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The text of the fairy tale Cinderella

There once lived a rich and noble man. His wife died, and he married a second time to such a heartless proud woman, such as you will not find anymore. She had two daughters, who looked like their mother in every way, the same arrogant wicked ones. And my husband had a daughter, extremely meek and affectionate, all in the memory of her late mother, the kindest woman in the world.

The stepmother immediately showed her evil disposition. She was annoyed by the kindness of her stepdaughter - next to this sweet girl, her own daughters seemed even more disgusting.

The stepmother charged the girl with all the dirtiest and hardest work in the house: she cleaned the dishes, washed the stairs, and rubbed the floors in the rooms of the capricious stepmother and her spoiled daughters. She slept in the attic, under the very roof, on a thin bedding. And her sisters' bedrooms had hardwood floors, feather beds, and floor-to-ceiling mirrors.

The poor girl endured everything and was afraid to complain to her father - he would only scold her, because he obeyed his new wife in everything.

Having finished the work, the poor thing would hide in a corner near the hearth and sit right on the ashes, for which the eldest stepmother's daughter called her Zamarashka. But the younger one, not as rude as her sister, began to call her Cinderella. And Cinderella, even in an old dress, was a hundred times nicer than her discharged sisters.

Like "ms="" mincho="">- then once the king's son decided to have a ball and called all the noble people in the kingdom to it. The Cinderella sisters were also invited. How happy they were, how they fussed, choosing their outfits and jewelry! Cinderella only had more work to do: she had to iron skirts and starch collars for her sisters.

The sisters talked endlessly about how to dress up better.

“I,” said the eldest, “I will put on a red velvet dress with lace ...

“And I,” the youngest interrupted her, I’ll put on an ordinary dress. But on top I will throw on a cape with gold flowers and diamond clasps. Not everyone has one like this!

They ordered double-frilled bonnets from the best craftswoman and bought the most expensive ribbons. And in everything they asked Cinderella for advice, because she had very good taste. She wholeheartedly tried to help the sisters and even offered to comb their hair. To this they graciously agreed.

While Cinderella was combing their hair, they asked her:

- Admit it, Cinderella, would you really like to go to the ball?

“Oh, sisters, don’t laugh at me! Will they let me in?

- Yes, it's true! Everyone would roll with laughter if they saw such a mess at the ball.

The other would have deliberately combed them worse for this, but Cinderella, in her kindness, tried to comb them as best as possible.

For two days the sisters did not eat anything for joy and excitement, they tried to tighten their waists and kept turning in front of the mirror.

Finally, the desired day has come. The sisters went to the ball, and Cinderella looked after them for a long time. When their carriage was out of sight, she wept bitterly.

Cinderella's aunt saw that the poor girl was crying and asked why she was so upset.

“I would like ... I would like to ...” Cinderella could not finish her tears from tears.

But aunty guessed it herself (she was a sorceress, after all):

“You would like to go to the ball, right?

- Oh yes! Cinderella replied with a sigh.

Do you promise to be obedient in everything? the sorceress asked. “Then I’ll help you go to the ball.” - The sorceress hugged Cinderella and said to her: - Go to the garden and bring me a pumpkin.

Cinderella ran into the garden, chose the most the best pumpkin and took it to the sorceress, although she could not understand how the pumpkin would help her get to the ball.

The sorceress hollowed out the pumpkin to the very crust, then touched it magic wand, and the pumpkin instantly turned into a gilded carriage.

Then the sorceress looked into the mousetrap and saw that six live mice were sitting there.

She told Cinderella to open the door of the mousetrap. Each mouse that jumped out of there, she touched with a magic wand, and the mouse immediately turned into a beautiful horse.

And now, instead of six mice, an excellent team of six mouse-colored horses in apples appeared.

The sorceress thought:

- Where would you get a coachman?

“I’ll go and see if a rat got into the rat trap,” said Cinderella. “You can make a coachman out of a rat.

- Right! The sorceress agreed. - Go have a look.

Cinderella brought a rat trap where three big rats were sitting.

The sorceress chose one, the largest and mustachioed, touched it with her wand, and the rat turned into a fat coachman with a magnificent mustache.

Then the sorceress said to Cinderella:

- In the garden, behind a watering can, six lizards are sitting. Go bring them to me.

Before Cinderella brought the lizards, the sorceress turned them into six servants dressed in liveries embroidered with gold. They so deftly jumped on the back of the carriage, as if they had never done anything else all their lives.

“Well, now you can go to the ball,” said the sorceress to Cinderella. - Are you satisfied?

- Of course! But how am I going to go in such a nasty dress?

The sorceress touched Cinderella with her wand, and the old dress instantly turned into an outfit of gold and silver brocade, richly embroidered precious stones.

In addition, the sorceress gave her a pair of glass slippers. The world has never seen such beautiful shoes!

Lushly dressed, Cinderella got into the carriage. Goodbye sorceress strictly mso-bidi-font-family:"MS Mincho"">‑ ordered her to return before the clock struck midnight.

“If you stay even a minute longer,” she said, “your carriage will again turn into a pumpkin, horses will turn into mice, servants into lizards, and a magnificent outfit into an old dress.

Cinderella promised the sorceress to leave the palace before midnight and, beaming with happiness, went to the ball.

The king's son was informed that an unknown, very important princess had arrived. He hurried to meet her, helped her out of the carriage and led her into the hall, where the guests had already gathered.

Silence immediately fell in the hall: the guests stopped dancing, the violinists stopped playing - everyone was so amazed by the beauty of the unfamiliar princess.

- What a beautiful girl! whispered around.

Even the old king himself could not get enough of her and kept repeating in the ear of the queen that he had not seen such a beautiful and sweet girl for a long time.

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The prince took her to the place of honor and invited her to dance. She danced so well that everyone admired her even more.

In the midst of the conversation, Cinderella suddenly heard that the clock had struck three quarters past eleven. She quickly said goodbye to everyone and hurried to leave.

Returning home, she first of all ran to the good sorceress, thanked her and said that she would like to go to the ball again tomorrow - the prince very much asked her to come.

While she was telling the sorceress about everything that happened at the ball, there was a knock on the door - it was the sisters who arrived. Cinderella went to open the door for them.

- How long have you been at the ball! she said, rubbing her eyes and stretching as if she had just woken up.

In fact, ever since they parted, she hadn't felt sleepy at all.

“If you had been to the ball,” one of the sisters said, “you would have had no time to be bored. The princess came there - but what a beautiful one! There is no one more beautiful than her in the world. She was very kind to us, treated us to oranges.

Cinderella trembled with joy. She asked the name of the princess, but the sisters replied that no one knew her and the prince was very upset by this. He'd give anything to know who she was.

- She must be very pretty! - Cinderella said smiling. - And you are lucky! How I would like to have a glimpse of her!.. Dear sister, please lend me your yellow house dress.

- Here's another idea! replied the older sister. “For me to give my dress to such a mess?” For nothing in the world!

Cinderella knew that her sister would refuse her, and was even delighted - what would she do if her sister agreed to give her her dress!

The next day the Cinderella sisters went to the ball again. Cinderella went too and was even more elegant than the first time. The prince did not leave her side and whispered pleasantries to her.

Cinderella had a lot of fun, and she completely forgot about what the sorceress ordered her to do. She thought that it was not yet eleven o'clock, when suddenly the clock began to strike midnight. She jumped up and flew away like a bird. The prince rushed after her, but could not catch up with her.

In a hurry, Cinderella lost one of her glass slippers. The prince lifted her carefully.

He asked the guard at the gate if anyone had seen where the princess had gone. The guards replied that they only saw a poorly dressed girl run out of the palace, looking more like a peasant woman than a princess.

Cinderella ran home out of breath, without a carriage, without servants, in her old dress. Of all the luxury, she had only one glass slipper left.

When the sisters returned from the ball, Cinderella asked them if they had as much fun as yesterday, and if the beautiful princess came again.

The sisters replied that she had come, but only when the clock began to strike midnight did she rush to run - so hastily that she dropped a beautiful glass slipper from her foot. The prince picked up the shoe and did not take his eyes off her until the end of the ball. Everything shows that he is in love with a beautiful princess - the owner of the shoe.

The sisters told the truth: a few days passed - and the prince announced throughout the kingdom that he would marry a girl who would hit a glass slipper on her foot.

First, the shoe was tried on for princesses, then for duchesses, then for all court ladies in a row. But she was no good for anyone.

They brought a glass slipper to the Cinderella sisters. They struggled to squeeze their foot into a tiny shoe, but they did not succeed.

Cinderella saw how they were trying, recognized her shoe and asked with a smile:

“Can I try on the shoe too?”

The sisters only laughed at her in response.

But the courtier who came with the slipper carefully looked at Cinderella. He saw how beautiful she was and said that he was ordered to try on the shoe for all the girls in the kingdom. He seated Cinderella in a chair and barely brought the shoe to her leg, as she put on quite freely.

The sisters were very surprised. But what was their amazement when Cinderella took out a second shoe of the same kind from her pocket and put it on her other foot!

Then a kind sorceress arrived in time, touched her old Cinderella dress with her wand, and in front of everyone it turned into a magnificent outfit, even more luxurious than before.

That's when the sisters saw who the beautiful princess was who came to the ball! They rushed to their knees before Cinderella and began to ask for forgiveness for treating her so badly.

Cinderella raised the sisters, kissed them and said that she forgives them and only asks that they always love her.

Then Cinderella in her luxurious outfit was taken to the palace to the prince. She seemed to him even more beautiful than before. And a few days later he married her.

Cinderella was as kind in soul as she was beautiful in face. She took the sisters to her palace and on the same day married them to two court nobles.

Screen adaptations and productions:

Based on the french version plot Yevgeny Lvovich Schwartz wrote the play. In 1947 it was filmed by Nadezhda Kosheverova and Mikhail Shapiro. This is the most famous adaptation of the fairy tale in Russia. The 1973 Czech-German adaptation of Three Nuts for Cinderella is based on the Brothers Grimm version, adapted by Bozena Nemcova. From the animated versions are known soviet cartoon"Cinderella" in 1979, directed by Ivan Aksenchuk, as well as a full-length cartoon by Walt Disney, released in 1950.

In addition, there are many films and television series in which a similar story is played on modern material. story line“from rags to riches”: “Sabrina”, “Pretty Woman”, “Slumdog Millionaire”, “The Rich Also Cry”, etc.

The image of Cinderella in the fantasy miniseries "The Tenth Kingdom" is presented in an interesting way, where at the time of the events Cinderella is 200 years old. She is still beautiful and young, only a couple of comical episodes testify to the respectable age that has affected her health.

There is also a 2007 comedy cartoon based on a fairy tale with its own plot - The New Adventures of Cinderella. USA-Germany productions, directors: Paul Bolger and Yvette Kaplan.