revealed
9. Lake and ducks
10. Shirt
11. Marya the Princess
12. To Koshchei on all fours
13. Palace made of marble
14. Bee help
15. Eye spot on cheek
16. Saliva on guard
17. Bridge and river
18. Dense forest
19. Church and pop
20. Beautiful baby
21. Azure color
22. Miracles in the house
23. Sorcerer's scarf
24. Pie for Ivan
25. Doves
26. Return and wedding.

1. Tsar Berendey promised to give for liberation something he didn’t know about, otherwise it turned out to be his newborn son
2. Ivan Tsarevich grew up, met an old man in the forest and learned about his father’s oath
3. Ivan Tsarevich met Princess Marya and she led him to the kingdom of Koshchei.
4. Marya helped Ivan complete three of Koshchei’s tasks and saved him from pursuit.
5. Ivan Tsarevich went to the city, kissed the baby and forgot Princess Marya
6. Marya baked a pie and Ivan Tsarevich remembered her, they returned to Berendey and celebrated the wedding.

What does the fairy tale "The Tale of Tsar Berendey" teach?
This fairy tale teaches not to make hasty promises, but if you have already made them, then keep them. Teaches you to be grateful, teaches you to help each other. Teaches you to listen to wise advice. Teaches not to be afraid of difficulties. Teaches honesty and courage. Teaches you to fight for your happiness to the end.

Review of the fairy tale "The Tale of Tsar Berendey"
This is a very beautiful story that I really liked. Of course, most of all I liked Princess Marya, who was not only a beauty, but also a jack of all trades. She mastered magic and, in fact, it was she who saved her happiness, because Ivan’s role in the victory over Koshchei was minimal.

Proverbs for the fairy tale "The Tale of Tsar Berendey"
Having given your word, keep it, and if you don’t give it, be strong.
Any help is good in time.
With love, everything is simple, with anger, everything is cramped.
Bow to yours, and don’t forget ours.
The end is the crown of the matter.

Read a summary, a brief retelling of the fairy tale "The Tale of Tsar Berendey"
Tsar Berendey was married for three years, but God did not give him and his wife children. And then one day the king of the land went to visit his people. He was away for exactly eight months, and on the way back he stopped in the middle of a sultry field.
Berendey wanted to drink, he had no urine, so he went to look for a key. He sees a well full of water, and a golden ladle floats on the surface. Berendey wanted to grab the ladle, but he couldn’t get his hands on it. Berendey got angry, pressed his lips to the water, and his beard went into the water. He got drunk and got up, but someone was holding his beard and wouldn’t let him in.
Berendey sees a terrible figure looking at him from the water and says that he will grow his beard only if the king promises to give up what he does not know about. The king agreed and went home. He arrives, and his wife and baby meet the king. Berendey realized then what he had signed up for, he became sad, but he did not reveal his secret to anyone, and over time he completely forgot about it.
Ivan Tsarevich grew up and became handsome. And then one day the young prince went hunting. I drove into the thicket and stopped in a clearing. and a strange old man climbs out of the hollow and says hello. He orders the king to be reminded of the agreement and disappears. Ivan Tsarevich returns, tells his father, and he bursts into tears. He revealed a great secret to his son.
Ivan Tsarevich consoles him, says that it’s no big deal, he’ll set off on his journey, but if he doesn’t return in a year, it means he’s no longer in the world.
Berendey equipped his son and sent him on his way. Tsarevich Ivan is driving and sees a lake, and on the lake thirty ducks are swimming. And there are thirty shirts lying on the shore. Ivan Tsarevich took one shirt and hid.
Twenty-nine ducks came ashore, put on their shirts, turned into girls and disappeared. But the last one doesn’t come out, it struggles near the shore in despair. Ivan Tsarevich took pity on her and went ashore. The duck asks to give her the shirt. Ivan Tsarevich put his shirt down and walked aside. The duck came out, put on a shirt, and became a beauty. She says that her name is Marya, and that she is the daughter of Koshchei the Immortal. Marya told Ivan what to do next. That he needs to come to Koshchei and crawl on his knees.
Princess Marya stamped her foot, the earth parted and they found themselves in the kingdom of Koshchei. Ivan enters Koshchei, gets up on all fours and crawls. Koschey got angry and stomped, but couldn’t help but laugh. He forgave Ivan, but said that he owed him three services. And he told me to come the next day.
The next morning Ivan comes, and Koschey gives him the task - to build a palace of marble with a golden roof overnight. Ivan returned to the tent sad, he didn’t know what to do. Here a bee hits the window and asks to be let in. Ivan let the bee in, and it became Princess Marya. She found out about the service Koschey demanded, laughed, and said, there will be a palace, but you just get up early in the morning and walk on the walls with a hammer.
And sure enough, the next morning the palace stands, exactly as Koschey ordered.
Koschey was surprised; he demands a new service. Ivan Tsarevich must recognize the youngest daughter Marya among thirty daughters.
Ivan returned satisfied, he thought this service was simple. But the bee warned him that all his daughters were alike, and he could only be recognized by the spot on his cheek.
The next day Ivan walked along his daughters and saw that they all looked the same. I passed it twice - no fly. The third time he walks, he sees a fly crawling on his cheek. Ivan Tsarevich found Marya.
Koschey was indignant, this is unclean, he says. He comes up with a third service. While the torch is burning, Tsarevich Ivan must sew his boots without leaving the spot.
Ivan returned angry and flatly refuses to sew boots - he is a prince, not a shoemaker. And Marya tells him that he must run away then, otherwise Tsarevich Ivan’s head will be taken off. Marya spat on the glass and her saliva stuck to the glass. And Ivan and Marya immediately found themselves on the shore of the lake, mounted a horse and set off on the run.
In the morning, Koschey sends servants for Ivan, and the salivas answer that he will be there shortly. The second time Koschey sends servants, again the saliva also responds. Koschey got angry, he drove the servants out for the third time, they broke down those doors, and there were only mouths of laughter.
Koschey became furious and sent his servants in pursuit.
Marya heard the chase, turned into a river, turned Ivan into a bridge, and let the road go in three directions. The servants galloped up, lost track, and returned. Koschey scolded them and said that the river and the bridge were fugitives. Sent in pursuit again.
Marya heard the chase again. She turned herself and Ivan into a dense forest, and sent a horse with two riders along the path - it was a mess. The servants chased after him and arrived back to Koshcheev’s kingdom. Like a dog, Koschey got angry and rushed in pursuit.
Marya found out about this, said that Koshcheev’s power was ending at the first church and asked Ivan for a cross. He gave him his cross, and Marya immediately turned into a church, and made Ivan a monk.
Koschey galloped up to the church and asked the monk about the fugitives. And the monk answers that they were there, they went into the church, lit candles, and received a blessing.
Koshay returned home and whipped all the servants out of anger.
And Ivan and Marya drove on. They see the beautiful city in front of them. Ivan decided to come to the city, but Marya dissuaded him. But Ivan wants to go to the city and Marya decides to wait for him by the road, turning into stone. And he punishes, when the Tsar and Tsarina come out to meet Ivan, not to kiss the baby in their arms.
Ivan went to the city, but forgot Marya’s order and kissed the baby. He forgot Marya, and she turned into an azure color in tears and began to die, waiting for someone to trample her.
But the old man picked a flower, brought it home, and planted it in the ground. And from then on, miracles began to happen in his house. When he wakes up, everything in the house is clean and tidy, and the food is ready for lunch.
The old man turned to the witch, and she advised him to get up before the first rooster and if anything starts to move in the house, cover it with a scarf. The old man did just that, only the flower began to flutter around the room, he threw a scarf over it, and the flower turned into Princess Marya.
Marya cried, why did they bring her back to life, because Ivan Tsarevich had forgotten her. And the old man says that today Ivan Tsarevich is supposed to get married. Then Marya went to the palace and began to ask the cook to allow Ivan to bake a wedding cake. The chef couldn't refuse such a beauty. The cake itself was prepared for the wedding table.
As soon as Tsarevich Ivan cut off the top of the pie, two doves flew in. And the dove began to walk around the table, and the dove cooed to him that don’t go, otherwise you will forget me, just as Ivan Tsarevich forgot Princess Marya.
Tsarevich Ivan heard this, immediately remembered Marya, and ran out of the hall. He saw Marya and hugged her. They galloped to the kingdom of Berendey.
And Ivan’s parents were delighted to meet the newlyweds. and they had a feast and a merry wedding.

Drawings and illustrations for the fairy tale "The Tale of Tsar Berendey"

On the one hand, it is not difficult to answer the question “Who is this Berendey?”, but on the other hand, it is not easy to give a detailed and complete description of this semi-mythical image. This topic was addressed at different times by our wonderful poet, amazing playwright, and wonderful, extraordinary composer. And today, in 1968, the film “The Snow Maiden” was created. Actor P. Kadochnikov played the role of Tsar Berendey in it. He is wise, perspicacious, kind and fair.

Let's start with poetic lines

The first to tell the Russian reader the tale of Tsar Berendey was V. A. Zhukovsky. The poet devoted little space to him. The main characters in it are Ivan Tsarevich, Marya Tsarevna, daughter of Koshchei the Immortal and Tsar Koschey. Berendey appears only at the beginning of the story and at the end. How does the poet see Berendey? Who is this?

A middle-aged king with a beard down to his knees. He has no children until he is old. He is deeply saddened by this. Leaving his capital city to inspect his kingdom, he went away for 8 months. On the way back, at the end of the ninth month, on a sultry hot day, he wanted to rest. It was stuffy in the tent. The king dreamed of clean spring cold water. He mounted his horse and rode around the field. He came across a full well, in which a ladle with an amber handle was floating.

The ladle turned out to be not easy: it was not given into the hands of the king. Then Berendey stopped catching the cunning vessel, but simply bent down to the water, drowning his entire beard in it, and began to drink greedily. Having quenched his thirst, the unfortunate king could not raise his head from the well. The pincers of a monster with eyes glowing like huge emeralds grabbed him tightly. The monster doesn't let go. He mocks. “Give away,” he says, “what you don’t know about.” Berendey thought. Everything is familiar to him in his kingdom, and he agreed. He received the desired freedom and left.

What awaited the king at home?

The tale of Berendey Zhukovsky continues. The queen came out onto the porch to meet him with a pretty baby in her arms. Berendey began to spin. "Who is this?" - asks. “Your son Ivanushka,” says his beloved wife. Now the king understood what he did not know and with whom he had to part. Berendey didn’t tell anyone about his promise, he just kept waiting for them to come and take the baby away, and therefore he was sad all the time. But time passed, the prince grew up, no one came for him, and the king began to forget the story at the well. Ivanushka grew up handsome and went hunting in the forest.

Adventures of the Tsarevich

We continue the tale of Berendey. In a thicket, an unkind old man with a green beard and green eyes crawled out of a hollow to the king’s son and ordered the prince to go to his father and remind him of his duty. Ivanushka thought and went back. He told the Tsar Father about the meeting and the strange words. Then Berendey began to cry and revealed his terrible secret to his son. “Don’t cry, don’t freak out,” the son answered. “I’ll go, and if after a year I don’t come back, then that means I’m no longer alive.” He got on his horse and rode off to God knows where. He came across a lake. 30 ducks swam on it, and thirty white shirts lay on the shore. The prince took one of them and hid with it in the bushes. After swimming, the ducks came ashore and turned into beautiful girls. They quickly dressed in their shirts and disappeared. Only one screams pitifully near the shore, beating its wings. Ivanushka felt sorry for her, and he came out to her. She says to him: “Give me my dress, I’ll be useful to you later.”

Ivan sat down in the bushes, turned away, and then a girl came up to him and in a clear voice told him that she and her 29 other sisters were the daughters of the immortal Koshchei, who owned the underground kingdom. “Do, prince, everything I teach you, and do not be afraid of anything.” She stamped her foot, and both went down underground.

The appearance of the prince in Koshchei's palace and the first tasks

Ivan entered the bright stone palace of Koshchei and knelt before the throne. Tsar Koschey at first became very angry, and then laughed. He said that if Ivan served him three services, he would receive freedom. Koschey sent Tsarevich to rest from the road and called to him early in the morning.

He asked the first task: to build a marble palace with a golden roof and crystal windows overnight and lay out a garden with ponds around it. Ivan returned to his chambers with heavy thoughts. Then a golden bee flew into his window. She turned into Princess Marya. Ivanushka told her about his trouble. The girl consoled him and promised that everything would be done by morning, and the prince only had to walk and tap with a hammer. And so it happened. When Koschey saw the palace, he couldn’t believe his eyes. He got angry, but gave him a new task for tomorrow: to choose the youngest of his 30 daughters. He sits in his chambers, and the bee flies to him again and tells him that the sisters all have the same face, and he recognizes her by the midge on her cheek.

Ivan's choice of girl

In the morning, 30 girls stood up in front of the king's son. He must pass by them three times and choose the youngest. This turned out to be difficult. Ivan walked past the girls twice, but still didn’t see the midge. As he walked for the last time, he looked very carefully and saw a midge on his rosy cheek. Ivan took his chosen one and brought her forward. Koschey got angry. Feels that things are dirty.

Koshchei's third trick

He immediately gave Ivan a third task: to sew boots. The prince went home and began to think. Then a bee flies into the window and says that they both need to escape from inevitable death.

She spat at the window, and her saliva froze to it. They went out and locked the door. They threw the key far away: no one will find it. Both ended up at the lake where they first met. There a horse grazes on the grass. He recognized the owner, rushed over and stood in front of him. The prince and princess mounted their horses and rushed forward to freedom. Koschey, meanwhile, sends messengers to find out if the boots are ready. They are told from behind the door that they will arrive soon. This happened again. Koschey got angry and ordered the doors to be broken down; there was no one behind them. "Get in pursuit!" - Koschey shouts. The servants set off to catch up with the fugitives. Only Princess Marya has various tricks in store just in case.

Ivan Tsarevich's mistake

Koschey himself could not catch up with them, so unfortunately they met a beautiful city along the way. Ivan was drawn to the city, and Marya warned him that there he might forget her and she would die. That's how it all turned out. Out of melancholy, the beautiful princess turned into a blue flower. The old man dug it up and planted it in a pot in his hut. Zhukovsky's fairy tale "Tsar Berendey" is coming to an end. The beautiful princess managed to turn into a girl again and rescue her betrothed from the city straight from the wedding. So now they rushed to Berendey’s palace, where they were greeted as welcome and dear guests. They didn’t think long, called the guests and celebrated the wedding.

Who are the Berendeys?

Since time immemorial, according to historian S.M. Solovyov, this tribe served with Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky of Vladimir and lived near Pereyaslavl-Zalessky. The Berendeevo swamp and traces of habitation nearby remained in the memory of people in these places. However, some of them wandered and guarded the borders of Kyiv from the Polovtsians and other princes. So this tribe was not at all mythical, but quite real. Did they have a king named Berendey? Historians have not established who this is. Most likely, it was a petty prince. He remained in legends, like this unfamiliar tribe. This happened in the 12th century. A hundred years later, some of the Berendeys moved to Hungary and Bulgaria. The remnants of the tribe united with the Slavs and turned into Russians.

In mythology, which was beautifully used by the writer N. Ostrovsky, and then by the composer N. Rimsky-Korsakov, there is a peasant king, Berendey. Who is this? A man who kissed the cross for loyalty to his people, tillers and farmers. He is the keeper of the faith and a wise mentor to his subjects.

Vera Berendeev

They were pagans and spiritualized all the nature around them. Every pebble, especially a large boulder, every tree and every bush and leaf had a soul. They, like everyone else, wanted to know their future. The fortune telling of the Berendeys was that they looked at the leaves that fell at their feet.

So their patron, nature, gave them signs. If today you want to tell your fortune for love, you can write your lover’s name on a piece of paper, then throw it up:

• If he has risen high, then everything goes joyfully and mutually. If he is still spinning in the air, then the relationship will be happy and long.
• If it flies to the side or low, then quarrels may occur.
• If a leaf falls, then expect conflicts.

Fortune telling with flowers. You need to collect a bouquet of wildflowers and put them in a vase or jar. Then make a wish and notice your flower. If it fades overnight, the wish will not come true. The whole family can tell fortunes on the bouquet. Only everyone must choose a separate flower for themselves.

Fortune telling on autumn leaves. 9 fallen leaves are collected: three red, three green, three yellow. They are collected into a random pile, and then three leaves are taken out of it. The meaning is deciphered based on the combinations of their colors:

• 3 red leaves have gathered - achievements await you if you show dexterity and ingenuity.
• 2 red and yellow - unexpected talents will be revealed.
• 2 red and green - expect good luck if you are determined.
• 2 yellow and red mean a romantic meeting and love or a meeting that will change life for the better.
• 2 yellow and green - minor troubles.
• 3 yellow - good luck will come.
• 2 green and yellow - the charm of love will pass.
• 2 green and red - act actively and drive away the blues.
• 3 green - engage in analysis and self-improvement.

Fortune telling on different tree leaves

• A straight rosehip leaf will tell you that relationships can change for the worse.
• An inverted willow leaf means that what you want will not come true very soon. Even if it seems that everything has collapsed, then still be sure that everything will work out even better than you expected.
• A straight oak leaf indicates successful career growth.
• The linden leaf warns of accidents or someone's envy. Beware of enemies.
• An inverted fern leaf means an unpredictable situation.
• A straight maple leaf is a success in business.
• Straight raspberry leaf - expect happiness and prosperity on the doorstep.
• Inverted viburnum leaf - beware of depression. We must strive for happiness.
• Straight aspen leaf - believe your dreams. They are prophetic.

This is how they tell fortunes to this day using Berendey’s secrets. You shouldn’t attach too much importance to them; it’s much better to look carefully at your actions and the actions of others.

Class: 8

Lesson 1. Spring tale by A.N. Ostrovsky

Lesson format: heuristic conversation.

Diagnostic objectives of the lesson:

1. get acquainted with the fairy tale by A.N. Ostrovsky, determine the genre of the work;
2. build a system of images;
3. in expressive reading, convey the author’s attitude towards the characters;
4. write a syncwine based on the work.

During the classes

We begin the lesson by viewing illustrations for the work (slide show):

1. Stelletsky. Prologue. Set design for an opera.
2. Chambers of Tsar Berendey. Decoration sketch. Vasnetsov, 1885
3. Vasnetsov. Spring. Costume design, 1882
4. Brusila and Berendey are timid. Costume design, 1885 – 1886.
5. Snow Maiden and Lel. Costume sketches, 1885 – 1886.

Note: the slide show is shown against the background of P.I. Tchaikovsky’s music for the play “The Snow Maiden”. Introduction.

Questions for reader perception:

1. How did you feel while looking at the illustrations and listening to the music?
2. Kingdom of Berendey. How did you see him?
3. What episode do you remember most? Which episode did you want to draw an illustration for?
4. What kind of Snow Maiden do you imagine?
5. Where else did you meet the Snow Maiden? Compare her with the heroines of Russian folk tales (see Appendix 1).
6. What feelings did you have after reading it?

Analysis of the work:

1. Introduction to theory. Write on the board:

   Drama –
   Play -
   Fairy tale -
   Conflict –

   The teacher must provide an interpretation of unfamiliar words found in the play (see Appendix 2).

2. Getting to know the poster.
3. Conversation.

   – Where does the play take place? How did you find out?
   – Who are the heroes of the play? Describe them.
   – What role does the description of nature play?
   – How does the land of the Berendeys greet Spring? Find and read.
   – Where does the Snow Maiden spend her childhood?
   - Why does the Snow Maiden want to go to people? Don't her father and mother love her?
   – What is the essence of the conflict between Spring and Frost?
   – Is Frost happy to let the Snow Maiden go to people? What does he warn the Snow Maiden against?
   – How does Ostrovsky paint pictures of people’s life?
   – Tell us about Maslenitsa (see Appendix 3).
   – How do the Berendeys perceive the appearance of the Snow Maiden?
   – What can you tell us about the Snow Maiden’s new family?
   -Who is Lel? What attracts the Snow Maiden to him?
   – Why does Lel throw away the flower given by the Snow Maiden and run away to other girls?
   – What is the difference between Snegurochka and Kupava? Which side do you sympathize with?
   – Why does the engagement between Mizgir and Kupava break down?
   – So, how does the Snow Maiden appear at the beginning of the play?

4. Compiling a syncwine (creative learning task).

Sinkwine is one of the techniques that develop critical thinking. This is a five-line stanza:

1. one keyword (noun);
2. two adjectives characterizing the word in the first line;
3. three verbs;
4. a short phrase, conclusion, which shows the attitude to the problem;
5. one noun (synonym for the first line).

Homework.

1. Compose an oral story about one character using examples from the text.
2. Select material about Berendey, his attitude towards the people.
3. Answer the question: why does the Snow Maiden die?

Lesson 2. Snow Maiden and Berendey's kingdom

The focus of our attention is the structure of the Berendey kingdom, the morals, life of the Berendeys, and life values. The relationship between the Snow Maiden and the Berendeys. What is the essence of the conflict?

Diagnostic objectives of the lesson.

1. Explain what the conflict is between the Snow Maiden and the Berendeys, Frost and Yarila, wealth and poverty;
2. To develop the ability to characterize characters;
3. Students will be able to talk about the hero;
4. As a result, students will be able to answer the questions: why does the Snow Maiden die? What should I think about Ostrovsky's play?
5. Students will be able to compare Ostrovsky's tale and Russian folk tales. Lesson format: conversation, reading, listening to excerpts from an audiobook.

Conversation.

1. What did we learn about heroes in the last lesson? (Students' stories, homework)
2. Tell us about the Berendeys. What laws do they live by? Support with examples from the text.
3. How do you imagine Tsar Berendey?
4. How does he treat his subjects?
5. Why didn’t the Berendeys accept the Snow Maiden?
6. What is the essence of the conflict? (Draw on the board)

– For what purpose does Snow come in spring?
– How does the Snow Maiden change?
– What punishment does Tsar Berendey impose on Mizgir?
– Does Mizgir love the Snow Maiden? Why doesn't he listen to her?
- Why does the Snow Maiden die?
– Who is to blame for her death?
- Why?
– Ostrovsky borrowed the plot from Russian folk tales.

We read the passages.

– What did the playwright change? Why?

Homework: divide the class into 4 groups:

1. “Decorators”: create sketches of decorations.
2. “Costume designers”: develop models.
3. “Directors”: think through the script (together with the teacher), select episodes.
4. “Actors”: stage selected episodes.

Lesson 3. “The Snow Maiden’s miraculous appearance”

Lesson format: lesson - theatrical performance.

Goals:

1. Instill an interest in literature.
2. Students will be able to convey the characters' characters in a theatrical play.

During the classes.

Teacher's word.

In 1881, N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “The Snow Maiden” was written based on the text of A.N. Ostrovsky’s fairy tale. Curiously, at first the play seemed “strange” to the composer. Upon re-reading, my opinion changed.

“In the winter of 1879-1880, I read The Snow Maiden,” wrote N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, “and definitely saw its amazing beauty. I immediately wanted to write an opera on this plot, and as I thought about this intention, I felt more and more in love with A.N. Ostrovsky’s fairy tale.”

Listen to this piece of music. “It seems that the whole mighty element of Russian nature sounds in it, the spirits and forces of which are an integral part of life and the people themselves - the inhabitants of the Berendey kingdom.”

(The introduction to N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “The Snow Maiden” sounds).

Against the background of music, the teacher reads: “The beginning of spring. Red hill covered with snow. To the right are bushes and a sparse leafless birch forest, to the left is a continuous dense forest of large pines and spruce trees with branches sagging from the weight of the snow. In the depths, under the mountain, the river, ice holes and ice holes are lined with spruce trees. Beyond the river is Berendeyev Posad, the capital of Tsar Berendey: palaces, houses, huts, all wooden with intricate carvings; there are lights in the windows. The full moon silvers the entire open surface. Roosters crow in the distance. The goblin sits on a dry stump."

How do we imagine the heroes of A.N. Ostrovsky’s play?

Student performances.

Discussion.

1. Was our performance a success?
2. Which of the guys played the best? Why?
3. If you were offered to play in the play again, what role would you choose?

So our meeting with “The Snow Maiden” by A.N. Ostrovsky has ended.

What attracts us to the “spring fairy tale”? Of course, Snegurochka is a naive child of nature, suffering from the desire to be closer to people.

“The Snow Maiden is the embodiment of fragile, transient beauty and sensitive sorrow, spring sorrow about imminent death.”

The real and the fantastic are closely intertwined here: fairy-tale creatures communicate with real people. The Berendeys perform their spring rituals, sing folk songs - “the same ones that, perhaps, once sounded on our land during the time of spring games, in distant pagan times.”

1. Why is a fairy tale one of the “eternal” themes of art?
2. What does A.N. Ostrovsky’s fairy tale make you think about? (Student presentations)

Final lesson option

The final lesson can be conducted in the form of a literary court, “The Snow Maiden’s case is being heard.”

Assign roles in advance.

The Snow Maiden talks about her life in the forest, about why she came to people.

The prosecutor blames the Berendeys for the death of the Snow Maiden.

The lawyer writes an acquittal speech.

The judge presides over the trial and calls witnesses.

Witnesses: Moroz, Vesna, Mizgir, Kupava, Lel, Yarilo.

Final words from the teacher.

Today in the literary court we listened to the prosecution, the defense, witnesses, and the Snow Maiden. The time has come for all of us to give our assessment of what happened.

1. What can you say about the Snow Maiden?
2. Who is to blame for the death of the Snow Maiden?

Written work “What did studying the play by A.N. Ostrovsky give me?”

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You need to play Avataria less, you need to study
We have already encountered the name of Tsar Berendey in Russian literature from Zhukovsky (“The Tale of Tsar Berendey”). But in Ostrovsky’s fairy tale there is not only Tsar Berendey, but also the kingdom of the Berendeys. And the king is Berendey because he is the king of the Berendeys, therefore one should look for a justification for the name of the people of the fabulous land of the Berendeys, in which Berendey reigns.
It’s hardly worth looking for the answer in the historical concept of this name, but we’ll give it anyway. The Berendeys are a tribe of Turkic origin, ethnographically close to the Pechenegs. Roamed beyond the eastern borders of Ancient Rus'. Pressed from the east by the Polovtsy, the Berendeys at the end of the 11th century sought protection from the Russians and entered into various alliance agreements with them. According to agreements with the Russian princes, they settled on the borders of Ancient Rus' and often served as guards in favor of the Russian state. But after the invasion of the Tatars they were scattered and partly mixed with the population of the Golden Horde, and partly with the Russians. They did not survive as an independent people. Obviously, these are not the same Berendeys. The answer can be found in the writer's biography.
The playwright's ancestors are the people of Northern Rus'. At twenty-five years old, Ostrovsky travels to the homeland of his ancestors for the first time. Already halfway from Moscow to Kostroma, he sees the special Russian people. Young Ostrovsky encounters “types of Russian beauty, respectable, which is measured by fathoms and a special, somehow broad taste... beauties are also in Russian taste, beauties without any reproach, that is, from the side of beauty... Russian politeness, charming, with a smile; without foreign gloss, but it gets into your soul, and guess what... What types, what beautiful women and girls. That’s where I hit the ground and was torn in half.”
These notes are from impressions after Pereyaslavl. And then Ostrovsky comes to a conclusion in which he even defines the ethnographic border of Northern Rus'. And its distinctive features. “Merya begins from Pereyaslavl - a land abundant with mountains and waters, and a people that is tall, and beautiful, and intelligent, and frank, and obliging, and a free mind, and a wide-open soul.” Historically, Merya is a tribe that lived before the 9th,
10th centuries on the territory of the current Yaroslavl and Kostroma regions. According to its ethnographic origin, it belongs to the Finno-Ugric group. With the increase in the population of the Northern Slavs, with its settlement and increasing strengthening in Northern Rus', it dispersed among the Russians and merged with them. The historically natural process of ethnographic selection has taken place - the formation of a renewed northern group of Slavs. Merya Ostrovsky called the northern Russian people, to which Ostrovsky himself belonged by blood, and was the subject of his surprise and admiration. Later, on the way from Pereyaslavl to Kostroma, he meets Russian Berendeys from the village of Berendeevo. And all the people on this side were christened Ostrovsky Berendeys