"The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" A. S

Who wrote "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" is not remembered by everyone, although its plot is familiar to everyone.

Who wrote "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish"?

This tale was written on October 2 (14), 1833. First published in 1835 in the journal "Library for Reading"

The plot is taken from the collection German fairy tales Brothers Grimm. Only there the flounder fish, which was enchanted prince, and in Pushkin's fairy tale it is gold fish.

What is The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish about?

The old man and his wife live by the sea. The old man is fishing, and the old woman is spinning yarn. One day, in the old man's net, a magical goldfish is caught that can speak. human language. She promises any ransom and asks to let her go to sea, but the old man releases the fish without asking for a reward. Returning home, he tells his wife about this incident. Having scolded her husband, she makes him return to the sea, call the fish and ask for at least a new trough instead of a broken one. By the sea, an old man calls a fish, which appears and promises to fulfill his desire, saying: "Do not be sad, go with God."

Returning home, he sees his wife's new trough. However, the old woman's appetites are increasing - she makes her husband return to the fish again and again, demanding for both, and then only for herself, more and more:

• get a new hut;
• to be a pillar noblewoman;
• to be a "free queen".

The sea, to which the old man comes, gradually changes from calm to stormy. The attitude of the old woman towards the old man is also changing: at first she still scolds him, then, having become a noblewoman, she sends him to the stable, and after becoming a queen, she generally kicks him out. In the end, she calls her husband back and demands that the fish make her "mistress of the sea", and the fish itself should become her servant. Rybka does not respond to the old man's next request, and when he returns home, he sees an old woman sitting in front of an old dugout near an old broken trough.

"The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish"- a fairy tale by A. S. Pushkin.

Plot

Toward the end of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale, the old woman becomes the pope (a hint of Popess Joan) and aspires to become a god. In Pushkin's first handwritten version of the tale, the old woman was sitting on the Tower of Babel, and she was wearing a papal tiara:

Another week goes by
His old woman was furious again,
I ordered to find a man -
They bring the old man to the queen,
The old woman says to the old man:
"I do not want I will be the queen of freedom,
I want to be the pope!»
The old man did not dare to argue,
He did not dare to say across the word.
He went to the blue sea
He sees: the stormy black sea,
So the angry waves go
So they howl with an ominous howl.
He began to call the goldfish.

"Good, she will be the pope."

The old man turned back to the old woman.
In front of him is a Latin monastery,
On the walls latin monks
They sing the Latin mass.

In front of him is the Tower of Babel.
At the very top at the crown
His old woman is sitting.
The old woman is wearing a Sarachin hat,
On the cap is a Latin crown,
On the crown thin spoke,
On the spoke Strophilus bird.
The old man bowed to the old woman,
He shouted in a loud voice:
"Hello you, old woman,
I, tea, your darling is satisfied?
The stupid old woman answers:
"You're lying, you're building an empty city,
My darling is not satisfied at all
I don't want to be the pope
And I want to be the mistress of the sea,
To live for me in the ocean-sea,
To serve me a goldfish
And I would have been on parcels.

- Bondy S. M. New pages of Pushkin. - M.: "Mir", 1931.

AT final version this episode was not included, so as not to deprive the work of Russian flavor. However, the Pope also appears in some other works of the Russian epic, for example, in the famous Pigeon Book.

Theatrical-musical and film productions

• In 1937, a color (according to the method of Pavel Mershin) puppet cartoon "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" was filmed at the Mosfilm studio. Screenwriter and director - Alexander Ptushko.
• In 1950, at the Soyuzmultfilm film studio, based on the script by Mikhail Volpin, they released a cartoon cartoon"The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish ". Stage director - Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, composer - Yuri Levitin.
• In the film "After the Rain on Thursday" (1986), Ivan Tsarevich and Ivan the Foundling play pranks in front of Koshchei puppet show this fairy tale.
• In 1986, the Czechoslovak director Vlastaya Yanechkova the cartoon The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish /O rybári a rybce was filmed
• In 1997, at the St. Petersburg Drama Theater "Patriot" ROSTO was staged musical performance based on a fairy tale (staged by Gennady Yegorov).
• In 1998, the puppet theater of the Moscow City Palace of Children's (Youth) Creativity staged the performance-opera "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish". Stage director - Elena Plotnikova, composer - Elena Mogilevskaya.
• In 2002, a puppet animated film "About a fisherman and a fish" was created at the Soyuzmultfilm film studio. Stage director - Natalya Dabizha, composer - Gennady Gladkov.
• In 2017, the Arkhangelsk Drama Theater named after M. V. Lomonosov staged children's performance"The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish". Director - Anastas Kichik.

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Listen to the Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish

An old man lived with his old woman
By the very blue sea;
They lived in a dilapidated dugout
Exactly thirty years and three years.
The old man was fishing with a net,
The old woman was spinning her yarn.
Once he threw a net into the sea, -
The net came with one slime.
He threw a seine another time,
A seine came with sea grass.
For the third time he threw a net, -
A seine came with one fish,
With a difficult fish - gold.
How the goldfish will beg!
He says in a human voice:
“Let me go, old man, into the sea,
Dear for myself, I will give a ransom:
I'll buy whatever you want."
The old man was surprised, frightened:
He fished for thirty years and three years
And I never heard the fish speak.
He released the goldfish
And he said to her a kind word:
“God be with you, goldfish!
I don't need your ransom;

Step into the blue sea
Walk there for yourself in the open."
The old man returned to the old woman,
He told her a great miracle.
“Today I caught a fish,
Goldfish, not simple;
In our opinion, the fish spoke,
The blue asked for a home in the sea,
Paid off at a high price:
I bought whatever I wanted.
I did not dare to take a ransom from her;
So he let her into the blue sea.
The old woman scolded the old man:
"You fool, you fool!
You did not know how to take a ransom from a fish!
If only you took a trough from her,
Ours is completely broken."

So he went to the blue sea;
He sees that the sea is slightly raging.

A fish swam up to him and asked:
"What do you want, old man?"

"Have mercy, sovereign fish,
My old woman scolded me
Does not give the old man peace:
She needs a new trough;
Ours is completely broken."
The goldfish replies:

You will have a new trough."
The old man returned to the old woman,
The old woman has a new trough.
The old woman scolds even more:
"You fool, you fool!
Begged, fool, trough!
Is there a lot of self-interest in the trough?
Come back, fool, you are to the fish;
Bow to her, ask for a hut already.

So he went to the blue sea,
(The blue sea is cloudy.)
He began to call a goldfish,

"What do you want, old man?"

“Have mercy, empress fish!
The old woman scolds even more,
Does not give the old man peace:
A grumpy woman asks for a hut.
The goldfish replies:
"Do not be sad, go with God,
So be it: you will already have a hut.
He went to his dugout,
And there is no trace of the dugout;
In front of him is a hut with a lamp,
With a brick, bleached pipe,
With oak, plank gates.
The old woman sits under the window,
On what light is the husband scolds.
"You fool, you straight-forward fool!
Begged, simpleton, a hut!
Come back, bow to the fish:
I don't want to be a black peasant
I want to be a noblewoman."

The old man went to the blue sea;
(The blue sea is not calm.)

A fish swam up to him and asked:
"What do you want, old man?"
The old man replies to her with a bow:
“Have mercy, empress fish!
More than ever, the old woman freaked out,
Does not give the old man peace:
She doesn't want to be a peasant
Wants to be a pillar noblewoman.
The goldfish replies:
"Do not be sad, go with God."

The old man turned to the old woman.
What does he see? High tower.
On the porch stands his old woman
In an expensive sable shower jacket,
Brocade on the top of the kichka,
Pearls weighed down the neck,
On the hands of gold rings,
On her feet are red boots.
Before her are zealous servants;
She beats them, drags them by the chuprun.
The old man says to his old woman:
“Hello, mistress madam noblewoman!
Tea, now your darling is satisfied.
The old woman yelled at him
She sent him to serve at the stable.

Here's a week, another one goes by
The old woman fumed even more:
Again he sends the old man to the fish.
“Come back, bow to the fish:
I don't want to be a pillar noblewoman,
And I want to be a free queen.
The old man was frightened, he begged:
“What are you, woman, overeating with henbane?
You can't step, you can't speak,
You will make the whole kingdom laugh."
The old woman got more angry,
She hit her husband on the cheek.
"How dare you, man, argue with me,
With me, a pillar noblewoman? -
Go to the sea, they tell you with honor,
If you don’t go, they will lead you involuntarily.”

The old man went to the sea
(The blue sea turned black.)
He began to call the goldfish.
A fish swam up to him and asked:
"What do you want, old man?"
The old man replies to her with a bow:
“Have mercy, empress fish!
Again my old woman rebels:

She no longer wants to be a noblewoman,
Wants to be a free queen.
The goldfish replies:
“Do not be sad, go with God!
Good! the old woman will be queen!
The old man returned to the old woman.
Well? before him are the royal chambers.
In the wards he sees his old woman,
She sits at the table like a queen,
Boyars and nobles serve her,
They pour her overseas wines;
She eats a printed gingerbread;
Around her stands a formidable guard,
They hold axes on their shoulders.
As the old man saw, he was frightened!
He bowed at the feet of the old woman,
He said: “Hello, formidable queen!
Well, now your darling is satisfied.
The old woman did not look at him,
She only ordered him to be driven out of sight.
The boyars and nobles ran up,
They pushed the old man in.
And at the door, the guard ran up,
I almost chopped it off with axes.
And the people laughed at him:
“To serve you, old ignoramus!
Henceforth you, ignoramus, science:
Don't get in your sleigh!"

Here's a week, another one goes by
The old woman fumed even more:
He sends courtiers for her husband,
They found the old man, brought him to her.
The old woman says to the old man:
“Come back, bow to the fish.
I don't want to be a free queen
I want to be the mistress of the sea,
To live for me in the Okiyane-sea,
To serve me a goldfish
And I would have been on the parcels.

The old man did not dare to argue,
He did not dare to speak across the word.
Here he goes to the blue sea,
He sees a black storm on the sea:
So angry waves swelled,
So they walk, so they howl and howl.
He began to call the goldfish.
A fish swam up to him and asked:
"What do you want, old man?"
The old man replies to her with a bow:
“Have mercy, empress fish!
What am I to do with the damn woman?
She doesn't want to be queen
Wants to be the mistress of the sea;
To live for her in the Okiyane-sea,
For you to serve her
And she would have been on the parcels.
The fish didn't say anything.
Just splashed her tail on the water
And she went into the deep sea.
For a long time by the sea he waited for an answer,
I did not wait, I returned to the old woman -
Look: again in front of him is a dugout;
On the threshold sits his old woman,
And in front of her is a broken trough.

Orthodox explanation of the Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish. Monk Konstantin Sabelnikov

The old man (mind) with the old woman (heart) lived by the sea for 33 years. This means that a person lived a conscious life (lived in mind and heart) and became ready to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who died and rose again at the age of 33.
The old woman spun yarn - in this life, each person, with his thoughts, words and deeds, creates for himself morale soul, which will be her clothing in eternity.
The old man was fishing - every person seeks his own good in earthly life.
Once he first pulled out a net with mud and grass, and then with a goldfish - one day a person understands the temporality of temporary life, and this helps him to believe in eternity and in God.
Fish - ancient symbol Christ, and gold is a symbol of grace. Rybka asked to be released, although she did not need it, because she had power even over the fate of people - the Lord calls a person to show mercy to someone, and it brings them closer to God, opens the heart to faith in Him.
The old woman made the old man first of all ask for a trough - a person, having come to faith, begins spiritual life with the cleansing of his conscience from sins. Ap. Peter told the believing Jews: "Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins ..." (). Unbelieving people do not have such means and do not know how to ease their conscience.
The old woman scolds the old man and calls him a "fool", because a person acts according to the dictates of the heart and, as La Rochefoucauld said, the mind is always a fool at the heart. When the old man went to ask for a trough, the sea broke out - because God is not pleased when a person who believes in Him wants not to serve Him, but to use Him for their own personal goals, even good ones.
Having received a new trough, the old woman did not thank the fish, but sent the old man with another request - believers rarely sincerely thank God for the fact that He makes it possible to be cleansed from sins in the sacrament of Confession. Having started church life, they, as a rule, begin to ask God for health and well-being in the family and at work (a new hut).
Then the old woman demanded to be a noblewoman and a queen - a person begins to ask God for something that serves to satisfy vanity and pride (in this case, lust for power). The Lord sometimes allows a person to receive what he asks, so that, while receiving, he would grow in faith in God, and then, having known his passions, he would begin to fight with them and, for the sake of God, give up what feeds them.
When the old woman became a noblewoman, she began to beat the servants, because when a person receives honor and glory and feeds his vanity with them, his heart hardens towards people. She hit an old man who tried to argue with her - because when the passion of vanity intensifies, it dominates the mind of a person more strongly.
The old woman demanded to become a queen - from the desire for fame, a person passes to the desire for power. The old woman demanded power over the goldfish - Abba Dorotheos says that pride before people leads to pride before God.
The old man could not understand that his main problem was the character of the grandmother. He had to ask the goldfish to change the old woman, but he only complained about her. So a person must understand with his mind that his main problem is the passions of the heart, and, having come to faith, he must not only confess his sins (complain against the old woman), but ask God to change his heart.
The fairy tale shows what happens to people who try to change their lives, but not themselves, with the help of God. At first, their life really improves, but then they serve not God, but their passions, although they themselves do not notice this. If a person does not fight passions, then they fight him. The Lord said: “He who does not gather with Me, he squanders” (). Abba Dorotheos said that in the spiritual life a person cannot stand still, he becomes either worse or better. There is no third. Because of pride, a person is left with nothing. Over time, he still loses earthly blessings: with retirement or due to illness, he loses his position, influence on people. Having lost these benefits, he understands that, having received a lot in this life for a while, he did not receive the most important thing - he did not become different.

Mikhail Semyonovich Kazinik, violinist, lecturer-musicologist, teacher, writer-publicist:

Ask any philologist teacher at school what Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's tale about the fisherman and the fish is about? Everyone will say: "This tale is about a greedy old woman who was left with nothing."
My good, another stupidity! It is Pushkin who will waste time condemning another greedy old woman! This is a tale of love. O unconditional love old man. It is easy to love a beautiful, generous, intelligent woman. You try to love an old, dirty, greedy old woman. And here is the evidence: I ask any philologist how the tale of the fisherman and the fish begins. Everyone says to me: "We lived ...". Yes, right. “Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman by the very blue sea!” Right? "That's right!" - say philologists. “That's right!” say the academics. "That's right!" say the professors. "That's right!" the students say. “There lived an old man and an old woman near the blue sea. The old man was fishing with a net ... ". Not properly! It would not be Pushkin. “Once upon a time there was an old man with an old woman” - this is the most ordinary beginning of a fairy tale. Pushkin: "An old man lived with his old woman." Do you feel the difference? Because it's still mine! Pushkin gives the code! His own, dear: thirty years and three years together. Flesh of flesh! Greedy - there are such old women! Darling!
Next, where did they live? By the blue sea. I ask philologists: where? “Well, by the sea. By the sea!" Not true. Near the BLUE sea. This is Pushkin's second code. As the old woman desires, she ceases to be "her own", and the sea changes color. Remember? "The blue sea has become cloudy, blackened." The sea is no longer blue.

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish - a wonderful Russian fairy tale about how an old man once caught a goldfish, and she promised to fulfill his three wishes. The author of the tale is the Russian poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. Posted by Pushkin "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" in 1833.
Here is the first printed "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" in 1835 in the journal Library for Reading.

And yet, it turns out, Pushkin wanted to include the fairy tale in the "Songs of the Western Slavs." With this cycle, the fairy tale and poetic size are close.

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The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish

An old man lived with his old woman
By the very blue sea;
They lived in a dilapidated dugout
Exactly thirty years and three years.
The old man was fishing with a net,
The old woman was spinning her yarn.
Once he threw a net into the sea, -
The net came with one slime.
He threw a seine another time,
A seine came with sea grass.
For the third time he threw a net, -
A seine came with one fish,
With a difficult fish - gold.
How the goldfish will beg!
He says in a human voice:

“Let me go, old man, into the sea,
Dear for myself, I will give a ransom:
I'll buy whatever you want."
The old man was surprised, frightened:
He fished for thirty years and three years
And I never heard the fish speak.
He released the goldfish
And he said to her a kind word:
“God be with you, goldfish!
I don't need your ransom;
Step into the blue sea
Walk there for yourself in the open."

The old man returned to the old woman,
He told her a great miracle.
“Today I caught a fish,
Goldfish, not simple;
In our opinion, the fish spoke,
The blue asked for a home in the sea,
Paid off at a high price:
I bought whatever I wanted.
I did not dare to take a ransom from her;
So he let her into the blue sea.
The old woman scolded the old man:

"You fool, you fool!
You did not know how to take a ransom from a fish!
If only you took a trough from her,
Ours is completely broken."

So he went to the blue sea;
He sees that the sea is slightly raging.
A fish swam up to him and asked:
"What do you want, old man?"
"Have mercy, sovereign fish,
My old woman scolded me
Does not give the old man peace:
She needs a new trough;
Ours is completely broken."
The goldfish replies:
You will have a new trough."
The old man returned to the old woman,
The old woman has a new trough.
The old woman scolds even more:
"You fool, you fool!
Begged, fool, trough!
Is there a lot of self-interest in the trough?
Come back, fool, you are to the fish;
Bow to her, ask for a hut already.

So he went to the blue sea,
You will have a new trough."
The old man returned to the old woman,
He began to call a goldfish,
"What do you want, old man?"
“Have mercy, empress fish!
The old woman scolds even more,
Does not give the old man peace:
A grumpy woman asks for a hut.
The goldfish replies:
"Do not be sad, go with God,
So be it: you will already have a hut.
He went to his dugout,
And there is no trace of the dugout;
In front of him is a hut with a lamp,
With a brick, bleached pipe,
With oak, plank gates.
The old woman sits under the window,
On what light is the husband scolds.
"You fool, you straight-forward fool!
Begged, simpleton, a hut!
Come back, bow to the fish:
I don't want to be a black peasant
I want to be a noblewoman."

The old man went to the blue sea;
(The blue sea is not calm.)
A fish swam up to him and asked:
"What do you want, old man?"
The old man replies to her with a bow:
“Have mercy, empress fish!
More than ever, the old woman freaked out,
Does not give the old man peace:
She doesn't want to be a peasant
Wants to be a pillar noblewoman.
The goldfish replies:
"Do not be sad, go with God."

The old man turned to the old woman.
What does he see? High tower.

On the porch stands his old woman
In an expensive sable shower jacket,
Brocade on the top of the kichka,
Pearls weighed down the neck,
On the hands of gold rings,
On her feet are red boots.
Before her are zealous servants;
She beats them, drags them by the chuprun.
The old man says to his old woman:
“Hello, mistress madam noblewoman!
Tea, now your darling is satisfied.
The old woman yelled at him
She sent him to serve at the stable.

Here's a week, another one goes by
The old woman fumed even more:
Again he sends the old man to the fish.
“Come back, bow to the fish:
I don't want to be a pillar noblewoman,
And I want to be a free queen.
The old man was frightened, he begged:
“What are you, woman, overeating with henbane?
You can't step, you can't speak,
You will make the whole kingdom laugh."
The old woman got more angry,
She hit her husband on the cheek.
"How dare you, man, argue with me,
With me, a pillar noblewoman? -
Go to the sea, they tell you with honor,
If you don’t go, they will lead you involuntarily.”

The old man went to the sea
(The blue sea turned black.)
He began to call the goldfish.
A fish swam up to him and asked:
"What do you want, old man?"
The old man replies to her with a bow:
“Have mercy, empress fish!
Again my old woman rebels:
She no longer wants to be a noblewoman,
Wants to be a free queen.
The goldfish replies:
“Do not be sad, go with God!
Good! the old woman will be queen!

The old man returned to the old woman.
Well? before him are the royal chambers.
In the wards he sees his old woman,
She sits at the table like a queen,
Boyars and nobles serve her,
They pour her overseas wines;
She eats a printed gingerbread;
Around her stands a formidable guard,
They hold axes on their shoulders.
As the old man saw, he was frightened!
He bowed at the feet of the old woman,
He said: “Hello, formidable queen!
Well, now your darling is satisfied.
The old woman did not look at him,
She only ordered him to be driven out of sight.
The boyars and nobles ran up,
They pushed the old man in.
And at the door, the guard ran up,
I almost chopped it off with axes.
And the people laughed at him:
“To serve you, old ignoramus!
Henceforth you, ignoramus, science:
Don't get in your sleigh!"

Here's a week, another one goes by
The old woman fumed even more:
He sends courtiers for her husband,
They found the old man, brought him to her.
The old woman says to the old man:
“Come back, bow to the fish.
I don't want to be a free queen
I want to be the mistress of the sea,
To live for me in the Okiyane-sea,
To serve me a goldfish
And I would have been on the parcels.

The old man did not dare to argue,
He did not dare to speak across the word.
Here he goes to the blue sea,
He sees a black storm on the sea:
So angry waves swelled,
So they walk, so they howl and howl.
He began to call the goldfish.
A fish swam up to him and asked:
"What do you want, old man?"
The old man replies to her with a bow:
“Have mercy, empress fish!
What am I to do with the damn woman?
She doesn't want to be queen
Wants to be the mistress of the sea;
To live for her in the Okiyane-sea,
For you to serve her
And she would have been on the parcels.
The fish didn't say anything.
Just splashed her tail on the water
And she went into the deep sea.
For a long time by the sea he waited for an answer,
I did not wait, I returned to the old woman -
Look: again in front of him is a dugout;
On the threshold sits his old woman,
And in front of her is a broken trough.