Russia has given the world an incredible amount of amazing writers. Each of them either found his own theme, or developed global ones that affect the feelings, thoughts and souls of people who speak all languages. Our literary giants of the 19th century overshadowed those writers whom another country would bring to the fore. Among them, Mikhail Prishvin.
He did not write about nature, he created unforgettable images of people. One of the peaks of his work was the fairy tale, as he always called it, “Pantry of the Sun”. That's how the writer defined her genre. The Pantry of the Sun is a dramatic story of a brother and sister who set off in search of cranberries in Palestine.
Meet the heroes
Orphaned sister Nastya and brother Mitya, Mitrash, as he was affectionately called, after the war. Such an inception allows us to say that the work has a fabulous genre. The "pantry of the sun" is gradually overgrown with household details. Children have a strong hut, a large farm. Mitrash is small, but quite a peasant, who at the request of the neighbors co-ops. Children live together and peacefully. One spring, they gathered for cranberries in the Bludovo swamp.
There, as my father told me, there is a place, a Palestinian, on which grass is not visible from the red berries. It’s hard to get there. On the way there can be a terrible place - Blind Yelan, where many people who were looking for Palestine died. Or a wolf. A gray landowner who attacks people. So, everyday moments that can say that this is not quite a fairy tale are interwoven into a fairy tale story. There are many elements in it. This is a strange genre in this story. “Pantry of the sun” is also a true story.
Quarrel
Children came out dark. We reached the swamp and sat on a stone under a rising sun. And all living things triumph beneath him. Each bird tries to sing his sonorous song to him. After all, the sun is the mother of every creature from a blade of grass, a bird, a mouse to peat, with which the Bludovo swamp is filled. Therefore, it is the "pantry of the sun." Sister and brother it's time to go. Nastya chooses a well-trodden path along which everyone walks, and Mitrash - a thin one that leads to the north, and along which you will probably reach a Palestine with sweet and large cranberries. So brother and sister quarreled and dispersed in different directions. The trees at this time moaned plaintively under the evil wind, foreshadowing the evil. Well, what is this not a fairy tale? Here she is definitely present, no doubt this is a fairy-tale genre. The "pantry of the sun" will continue to be filled with the adventures of Mitrashi.
Dog Grass, Nastya and Mitrash
The old forester Antipych died, and his clever hound Grass was orphaned. From a great longing for the master, not knowing who to serve now, she howled, and the wolf Gray landowner, a thunderstorm of the whole land, listened to her howl. And he howled from hunger and anger. The Hungry Grass went on the traces of the hare and Mitrashi, which led to Blind Yelan. And then she changed her mind and followed the trail of Nastya, which smelled of delicious bread, and maybe even affection. Is this not true? Prishvin (“Pantry of the Sun”) a fabulous genre interspersed with past and accuracy of descriptions. Mitrasha walked all the time along the compass, as his father taught, to the north, and the peat under his feet became thinner and thinner. It became increasingly difficult to find Mitraše dense reliable path. And by mistake, not being able to calculate, the little boy got right into the treacherous Blind Elan. He gripped his chest, and he heard the desperate cry of Nastya: "Mitrash !!!" He answered her, and, drowning, cried. And Nastya accidentally strayed from the path, accidentally bypassed the Blind Elen and found a Palestinian woman. How many cranberries she collected, not unbending, and not to say! Even the moose did not understand that she was a living person, but mistook her for a stone. Well, and how, is it a fairy tale or a true story - the genre of the work “Pantry of the Sun”? Prishvin wrote a fairy tale. And grass approached Nastya. Only bread was deep under the cranberries, the girl could not treat the dog. She looked around: the day was heading towards evening, the sun was setting. It was terrible for Nastya for Mitrash.
Savior Grass
She, hungry, with a bark, rushed to the blind elani in the wake of a hare. The gray landowner responded to the barking of the dog and rushed after the prey. He wanted to catch a dog and tear to pieces. Grass runs along the hare and suddenly sees that human eyes are looking out of the swamp. And she heard human words and realized that it was exactly in front of her her Antipych, who was in trouble and called her by her real hunting name: “Seed”. She crawled and pulled him onto his stomach.
Now the boy was flat and not drowning, and Grass was crawling. So they crawled to the trail. Mitrasha ordered the dog to come up in a master's voice, and she recognized him as her beloved Antipych, rushed to her chest to lick her face and master's hands.
Prishvin himself was once saved by a dog from death in a swamp. This is a very real case. So the story is still described, and this is the genre of “Pantry of the Sun” by M. Prishvin?
What did Grass and Mitrash do
The grass drove the hare to the boy, and he prepared cartridges, so that later, by shooting the hare, bake the prey. They were both hungry. At this time, the Gray landowner went straight to Mitrasha. The boy shot at point blank range, and the villain, whom the whole district was afraid of, was gone.
Meeting three friends
Nastya rushed to the sound of a shot, Grass brought a hare to her new young Antipych, and everyone began to bask at the fire and cook.
They spent the night in a swamp.
Fellow villagers worry
In the morning the whole village rushed to look for them. The children and the cheerful Grass clashed with their neighbors at the exit of the forest. No one could believe that a boy at the age of 11 killed a seasoned wolf, and Nastya came across a Palestinian woman. But full baskets of cranberries convinced them of the girl’s story, and everyone went to look at the dead wolf. When they brought the Gray landowner, even residents of neighboring villages came running to examine him. And Nastia gave all the cranberries to the children who were brought from Leningrad.
So how is the Pantry of the Sun written? What genre did the writer choose? We have to come to the conclusion that this turned out to be a completely new genre - a fairy tale come true.