Russian folk tale "The Punished Princess" read the text online:
In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a king, and he had a daughter. She says once to her father:
- Order, father, to click the cry: let the fellows come to us from all sides. They will guess riddles, and I will guess. Whose riddles I guess, cut off his head. Whose I do not guess, I will marry him, let him at least be the last shepherd!
The king agreed. They called the cry. Well done fellows gathered from all sides, each with its own riddles. Which one of them will start asking a riddle, but the princess will not listen to the end and shouts:
- I know I know!
And now he will tell the answer. They will take the young man, cut off his head. So many people have been ruined that you cannot count ...
An old man lived in that kingdom-state. He had three sons. The youngest was called Ivanushka. Ivanushka heard that the princess was destroying people for nothing, and said to his father:
- Let go of me, father, I will go to the princess to make a riddle. She probably won’t guess mine!
- Where are you, you fool! There are brothers and smarter than you, and even then they do not go. It's better to stay at home: your head will be more whole!
- What are my brothers! - Ivanushka answers. - They have their own mind, I have mine. Bless on the way!
There is nothing to do, the old man Ivanushka dismissed. Ivanushka sat down on an old nag and drove off. He sees a rusty spear lying on the road. He picked up this spear and drove on. He rode, rode - he looks: the bull has climbed into the oats, eats and tramples it. Ivanushka got off the horse, pulled out a bunch of oats, waved them like a whip, and drove the bull out of the oats. I kicked it out and says:
- Here is the first riddle!
- Here is another riddle!
How long or short - he drove up to the river and thinks:
He let his horse go to graze on the grass, and he himself lay down in an old boat that was tied up by the shore and fell asleep.
In the morning Ivanushka woke up. He sees that foam has gathered on the water. He took off the foam from the water, washed himself. He walked over to his horse and rubbed himself with her mane instead of a towel.
“Here,” he says, “there is a third riddle!
He came to the royal palace and said:
- Take me to your princess! I will make riddles for her!
They brought him in. He asked the first riddle:
- I drove to you and I see - goodness is near the road, but goodness wanders in goodness. I took good and good from good and drove it out. What is your answer?
The princess thought and thought - she could not guess. She grabbed a thick book and began looking for a clue in it. There is no such answer in the book! The princess says to her father:
- Let him ask me some other riddle - I will solve both at once!
Ivanushka also asked the second riddle:
- I drove to you, I see - evil on the road. I took evil and evil with evil and struck. Evil took death from evil. What is your answer?
The princess grabbed the book again. I was looking for a clue in it - I could not find it! She then set off on a trick.
- Let, - he says, - he thinks of a third: I have one, or three to solve!
Ivanushka also asked the third riddle:
- I drove on, and a dark night overtook me on the way. I stopped to spend the night. I went to sleep not in heaven, not on earth, not in a hut, not on the street, not in the forest, not in the field. In the morning I woke up, washed myself not with dew, not with water; wiped off not woven, not knitted. What is your answer?
The princess does not even grab her book: she knows that she cannot find a solution in it. She says to the king:
- Oh, father! Today my head hurts, my thoughts go crazy ... I’ll guess tomorrow.
The king ordered to postpone the answers until tomorrow. They took Ivanushka to the room for the night, ordered him not to go anywhere. He took out a crust of bread, sits and devours it.
And the princess does not find a place for herself.
“Really,” he thinks, “I will have to marry a peasant? How many riddles have been guessed, how many heads have been chopped off! Kings, princes could not do anything, but here the little bast man wants to take over me! .. "
The princess chose a faithful servant and sends her to Ivanushka.
- Go, - he says, - find out clues from him. Promise him gold and silver, whatever! Don't regret anything!
The maid came to Ivanushka. She began to inquire, to find out, she herself promises him both gold and silver. And Ivanushka says:
- What do I need your gold, silver? Not then I went here. Let the princess guess my riddles! And tell her one more riddle: they threw peas to the cockerel until the sun, but he doesn’t bite!
The maid returned to the princess with nothing.
- So and so, - he says, - he does not take gold, silver, demands that you guess riddles.
The princess is angry, does not know what to do. And he cannot guess the riddle and does not want to marry a simple peasant. She thought, thought, and thought of a bad deed.
In the morning, as everyone gathered, the princess came out and said:
- I am the mistress of my word: I could not guess the riddle, I will marry Ivan. Get everything ready for the wedding!
Everyone was delighted: at last they will stop chopping off the brave heads! ..
Tsarevna Ivanushka ordered to ask her in her room: she wants to talk with the groom, to treat him with gingerbread and sweet wines. Ivanushka came. The princess sat him down at the table, began to regale him. And she herself imperceptibly poured him into a glass of sleeping potion. Ivanushka drank and fell fast asleep.
Then the princess called her faithful servant, presented her with rich gifts and ordered that Ivanushka be taken away and thrown into a swampy swamp, so that he would no longer hear or hear him!
They took Ivanushka and threw him into the swamp, into the bog itself ...
Ivanushka slept in the swamp for three days. He woke up, looked around and said:
- How did I end up in such an unkind place?
He remembered how his princess treated and regaled, poured wine with her own hands, and guessed who had thrown him into the quagmire to perish.
Ivanushka began to get out of the swamp. Grabbing bumps, roots - barely crawled out. He went to the river, washed himself and wandered aimlessly.
He walked for a long time and wandered into a dense forest. He wandered, wandered through the forest, and he wanted to eat. He looks - an apple tree stands in a forest clearing, hung with ripe, ruddy apples.
Ivanushka plucked an apple, ate it, and at the same moment horns grew on his head - large and heavy, their head bowed to the ground.
He looked into the lake, saw himself and was horrified.
“Here,” he thinks, “trouble! If I go out on the field now, so the cattle will be afraid of me, not only the people. Yes, and walking in the forest is dangerous: the hunters for the beast will take - they will kill. What to do? .. We must go deeper into the forest! ”
Ivanushka went through the forest, clinging to the trees with his horns.
How long, you never know, walked - I saw another apple tree. Apples hang on it unprecedented: you can see the seeds through the skin. He stopped near this apple tree and thought:
“Eh, what will be will be! Shoot the apple! "
He picked the apple, ate it, and at that very moment his horns disappeared, and he himself became a fine fellow and a handsome man, better than ever.
“Well,” thinks Ivanushka, “I'll teach this princess a lesson! She will not want to ruin and deceive good people! "
He picked apples from both apple trees - horny and medicinal - and went into the city. He entered the city and saw: an old old woman was sitting by one house, all shaking from old age. Ivanushka took pity on her. He came up and said:
- Great, grandma! Eat that apple!
The old woman ate a good apple and immediately rejuvenated - she was fat and rosy.
- Ah, - he says, - my dear child! How can I thank you?
- Will you help me, grandmother, to get a tray and a jacket, which merchants go to? I'll change, I'll go sell these rejuvenating apples.
The old woman gave him a quickie and took out a coat and a tray. Ivanushka dressed up in a merchant's coat, laid apples on the tray, put the tray on his head and became like a real merchant.
He went to the royal palace. I came and let's shout loudly:
- Apples are sweet! The apples are delicious! Apples blush! To whom are sweet apples! To whom are sweet apples!
The princess heard, sends her maid:
- Go find out if he sells genuinely sweet apples?
The maid ran, asks:
- Hey, well done merchant! Aren't your apples sour?
- If you please, madam, try it! - Ivanushka answers and gives her an apple.
The maid ate this apple and became such a beauty that even the princess did not recognize her when she returned to the palace.
- Is it you ?! - asks. - You were dark-haired and pockmarked, but now you are better than me! How did it happen?
- I am the! Made the apple so!
The princess gave the servant a hundred rubles and said:
- Go quickly, buy me these apples too.
The maid ran away, bought apples and brought them to the princess. The princess chose the most ruddy, the largest apple and immediately ate it. And as soon as she ate, her horns grew up to the ceiling, big and heavy ...
The maid looked at her, was frightened, and ran to the king as soon as possible.
- Oh, - shouts, - the princess has a devil! ..
The king came running, sees - really devil. He shook with fear and fell. And the princess says:
- Don't be afraid, dad, I'm your daughter!
And she herself cries, pours. And the king weeps, and the queen:
- Shame, shame! What to do? How to appear to foreign sovereigns? ..
Everyone ran around here, gasped, but they couldn't do anything. They laid the princess on the bed, and over the bed they ordered the carpenters to make shelves so that the horns could be put on them.
The princess lies on the bed, groans herself, laments:
- Oh, now I am neither to see people, nor to get married ...
The doctors were summoned. The healers began to soar and cut the horns - they can do nothing.
And Ivanushka, meanwhile, tied his beard, dressed up as a doctor, hung himself all over with bubbles and herbs, took three rods in his hands and went to the palace. I came and let's shout:
We are doctors, we are pharmacists -
We treat for glory
Though Thomas, even Savva!
We are soaring in the bathhouse
We fry in the bathhouse:
In the bathhouse - on the wood,
From the bathhouse - on your feet.
Is there a job for a healer? I treat all ailments, I save you from great diseases!
The princess heard this and said to her maids:
- Oh, call this doctor soon! Maybe he will rid me of the horns!
The maids rushed after the doctor. They brought him to the palace. The king himself met him. Ivanushka asks him:
- Who is sick here?
“You, apparently, are not of our kingdom,” the king says, “if you don’t know what happened with us! .. My daughter’s horns grew up to the ceiling. If you cure her, I will reward you and marry the princess to you, and as I grow old, I will put you in my royal place.
- Your tsarist majesty, - Ivanushka answers, - let me first examine the patient!
They brought him to the princess. Ivanushka looked at her and said:
- She has chickenpox: the evil wind blew! Order the bathhouse to be thoroughly heated and take the princess there, where I will treat her. I will steam off her horns.
The king says:
- Ask what you want! I will give everything, I will make you gilded!
- Then you will gold me. First, you need to cure. I only demand one thing: let the music play louder near the bathhouse, beat the drums, fire the cannons, and without that my treatment will not work.
The king says:
- What you order, then we will do!
- Well, then bring the princess out!
They began to take the princess out, but she could not go through the door: the horns were not allowed.
The king shouts:
- Disassemble the pier!
They dismantled the pier, took the princess out, they wanted to seat her in the carriage. And the horses saw her - they whinnied, stamped their hooves in fear and started to run. And they broke the carriage and trampled many people ...
The soldiers harnessed to the carriage and drove the princess.
They brought me to the bathhouse, took me out. Then the music began to play, they began to beat the drums, fire from the cannons.
Ivanushka sent all the servants away, grabbed the princess by the horns and started asking her:
“What bad deeds have you got these horns for?” Obey: did you not offend anyone, did you deceive?
“Father is a doctor,” the princess replies, “I have never deceived anyone, never offend anyone… I only did good deeds!
Ivanushka took the cane, whipped the princess and again asks:
- Obey: did you not offend, did you deceive anyone?
The princess still does not admit it.
Ivanushka says to her:
- Until then I will not let go, until you tell the truth!
The princess was frightened, says:
- Sorry, father doctor! I ordered one man to be thrown into a swampy swamp! Only can this be considered a sin? After all, this is a simple man ...
Ivanushka took off his beard and asked:
- Look, am I the same man?
The princess looked at him, and how she screamed.
The princess decided to choose a groom for herself, many applicants gathered. The capricious bride came up with trials for them - she will marry someone whose riddle she cannot solve. Grooms of a noble family asked their riddles, but the princess knew the answers to everything. And only a simple guy managed to confuse her. The princess wanted to punish the groom, but she paid the price herself.
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In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a king, and he had a daughter. She says once to her father:
Order, father, to click the cry: let the fellows come to us from all sides. They will guess riddles, and I will guess. Whose riddles I guess, cut off his head. Whose I do not guess, I will marry him, let him at least be the last shepherd!
The king agreed. They called the cry. Well done fellows gathered from all sides, each with its own riddles. Which one of them will start asking a riddle, but the princess will not listen to the end and shouts:
I know I know!
And now he will tell the answer.
They will take the young man, cut off his head. So many people have been ruined that you cannot count ...
An old man lived in that kingdom-state. He had three sons. The youngest was called Ivanushka. Ivanushka heard that the princess was destroying people for nothing, and said to his father:
Let me go, father, I will go to the princess to make a riddle. She probably won’t guess mine!
Where are you, you fool! There are brothers and smarter than you, and even then they do not go. It's better to stay at home: your head will be more whole!
What are my brothers! - Ivanushka answers. - They have their own mind, I have mine. Bless on the way!
There is nothing to do, the old man Ivanushka dismissed.
Ivanushka sat down on an old nag and drove off. He sees a rusty spear lying on the road. He picked up this spear and drove on.
He rode, rode - he looks: the bull has climbed into the oats, eats and tramples it. Ivanushka got off the horse, pulled out a bunch of oats, waved them like a whip, and drove the bull out of the oats. I kicked it out and says:
Here is the first riddle!
Here is another riddle!
How long or short - he drove up to the river and thinks:
He let his horse go to graze on the grass, and he himself lay down in an old boat that was tied up by the shore and fell asleep.
In the morning Ivanushka woke up. He sees that foam has gathered on the water. He took off the foam from the water, washed himself. He walked over to his horse and rubbed himself with her mane instead of a towel.
Here, - he says, - there is a third riddle!
He came to the royal palace and said:
Take me to your princess! I will make riddles for her!
They brought him in. He asked the first riddle:
I drove to you and see - goodness is near the road, but goodness wanders in goodness. I took good and good from good and drove it out. What is your answer?
The princess thought and thought - she could not guess. She grabbed a thick book and began looking for a clue in it. There is no such answer in the book! The princess says to her father:
Let him ask me some other riddle - I will solve both at once!
Ivanushka also asked the second riddle:
I drove to you, I see - there is evil on the road. I took evil and evil with evil and struck. Evil took death from evil. What is your answer?
The princess grabbed the book again. I was looking for a clue in it - I could not find it! She then set off on a trick.
Let, - he says, - he thinks of a third: I have one, or three to solve!
Ivanushka also asked the third riddle:
I drove on, and a dark night overtook me on the way. I stopped to spend the night. I went to sleep not in heaven, not on earth, not in a hut, not on the street, not in the forest, not in the field. In the morning I woke up, washed myself not with dew, not with water; wiped off not woven, not knitted. What is your answer?
The princess does not even grab her book: she knows that she cannot find a solution in it. She says to the king:
Oh, father! My head hurts today, my thoughts are mad ... I’ll guess tomorrow.
The king ordered to postpone the answers until tomorrow. They took Ivanushka to the room for the night, ordered him not to go anywhere. He took out a crust of bread, sits and devours it.
And the princess does not find a place for herself.
“Really,” he thinks, “I will have to marry a peasant? How many riddles have been guessed, how many heads were chopped off!
The princess chose a faithful servant and sends her to Ivanushka.
Go, - he says, - find out the clues from him. Promise him gold and silver, whatever! Don't regret anything!
The maid came to Ivanushka. She began to inquire, to find out, she herself promises him both gold and silver. And Ivanushka says:
What is your gold, silver to me? Not then I went here. Let the princess guess my riddles! And tell her one more riddle: they threw peas to the cockerel until the sun, but he doesn’t bite!
The maid returned to the princess with nothing.
So and so, - he says, - he does not take gold, silver, demands that you guess riddles.
The princess is angry, does not know what to do. And he cannot guess the riddle and does not want to marry a simple peasant. She thought, thought, and thought of a bad deed.
In the morning, as everyone gathered, the princess came out and said:
I am the mistress of my word: I could not guess the riddle, I will marry Ivan. Get everything ready for the wedding!
Everyone was delighted: at last they will stop chopping off the brave heads! ..
Tsarevna Ivanushka ordered to ask her in her room: she wants to talk with the groom, to treat him with gingerbread and sweet wines. Ivanushka came. The princess sat him down at the table, began to regale him. And she herself imperceptibly poured him into a glass of sleeping potion. Ivanushka drank and fell fast asleep.
Then the princess called her faithful servant, presented her with rich gifts and ordered that Ivanushka be taken away and thrown into a swampy swamp, so that he would no longer hear or hear him!
They took Ivanushka and threw him into the swamp, into the very bog ...
Ivanushka slept in the swamp for three days. He woke up, looked around and said:
How did I end up in such an unkind place?
He remembered how his princess treated and regaled, poured wine with her own hands, and guessed who had thrown him into the quagmire to perish.
Ivanushka began to get out of the swamp. Grabbing bumps, roots - barely crawled out. He went to the river, washed himself and wandered aimlessly.
He walked for a long time and wandered into a dense forest. He wandered, wandered through the forest, and he wanted to eat. He looks - an apple tree stands in a forest clearing, hung with ripe, ruddy apples.
Ivanushka plucked an apple, ate it, and at the same moment horns grew on his head - large and heavy, their head bowed to the ground.
He looked into the lake, saw himself and was horrified.
“Here,” he thinks, “trouble! leave!"
Ivanushka went through the forest, clinging to the trees with his horns.
How long, you never know, walked - I saw another apple tree. Apples hang on it unprecedented: you can see the seeds through the skin. He stopped near this apple tree and thought:
"Eh, what will be will be! Shoot the apple!"
He picked the apple, ate it, and at that very moment his horns disappeared, and he himself became a fine fellow and a handsome man, better than ever.
"Well," thinks Ivanushka, "I'll teach this princess a lesson! She won't want to ruin and deceive good people!"
He picked apples from both apple trees - horny and medicinal - and went into the city. He entered the city and saw: an old old woman was sitting by one house, all shaking from old age. Ivanushka took pity on her. He came up and said:
Great, grandma! Eat that apple!
The old woman ate a good apple and immediately rejuvenated - she was fat and rosy.
Ah, - he says, - my dear child! How can I thank you?
Will you help me, grandmother, to get the tray and underwear that the merchants go to? I'll change, I'll go sell these rejuvenating apples.
The old woman gave him a quickie and took out a coat and a tray. Ivanushka dressed up in a merchant's coat, laid apples on the tray, put the tray on his head and became like a real merchant.
He went to the royal palace. I came and let's shout loudly:
Apples are sweet! The apples are delicious! Apples blush! To whom are sweet apples! To whom are sweet apples!
The princess heard, sends her maid:
Go find out if he sells genuinely sweet apples?
The maid ran, asks:
Hey, well done merchant! Aren't your apples sour?
Please, madam, try it! - Ivanushka answers and gives her an apple.
The maid ate this apple and became such a beauty that even the princess did not recognize her when she returned to the palace.
Is it you ?! - asks. - You were dark-haired and pockmarked, but now you are better than me! How did it happen?
I am the! Made the apple so!
The princess gave the servant a hundred rubles and said:
Go quickly and buy me these apples.
The maid ran away, bought apples and brought them to the princess. The princess chose the most ruddy, the largest apple and immediately ate it. And as soon as she ate, her horns grew up to the ceiling, big and heavy ...
The maid looked at her, was frightened, and ran to the king as soon as possible.
Oh, - shouts, - the princess has a devil! ..
The king came running, sees - really devil. He shook with fear and fell. And the princess says:
Don't be afraid, dad, I'm your daughter!
And she herself cries, pours. And the king weeps, and the queen:
Shame, shame! What to do? How to appear to foreign sovereigns? ..
Everyone ran around here, gasped, but they couldn't do anything. They laid the princess on the bed, and over the bed they ordered the carpenters to make shelves so that the horns could be put on them.
The princess lies on the bed, groans herself, laments:
Oh, now I neither show myself to people, nor get married ...
The doctors were summoned. The healers began to soar and cut the horns - they can do nothing.
And Ivanushka, meanwhile, tied his beard, dressed up as a doctor, hung himself all over with bubbles and herbs, took three rods in his hands and went to the palace. I came and let's shout:
We are doctors, we are pharmacists -
We treat for glory
Though Thomas, even Savva!
We are soaring in the bathhouse
We fry in the bathhouse:
In the bathhouse - on the wood,
From the bathhouse - on your feet.
Is there a job for a healer? I treat all ailments, I save you from great diseases!
The princess heard this and said to her maids:
Oh, call this doctor soon! Maybe he will rid me of the horns!
The maids rushed after the doctor. They brought him to the palace. The king himself met him. Ivanushka asks him:
Who is sick here?
You, apparently, are not of our kingdom, - says the king, - if you don't know what happened with us! .. My daughter's horns grew up to the ceiling. If you cure her, I will reward you and marry the princess to you, and as I grow old, I will put you in my royal place.
Your tsarist majesty, - Ivanushka answers, - let me first examine the patient!
They brought him to the princess. Ivanushka looked at her and said:
She has chickenpox: the evil wind blew! Order the bathhouse to be thoroughly heated and take the princess there, where I will treat her. I will steam off her horns.
The king says:
Ask what you want! I will give everything, I will make you gilded!
You will gold me later. First, you need to cure. I only demand one thing: let the music play louder near the bathhouse, beat the drums, fire the cannons, and without that my treatment will not work.
The king says:
What you order, we will do!
Well, then bring the princess out!
They began to take the princess out, but she could not go through the door: the horns were not allowed.
The king shouts:
Disassemble the pier!
They dismantled the pier, took the princess out, they wanted to seat her in the carriage. And the horses saw her - they whinnied, stamped their hooves in fear and started to run. And they broke the carriage and trampled many people ...
The soldiers harnessed to the carriage and drove the princess.
They brought me to the bathhouse, took me out. Then the music began to play, they began to beat the drums, fire from the cannons.
Ivanushka sent all the servants away, grabbed the princess by the horns and started asking her:
What bad deeds have you got these horns for? Obey: did you not offend anyone, did you deceive?
Father is a doctor, - the princess answers, - I have never deceived anyone, never offend ... I only did good deeds!
Ivanushka took the cane, whipped the princess and again asks:
Obey: did you not offend or deceive anyone?
The princess still does not admit it.
Ivanushka says to her:
Until then I will not let go, until you tell the truth!
The princess was frightened, says:
It is my fault, father, the doctor! I ordered one man to be thrown into a swampy swamp! Only can this be considered a sin? After all, this is a simple man ...
Ivanushka took off his beard and asked:
Look, am I the same guy?
The princess glanced at him, and how she screamed:
Servants! Soldiers! Guardians! Grab it! Bring me to jail!
And the music plays with might and main, the drums beat, the cannons are firing. Can you hear her calling?
The princess sees - they do not run to her aid. She spoke differently.
Oh, - he says, - have mercy on me, Ivanushka! Deliver me from these horns! I will marry you! I will love! You will become the king yourself!
Well, no, I don’t need you, ”Ivanushka answers. - For your deceit and villainy, you will always wear these horns!
Said yes left. Only he was seen.
The Punished Princess is a Russian folk tale about how Ivanushka taught and punished the princess for her cruelty and not being able to keep her word. You can read the Punished Princess fairy tale online or download the text in PDF and DOC format.
Summary of the tale begins with how a princess lived in one kingdom, masterfully solving any riddles. But the catch was that for the solved riddles the young men were cut off their heads, and for those whose riddles she would not guess, the princess promised to marry. A cruel princess ruined many people, but there was no young man smarter and more cunning than her. Ivanushka heard that the princess was destroying people for nothing, and went to her kingdom. On the way, I came up with riddles, and asked them to the princess. She did not find an answer to any of the three, so she had to fulfill her promise to get married. But the princess did not want to marry a simple peasant bast shoe, and she came up with an insidious plan. She drank Ivan with a sleeping potion and threw him into the swamp to certain death. But Ivan soon woke up, remembered how it was, and wandered wherever he could. He walked for a long time, saw an apple tree, plucked a liquid apple, ate it, and at the same moment huge heavy horns grew from him. Ivan was grieving, but there was nothing to do, he went on. Again I saw an apple tree, and on it the apples were even rosier and sweeter. Eh! Come to think of it, Ivan ate the apple, and at that very moment his horns disappeared, and he himself became a handsome man better than before. It was then that the idea came to Ivan, to teach the princess a lesson, because she just ruins people. He picked apples from two apple trees, dressed up as a merchant and went to the kingdom. The maid tried the first apples, and became such a beauty that the princess immediately ordered to bring her the same fruits. She chose the largest, ripe apple and immediately ate it. Only instead of beauty, she had such big horns that the father king himself did not recognize her. What doctors hired her, what herbs they gave her, nothing helped. Ivanushka pretended to be a doctor, came to the queen and asked: For what bad deeds have you grown horns? Did you offend anyone? did not cheat? ... Instead of repenting, the queen denied her guilt, and did not experience any repentance. For this Ivanushka left her with horns for life, and he left, only he was seen.
Read the tale The Punished Princess not only very interesting, but also instructive for children of all ages. She teaches that evil deeds and unjust decisions will always be punished according to merit, and the offender will be forgiven only if he sincerely regrets his actions and asks for forgiveness. Another fairy tale teaches that you should not put yourself above and smarter than others, there will always be someone who is a hundred times smarter than you. You also need to keep your promises and keep your word. After all, everything would be fine if the princess kept her promise and married Ivan, who honestly fulfilled her conditions and won the bet.
Fairy tale The Punished Princess is a clear example of many folk proverbs: According to merit and honor, What you sow, so you reap, What is the hello, so is the answer, What is the garden, so are the apples, Promise is a human thing, and not fulfill - damn, Having made a promise, do not give up, Promise of fulfillment is appreciated, Who is smart , he is strong, Who is smarter, he will win sooner, The clever sins, but he is in a hurry to correct, The clever man does not let his word go down the drain.
Information for parents: The Punished Princess is one of the best Russian folk tales. It tells about an evil princess who was taught a lesson by a simple fellow Ivanushka. This fairy tale will be interesting for children from 4 to 9 years old. The text of the fairy tale "The Punished Princess" is written in a fascinating way and is suitable for a child to read at night.
Read the tale The Punished Princess
In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a king, and he had a daughter. She says once to her father:
- Order, father, to click the cry: let the fellows come to us from all sides. They will guess riddles, and I will guess. Whose riddles I guess, cut off his head. Whose I do not guess, I will marry him, let him at least be the last shepherd!
The king agreed. They called the cry. Well done fellows gathered from all sides, each with its own riddles. Which one of them will start asking a riddle, but the princess will not listen to the end and shouts:
- I know I know!
And now he will tell the answer.
They will take the young man, cut off his head. So many people have been ruined that you cannot count ...
An old man lived in that kingdom-state. He had three sons. The youngest was called Ivanushka. Ivanushka heard that the princess was destroying people for nothing, and said to his father:
- Let go of me, father, I will go to the princess to make a riddle. She probably won’t guess mine!
- Where are you, you fool! There are brothers and smarter than you, and even then they do not go. It's better to stay at home: your head will be more whole!
- What are my brothers! - Ivanushka answers. - They have their own mind, I have mine. Bless on the way!
There is nothing to do, the old man Ivanushka dismissed.
Ivanushka sat down on an old nag and drove off. He sees a rusty spear lying on the road. He picked up this spear and drove on.
He rode, rode - he looks: the bull has climbed into the oats, eats and tramples it. Ivanushka got off the horse, pulled out a bunch of oats, waved them like a whip, and drove the bull out of the oats. I kicked it out and says:
- Here is the first riddle!
- Here is another riddle!
How long or short - he drove up to the river and thinks:
He let his horse go to graze on the grass, and he himself lay down in an old boat that was tied up by the shore and fell asleep.
In the morning Ivanushka woke up. He sees that foam has gathered on the water. He took off the foam from the water, washed himself. He walked over to his horse and rubbed himself with her mane instead of a towel.
“Here,” he says, “there is a third riddle!
He came to the royal palace and said:
- Take me to your princess! I will make riddles for her!
They brought him in. He asked the first riddle:
- I drove to you and I see - goodness is near the road, but goodness wanders in goodness. I took good and good from good and drove it out. What is your answer?
The princess thought and thought - she could not guess. She grabbed a thick book and began looking for a clue in it. There is no such answer in the book! The princess says to her father:
- Let him ask me some other riddle - I will solve both at once!
Ivanushka also asked the second riddle:
- I drove to you, I see - evil on the road. I took evil and evil with evil and struck. Evil took death from evil. What is your answer?
The princess grabbed the book again. I was looking for a clue in it - I could not find it! She then set off on a trick.
- Let, - he says, - he thinks of a third: I have one, or three to solve!
Ivanushka also asked the third riddle:
- I drove on, and a dark night overtook me on the way. I stopped to spend the night. I went to sleep not in heaven, not on earth, not in a hut, not on the street, not in the forest, not in the field. In the morning I woke up, washed myself not with dew, not with water; wiped off not woven, not knitted. What is your answer?
The princess does not even grab her book: she knows that she cannot find a solution in it. She says to the king:
- Oh, father! Today my head hurts, my thoughts go crazy ... I’ll guess tomorrow.
The king ordered to postpone the answers until tomorrow. They took Ivanushka to the room for the night, ordered him not to go anywhere. He took out a crust of bread, sits and devours it.
And the princess does not find a place for herself.
“Really,” he thinks, “I will have to marry a peasant? How many riddles have been guessed, how many heads have been chopped off! Kings, princes could not do anything, but here the little bast man wants to take the upper hand over me! .. "
The princess chose a faithful servant and sends her to Ivanushka.
- Go, - he says, - find out clues from him. Promise him gold and silver, whatever! Don't regret anything!
The maid came to Ivanushka. She began to inquire, to find out, she herself promises him both gold and silver. And Ivanushka says:
- What do I need your gold, silver? Not then I went here. Let the princess guess my riddles! And tell her one more riddle: they threw peas to the cockerel until the sun, but he doesn’t bite!
The maid returned to the princess with nothing.
- So and so, - he says, - he does not take gold, silver, demands that you guess riddles.
The princess is angry, does not know what to do. And he cannot guess the riddle and does not want to marry a simple peasant. She thought, thought, and thought of a bad deed.
In the morning, as everyone gathered, the princess came out and said:
- I am the mistress of my word: I could not guess the riddle, I will marry Ivan. Get everything ready for the wedding!
Everyone was delighted: at last they will stop chopping off the brave heads! ..
Tsarevna Ivanushka ordered to ask her in her room: she wants to talk with the groom, to treat him with gingerbread and sweet wines. Ivanushka came. The princess sat him down at the table, began to regale him. And she herself imperceptibly poured him into a glass of sleeping potion. Ivanushka drank and fell fast asleep.
Then the princess called her faithful servant, presented her with rich gifts and ordered that Ivanushka be taken away and thrown into a swampy swamp, so that he would no longer hear or hear him!
They took Ivanushka and threw him into the swamp, into the bog itself ...
Ivanushka slept in the swamp for three days. He woke up, looked around and said:
- How did I end up in such an unkind place?
He remembered how his princess treated and regaled, poured wine with her own hands, and guessed who had thrown him into the quagmire to perish.
Ivanushka began to get out of the swamp. Grabbing bumps, roots - barely crawled out. He went to the river, washed himself and wandered aimlessly.
He walked for a long time and wandered into a dense forest. He wandered, wandered through the forest, and he wanted to eat. He looks - an apple tree stands in a forest clearing, hung with ripe, ruddy apples.
Ivanushka plucked an apple, ate it, and at the same moment horns grew on his head - large and heavy, their head bowed to the ground.
He looked into the lake, saw himself and was horrified.
“Here,” he thinks, “trouble! If I go out on the field now, so the cattle will be afraid of me, not only the people. Yes, and walking in the forest is dangerous: the hunters for the beast will take - they will kill. What to do? .. We must go deeper into the forest! "
Ivanushka went through the forest, clinging to the trees with his horns.
How long, you never know, walked - I saw another apple tree. Apples hang on it unprecedented: you can see the seeds through the skin. He stopped near this apple tree and thought:
“Eh, what will be will be! Shoot the apple! "
He picked the apple, ate it, and at that very moment his horns disappeared, and he himself became a fine fellow and a handsome man, better than ever.
“Well,” thinks Ivanushka, “I'll teach this princess a lesson! She will not want to ruin and deceive good people! "
He picked apples from both apple trees - horny and medicinal - and went into the city. He entered the city and saw: an old old woman was sitting by one house, all shaking from old age. Ivanushka took pity on her. He came up and said:
- Great, grandma! Eat that apple!
The old woman ate a good apple and immediately rejuvenated - she was fat and rosy.
- Ah, - he says, - my dear child! How can I thank you?
- Will you help me, grandmother, to get a tray and a jacket, which merchants go to? I'll change, I'll go sell these rejuvenating apples.
The old woman gave him a quickie and took out a coat and a tray. Ivanushka dressed up in a merchant's coat, laid apples on the tray, put the tray on his head and became like a real merchant.
He went to the royal palace. I came and let's shout loudly:
- Apples are sweet! The apples are delicious! Apples blush! To whom are sweet apples! To whom are sweet apples!
The princess heard, sends her maid:
- Go find out if he sells genuinely sweet apples?
The maid ran, asks:
- Hey, well done merchant! Aren't your apples sour?
- If you please, madam, try it! - Ivanushka answers and gives her an apple.
The maid ate this apple and became such a beauty that even the princess did not recognize her when she returned to the palace.
- Is it you ?! - asks. - You were dark-haired and pockmarked, but now you are better than me! How did it happen?
- I am the! Made the apple so!
The princess gave the servant a hundred rubles and said:
- Go quickly, buy me these apples too.
The maid ran away, bought apples and brought them to the princess. The princess chose the most ruddy, the largest apple and immediately ate it. And as soon as she ate, her horns grew up to the ceiling, big and heavy ...
The maid looked at her, was frightened, and ran to the king as soon as possible.
- Oh, - shouts, - the princess has a devil! ..
The king came running, sees - really devil. He shook with fear and fell. And the princess says:
- Don't be afraid, dad, I'm your daughter!
And she herself cries, pours. And the king weeps, and the queen:
- Shame, shame! What to do? How to appear to foreign sovereigns? ..
Everyone ran around here, gasped, but they couldn't do anything. They laid the princess on the bed, and over the bed they ordered the carpenters to make shelves so that the horns could be put on them.
The princess lies on the bed, groans herself, laments:
- Oh, now I am neither to see people, nor to get married ...
The doctors were summoned. The healers began to soar and cut the horns - they can do nothing.
And Ivanushka, meanwhile, tied his beard, dressed up as a doctor, hung himself all over with bubbles and herbs, took three rods in his hands and went to the palace. I came and let's shout:
We are doctors, we are pharmacists -
We treat for glory
Though Thomas, even Savva!
We are soaring in the bathhouse
We fry in the bathhouse:
In the bathhouse - on the wood,
From the bathhouse - on your feet.
Is there a job for a healer? I treat all ailments, I save you from great diseases!
The princess heard this and said to her maids:
- Oh, call this doctor soon! Maybe he will rid me of the horns!
The maids rushed after the doctor. They brought him to the palace. The king himself met him. Ivanushka asks him:
- Who is sick here?
“You, apparently, are not of our kingdom,” the king says, “if you don’t know what happened with us! .. My daughter’s horns grew up to the ceiling. If you cure her, I will reward you and marry the princess to you, and as I grow old, I will put you in my royal place.
- Your tsarist majesty, - Ivanushka answers, - let me first examine the patient!
They brought him to the princess. Ivanushka looked at her and said:
- She has chickenpox: the evil wind blew! Order the bathhouse to be thoroughly heated and take the princess there, where I will treat her. I will steam off her horns.
The king says:
- Ask what you want! I will give everything, I will make you gilded!
- Then you will gold me. First, you need to cure. I only demand one thing: let the music play louder near the bathhouse, beat the drums, fire the cannons, and without that my treatment will not work.
The king says:
- What you order, then we will do!
- Well, then bring the princess out!
They began to take the princess out, but she could not go through the door: the horns were not allowed.
The king shouts:
- Disassemble the pier!
They dismantled the pier, took the princess out, they wanted to seat her in the carriage. And the horses saw her - they whinnied, stamped their hooves in fear and started to run. And they broke the carriage and trampled many people ...
The soldiers harnessed to the carriage and drove the princess.
They brought me to the bathhouse, took me out. Then the music began to play, they began to beat the drums, fire from the cannons.
Ivanushka sent all the servants away, grabbed the princess by the horns and started asking her:
“What bad deeds have you got these horns for?” Obey: did you not offend anyone, did you deceive?
“Father is a doctor,” the princess replies, “I have never deceived anyone, never offend anyone… I only did good deeds!
Ivanushka took the cane, whipped the princess and again asks:
- Obey: did you not offend, did you deceive anyone?
The princess still does not admit it.
Ivanushka says to her:
- Until then I will not let go, until you tell the truth!
The princess was frightened, says:
- Sorry, father doctor! I ordered one man to be thrown into a swampy swamp! Only can this be considered a sin? After all, this is a simple man ...
Ivanushka took off his beard and asked:
- Look, am I the same man?
The princess glanced at him, and how she screamed:
- Servants! Soldiers! Guardians! Grab it! Bring me to jail!
And the music plays with might and main, the drums beat, the cannons are firing. Can you hear her calling?
The princess sees - they do not run to her aid. She spoke differently.
- Oh, - he says, - have mercy on me, Ivanushka! Deliver me from these horns! I will marry you! I will love! You will become the king yourself!
“Well, no, I don’t need you,” Ivanushka answers. - For your deceit and villainy, you will always wear these horns!
Said yes left. Only he was seen.
In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a king, and he had a daughter. She says once to her father:
- Order, father, to click the cry: let the fellows come to us from all sides. They will guess riddles, and I will guess. Whose riddles I guess, cut off his head. Whose I do not guess, I will marry him, let him at least be the last shepherd!
The king agreed. They called the cry. Well done fellows gathered from all sides, each with its own riddles. Which one of them will start asking a riddle, but the princess will not listen to the end and shouts:
- I know I know!
And now he will tell the answer.
They will take the young man, cut off his head. So many people have been ruined that you cannot count ...
An old man lived in that kingdom-state. He had three sons. The youngest was called Ivanushka. Ivanushka heard that the princess was destroying people for nothing, and said to his father:
- Let go of me, father, I will go to the princess to make a riddle. She probably won’t guess mine!
- Where are you, you fool! There are brothers and smarter than you, and even then they do not go. It's better to stay at home: your head will be more whole!
- What are my brothers! - Ivanushka answers. - They have their own mind, I have mine. Bless on the way!
There is nothing to do, the old man Ivanushka dismissed.
Ivanushka sat down on an old nag and drove off. He sees a rusty spear lying on the road. He picked up this spear and drove on.
He rode, rode - he looks: the bull has climbed into the oats, eats and tramples it. Ivanushka got off the horse, pulled out a bunch of oats, waved them like a whip, and drove the bull out of the oats. I kicked it out and says:
- Here is the first riddle!
He drove on. He looks - a snake is crawling towards him along the road. Ivanushka stabbed her with a spear and says:
- Here is another riddle!
How long or short - he drove up to the river and thinks:
"The time is already late, we cannot go further. We must spend the night here."
He let his horse go to graze on the grass, and he himself lay down in an old boat that was tied up by the shore and fell asleep.
In the morning Ivanushka woke up. He sees that foam has gathered on the water. He took off the foam from the water, washed himself. He walked over to his horse and rubbed himself with her mane instead of a towel.
“Here,” he says, “there is a third riddle!
I got on my horse and rode on.
He came to the royal palace and said:
- Take me to your princess! I will make riddles for her!
They brought him in. He asked the first riddle:
- I drove to you and I see - goodness is near the road, but goodness wanders in goodness. I took good and good from good and drove it out. What is your answer?
The princess thought and thought - she could not guess. She grabbed a thick book and began looking for a clue in it. There is no such answer in the book! The princess says to her father:
- Let him ask me some other riddle - I will solve both at once!
Ivanushka also asked the second riddle:
- I drove to you, I see - evil on the road. I took evil and evil with evil and struck. Evil took death from evil. What is your answer?
The princess grabbed the book again. I was looking for a clue in it - I could not find it! She then set off on a trick.
- Let, - he says, - he thinks of a third: I have one, or three to solve!
Ivanushka also asked the third riddle:
- I drove on, and a dark night overtook me on the way. I stopped to spend the night. I went to sleep not in heaven, not on earth, not in a hut, not on the street, not in the forest, not in the field. In the morning I woke up, washed myself not with dew, not with water; wiped off not woven, not knitted. What is your answer?
The princess does not even grab her book: she knows that she cannot find a solution in it. She says to the king:
- Oh, father! Today my head hurts, my thoughts go crazy ... I’ll guess tomorrow.
The king ordered to postpone the answers until tomorrow. They took Ivanushka to the room for the night, ordered him not to go anywhere. He took out a crust of bread, sits and devours it.
And the princess does not find a place for herself.
“Really,” he thinks, “I will have to marry a peasant? How many riddles have been guessed, how many heads were chopped off!
The princess chose a faithful servant and sends her to Ivanushka.
- Go, - he says, - find out clues from him. Promise him gold and silver, whatever! Don't regret anything!
The maid came to Ivanushka. She began to inquire, to find out, she herself promises him both gold and silver. And Ivanushka says:
- What do I need your gold, silver? Not then I went here. Let the princess guess my riddles! And tell her one more riddle: they threw peas to the cockerel until the sun, but he doesn’t bite!
The maid returned to the princess with nothing.
- So and so, - he says, - he does not take gold, silver, demands that you guess riddles.
The princess is angry, does not know what to do. And he cannot guess the riddle and does not want to marry a simple peasant. She thought, thought, and thought of a bad deed.
In the morning, as everyone gathered, the princess came out and said:
- I am the mistress of my word: I could not guess the riddle, I will marry Ivan. Get everything ready for the wedding!
Everyone was delighted: at last they will stop chopping off the brave heads! ..
Tsarevna Ivanushka ordered to ask her in her room: she wants to talk with the groom, to treat him with gingerbread and sweet wines. Ivanushka came.
