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A very interesting topic that has not been raised anywhere in the form of an alternative. For example, I never knew about her at all. It turns out that Ivan the Terrible had a native older brother, as they say now, from his father's first marriage. I wonder what would have happened if, after the death of Vasily III, he had claimed his rights to the throne? Troubles, almost 100 years earlier? And what would be its outcome, if we assume that George would still be able to win the throne from Ivan the Terrible? I propose to discuss this in the comments, but for now, the unknown story of the elder brother of Ivan the Terrible.

Ancient Suzdal, in a huge semicircle of the high bank of the Kamenka, runs around the lowland, on which, among the village houses, an ancient monastery freely lies.
Protection of the Virgin. A white-stone cathedral with a bell tower, stone cells for nuns and some office premises... All this is surrounded by a stone wall with low towers. Once the monastery was famous throughout Russia, but then it lost its significance and became something like a prison - noble women were sent here to the eternal life, which should have been forgotten, and schismatics “for correction”.
And the monastery was also famous for the fact that Saint Solomonia, who was known in the monastery under the name of Sophia, once languished and died there.
Immediately after the revolution, the monastery was closed, some of the nuns were arrested, and some were simply expelled to all four sides. For many years there were various institutions in the monastery, and then they decided to arrange a tourist center for foreigners with bars, restaurants and a concert hall. And only four years ago the monastery was returned to the Church, and now nuns live in it again.
If tourists come to this monastery today, they usually ask:
Who is this Solomon? Russian or not? Why is she a saint?
- Holy woman, Russian queen, - the nuns answer.
And it turns out that we do not know such a queen.

This story began during the lifetime of the great Moscow Tsar John III. Under him, Russia became a mighty power, which was already reckoned with in Europe. John III himself married the daughter of the last Byzantine emperor, Sophia Palaeologus, who was hiding in Rome, a smart, imperious woman who did a lot to make the Moscow principality the center of a great state: she brought with her the memory of the greatness of the lost empire and wanted to make Russia the heir of Byzantium. She was surrounded by priests, artists, architects and philosophers. Moscow was to become the Third Rome.
But as soon as Moscow called itself the Third Rome, difficulties arose, because Russia inherited Orthodoxy from Byzantium, and its neighbors were Catholics. John gave his daughter Elena for the Lithuanian prince Alexander. The Pope demanded that she convert to Catholicism, and her father from Moscow flatly forbade her. After this scandal, it turned out that arranging marriages for John's children was not easy. And I really wanted the son of John and Sophia, Vasily, to find a worthy bride - after all, time passed, the parents were getting old, but the granddaughter was still gone.
The embassies were slowly dragged to neighboring countries, the monks at the embassies defended the Byzantine faith in disputes, but the bride was still not there. And when old John was already completely ill, it was decided to choose a bride according to the ancient Byzantine rite.
Ambassadors were sent throughout the state, who brought to Moscow one and a half thousand of the most beautiful girls, and the young tsar had to choose his wife for beauty, and not for nobility.

Vasily chose Solomonida (it is customary to call her Solomonia) Saburova, a girl from an humble family. The bride was beautiful and had a good character.
The year after the wedding, John died. Vasily began to rule Russia and did it, as it should be for the Grand Duke of Moscow.
Unlike Sophia Palaiologos, Solomonida did not interfere in state affairs and lived in her terem. And it would be good if it were not for the queen's childlessness. Years passed, and she did not have a child.
There are documents that tell how she looked for all sorts of healers and sorcerers, which doctors she prescribed - and all in vain.
And so it went for almost twenty years.
And the situation was complicated by the fact that Vasily had two brothers. The eldest, Yuri, he could not stand and was at enmity with him. With the youngest, Andrei, the relationship was decent, but the brothers did not feel mutual love for each other.
Vasily, who was already over forty (a respectable age at that time!), Did not want to leave the throne to Yuri, an insignificant person and incapable of governing the state.
What to do? Divorce your wife as the boyars advised? But in Russia this was not accepted, and it’s a pity for Solomonid ... And it is not known how this sad story would have ended if a noble Lithuanian maiden had not appeared at court - Princess Elena Glinskaya, brought up in a European way, beautiful, smart ... And the sovereign into her fell in love without memory.
And then all the problems that seemed unsolvable to him became simple.
“And for the father-king, I give birth to a hero,” the beautiful Elena probably said, if I quote Pushkin’s fairy tale.
The king came to Solomonida and declared that in the interests of the state she should be cut into a nun, and he would marry a beauty.
Probably, at that time Solomonida was no longer as beautiful as before, but she was not going to give up.
She told the king that they had no children through him, and not through her fault, that she would rather die than go to a monastery.
And what happened next is described by different authors in completely different ways. Some, who wrote for themselves or their friends, told what terrible scenes played out when the boyars, who broke into the queen, began to tear off her clothes and cut off her wonderful braid. The queen fought, screamed, scratched. She was so indomitable that the tsar's friend and faithful footman boyar Shigonya-Podzhogin, who commanded this mockery of the tsarina, grabbed a whip and began to slash the unfortunate woman ...
It is interesting that in the official chronicle, which was compiled on the orders of Vasily, this whole story is described with court hypocrisy: “... Grand Duchess Solomonida ... began to pray to the sovereign, that he would allow her to put on monastic clothes. The king objected: “Well, how can I ruin a marriage and enter into a second one?” The princess, with tears in her eyes, began to pray to the sovereign and the metropolitan ... ”And so on. In general, it turns out that she begged. But among the people, no one believed in the fairy tale about the voluntary divorce of the princess. They even put together a song:

... Already how the king was angry with the queen,
He sends the queen out of sight,
Like in that city of Suzdal,
Like in that monastery in Pokrovskaya ...

That's where - in the wilderness, in obscurity, they brought the queen. And by order of Vasily, the monastery was surrounded by a stone wall with towers in the corners. And the king immediately celebrated his wedding with the Lithuanian beauty and fell in love with her so much that even from campaigns and trips he always sent her love letters, which, you see, is unusual for kings.

But a year, two, three passed, and no son was born to Elena Glinskaya. And then rumors spread throughout Russia that Solomonida was right and not her fault, but the king's that they had not had a baby. And after the rumors, others appeared. That, it turns out, a few months after Solomonida, under the name of Sophia, was imprisoned in Suzdal, she had a baby. They even said that he was baptized and named George.
These rumors reached the sovereign. You can imagine how disgusted he was to hear about it. He sent one of his boyars to the monastery to check whether there was any truth behind the rumors.

The boyar came to the monastery. But everything was already there. After all, the abbess and the church officials of Suzdal did not believe that Vasily's divorce was legal, and continued to consider Solomonida the legitimate queen. They sent the first inspection commission back without salt. Some time passed, the heir from the new wife did not appear, and the rumors about Tsarevich George spread more and more stubbornly. Apparently, the spies left in Suzdal also found out something. In general, there came another commission. But the nuns were ready for her arrival.
After much persuasion and negotiations, the queen finally deigned to admit that, yes, she had given birth to a baby, but he died immediately.
And then the boyars were taken to the tomb under the Intercession Cathedral, where the graves of many noble persons exiled to that monastery were located. And there, in the corner, the boyars were shown a small stone slab without an inscription. And everyone swore that under it lies the baby George. However, the grave cannot be opened, because the boy died of smallpox, which was considered a deadly contagious disease.
With this news, the commission returned to Moscow and, of course, did not add joy to the tsar, who remained childless.
And then, after four years of fruitless marriage, Elena Glinskaya suddenly gave birth to a boy, who was named Ivan. Another boy was born next, and he was named George, just like the deceased elder prince, the son of Solomonides.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, neither in temperament, nor in appearance, Tsarevich Ivan looked like his father ... However, this is already pure conjecture. Three years later, Vasily died, and the boy Ivan remained on the throne, surrounded by boyars who hated his mother and relatives. He grew up surrounded by malice and betrayal, and he turned out to be a terrible tyrant and murderer - Ivan the Terrible. And what happened to his older brother, the real heir to the throne?

He died just in time. This mystery has not been solved to this day. But there are strange historical facts that make it doubtful that everything was as it is commonly believed.
It is known that Ivan the Terrible never believed in the death of his brother and, when he grew up, he was looking for him. And there is even a version that he managed to track down the son of Solomonida and kill him. But if he was able to kill him, then the wrong boy was buried in an unmarked children's grave among the nuns of the Intercession Monastery?
In 1934, it was decided to liquidate the tomb under the Intercession Cathedral. In those years, the attitude towards the graves of the nobility, monks, and indeed the monuments of Christianity, was barbaric. The graves were dug up, examined who was buried, and then destroyed. The turn came to the forgotten children's grave in the corner of the dungeon. Near the grave of Solomonida Saburova.
They moved the slab away and found a wooden deck - it was in such dugout decks that children, and often adults, were buried in the 16th century. The deck was thickly smeared with lime. This was done if a person died from a contagious disease. And in the deck was found a rag doll the size of a baby. The doll was dressed in a decayed silk shirt, precious at that time, and wrapped in a diaper embroidered with pearls.
Now let's try to reason.
Let's say that the unbelievable happened in a convent - a baby was born and died. Then he is secretly buried, perhaps even behind the wall of the monastery.
But why and who might need to put a slab on the grave of a doll in precious clothes?
There is only one explanation: someone had to believe that they buried a real baby.
In fact, the baby survived.
And then ... There are no documents. It remains only to write a historical novel. In it, George would become the king of Russia - and Russia would get rid of many sufferings ...
Unfortunately, history does not know the word "if" ...

PS. He just doesn't know...

Game description: The game involves three teams that come up with names that match the theme of the game. It can be such as the "Feather of the Firebird", "Humpbacked Horse" and others. Teams take turns answering questions. For each correct answer, the team receives 1 point.

PROGRESS OF THE GAME.

Teacher. Pyotr Pavlovich Ershov is one of the most famous writers. He became famous for one of his fairy tales - the fairy tale "Humpbacked Horse". In its significance and popularity, it surpassed many works of literature. Ershov's tale, like the tales of A.S. Pushkin, is written in verse. The author himself, despite the success, spoke very modestly about his fairy tale: “On the “Humpbacked Horse” the Russian proverb comes true with your own eyes: do not be born either smart or handsome, but be born happy. All my merit is that I managed to get into the people's vein. However, critics and readers assessed the author's merits in a different way, noting the closeness of the fairy tale to folk art in terms of content, beauty, poetry of the folk language, and accuracy in depicting the details of everyday life.

Questions.

1. Read the beginning of the tale by heart. (“A fairy tale begins to tell. Behind the mountains, behind the forests, Behind the wide seas, Against the sky - on earth, there lived an old man in one village.”)
2. How many children did the peasant have? (A peasant has three sons: The elder son was smart, The middle son was this way and that, The youngest was a fool at all.)
3. What crop did the brothers grow? ( The brothers sowed wheat and took it to the city-capital.)

Contest "Know the Hero"

Representatives of each team are given envelopes with a card containing a description of the hero from the fairy tale "The Little Humpbacked Horse":

A) Our daring fellow
Wandered into the palace;
Serves at the royal stable
And won't bother at all
It's about brothers, about father
In the royal palace.

B) K ... she was
All white as winter snow
Mane - to the ground, golden,
Curled in crayons.

C) Only three inches tall,
On the back with two humps
Yes, with yardstick ears.

Answers: A) Ivan the Fool, B) Mare; B) The Little Humpbacked Horse

Contest "Tell me a word"

Insert the missing words in the line of the poem:

A) Two horses, if you like, ....,
But don't give up the horse
Not for a belt, not for a hat,
Not for black, listen, grandma.

b) above and below ground
He ... will be yours;
It will keep you warm in winter
In summer it will blow cold;
In hunger, he will treat you with bread,
Drink honey when thirsty.

C) “Suddenly comes ... himself
With a beard and mustache;
Erysipelas like a cat
And the eyes are like those bowls!

Answers: a) sell b) comrade c) the devil.

"Heroes Speak"

Determine who and to whom said so.

A) "Look how beautiful
Two golden-maned horses
Our fool got himself:
You didn't even hear it."

B) “... Well, brother,
A pair of ours is not given;
Nothing to do, have to
To serve you in the palace.
You will walk in gold
Dress up in a red dress
Like rolling cheese in butter
All my stable
I give you an order."

C) “… Have mercy!
These are the true Christ
Fair is mine, king, denunciation.
Our Ivan, then everyone knows
From you, father, hides,
But not gold, not silver -
Firebird Pen…”

A) Here Danilo runs into the house
And Gabriel says:

b) The king went back
Says to him (Ivan):

C) Our sleeping bag, having gathered with strength,
He speaks to the king.

Competition "Whose house is this?"

a) What a field! Greens are here
Like an emerald stone;
The wind blows over her
So it sows sparks;
And the flowers are green
Unspeakable beauty.
In the middle of that meadow
Like clouds,
The mountain rises
All pure silver.
Sun with summer rays
Paints all of it with dawns,
Runs in golden folds,
On the willows, a candle burns.

B) rides in a red sheepskin coat,
In a golden, guys, boat
And a silver oar
He personally rules in it;
Singing different songs
And he plays on the goose ...

C) All its sides are pitted,
Palisades driven into the ribs,
Cheese-boron makes noise on the tail,
The village stands on the back;
The men plow on their lips,
Between the eyes the boys are dancing,
And in the oak forest, between the mustaches,
The girls are looking for mushrooms.

A) glade of the Firebirds
B) the beautiful Tsar Maiden
C) miracle-yudo fish-whale.

Competition "Fill in the crossword"

Horizontally:

1. What is the name of P.P. Ershov's fairy tale? (The Little Humpbacked Horse)
3. What item of the king-maiden was kept in the ocean? (ring)
6. How many humps does a humpbacked horse have? (two)
8. What is the name of Ivan's older brother? (Danilo)
9. Who is the month for the beautiful king-maiden? (mother)

Vertically:

2. Whom did the king-father want to marry in a fairy tale? (king girl)
4. What is the name of Ivan's middle brother? (Gavrilo)
5. Where did Ivan place the mare? (booth, i.e. barn)
7. Synonym of the word SODOM. (mess)
6. How many years has the whale fish been suffering? (ten)
10. Who is the sun for the beautiful king-maiden? (brother)

Competition "Explanatory Dictionary"

There are unusual words in the story. From each team, the host calls one player and offers to “translate” the “folk” words into modern Russian. The task is carried out orally or in writing on the board.

Exercise 1. Yakhont, week, boyars, foolish, quiet, school. (ruby and sapphire, Sunday, noble nobles, convert, quietly and imperceptibly, teach).

Task 2. Sennik, peep, inconvenient, malachai, gully, trepak. (hayloft; peek, see; uncomfortable, difficult; long, wide clothes without a belt; ravine, Russian folk dance)

Task 3. Obnova, smoke, stanitsa, davezh, morocco, bail. (new thing; fire, bonfire; robbers; crush, tightness; soft, expensive leather; guarantee, confirmation).

Summing up the game.

"Legend of the Grand Inquisitor"

Rozanov spoke exhaustively about churches. Therefore, we will not develop here the ideas about criticism in the "Legend" of Catholicism - they are clear. In Dostoevsky, it seems to me, the thought of the church as an inevitable distortion of the Divine testament comes through. Christ is replaced by the Inquisitor, probably, we are talking here not only about Catholicism.

What is this freedom that Christ promised? This is the freedom of everyone, and here is the flock, the flock ... Of course, the word “my flock” is in the Gospels, but is this a metaphor? .. And I see that all churches, instead of an absolutely free association of believers in a spiritual temple, came to a canonized (hence, already violent) association of formal parishioners in institution… However, this is so, retreat.

Ivan's speech - as always with our author - is only outwardly insane, internally it is strictly logical: from particular cases, from children's torment and tears of mothers, he passes to the church itself as a fundamental fact of the spiritual universe, from the tragic lie of unbelieving tyrants to a thoughtful and terrible lie the most important shepherd: the Inquisitor. Who deliberately, in accordance with the laws of this world, replaced, distorted the teaching, turned it upside down (for convenience and simplicity).

Here it is appropriate to digress a little from the main topic and raise the question of the system of images. Of the four brothers: Is Ivan in some strange way connected with Smerdyakov, as if he were his shadow? And, more precisely, a projection? The third assumption is that this is, as it were, material, and in this case one can also judge the idea by the material ... Smerdyakov is the lowest, dust, Ivan is a painful thought, Dmitry is a suffering soul, and Alyosha completes this series. It is a kind of binding, harmonizing beginning. Mitya and Ivan are completely incompatible, they are strangers. Mitya's hatred for Smerdyakov is also significant here - and the reciprocal hatred and animal horror of the footman.

Three principles: Alyosha — the angelic principle, descending into the world, he will come to God… Mitya, torn in contradictions, screaming, breaking his soul, but nevertheless he is destined to overcome his “meanness” in these sincere throwings, Karamazov’s principle: confused, but a sincere person will see God. Ivan is the path of logic and common sense, the most useless one. This is the path of division (which means Satan), separation of what is supposedly true from what is false, analysis, oblivion of the basic religious feeling. Such a person must die. Perhaps this is the main idea behind the image of Ivan Karamazov in the novel. In the chapters written...

I was asked: what is his main mistake? The fact that he is looking for a refutation of God in the world, and not vice versa.

All four brothers are one Person, four hypostases, four levels of consciousness, and the crushing and terrible idea wanders through all levels, and we get a reconstruction of modern consciousness.

And it becomes scary to watch the Karamazovs tossing these ideas around. After all, there is some kind of eternal, spontaneous knowledge of the meaning of life: here, one said that there is no God and everything is allowed, the other did: he killed. Moreover, it is clear that he killed something absurdly, soullessly and thoughtlessly, and himself, herself, even more precisely, his nature was horrified! So, looking for a way out, a terrible idea crushes destinies, clouds souls, but it is impossible to keep it in oneself: it is much worse!

Blessed is the solitary thinker who in silence nurtured his little ideas, his sarcasms and anecdotes, and never wanted to go out with them to people—God forbid! - enjoyed his writings and did not want more. Why is that? Probably for many reasons: maybe he had a weak soul, personal impulses, he raised such small, tiny questions that many people don’t care about them ... He sat and sorted through his feelings, sculpted, so to speak, beauty - and who knows maybe on another day a ray of the sun will fall on this beauty and snatch a genius from the darkness?!

But woe to him who sees all the baseness - his own, others - and cannot but express it, and draws it terribly deep, so that he is forced to twist it in front of everyone and everyone in the face of throwing clods of dirt! He cannot be silent - longing will tear his chest. No, perhaps some of these geniuses. And let no one turn his tongue to accuse them - not in a single word!

And why is Ivan Fedorovich attractive, if not this! Let's compare him even for a minute, at least for one scene, with Rakitin, who claims that people will come to happiness and equality, and brotherhood "and without God," just like that. But Ivan, according to honest Alyosha, will not be flattered by millions - I will add: as well as by equality and brotherhood! - but he needs to reach the end in his thoughts.

He is sharp and specific.

- Ivan, say: is there a God? ..
- Not.

There is no God and there is no devil - a typical course of modern consciousness. But what is better: to wag and console yourself with paradoxes, or to be aware of your specific spiritual health or illness? Here, after all, there is a certain honesty and courage, and for Dostoevsky they are much more important than high principles and chatter, which anyway will not help a person - they will only harm him.

However, there is a danger here. Oh, how dangerous the truth is! It can be worse than a knife, and this is well understood by old Karamazov, who, after being beaten by his son Dmitry, suddenly admits to the bewildered Alyosha that he is most afraid of Ivan!

I want to say a few words about the tricks of Ivan's worldly logic as a prototype of many attempts at lies and sophistry, to which we are already so accustomed. For example, his perception of the crowd as an indicator of the truth: behold, they are ready to burn Christ again, and hundreds more times, in order to repent again later; it means that the people do not believe, cannot believe, divine harmony is a bluff. However, the crowd is always a herd. She is always dark and uneducated, as the Inquisitor is always cynical. However, one cannot draw conclusions from this about the eternal stupidity of people and their inability to accommodate God's wisdom.

This worldly logic forever refutes the sacred. For her, logic, the main danger, in fact, is not in the inconsistency of being, not in cruelties or catastrophes, but precisely in the existence of shrines, because they cancel her.

And Rozanov (I don't think he genius- just a priest of worldly logic) indicates that the Inquisitor "brilliantly understood the mental structure of man." The man longs for peace. And bread. And that's it. But it went - but is it possible to understand vulgarity "brilliantly"? Of course, most people crave just “bread and circuses,” and it doesn’t take any genius to comprehend this, but the essence human, the essence of its spiritual nature is the opposite, and quantitative arguments here are another (old as the world) example of worldly logic.

Christ did not proceed from "the deepest penetration into the psychic nature of man," but from faith into a person. Yes - from faith in this cruel and erring one, a sinner and a publican, and a fornicator, because faith in God and faith in man are two sides of one phenomenon, and one is impossible without the other. This is the mystery - one of the mysteries of Christ, the mystery of His irritation and despair, the mystery of the incident with the burnt fig tree, and many others. others

Our faith, our hope is the guarantee of our salvation, and this salvation itself is already manifested in the process of faith, because every true believer understands these words: faith is a complex process of human evolution, which in itself is already a reward. Of course, there is an easier way: to explain the impossibility of doing anything with your disorders and shortcomings of the mental device.

According to the "Legend", God does not know the nature of man. But the question arises: should God proceed from human nature, or vice versa? - It must come from his nature, because it is primary?! Moreover, our nature is not autonomous, but is a derivative of the divine nature, and if you do not recognize this, then it is better to end the conversation on such topics altogether! (It was here that our great “bytovik” Rozanov proved that human nature for him is the final and only reality, and he understands God as an idea only - although he wrote so many words about Him.)

Christ's task was to change our nature. For two millennia He has done just that with the best of us. I understand my spiritual task precisely in changing my and, if possible, the nature of other people. That is why I mention here so many times the name of Rozanov (and not Leontiev or Merezhkovsky - although it is a hundred times more interesting there), because I want to point out: for Rozanov, the Inquisitor rights, he is the hero of the legend of Ivan Karamazov, to which Rozanov attached too "great" significance, while for Dostoevsky himself it undoubtedly had only a staged character.

It is impossible (like Rozanov) to take this legend seriously as an active and viable religious worldview, and his indication that someday it "will be able to refute" proves once again how highly he appreciates "Ivan's dialectic", but to refute this dialectic (as well as anything else) is worth nothing. We here, for example, did not set such a task. We only want to look into the future, into the unwritten, to feel these lights that are already - that's a pity! - will never burn...

It is interesting that in Dostoevsky's en contra argument, the pro arguments shine through so transparently and brilliantly. I do not mean that we are here, for example, all exactly read. They are visible, they shine!

So, the question of the role of the church is now the main question that we have to deal with. I have already written that I understand the church as a purely spiritual entity that can exist quite effectively without bishops, and without a pope, and without ceremonies, and without luxurious cathedrals and even sacraments, which are given / and with good reason / so much attention. There is nothing bad or harmful in the cult as such: it is harmful and bad when it takes the place of faith. But maybe this inevitably?

One idea haunts me. Maybe the church that we know was established by the Providence of the Creator for this time, as an initial stage; maybe all those types of unification of people up to modern political, now economic and - more and more - spiritual unions - this is only the path, the necessary stages for the coming true unification of people, all of humanity? After all, such unity requires habit and experience. Now if this So, then the Creator will indeed ingeniously foresee our unfortunate nature.

If this question is understood in this way, then the Inquisitor is only an instrument in the hands of God, who looks at him meekly and with some kind of pity: human nature is unhappy and miserable!

Admiration for the legend would have aroused an ironic grin in Dostoevsky himself. This is, in general, an amusing topic: how people do not understand the text and praise what should not be praised, but should, perhaps, reflect, comprehend ... Here, Ivan says:

A terrible and intelligent spirit, a spirit of self-abasement and non-existence, a great spirit spoke to you...

- he says this about Satan, and these words are youthful, stupid and arrogant. There is no genius, no truth, no poetry in them at all. Satan calls the great spirit! And critics praise ... Further, three lines later:

And, meanwhile, if there was ever a thunderous miracle performed on earth ...

- and so on. - but what is the miracle? Words are empty, chatter. In the very style of the "Legend" there is already this spirit of emptiness, the satanic beauty of the lines, which, in fact, do not express anything special and are called upon to express only one idea with these skillful patterns. At the end of the monologue, the Inquisitor points out that in three questions everything was guessed and predicted: what was guessed? human nature? So, as if Satan did not see the man, and Jesus did not know him at all? Dostoevsky did not really need the "Legend" to shock the reader with the persuasiveness of the artistic fabric.

A passing nuance: sometimes writing loudly and vulgarly can also be high art! Because on the whole this piece is magnificent, but it is precisely this pomp, crackling and paradoxical logic that is magnificent.

“Feed, then ask virtues of us” is all too familiar. Dostoevsky here reflects on the rapid, to put it mildly, "progress" of society, the development of the economy, inequality, and capitalism. This is a prophecy. Ivan was not supposed to give modern “facts” here, otherwise he would not have been stingy, but the surroundings of the “Legend” are already gloomy. I suddenly thought with what skill God forced the devil to choose Job out of all people for testing, and won the fight. Everything is the opposite here: Ivan gives terrible and, of course, unique examples (baiting a child with dogs), and in his poem he transfers the action to Spain; there, away from the reformers and humanists, he arranges a satanic scene with a fire and heretics ...

Christ said: “Many are called, but few are chosen,” so the reproach that millions will not follow Him is a misunderstanding. However, the question is, "what will become of the millions ... of beings who will not be able to neglect the bread of the earth for the bread of heaven?" interesting. Is their weakness really their fault? And only the strong are dear to Christ? The Church has developed ways to subdue everyone, and in that it is, of course, more modern and higher than Christ.

Is it so?

Ivan distorts here (this is an absolutely ingenious ability of Dostoevsky to distort in what he perfectly understands, amazing!). “Blessed are the poor in spirit” was the first commandment of Christ. With these words, the Sermon on the Mount begins. It does not speak of the strong or the weak - this is not a criterion for election - but the poor in spirit means: those who know how to humble themselves, realize their smallness, underdevelopment on the scale of the moral and religious task. These are those who, with a pure heart, realize the great Spirit of the Savior, His sacrifice and love, and will be amazed, moved, become meek and ready for a long and difficult ascent. Anyone can become such a person. They became the centurion at the holy cross! He became a robber, to whom the Lord promised that he would be in paradise today! However, who and when So understood this most important commandment? It has been distorted, like too much of the teaching.

You cannot become poor in spirit together - this is a personal matter of your soul and religious conscience. Therefore, Catholicism, in an effort to bring the flock together, could not put forward such pure moral tasks. " commonality"- that's the key word, and in the name of this community - any sacrifice! Literally - what Christ bequeathed ("mine became") to Peter, in fact - the opposite is true! Of course, we are talking here not only (and not so much? - what does our author care about them?) about Catholicism ...

“Without a firm idea of ​​what he should live for…” and so on, puts forward the following thesis: the goal given by Christ was too lofty, distant, vague. Freedom of choice is a terrible burden. People couldn't handle it...

Failed would? But who decided it? Who tried - at least once a single! - to give them the right of free choice, without immediately stuffing them into pens?! Perhaps people would have submitted to the inevitability of such a lofty goal as the Christian goal, but God's providence consisted in leading them through obstacles and trials. It is said: “Many will appear and torment you in My name…” – this is not only about fires: the priests tormented our conscience, our mind, forbade thought, impulse, feeling. Today, however, we calmly and firmly know that personality is freedom of choice. Let freedom be heavy, disastrous, and the further we live, the more difficult. There is no other way to become human. Another path is the path to the anthill. It should be added for the sake of a moral lesson that this choice - a high burden or an ant fuss - is always before a person at almost any age and social environment. And there is no doubt that the psychology of people drives and will always drive them into anthills. Everything is very simple here: there is in a person - given to him by God, a power higher than psychology.

S.L. Frank, when analyzing the Legend, brilliantly understood two demonic and negative elements in a person: the “childish bliss” of the flock and the “free excitement of the spirit” of the elect, so that both the Inquisitor, chosen to bear the burden, and the flock are equally far from Christ ... Here a man is killed.

Of course—and how could a man like Rozanov not understand this? - the whole "Legend" breathes pathos faith. Its refutation is an amazingly interesting game, slightly similar to a love game ... Well, what is worth, for example, the Inquisitor's thought about a secret! The beast of mystery that will guard their cathedral is an amazing allusion to the ingenious clarity covenant! To match it with the deepest and simplest spiritual movements of people!

On the other hand, how subtly and even indiscernibly during the first readings, Dostoevsky points out the dual vice of the church: it converts all- to the "secret", i.e. deceives everyone, and how much sadness in these lines: why, tell me, oh why people cannot accept a single great idea without distorting its essence, without turning it inside out! And so, the Inquisitor completes this part of his speech: people refuse freedom because they do not understand the full meaning of this gift, they do not understand that this gift cannot be beat back, to give, but to win himself(the main theme of Dostoevsky's work); and all moral concepts in the church are distorted, a person who has become a sheep of a flock, a very specific earthly flock, and not His herds, reconcile? Not! And all Dostoevsky's novels, starting with the "underground" man, tell of a man's uprising in the name of an unknown freedom taken from him - and his fall, and slow comprehension of what true freedom is ... Here he is, pensive Raskolnikov in hard labor.

Sophistry about the desire of priests to humiliate people is very interesting - a terrible paradox here! - after all, He taught to humiliate for the sake of great spiritual exaltation, to humiliate in pride, to become less in vice - and they, on the contrary, humiliate soul man, elevating him in conceit. Here, he comes out, a happy philistine Blokovsky, pleased that he kissed the spitted floor of the church three times and thereby removed his sins forever! Life becomes a "child's game", where, in essence, everything is possible:

... And we will allow them to sin, they are weak and powerless, and they will love us like children ..!

- and so on.

They turned the path of man's elevation, the restoration of his purity and power into a path of erasing personality, destruction - so that these people, so loved by Christ, are His flock.

... they will quietly fade away in your name and only death will be found beyond the grave

And the last thing the Inquisitor says: about the correction of the feat of Christ. Is it possible to fix the feat?!

In this collapsible, powerfully captivating flow of the story, with crafty allusions, spectacular twists and turns - it is like a joyful and unstoppable Russian dance - you are so imbued with the consciousness of the hero, from whom the author is formally so detached! There are not only ideas here - here the artistic fabric is so sensually luxurious, it breathes so powerfully that life is felt in the beating and spasm!

How to live: formulating the right ideas? However, where do you get them from - from the notes of an old man? How splendid and harmonious everything is there, but if you touch the true, "Karamazov" Russian life just a little, you are in trouble! So, we must beware, do not step here ..., there - nowhere? So, with clean mirrors, you will remain a miserable novice - and this is also bad, because where is this life when you have not even smelled it? How to live? Throwing yourself into it without fear, with an open visor, soaking up its juices with all your senses, drilling its thickness with your mind, “as one having power”, realizing that the stronger and more determined you are, the deeper you get bogged down, the more terrible the mistakes will be and - higher, more irresistible final triumph of knowledge.

This optimism is in his very style, in how symphonically, powerfully the epic unfolds, how strong, organic and strong the characters are, how confidently they go towards their own.

This life in his novels always rises in such fullness and omnipresence that somehow, at first glance, everything in it is torn and vicious, and there is no way out - and even in the outer row: either a smelly basement, or a door with oilcloth at the Marmeladovs, then spit-stained stairs, yellow houses of dull petty-bourgeois Petersburg - it seems, well, how can a person in general survive?! However, this is the first impression of the vastness of coverage. Suddenly, joy splashed in a thin stream in the scene with Liza, but this light is of such strength and brightness that the whole picture was somehow magically transformed, and now faith, some kind of affectionate, warm feeling rising above the earth ...

And everything is significant! Here, Ivan tells Alyosha about the Inquisitor, and how would it (on the one hand, you suddenly understand) for him not important, and the main thing is that he wants to test his brother, and himself too, and also ... well, he needs this brother Alyosha! Here you have a cynical seduction! And he receives this help, the brotherly kiss of Christ. Or, as this numbness of Ivan, touching the cold abyss of unbelief, is shown ... How much optimism flares up here with a distant glow - and much, much more!

About secrets - the question is much more interesting than it might seem at first glance. This idea - how easy it is to make the obvious secret and thereby attract people - is absolutely brilliant. How many talented manipulators of language have become, poets who have turned it into an elegant game, and how many sweet secrets they have made such, in order to reveal later; they admit with pleasure and with a sigh that they are only jugglers, that they only play ...

How many charming secrets of a girl's: handkerchiefs, old lace, a glimmering beam, a ball under the bed - how many little surprises; what subtle sensations and associations - where to the place, where not, it does not matter. Because if a mystery reigns, then you just need to stir up the water a little, sketch beautiful leaves, and it already attracts, already deep ... it seems. There is no need for true - tragic and eternal - beauty, faith - enough beautiful pictures on the wall. These are exactly the words of the Grand Inquisitor! And why now be sad about the times when “the word stopped the rain!” - I wrote the word in lowercase! And can it do it? Does it contain the soul of a man! No, our literature at its best is somewhat too reminiscent of this hero of Dostoevsky.

The legend, therefore, cannot be taken as a mere thesis: it invokes the antithesis, and it is written in the name of the antithesis. Therefore, two Russian boys, secluded "behind the partition", understand the idea of ​​​​this cynical legend, but they will rise in a powerful wave of rebellion, a spiritual rebellion against this world and all its inquisitors, they will get confused and break their necks, but they will never stand in the herd, never they will not bow their heads as long as there is even a single hope of standing before the face of God.

III. LOVE

What is a person worth? A accomplished and heroic soul, believing and loving humanity?

This question arises in the subsequent conversation of the brothers. The inquisitor, according to Ivan, was just that, and then he saw that there were only creatures around, everything was a utopia, he was almost alone, and "came back and joined ... smart people." Three lines later, the brothers agreed that he "does not believe in God, that's his whole secret." How to understand it?

The inquisitor followed the traditional path, "feeding on locust", but locust is not enough to believe and kindle his soul. A person is social, and therefore it is very difficult for him to remain alone in faith - against the world. This is the greatest sin—the world-historical sin of the Church—that it is a dogma that the believing soul is unable to cross. The unification of faith is monstrous. It is similar to the unification of souls.

Personality is both my personal responsibility and acceptance of the whole peace. That's when a person not only establishes himself in faith, but also accepts the world - with its sins and troubles, suffering and pain: he accepts not like Ivan, not like a sarcastic outside observer, but like a sincere and living person, then he will not renounce. And his life will not be a chain of absurdities: first locusts - then bonfires ...

Life experience can be different. Roughly, two kinds. Salieri comprehends her trivially: “tore apart like a corpse” - Mozart comprehends her brilliantly, finding sparks of true life and beauty in some mediocre violinist or a fleeting melody: sky, earth, greenery, humor, a joke, a sudden image - everything resonates in genius soul. Ivan comprehends it trivially, is tormented by it, and understands that it is impossible to live like this, that he will end badly, but what to do if the wild Karamazov force, mean and dark, leaves him no other way. Man is the eternal prisoner of his kind. Oh, how much power over him and in him! How difficult it is for him to break these fetters. Dostoevsky, like no one else, showed all the tragedy, the gloomy strength of a man who decided to take at least a step - and all his heroes take at least a step in the name of salvation - but even then he showed how deadly, vulgarly and wildly the life of a renunciate flows, afraid of the way.

Ivan is carried down to a wild, terrible crime - patricide, which he did not even suspect! Where - how - how did you do it? - his confused questions pour in to Smerdyakov, because here is a maniac who does not hatch his plan, here is not Stavrogin's cold suicide - here, damn them! - how it fell from the sky!

For God there is nothing more precious than a person. Everything is done by Him so that she can grow and mature. Great parables were told, wonderful examples were given: there a man sold his birthright for lentil stew, and betrayed and renounced in the name of the great Covenant - he fought, broke himself, but, going through everything, still believed that he was destined to see the true in this world. light. Everyone who thought and suffered came to this. Read Pushkin's poem "The Wanderer". You know with what pain the Demon utters his strange, wild words:

I want to make peace with God
I want to love, I want to pray
I want to believe good...

etc. - the words announced by Vl. Nightingale nonsense!

Is a believing crowd possible? No. That flock, about which Christ tells us from the gospel pages, is a collection of original personalities - just look at how peculiar and unique His apostles are, and He, the most perfect, never taught Thomas to believe in everything, and Philip - not to be afraid of a miracle. Have great patience and perseverance and great love in your heart, teacher, before you open your mouth. Lesson for all of us.

However, this is not at all the deification of a believing and perfect personality. In Christianity there is an unattainable ideal, and it is so difficult to reach Him. It is very difficult for us, brothers, to combine this consciousness that the gates are open, go! — and an understanding of the soul-shattering complexity and inscrutableness of this incomparable path, and the impossibility of achieving the goal. Yes, in practice this goal is unattainable, but in the world of the spirit there is nothing unattainable. Then there are the trivial truths...

And then everyone go myself. It's not about teaching others, you don't need to influence them with the power of persuasion, no need to turn!- this was another crime of the inquisitors: they turned them so that they could burn them later !!! Go yourself, you yourself overcome at least two steps of this ladder to heaven, and someone will believe. Remember that, in general, this is the work of God, and not yours, do not consider yourself a great shepherd and prophet if you can connect a couple of words. Oh, how much wisdom there is - if you finally break away from the terrible questions of Ivan Karamazov and try to look further, further ...

One thing is clear: not to teach the "masses", but to create a personality - this is the task of the coming civilization. Again and again "The stone rejected by the builders will become the head of the corner." But it takes so much! Art, social climate, economics, politics - the whole world should serve her! - and this will mean that people have come closer to solving the religious problem.

Kiss of Christ and kiss of Alyosha. Great love is the only argument for the erring one. Alyosha's teaching happened before our very eyes. Neither time, nor space, nor the difference of hypostases change anything. This is the only argument on earth, the only program that no one can refute.

Terrible, like death, marvelous, inexplicable, it passes through everything, deified love for people, through fire and the cross, defeat and contempt. It cannot be destroyed, humiliated - it cannot be explained, and therefore predicted and defeated. It breaks loose and suddenly appears, igniting hearts - and now, it has disintegrated, it has become dust, which this morning still seemed solid and convincing.

All the power of the world, all the Pharisees, in essence, are only busy with destroying, well, and if not destroying, then replacing it with something - love. The Church preaches it - and often thereby destroys, pushing into the hierarchical canons, the words necessary in this case prayers. But love is invincible with dogma, it breaks all the canons and pours out suddenly, submissive only to the heart. And the love of Christ is the highest and most perfect, although even good writers do not understand Him, portraying Him as quiet and submissive. They understood many things in Him, but they did not understand His love.

She is powerful and strong, she is attractive and powerful, she passes through walls and is not afraid of enemies. She raises the dead and saves fading souls, she suddenly converts a thief on a cross or a rich man in his chambers. It allows see your soul, she is active and strong, and many do not see this in Christ.

Alyosha goes into the world to see all its diversity, to become stronger, to learn how to endure blows with his loving soul and not be afraid of them. Because on this unfortunate earth there is love that serves only hunger and lust; there is another kind of love that ties new knots in life—it gives birth to people: this love is called upon to save humanity.

And only she makes a person sighted. He begins to see the truth, and the souls of people open before him, and the secrets of great words. This is what King David had in mind when, in a most beautiful psalm, he sang about what he would like to see more than anything in the world. face of god, terrible, forbidden - it was said! — but able to open itself to incredible and great love!

However, according to Dostoevsky, true love does not live in a person separately, as a kind of gift, packaged in heavenly garments - it is merged with the whole being of a person, contradictory and tragic. And Alyosha, for example, is so kind and bright, also Karamazov, and he had to fight this Karamazovism, this spirit of the earth, darkness in his heart. Subtly and terribly in a person, peaks converge with abysses ...

Transfiguration in heavenly love - this is what they will see the meaning of life.

This is the key to man's strength, which is why he can defeat Satan. Satan is omnipotent, in his hands are the secret threads of our destinies, he owns the worlds, and a weak person can defeat him?! Yes. Because Satan does not know love. He is a one-eyed cyclops, and his only eye looks at the ground. Away from the earth, soul - and victory is yours. Because here Satan will again and again offer you his temptations. It will tempt with a miracle - and you will believe it, but it will be fear of a miracle, not love. Or in authority, power, but it will also be fear. Love will be wonderfully reborn every time: a beautiful princess - into an ugly frog!

I thought for a long time why angels come to Him after temptation ... He needs them because they show the heavenly love. And with this great love he speaks his Sermon on the Mount to the people. I just can’t understand one thing: what did He feel when he first saw this abyss between such a great love — and such miserable souls down there…

Love is not something given, and it seems to me that we do not quite understand its nature. We say: “He has no love” or “He has love”, and this seems to me one of the unconscious clichés. It cannot be owned, it cannot be contained. You can enter her stream. She, love, is with God, she is given to us, she is immeasurably higher than us and our ability to accommodate her and therefore changes us, makes us cleaner, stronger. To realize this, to comprehend how much lower, imperfect we are, means to understand our path, to understand our higher nature. And then we will serve love, and not manage it, not make it a toy, an object in the hands of a juggler, but consider it a guiding star, salvation and the goal of life. This is what the religion of Christianity teaches.

The implications of this statement are inexhaustible. Any systematic, scholastic game with categories is of little use for human use, and the German spirit spent a lot of effort in vain - like the Romanesque, who developed the religion of reason, and not the religion of love. Bringing people together by an intellectual scheme or intelligent system is equally limited and not in Christ. And any literary criticism that does not deal with a moral problem, but, say, a social, philosophical one, is of little use to people. That is why the works of our philosophers of the beginning of the century are beautiful.

No one denies the love of Christ: some believe in Him, others, like brother Ivan, do not, but here, he included in the most effective episode of his poem the kiss of Christ - the love of Christ, which for him is not a reality at all, but some kind of mystical substance, a mystery . However, he also understands that if you remove this secret, then a person’s life will become a nightmare.

Our task is to understand, to realize, to feel this love, to comprehend whether it is possible for it to come into the world, how, who can contribute to it. All our literature should deal with this task. Otherwise, why is it needed?

He waited for a while, looking after his brother. For some reason, he suddenly noticed that brother Ivan was walking, somehow swaying, and that his right shoulder, if you look from behind, seems to be much lower than the left. He had never noticed this before... (332)

Dostoevsky prefers in this way, completely imperceptible to a superficial glance, to show us the beginning of the process that will lead to the death of Ivan. Distortion his image has already begun ...

The end of the 3rd chapter is also interesting: Alyosha forgot about his religious duty (to save Dmitry), family obligations: the duty to defend this love in himself above all others. Save your soul - or lose the whole world.

V. Rozanov. Legend of the Grand Inquisitor

"Mysteries of the Little Humpbacked Horse": written quiz based on the fairy tale by P.P. Ershov.

Questions and answers.

I. "Speak, but only the truth":

1. How did the mare thank Ivan?
   - She gave birth to him two golden-maned horses and Horse - the Humpbacked.
2. For what reason did the tsar take Ivan to serve in the palace?
   - No one, except Ivan, could cope with the golden-maned horses, which Ivan sold to the king.
3. What kind of miracle light did the brothers see in the field?
   - Feather Fire - birds.
4. What were the names of Ivan's brothers?
   - Danila and Gavrila.
5. For what price did Ivan sell the golden-maned horses?
   - 10 caps of silver and another 5 rubles.
6. Who became Ivan's enemy in the palace? For what reason?
   - The royal sleeping bag, out of envy, since Ivan took his place.
7. Why was the whale fish punished?
   - For swallowing 3 dozen ships.
8. Where was the ring of the Tsar Maiden?
   - At the bottom of the sea in a red chest.
9. What was in the three cauldrons in which Ivan and the tsar bathed?
   - Icy water, boiled water and milk boiled with a spring.

II. Choose the correct answer and underline it:

1. How many fairy tales did P.P. Ershov?
   • many.
2. Where was P.P. Ershov?
   • In Moscow;
   • In Petersburg;
   • In Siberia.
3. How long did the tsar give Ivan to get the firebird?
   • 3 days;
   • 3 weeks;
   • 3 months.
4. What color were the golden-maned horses, the sons of a mare?
   • White;
   • Voronoi;
   • Gray.
5. How many times a year did the Tsar Maiden descend from the Okiyana to the ground?
   • 1 time;
   • 2 times;
   • 3 times.
6. Who found the chest with the ring of the Tsar Maiden?
   • Sturgeons;
   • Dolphins;
   • Ruff.
7. How many years did the whale fish not get forgiveness?

III. Ancient words.

Explain the meaning of the underlined words:

1. "Guests! Open the benches
   Buy, sell!
   (Guests are merchants, merchants.)

“Here Ivan gets off the stove,
Malachai puts on his.
(Malahai is a wide garment without a belt.)

"About five weeks later
Began to notice the sleeping bag.
(A sleeping bag is a courtier, belonging to the Grand Duke or Tsar for personal services.)

“I love my friend Vanyusha,
You cheered my soul
And for such joy -
Be the royal stirrup!"
(Stir-up - a courtier standing at the royal stirrup at the departure of the king.)

“The king shouts to the whole bazaar:
“Ahti, fathers, fire!
Hey, call the bars!
Fill it up, fill it up!"
(Grid - firemen.)

"Wait a little,
Command a window first
Shut up in the resting place ... "
(Bedroom - bedroom.)

IV. Tricky questions:

1. How tall was the Little Humpbacked Horse (in modern measures of length)?
   - 13.35 cm, since he is 3 inches tall, and 1 inches = 4.45 cm
2. Name Ivan's favorite pastime.
   - Sing and sleep.
3. How old was the king?
   - 70.
4. What color was the golden-maned mare?
   - White ("like winter snow, white.")
5. How old was the Tsar Maiden?
   - 15.
6. What was Ivan's father's name?
   - Peter.
7. Name the mother and brother of the Tsar Maiden
   - Month / Moon - mother, Sun - brother.

V. Whose words are these?

1. I didn't sleep all night;
   To my misfortune
   It was a terrible disaster!
   The rain poured like this...
   (Elder brother of Danila.)


2. Well, Ivan, - she told him -
   If you managed to sit
   So you own me.
   (Mares.)


3. I'm with a guilty head
   The king appeared before you
   They didn't order me to be executed
   Command me to speak.
   (Bedroom.)


4. But, to tell you in friendship,
   This is a service, not a service.
   (Horse - Humpbacked.)


5. If you don't feel sorry for yourself
   You will be younger again.
   (King - girls.)


6. Be merciful brothers
   Let's have a little fight.
   (Ruff.)

VI. Think and answer: Questions and the most interesting answers of our readers.

1. What qualities do you think helped Ivan cope with all the tasks and become a king?
   Kindness, courage, the ability to admit one's mistakes, the ability to forgive (brothers, a mare), frankness, disinterestedness, caring for others, the ability to make friends (Goryshneva Tamara, grade 3); cunning, wit, dexterity, courage, striving for a goal (Rozhdestvenskaya Katya, grade 5); perseverance, resourcefulness (Katya Miklina, grade 5); mind, because Ivan was actually smart (Maya Semkieva, grade 5); fear (Korshunova Daniela, grade 5); cheerfulness, worldly mind (Zhukovskaya Luda, grade 4); ingenuity (Avdeenkov Volodya, grade 5); agility (Vika Tikhomirova, grade 4); smartness, intelligence (Kokteva Vika, grade 5).
2. What do you like (or dislike) the Humpbacked Horse?
   I like him because he is: kind, smart, disinterested, a good friend, forgives Ivan, rejoices for him, consoles him in trouble, always helps (Goryshneva Tamara, 3rd grade); always helps out his master (Katya Miklina, grade 5); devoted and faithful (Korshunova Daniela, grade 5); always helps his friend and wants him to become king (Gasanova Sabina, grade 5); handsome, small in stature, and by this he helped Ivan in solving the problems of the king (Rozhdestvenskaya Katya, 5th grade); a devoted friend (Ulyana Salnikova, grade 4); small, but frisky, with a golden mane, black. (Tikhomirova Vika, 4th grade).
3. Does the tale of the Little Humpbacked Horse look like Russian folk tales? If yes, what exactly is similar?
   Most of the participants in the quiz decided that it was similar, namely: The beginning and the end (Rozhdestvenskaya Katya, Miklina Katya, Avdeenkov Volodya); the fact that good in a fairy tale conquers evil (Goryshneva Tamara, Gasanova Sabina, Korshunova Daniela, Zhukovskaya Lyuda, Avdeenkov Volodya); triple repetitions: 3 boilers, 3 brothers, 3 horses, 3 trials (Goryshneva Tamara, Rozhdestvenskaya Katya, Zhukovskaya Luda); the fact that magical heroes and things act in it, Ivan is the younger brother and, as it were, a fool, but he is the main character, a good person and in the end he was awarded for kindness, courage and honesty (Goryshneva Tamara, 3rd grade).

ELENA SHITIKOVA
Quiz based on the fairy tale by P. P. Ershov "The Little Humpbacked Horse" part 1

Target: To consolidate and clarify the knowledge of children about the life and work of Peter Pavlovich Ershov and his fairy tale"The Little Humpbacked Horse".

Tasks:

Development of communication skills, cognitive interest, creative thinking.

Raising a caring and respectful attitude to the book.

Cultivate interest in literature.

Increase in emotional state.

preliminary work: acquaintance with the writer. Acquaintance with fairy tale: reading and paraphrase, viewing illustrations and various publications fairy tales. Prepare certificates, prizes, drawings of children according to fairy tale.

The hall is decorated with children's drawings. Installed multimedia screen for puppet theater. Participate teams of 10 children from each kindergarten, the rest are fans.

Slide #1 (The Little Humpbacked Horse)

Quiz progress:

Slide #2 (P.P. Ershov)

Vedas: Every year we celebrate significant events and dates. 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Pyotr Pavlovich Ershov. Everyone knows fairy tale« The Little Humpbacked Horse» (1834, which turned 180 a year ago. Poet and storyteller P. P. Ershov, probably, did not imagine that the adventures of his heroes would survive the centuries.

Slide #3 (book cover)

Beyond the mountains, beyond the forests

Beyond the wide seas

Not in heaven - on earth

An old man lived in a village...

This is how it starts fairy tale« The Little Humpbacked Horse. This fairy tale is known to all. It is published in English, French, German, Polish and even Japanese! Undoubtedly, she adorns Russian children's literature, captivating the imagination of readers. This work can safely be called fabulous encyclopedia of the Russian people.

Peter wrote as a nineteen-year-old student Ershov this amazing tale. On creation "Humpbacked Horse" Ershov inspired by the magical fairy tales A. S. Pushkin. Subsequently, Alexander Sergeevich highly appreciated Ershov's fairy tale,writing to the author: “Now this kind of writing can be left to me!” With time fairy tale« The Little Humpbacked Horse» won the hearts of readers all over Russia.

slide number 4 (splash screen quiz)

And today I invite you to go on an exciting journey with the heroes of this fairy tales. Active the participants of our quiz are the team«___» (applause, «___» (applause) And «___» (applause). (teams sit in a semicircle at the tables, fans on both sides of the hall, the jury table behind the teams.) All the rest are active fans. Fans show how you know how to clap, stomp. Well done! We clap for the correct answer of the team, stomp for the wrong answer. The most responsible guests this is our jury:

Let's give them a round of applause.

And the teams proceed to the first task.

Slide #5 (picture by fairy tale)

1 round "Warm-up"

I propose to remember the plot fairy tales« The Little Humpbacked Horse» , for this, the teams need to answer my questions in turn. If the team gives the wrong answer. The question goes to the opponents. Ready?

1. How many brothers did Ivan have and what were their names? (Two. Danila and Gavrila)

2. What Ivan and his brothers did (Sown and sold wheat)

3. How did Ivan's brothers spend the night on guard in the wheat field? (One dug in the hay, and the other "Walked on patrol at a neighbor's fence")

4. Who did Ivan see in the field and that he lied at home about the thief of their wheat? (A white mare with a golden mane; said that the devil was stealing their wheat)

5. How much Ivan had horses and where did they come from? (Three; a white mare gave birth to them as a gift to Ivan)

6. What first aid did the Humpbacked Horse provide to Ivan? (Caught up with the brothers who stole from Ivan horses)

7. What was the first wonderful thing Ivan found? (Feather of the Firebird)

8. Where did Ivan hide the feather of the Firebird? (I wrapped it in a rag and hid it in a hat)

9. Who and how much bought golden manes Ivan's horses? (King, for 10 caps of silver)

10. How did Ivan get to the royal stable as a groom? (Because the golden-maned horses did not obey anyone except Ivan)

11. Who stole the Firebird's feather from Ivan and why? (Former groom to get rid of Ivan)

12. What was the first task the king gave Ivan? (Catch the firebird)

13. Where did Ivan catch the Firebird? (On a mountain of silver)

14. What was the second task given by the tsar to Ivan? (Find and bring the Tsar Maiden)

15. Where did the Tsar Maiden live and how many times a year did she descend to Earth? (On the ocean; twice)

16. What did the Tsar Maiden swim on and what musical instrument did she play? (On a boat; on a harp)

17. How did Ivan lure the Tsar Maiden? (Golden tent with refreshments)

18. Why couldn't Ivan catch the Tsar Maiden the first time? (fell asleep)

19. What did Ivan do in order not to oversleep the Tsar Maiden? (Pricked himself with sharp nails and stones)

20. What was the third task the king gave Ivan? (Get the ring of the Tsar Maiden from the bottom of the ocean)

21. Who helped Ivan find the ring at the bottom of the ocean (Miracle Yudo Fish-whale and Ruff)

22. Who were the relatives of the Tsar Maiden? (Mother Month (Moon, brother-Sun)

23. For what and how was Miracle Yudo Fish - a whale punished? (For the fact that he swallowed three dozen ships, God settled people on his back)

24. What did the Fish-whale have to do for his forgiveness? (Give freedom to the ships)

25. What condition did the Tsar Maiden set for the king not to marry him, and how was the king to fulfill this condition? (The king must become younger, and for this he had to swim in three x boilers: boiling water, in boiling milk, cold water)

26. What last will of the king did Ivan fulfill and how did the Little Humpbacked Horse help him? (Ivan bathed in three cauldrons, after the Humpbacked Horse dipped his muzzle into those cauldrons and jumped at Ivan twice)

27. What happened to the tsar and Ivan? (Tsar, cooked, and Ivan became handsome)

This concludes the first round. Dear jury summarizes the results of the first hurray.

Slide number 6 (picture of the firebird)

And you, I beg your attention.

I found out that you are the Firebird

In our royal light,

If I wanted to order

You boast to get it.

Well, look, don't deny

And try to get it."

Here Ivan jumped up like a top.

"I didn't say that!

He screamed as he wiped himself off. -

Oh, I don't lock myself up

But about the bird, whatever you like,

You are misleading."

Tsar, shake your beard:

"What? Dress me up with you! -

He screamed. - But look,

If you are three weeks

Can't get me the Firebird

In our royal light,

That, I swear by my beard,

You pay me...

Slide number 7 (Firebird)

IN: I propose to help Ivan. And the next task of our the quiz will be a contest"Assemble a picture of the firebird from puzzles" (for a period of 2-3 participant)

Slide number 8 (heroes fairy tales)

"Who are the heroes you know,

If you solve the riddle"

(pictures with heroes appear on the screen after guessing)

Who owns the words:

1. “Hey you sleepy grouse!

Open the door brother

I got wet in the rain

From head to toe."

I didn't sleep all night;

On mine, moreover misfortune

It was a terrible disaster!

The rain poured like this…”

slide number 8 (Older brother Danilo)

2. "You, Danilo, well done!

You are like this say, about,

Has served me faithfully

That is, being with everything,

He didn't hit his face in the dirt."

Slide #8 (Father)

3. “Well, Ivan, - he said -

If you managed to sit

So you own me."

Slide #8 (Mares.)

4. "I did not sleep all night,

Yes, to my destiny unhappy,

The night was terribly cold

To the hearts of me penetrated;

I rode all night;

It was too awkward.

However, all is well."

Slide #8 (Gavrilo is the middle brother)

5. “I confess my head,

The king appeared before you

They didn't order me to be executed

Command me to speak."

Slide #8 (Bedroom.)

6. "Way-road, gentlemen!

Where are you from and where are you?"

Slide #8 (whale)

7. "And tell me the guilt

To our bright country

Your parish from the earth;

What people are you from?

How did you get into this region, -

Tell me everything, don't hide it"

Slide #8 (Month)

8. “Great king! don't be angry!

We are all the sea, it seems

Came out and dug

But they didn’t open the sign either.”

Slide #8 (Two white sturgeons)

9. “Hey, master, sleep well!

Time to serve!"

Slide #8 (The Little Humpbacked Horse)

10. “And such a need,

That I will never go out

For the bad, for the gray-haired,

For such a toothless one!

Slide #8 (King Maiden)

11. “Go to the okian;

The volume is stored in the okian

Ring, you hear, Tsar-maidens.

Slide #8 (Tsar)

12. “It is necessary, king, I have two troughs

Beloyarova millet

Yes, overseas wine.

Slide #8 (Ivan)

Vedas: Well done! Well done. The jury sums up the 3rd round. And we move on to the next test.

Slide #9 (the whale is talking to Ivan)

Vedas. : Attention!

(showing an excerpt of the puppet theater)

"The way is the way, gentlemen!

Where are you from and where are you?"

"We are ambassadors from the Tsar Maiden,

We both go from the capital, -

Says to the whale skate, -

To the sun straight to the east

In the mansions of gold. "-

“So it’s impossible, dear fathers,

You have to ask the sun:

How long will I be in disgrace,

And for what sins

Am I suffering misfortune?"

"Okay, okay, whale fish!" -

Our Ivan shouts to him.

"Be a merciful father to me!

See how I suffer, poor thing!

I've been here for ten years.

I will serve you myself. "-

Kit Ivana begs

He sighs bitterly.

"Okay, okay, whale fish!" -

Our Ivan shouts to him.

Vedas: Guys, what does the whale need to do to get free? (release ships)

Can we help? Contest "Ships" (remove paper boats from the whale's mouth)

Models of three whales with boats in them. Commands on signal one at a time participant get one boat. Competition for time.

Vedas. : Well done! And they completed this task. And we move on to the next round.