We all love Russian folk tales. “Frost” (a summary of A. Afanasyev’s version is proposed below) is one of those tales that have a huge number of interpretations. The classics of Russian literature simply adored this genre and in their own way very skillfully set out the plots. However, the meaning did not change from this, since the main idea of ​​the fairy tale has always been based on folk wisdom tested by centuries. Mysterious and amazing Russian tales.
“Frost”, the summary of which can cause a lot of questions for many, is also very revealing and interesting. Be that as it may, writers and educators should not break off the invisible thread that connects generations, it is necessary to help the modern reader to understand correctly and with deep respect to the moralizing allegories of our ancestors. As they say, a fairy tale is a lie, but a hint in it.
Fairy tale "Frost": a brief summary, retelling
Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman who had three daughters. The old woman did not like the eldest daughter Marfusha, she constantly grumbled at the girl, because she was her stepdaughter. The girl did all the dirty housework and never overtook neither the evil stepmother nor her daughters, who also offended her and often brought her to tears.
And then the girls grew up and became brides. The old man felt sorry for the eldest daughter because she was obedient and hardworking, but he was already frail and old. And so they began to think with the old woman how to marry their daughters. The old woman really wanted in the first place to find the eldest groom - Marfushka, to get rid of her.
Marfush
The summary of the story “Frost” can be continued with the following event: once an old woman ordered her old man to harness a horse in the morning , and Marfutke told her to collect her good, because they would go to visit the groom. Marfusha was glad of such happiness and slept sweetly all night. In the morning she got up, prayed to God, washed, dressed up, and the time was winter, frosty. The evil old woman put old cabbage soup on the table and told Marfusha that she didn’t want to see her in her house anymore. And then she turned to her grandfather and said that he should not turn off the road, but take the girl Marfushka to a pine tree, directly to Frost. The old man opened his mouth and goggled, and the stepdaughter cried. The stepmother reassured her, and said, they say that her bridegroom is handsome and rich, he has a lot of kindness that sparkles on the trees and birches.
On the road
The old man put his daughter in a sled and drove off. Then, climbing far into the wilderness, he left his daughter under the pine tree along with her goodness and said that she would wait for the groom and be affectionate with him, and he himself went to the house. The poor girl is sitting, she wanted to cry, but she had no strength. Suddenly he hears, not far from Morozko, from a tree to a tree, he jumps, but crackles. He noticed the damsel and began to ask her if the damsel was red, and was she warm? Marfusha answered affectionately to him so that he would not be worried and that she was very warm. And then Morozko threw a frosty spirit at her three times, and she, almost numb from the cold, always answered him affectionately, with her soul, but she could barely hear that it was warm, they say, to her. Then Morozko took pity on her and warmed her with fur coats and blankets.
Return
And at home in the morning the old woman woke up and told her grandfather to immediately go after his daughter. He went to the forest and found her alive, in a good fur coat, an expensive veil and a box of various gifts. Without saying a word, he put his daughter in a sled and drove her home. At home, Marfushka fell to her stepmother's feet, while the old woman was amazed to see her in new clothes, safe and sound. But the summary of the tale "Frost" does not end there.
After some time, the old woman tells her old man to harness his horses again and take the two girls Parashka and Masha to the groom for gifts. The old woman fed her daughters, dressed up and sent off. The old man brought them to the same pine and left them there. The girls sit and chuckle at the fact that the mother decided to marry them out here, as if there were no guys in the village, and now, the hour is uneven, the devil will come for them.
Mashka and Parashka
Although the girls were in fur coats, they became very chilly. They began to call each other names and argue which of them the bridegroom would take. From the cold, they already put their hands in the sinus, but they did not stop wrestling among themselves, which is strength. And then they come to their senses and see that their groom does not go in any way.
And then in the distance, Morozko began to crackle, click, and jump from tree to tree. He approached them and began to ask if the red girls were warm, and they began to complain to him that they were completely frozen, and their narrowed one did not go. Frost struck harder, the girls began to scold him so that he would disappear cursed and cleaned to hell. Just at that moment, the girls were numb.
Starukhino grief
The summary of the fairy tale “Morozko” further tells that in the morning the old woman kicks out the old grunt, gives him a Sentz and a fur coat to go after Parashka and Masha. In her head, she had thoughts that the girls, I suppose, were completely chilled in the forest. The old man did not even have time to eat and went on the road. Arriving at the place, he saw them dead. Then he wrapped them in a fan and covered them with a gun top. The old woman was waiting for them and even ran out to meet her grandfather. And when she turned away the matting and took off the fan, she saw her children stiff.
The old woman screamed and shouted, and grandfather blamed everything, saying that he killed the blood children and the beloved red berries. And grandfather told her that it was she, a greedy old woman, flattered by wealth. The old woman became angry, and then she reconciled with her stepdaughter, and they began to live, live and make good, to remember nothing.
After a while, a neighbor got married to Marfushka, and soon they played a wedding, and she began to live happily. The old man began to educate his grandchildren and frighten Frost, so as not to be stubborn. This concludes the summary of the tale "Frost".