Russian folk tales. Category - ordinary fairy tales Bedtime stories with drawings

They gave us a fairy tale! Illustrators who brought our favorite heroes to life. A guide to books, style, techniques and life stories.

Ivan Bilibin

Master of graphics, creator of a special type of illustrated book, “the first professional of the book” - as experts call him. His example is a science to others; many generations of not only illustrators, but also graphic designers sought inspiration in Bilibin’s work.

“The Frog Princess”, “Vasilisa the Beautiful”, “Marya Morevna”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “The Tale of the Golden Cockerel”, “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish” - it’s worth finding your favorite books from childhood on the shelf to be convinced - beauty!

Style. You can recognize Bilibin’s works from a large format thin notebook book with large color drawings. And the artist here is not just the author of the drawings, but also of all the decorative elements of the book - the cover, initials, fonts and ornaments.

Elena Polenova

The Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve still houses books illustrated by Elena Polenova. The sister of the famous painter Vasily Polenov, although she was associated with the bohemian “Mamontov circle” - artists, artists, architects, was always interested in the folk, peasant. She was inspired by fairy tales; in her letters to friends, heroes of folklore are mentioned, for example: Grandma Fedosya is a master of inventing funny tales.

Style: The main thing in Polenova’s landscapes is attention to “little things”: herbs, flowers, mushrooms, insects. She tried “to be transported back to that distant childhood when, listening to this story, I imagined miniature monasteries and cities in the forest, built, so to speak, on a mushroom scale, in which these amazing creatures live and act.”

Yuri Vasnetsov

“The Stolen Sun” by Korney Chukovsky, “Cat’s House” by Samuil Marshak, “The Little Humpbacked Horse” by Pyotr Ershov - we present the heroes of all these books thanks to the drawings of Yuri Vasnetsov .

Style: The artist was inspired by elegant Dymkovo dolls and bright roosters, lubok traditions and folk imagination have had an impact noticeable influence on the work of the illustrator.

Detail: Book graphics was only part of Vasnetsov’s creativity. IN paintings he showed himself to be a very great master, who combined folk culture and high aesthetics.

Vladimir Konashevich

Vladimir Konashevich gave us the opportunity to see Doctor Aibolit, Tyanitolkay, little Bibigon, Little Humpbacked Horse and the wise men who sailed on the sea in a thunderstorm. Talking about how he comes up with drawings, Konashevich admitted: “There are artists who invent and think with a pencil in their hand... I am an artist of a different kind. Before I take up a pencil, I have to find out everything in advance, mentally imagine a ready-made drawing in all the details..."

Style: For an artist working with children's books, one talent for drawing is not enough; a second talent is needed - kindness. Konashevich’s world is just like that, a world of kindness and dreams. The artist created a recognizable style in the design of fairy tales: bright images, ornate patterns, vignettes, a “living” composition that captivates not only children, but also adults.

Georgy Narbut

“From an early age, as long as I can remember,” Georgy Narbut admitted, “I was attracted to painting. In the absence of paints, which I did not see until I got to the gymnasium, I used pencils colored paper: cut out with scissors and glued with flour glue."

The artist, draftsman and illustrator, organizer of higher graphic education in Ukraine, Georgy Narbut, studied with Mikhail Dobuzhinsky and Ivan Bilibin, the latter even said: “Narbut has enormous, literally immense talent... I consider him the most outstanding, the greatest of Russian graphic artists.”

Style. In Narbut’s workshop, brilliant ideas were born and masterpieces were created that changed the history of books in Russia. Book graphics are not just virtuoso technique and refined taste. Narbut's style is always an expressive cover, decoratively designed title page, initial letters and skillful illustrations.

Boris Zvorykin

The artist deliberately avoided excessive publicity, which is why the facts about her biography are so scarce. It is known that he came from the Moscow merchant class and studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

Zvorykin is considered the founder of the “Russian style” in book illustration and the best decorative graphic artist of the early 20th century. Since 1898, he illustrated and designed books for the Moscow and St. Petersburg publishing houses of Ivan Sytin and Anatoly Mamontov. The artist's first experience in the field of children's books was the book "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" by Alexander Pushkin.

Style. Boris Zvorykin looked for inspiration for his works in Russian antiquity, decorative and applied arts, icon painting, wooden architecture and book miniatures. No wonder he was one of the active members of the Society for the Revival of Artistic Rus'.

Boris Diodorov

Boris Diodorov "revitalized" for us the heroes of Russian and foreign classics. "Tuttu Karlsson The first and only, "Ludwig the Fourteenth and others," Amazing trip Nilsa with wild geese", "It's in the Hat" (about the history of hats in Russia together with Irina Konchalovskaya) - you can't list them all: in total the artist illustrated about 300 books.

Diodorov worked as the chief artist of the publishing house "Children's Literature", received from the hands of the Princess of Denmark gold medal H. H. Andersen, his works were exhibited in the USA, France, Spain, Finland, Japan, and South Korea.

Style: the beauty of fine lines. The etching technique, in which a steel needle scratches a design on a varnished metal plate, is quite complex, but only it allows one to achieve airiness and subtlety in execution.

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In this section of the site you can read children's fairy tales online completely free of charge and without registration. Just select the author of the fairy tale you need in the right menu and you can immerse yourself in fascinating reading about magical adventures fairy-tale heroes. All fairy tales on our website with colorful illustrations And summary, therefore, we recommend that you first read a summary of the fairy tale before reading it to your children at night. Fairy tales for children on our website are presented in the form alphabetical list, to make it more convenient for you to find the right fairy tale and read it online. Reading fairy tales online is not only interesting, but also very useful - this activity perfectly develops a child’s imagination.

Children's fairy tales

Remember your childhood. Each of us loved bedtime stories as a child. At first, when we did not yet know how to read, our parents and grandparents did it for us, showing colorful illustrations in the book. When we learned to read on our own, we began to read ourselves interesting tales. On our website we have selected fairy tales for children of any age: from 2 years old until children stop believing in fairy tales)) Each author's or folk tale carries a certain meaning that the author or people put into this fairy tale under the influence of the corresponding time .Fairy tales contain basic principles of morality. It is from fairy tales that a child begins to understand what is good and what is bad. He learns to empathize with the heroes, tries to imitate them, so correctly selected children's fairy tales will play an important role in raising children.

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Fairy tale heroes

Each hero of a children's fairy tale can be classified into one of two types: good or bad. In almost every fairy tale there is a struggle between good and evil and, more often than not, good wins.

In addition, fairy tale heroes can be divided into the following categories:

Magical heroes (Kolobok, Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, Kashchei the Immortal, Baba Yaga, Vodyanoy, Beast,Serpent-Gorynych, Dragon, Chippolino, Gulliver...)

Magical animals(Puss in Boots, Ryaba Hen, Fox, Bear, Cheshire Cat, Ugly duck, The Golden Cockerel, Gray wolf, Crane, Traveling Frog...)

Social Heroes(princess, prince, king, queen, master, boyar, peasant, peasant...)

Representatives of professions(blacksmith, forester, swineherd, soldier, chimney sweep, priest, bishop...)

People of different ages(grandmother, grandfather, granddaughter, Little Red Riding Hood, mother, father, brother, sister, groom, bride...)

Bogatyrs (Alyosha Popovich, Dobrynya Nikitich, Nikita Kozhemyaka, Ilya Muromets...)

Each fairy tale has its own atmosphere, characteristic of a certain people and era to which the author of the fairy tale belonged.

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Goby - tar barrel.
Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman, and they had a granddaughter Alyonushka. Everyone in the village had cattle, but they had no one at all. Until the old man one day made a little straw bull...

The wolf and the seven Young goats.
A Russian folk tale about how an evil wolf hunted for kids, and what came of it.

Hare, fox and rooster.
One day a fox kicked a bunny out of his own hut... A Russian folk tale about courage and justice.

Boasting hare.
A fairy tale about one boastful and cowardly little bunny, who later reformed.

Porridge from an axe.
A Russian folk tale about how a Russian soldier can cook porridge even with an ax and get out of any trouble.

Kolobok.
Once the grandmother baked a bun, put it on the window to cool, and that was all they saw...
The tale of a cheerful kolobok.

Cat and fox.
Once upon a time there was a man. This guy had a cat, but he was such a spoiler, it was a disaster! He's bored to death. So the man thought and thought, took the cat, put it in a bag and took it to the forest...
And what happened next, the children will learn from the Russian folk tale “The Cat and the Fox.”

Chicken Ryaba.
A fairy tale for the little ones about one amazing chicken.

Fox and wolf.
Russian folk tale about a cunning fox and an unlucky wolf.

Fox and crane.
A fairy tale about the need to think not only about yourself, but about others too.

Mashenka and the bear.
Russian folk tale about a lost girl who managed to escape from an evil bear.

The cockerel is a golden comb.
A tale about a cockerel and his friends - a cat and a blackbird.
The cockerel kept getting into trouble, and the cat and the blackbird saved him.

Cockerel and bean seed.
Once a hasty cockerel choked on a bean seed,
and a kind, caring chicken saved him.

At the pike's command.
One day Emelya the Fool was lucky enough to catch a magic pike. He's done a lot of things... (A fairy tale in pictures.)

Turnip.
Grandfather planted a turnip, and the turnip grew big and big...

Snow Maiden and Fox.
A fairy tale about a fox who rescued the girl Snegurushka from trouble.

Teremok.
A fairy tale about how animals found a tower in the forest and began to live in it...

Princess Frog.
Russian folk tale about Ivan Tsarevich and Vasilisa the Beautiful, turned into a frog. (A fairy tale in pictures.)

Russian folk tales.

In its simple and pronounced form, the struggle between good and evil Russian folk tales educate, and also tangibly form the basic character traits of a person. Thanks to fairy tales, children learn about different things and concepts in an accessible form.

In addition, fairy tales are a source folk wisdom, accumulated over centuries, which is easily absorbed by a child.

For the rest of his life, a person will have the warmest memories of how his parents or grandmothers read fairy tales aloud to him before going to bed.

For preschool children, for teenagers and for dreamy boys and girls, Russian folk tales are collected on the page. Moms and dads, grandparents can remember their childhood and immerse themselves with their beloved children in fascinating world magical children's literature on our website, the Russian Fairy Tale website online, free of charge and without registration.

Author's and folk tales are accompanied by extraordinary illustrations. For several centuries after the invention of lacquer and art painting collected untold wealth colorful fairy-tale sketches of Palekh, Fedoskino, Kholui, Mstera, Zhostovo, Dymkovo, Gzhel, Khokhloma, Russian nesting dolls and other folk crafts. One glance at the page is enough to understand the artist’s imagination is limitless!

Having no television, no radio, no Internet in their arsenal, but only canvas, paints and their own imagination, storytellers created real masterpieces.

Incredible riot of colors and rendering the smallest details make these paintings a property of national Russian art and true historical value.

Looking at the pictures, you can understand how our ancestors lived, how they dressed, how they imagined this huge world. Modern children, through the paintings of Russian artists, will be able to realize that life was not as comfortable and carefree as in our turbulent times!

People had to work hard to grow bread, weave linen and paint their lives in several bright colors.

A charge of goodness and light in Russian folk tales.

In times when there were no televisions or the Internet, all children and adults gathered in one large room in the evening. They lit candles, the women sat at work, and the kids climbed onto the warm and cozy stove and asked their grandmother: - tell me a story. The grandmother-storyteller began to bake and read beautiful little tales, stories that were composed by the people based on real events. The storytellers knew many, many folk tales and recited them, creating a magical theatrical production.

The children listened to long and short bedtime stories with bated breath, and absorbed with their souls and memories every word dropped about magical animals and people. Apart from playing in the yard and making up stories, they had no other entertainment, but the children grew up smart, brave and true patriots of the great Mother Russia.

Today, reading fairy tales with pictures is intended to develop the imagination and replenish the richness of the native Russian language. Large font will help you easily read the text, remember the words and love reading the book, and after each line of the story there is a picture, drawing or photo of a lacquer miniature that illustrates the event and the adventures of fairy-tale characters.

The page contains our favorite fairy tales from Russians and foreign writers. Here are stories about popular and famous characters that every child should meet in early childhood. Start diving into Magic world fairy tales are better with Turnip, Masha and the Bear, Kolobok and Ryaba Hen. Then move on to meet Morozko, Emelya and the magic pike, Baba Yaga and Koshchei, Ivan the Tsarevich and Vasilisa the Beautiful, the Princess Frog and Sivka the Burka, Ivan the Fool, the Fisherman and the Goldfish. Gradually, children will get to know and love all fairy-tale characters, learn from their examples to live, love, do good, and will definitely remember fairy tales from childhood for many, many years.

Fairy tales for children 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old, 6 years old, 7 years old, 8 years old, 9 years old... for children kindergarten of different ages, school students and their parents, teachers and educators.