Who wrote The Princess and the Pea? Children's stories online
Little girls will definitely like it. This fairy tale by G.H. Andersen seems to have written specifically for girls. And really, what boy can believe, or even understand, that you can feel a pea through 20 mattresses and feather beds? But girls willingly believe in the story of the pea. At least my girl believes. So I strongly recommend you to my girls too read the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea", with illustrations by D. Patience.
Once upon a time there lived a prince in a certain kingdom-state. A real prince. He was so real that when he wanted to get married, he decided to take as his wife not just any princess, but only a real princess.
So he went around the world to look for such a princess. I traveled and traveled and traveled all over the world. I looked everywhere, but I still couldn’t find the one I wanted. None of the princesses he met could suit him. There were plenty of princesses, but whether they were real or not, he could not fully understand. And it always seemed to him that something was wrong with them, something wasn’t right.
He returned home and became sad: he really wanted to marry a real princess.
And then one evening a terrible storm broke out on the street. Thunder rumbled, lightning flashed, and rain poured from a bucket. And all this in pitch darkness, broken by flashes of lightning. Well, that’s just terrible!
And suddenly someone knocked on the castle gate. Of course, in such weather no one should be left outside. Therefore, the king, despite the darkness, went to open it.
The princess stood at the door. But my God, who did she look like now! The girl was all wet from the rain, water flowed from her dress and hair straight into the toes of her shoes, and flowed out of her heels. But despite this, she behaved and spoke like a real princess.
“Well, now we’ll check what kind of princess you are,” thought the queen mother, but, of course, she didn’t say anything out loud. Instead, she went into the bedroom, removed all the pillows, mattresses and feather beds from the bed, and placed a small pea on the very bottom of the bed, on the boards.
On top of the pea she put back all twenty of the removed mattresses, and on top of the mattresses, the same number of featherbeds made of goose down. The bed came out - soft to behold.
It was on this bed that the princess was laid to sleep. They wished her good night and left her alone.
And in the morning they asked her how she slept.
Oh, it was a terrible night! - answered the princess. “I couldn’t sleep a wink for a single minute!” I can’t even imagine how it was possible to make such a disgusting bed. Only God knows what was in it! I had the feeling that I was lying on something very hard and uneven, and in the morning my whole body was covered in bruises!
And here not only the Queen Mother, but everyone around realized that in front of them was a real princess. After all, only a real princess can feel a small pea through twenty mattresses and the same number of feather beds.
Of course, the prince was immediately delighted and asked the princess to marry him. The princess happily agreed, they got married and then lived happily ever after.
And the little pea is still kept in the royal museum to this day. You can go and have a look. Unless, of course, someone stole it from there.
Once upon a time there was a prince, he wanted to marry a princess, but only a real princess. So he traveled all over the world, looking for one, but everywhere there was something wrong; There were plenty of princesses, but whether they were real, he could not fully recognize, there was always something wrong with them. So he returned home and was very sad: he really wanted a real princess.
One evening a terrible storm broke out; Lightning flashed, thunder roared, rain poured down like buckets, what a horror! And suddenly there was a knock on the city gates, and the old king went to open it.
The princess stood at the gate. My God, who did she look like in the rain and bad weather! The water flowed from her hair and dress, flowed straight into the toes of her shoes and flowed out of her heels, and she said that she was a real princess.
“Well, we’ll find out!” - thought the old queen, but said nothing, but went to the bedchamber, took off all the mattresses and pillows from the bed and put a pea on the boards, and then took twenty mattresses and put them on the pea, and on the mattresses another twenty feather beds made of eider down.
It was on this bed that the princess lay down for the night.
In the morning they asked her how she slept.
Oh, terribly bad! - answered the princess. - I didn’t sleep a wink all night. God knows what was in my bed! I was lying on something hard and now I have bruises all over my body! This is just terrible!
Then everyone realized that this was a real princess. Of course, she felt a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds made of eiderdown! Only a real princess can be so tender.
Everyone knows Andersen's fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea”. Once upon a time there lived a king and a queen. And they had an only son who planned to get married. The prince traveled all over the world, but never found a bride. Of course, he saw a lot of princesses, but how do you know which one is real? And he returned home with nothing and sunbathed. And suddenly one evening (and it was raining outside and lightning was flashing), there was a knock on the palace gate. A princess stood at the gate, asking to be let in. To check whether she really was a real princess (and all princesses, as we know, are terrible sissies), the queen placed a pea on bare boards, and then covered the pea with twenty mattresses, and also twenty feather beds made of eider down. The princess was put into this bed. In the morning, when the guest complained that she slept as if on cobblestones, and therefore her whole body was bruised, the king and queen realized that she was indeed a real princess. And the prince fell in love with her.
That's the whole fairy tale. Yes, everyone knows her. But not everyone may know that this fairy tale, which seems to be Andersen’s own invention, is in fact a free adaptation of the Danish folk tale. And Andersen heard it, like the famous “Flint,” as a child, “at gatherings and while cleaning hops.”
“The Princess and the Pea” (together with the fairy tale “Flint” and two others) were included in the first issue of Andersen’s “Fairy Tales for Children,” published in 1835. However, Andersen was not immediately recognized as a storyteller. Until then, he wrote only novels and plays. And seeing his name on “Fairy Tales for Children,” critics, who, unlike ordinary readers, express their opinions in newspapers and magazines, began to say that Andersen “fell into childishness.”
Not all of them liked “The Princess and the Pea.” One critic wrote that the fairy tale, you see, is “devoid of salt.” And he considered it not only “indelicate, but even downright impermissible for the author to instill in children... as if noble people were always so terribly sensitive.” This critic went so far as to advise Andersen that he “should no longer waste time writing fairy tales for children.”
“Meanwhile,” Andersen said, recalling this unkind review, “I could not overcome my desire to continue writing them.”
The time has come, and Andersen, the author of plays and novels, himself realized that fairy tales - as he said - “ main family my creativity." Fairy tales glorified his name not only in his native Denmark, but throughout the world. And wherever Andersen went (and he traveled a lot), he everywhere felt his fame as a storyteller.
The prediction of a nameless fortune teller, which his mother heard when she sent her fourteen-year-old son from little Odense to big Copenhagen, came true. Andersen recalled that his mother resisted his desire to leave for a long time. Finally, yielding to his plea, “she sent for the healer and made her tell fortunes...on cards and coffee grounds.”
“Your son will be a great man! - said the old woman. - The day will come, and hometown his Odense will light the illuminations in his honor.”
Almost fifty years later, or rather, on December 6, 1869, Andersen arrived in Odense, where he was born and where he was now celebrated as a great man. The city was in festive decorations. The orchestras thundered. People sang his songs. “I was infinitely happy...” Andersen recalled. “Everywhere I met friendly glances, everyone wanted to say a kind word to me and shake my hand.” And in the evening he read his fairy tale to the children. “The prediction of the old fortune teller, who said that illumination would be lit in Odense in honor of me, came true in the most beautiful form.”
During his life, Andersen composed more than one hundred and seventy fairy tales and fairy tales, and the fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea” sparkles among them like a bright star.
The prince's dream of a real princess, her appearance in a storm, a bed made of the lightest eider down, the prince's flared love, and even a small ordinary pea - everything in this fairy tale breathes poetry, which is permeated with the subtlest irony. Remember the very end of the fairy tale? “And the pea was sent to the museum. It’s still there, unless someone took it!” In a word, as always with Andersen, the poetic and the ironic, the lofty and the funny merged, and thanks to this the fairy tale became interesting to all ages.
In some translations into Russian, the fairy tale was called “The Real Princess” - with this name the translators emphasized the essence of this fairy-tale story.
And although “The Princess and the Pea” is perhaps the most short tale Andersen and can all fit on one book page, I wanted to expand it into a play for sound children's theater, because in this tale there is a quite perceptible dramatic plot. That is, to make a play that would preserve the entire structure and mood of Andersen’s fairy tale. Andersen would say about it this way: “Someone else’s plot entered... into my flesh and blood, I recreated it in myself and then only released it into the world.” All the characters from the fairy tale began to act in the play - king, queen, prince, princess - and new faces. So that they could not only talk, but also sing, the poetess Novella Matveeva composed the lyrics, and the music for them and for the entire performance was written by composer Mikhail Meerovich.
Amazing actors perform in this performance. Rostislav Plyatt plays the roles of the storyteller and the king, and Maria Babanova plays the queen. This is one of the last roles of Maria Ivanovna Babanova, and her very last role where she sang.
Vladimir Glotser
Once upon a time there lived a prince, and he wanted to marry a princess too, but a real one. So he traveled all over the world, but there was nothing like him. There were plenty of princesses, but were they real? There was no way he could get to this point; So he returned home with nothing and was very sad - he really wanted to get a real princess.
One evening bad weather broke out: lightning flashed, thunder roared, and rain poured down in buckets; what a horror!
Suddenly there was a knock on the city gate, and the old king went to open it.
The princess stood at the gate. My God, what she looked like! Water ran from her hair and dress straight into the toes of her shoes and flowed out of her heels, and yet she insisted that she was a real princess!
“Well, we’ll find out!” - thought the old queen, but did not say a word and went into the bedroom. There she removed all the mattresses and pillows from the bed and placed a pea on the boards; She laid twenty mattresses on top of the peas, and twenty down jackets on top.
The princess was laid on this bed for the night.
In the morning they asked her how she slept.
- Oh, very bad! - said the princess. “I barely slept a wink!” God knows what kind of bed I had! I was lying on something so hard that my whole body is now covered in bruises! Just awful!
It was then that everyone saw that she was a real princess! She felt the pea through forty mattresses and down jackets - only a real princess could be such a delicate person.
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G.H. Andersen
Princess on the Pea
Once upon a time there was a prince, he wanted to marry a princess, but only a real princess. So he traveled all over the world, looking for one, but everywhere there was something wrong; There were plenty of princesses, but whether they were real, he could not fully recognize, there was always something wrong with them. So he returned home and was very sad: he really wanted a real princess.
One evening a terrible storm broke out: lightning flashed, thunder roared, rain poured down like buckets, what a horror! And suddenly there was a knock on the city gates, and the old king went to open it.
The princess stood at the gate. My God, who did she look like in the rain and bad weather! The water flowed from her hair and dress, flowed straight into the toes of her shoes and flowed out of her heels, and she said that she was a real princess.
“Well, we’ll find out!”; - thought the old queen, but said nothing, but went to the bedchamber, took off all the mattresses and pillows from the bed and put a pea on the boards, and then took twenty mattresses and put them on the pea, and on the mattresses another twenty feather beds made of eider down.
It was on this bed that the princess lay down for the night.
In the morning they asked her how she slept.
Oh, terribly bad! - answered the princess. - I didn’t sleep a wink all night. God knows what was in my bed! I was lying on something hard and now I have bruises all over my body! This is just terrible!
Then everyone realized that this was a real princess. Of course, she felt a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds made of eiderdown! Only a real princess can be so tender.
The prince took her as his wife, because now he knew that he was marrying a real princess, and the pea ended up in the cabinet of curiosities, where it can be seen to this day, unless someone stole it. Know that this is a true story!
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