What is the miracle Yudo fish whale. Wonder-yudo fish-whale. How scientists discovered a monster, which for many years was considered an invention. Prehistory of writing a masterpiece

Peter Pavlovich Ershov - Russian prose writer, playwright, poet. One of his most famous works is The Little Humpbacked Horse. Those who have read this tale in verse will probably remember that one of the most striking characters is the Whale Fish. If you have not yet had the pleasure of familiarizing yourself with this work, you can do it right now.

Prehistory of writing a masterpiece

Ershov Peter Pavlovich was born on February 22, 1815 in the town of Bezrukovo, Tobolsk province. His father, on duty, moved often, so Peter had the opportunity to communicate with different people.

The boy listened to folk legends, which formed the basis of his famous work "The Little Humpbacked Horse". As the author himself said, he only slightly modified them, gave the words a poetic form. Opinions about the work were conflicting. So, Belinsky said that there is no Russian spirit in a fairy tale, despite the fact that it is written in Russian words. However, there were many positive reviews. So, AS Pushkin, having familiarized himself with the work, said: "Now this kind of composition can be left to me." With these words, he put the novice poet on the same level with himself. And it was under the influence of Pushkin's tales that 19-year-old PP Ershov created The Little Humpbacked Horse.

One peasant had three sons. The eldest was called Danilo, he was smart. Middle Gavrilo was "this way and that", and the younger Ivan was a fool at all.

The family grew wheat and sold it. But someone began to trample crops at night and thereby cause great damage. Then it was decided that all the brothers would take turns on duty. The elder, when he was on duty, was attacked by fear. The young man buried himself in the hay and lay there all night, so he did not recognize anything. The middle brother froze and left his post. Only Ivan managed to understand what was the matter. He saw a beautiful white horse, managed to saddle it and bring it to the shepherd's booth.

As the mare had promised him, she gave birth to three horses. Danilo and Gavrilo saw two handsome stallions and secretly took them away for sale. The humpbacked horse consoled the saddened Ivan. He ordered him to sit on his back and rushed after the brothers. With this begins Ershov's fairy tale, in which the Fish-whale will soon appear.

Tests for the peasant son

The horses were so good that the king bought them in the capital. When the animals were taken to the stable, they fled to Ivan. Then the king appointed him a groom. But the envious sleeping bag could not survive this, he threw the Firebird feather to Ivan and told the tsar that the guy promised to bring the owner of the feather.

With the help of a hunchbacked horse, the young man fulfilled this order of the king. Then a loyal friend helped the guy to bring the Tsar Maiden. On the proposal of the sovereign to become his wife, the girl said that she would not agree until she got a ring from the ocean floor. It is this event that will bring the reader closer to the next character, who must help get the ring out of the depths of water.

Finding themselves by the ocean, Ivan and the horse saw that the Miracle Yudo Fish-whale lay across it.

First encounter with a giant island fish

The whale was unusual. It turns out that it has been ten years since it turned into a living island. Next, Ershov describes what the Miracle Yudo Fish-Whale looks like.

There was a village on his back, there were real houses here. Palisades were driven into the poor animal's ribs. Men plowed on his lip, mushrooms were growing between their mustaches, which the girls were looking for.

The horse and Ivan jumped on a strange creature. The whale fish asked where they came from and where are they heading?

They replied that they were leaving the capital on behalf of the Tsar Maiden, heading towards the Sun, which would help them fulfill the girl's order. Hearing this, the whale asked the travelers to ask the Sun how long he would still be in this form and for what sins this punishment. Ivan promised to fulfill the request, and the travelers went on.

Description of the hero of the fairy tale

They will help you find out what a whale fish looks like, pictures. It can be seen that a forest grows on its tail. It begins with a birch grove, becoming more and more dense. There are already dark spruces, oaks and other trees.

On the body of the sufferer there are village houses. A vegetable garden is laid out near each of them. They plow the land and carry the weights of the horses, which can also be seen in the illustration. On one side of a giant fish stands a church where peasants go to pray. On the other - a mill, here they turn grain into flour.

His face is also covered with undergrowth. It can be seen how the whale-fish suffers. Pictures convey the joyless existence of the animal. Although only one of his eyes is drawn, and the other is hidden under the vegetation, it is clear with what longing and supplication for travelers he is filled. Will Ivanushka and the horse be able to help him? You will find out about this very soon.

In a palace

The young man and his assistant climbed up to heaven and ended up in the palace of the Tsar Maiden. However, the sun rested here only at night, and during the day they found a month there, but they were glad of that too. The night star was also happy, having received through the messengers the news of their missing daughter, the Tsar Maiden. To celebrate, Month Mesyatovich told the guests why the Whale-Fish suffers. The tale moves on to the next episode, which lifts the veil of secrecy. It turns out that a giant fish swallowed 30 ships. As soon as she releases them back, she will be forgiven and will again be able to swim freely in the ocean.

Forgiveness

Ivan and the Humpbacked Bunny said goodbye to the Month and set off on their way back. When they approached the ocean, the Whale Fish saw them. The tale continues, and now there are only joyful moments in it.

The hunchback galloped to the peasants to tell them to get ready quickly and leave this living island, otherwise they would drown. They obeyed, and at noon there was not a single living soul here.

Then only the travelers told the whale how to earn forgiveness. He opened his mouth and all the ships jumped out of him with a noise, cannon shots. The rowers sang merry songs.

Search for the ring

For those who are interested, a whale is a fish or an animal, it should be explained. Previously, people thought that it was a giant fish, because a whale lives in water and is similar in shape to it. But then it turned out that this mammal that breathes air is viviparous, which means it is an animal. But back to the fairy tale.

The whale fish asks its saviors how it can thank them. They said that they only need a ring. He dived into the depths of water, called the sturgeons and told them to find the decoration. They searched for a long time, but returned with nothing. They said that only a ruff could find him.

After that, the two dolphins went in search of the ruff. He was a reveler and a bully, so it was not so easy to find him.

They looked for him in the seas, rivers, lakes, but all in vain. Then the dolphins heard exclamations and realized that the ruff was in the pond. There he intended to fight with a crucian carp. This is the plot invented by P.P. Ershov. The whale fish, to which the sea reveler was delivered, tells him to find the chest in which there was a ring.

Ruff said he knew where all this was. He dived into the pool and dug up the treasured chest, then called the sturgeons, told them to take the find to the whale, and went about his business.

Happy ending to a fairy tale

At this time, Ivan sat on the ocean shore and waited for the Fish-whale to appear. It was already evening, but the surface of the water did not ripple. The young man was worried, since the deadline for the execution of the royal order was nearing the end, and he did not yet have a ring. Suddenly the sea began to seethe, and a whale appeared. He gave the young man the chest, saying that he had complied with the request.

Ivan tried to lift the chest, but could not. Then Humpbacked easily threw the load around his neck, ordered the young man to sit on his back and went to the royal palace. The travelers gave the ring to the emperor, he handed it to the Tsar Maiden and told her to marry him as soon as possible. The girl replied that she was 15 years old and that she would not marry an old man. The Tsar Maiden advised him to bathe in cold water, then hot and milk, so that he turns into a young man.

He decided to first conduct tests on Ivan. The young man was displeased. The hunchback told him he would help. Indeed, when Ivan jumped into the cauldron of boiling liquid, the skate cooled it with magical movements. As a result, the young man became handsome and handsome. And the evil king, jumping into the cauldron, boiled there.

The girl married Ivan, and this is where the fairy tale ends. After reading it, children can draw a drawing. The whale fish will look like or be different from a book illustration.

A monster that was not believed in for 1000 years

“You often talk about all kinds of mysterious animals. It's just a shame that none of them was ever found ... ”(From a letter)

How was it not discovered? Very much even found! A real monster, in which scientists did not believe for a thousand years and considered a fiction! And he is - and was discovered by science quite recently ...

There is such a beast!
Scary stories about this monster were told by fishermen and sailors, pirates and travelers. However, there was no truly reliable information about him, so those who did not see him believed that this was fiction.

And just imagine - quite recently, in 2009, this “mythical creature” was captured on video! Let's not laugh at incredulous scientists. As strange as it sounds, we know more about the surface of the Moon than about the depths of our native World Ocean. Scientists have explored at best 5 percent of the ocean depths.

Fictions and guesses
The first to face the terrible sea monster were the Scandinavian sailors. It happened more than a thousand years ago somewhere in the northern seas. From generation to generation, stories about encounters with a formidable and mysterious beast, which in Norwegian is called "kraken", that is, "bent", "crooked" (from the same ancient Scandinavian root, the Russian word "hook" comes from), was passed down. This terrible monster could sink and devour entire ships! This is how the 13th century legends describe this animal:

"This beast is the most enormous of sea monsters. By its nature, it devours people and ships, as well as whales and everything that it can reach. For long days it hides under water, and then raises its head and nostrils from the depths and waits for the next tide. Our ship miraculously slipped between his jaws, and his teeth were like underwater rocks. The evil sorcerer summoned the monster with his magic to destroy us, but I knew that the monster had just surfaced, so I managed to slip through the monster's mouth ... "

And here's another excerpt:
"There is a fish, whose name cannot be called, the size of which will seem unheard of to people. Few people talk about it, because it is not shown near the shore, and only fishermen can see it far in the sea. In our language we call it" kraken. " cubits this fish is long, because when you see it, it looks more like an island than a fish. No one has ever heard that this fish was caught or killed. It is so voracious and huge that there are only two such fish in the ocean, and maybe , and only one at all. "

Whale?
In The History of the Northern Peoples, Archbishop Olaf Magnus (16th century) also talks about the monstrous fish found off the coast of Norway. This fish is “no less than a mile” in length, it has an ugly head covered with disgusting warts and evil eyes of incredible size. "This fish," writes the author, "can sink many large ships with many strong sailors." It may seem to some that we are talking about a whale - but the point is that the Norwegians were absolutely convinced: this "fish" is not a whale at all! They were very familiar with whales and successfully hunted them - they were reputed to be the most courageous and skillful whalers in all of Europe. To make a Norwegian sailor afraid of a whale? Yes, this cannot be!

And outwardly, the kraken did not look very much like a whale. Here is a description from an 18th century book: “The kraken, which is also called a crab fish, has a head and many tails, and is no longer than Yoland Island (16 kilometers) in length. When the kraken rises to the surface, all ships should immediately sail from there, for it rises with a huge splash, emits water from its terrible nostrils, and waves radiate from it in circles a whole mile high. " Yes, a whale can emit a water "fountain" when it rises to the surface of the sea to breathe, but somehow it is not very easy to imagine a whale with "many tails" ...

Linnaeus was hunted down ...
Natural scientists of that time did not know what to think. On the one hand, all fishermen and sailors, without exception, were convinced of the existence of the “northern monster”. On the other hand, this monster could not be caught or killed, and the scientists had to take their word for the sailors - and scientists do not like to take the word. After much debate, they came to the conclusion that the "kraken" is most likely a giant squid or octopus, but whether it really exists, they were absolutely not sure.

The famous Swedish zoologist Karl Linnaeus in the first edition of his book "The System of Nature" in 1735 mentioned the kraken, ranked it as a cephalopod molluscs (together with octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) and gave the Latin name Microcosmus marinus. However, his scientific colleagues showered Linnaeus with ridicule, and he deleted the kraken from all subsequent editions of the book. In his other book, The Animal Kingdom of Sweden, he wrote: "They say that there is a unique monster that lives in the seas of Norway, but I have not seen this animal."

The existence of the kraken was absolutely convinced by the French zoologist Denis de Montfort. In 1802, he published the book The Natural History of Molluscs, in which he called the kraken a "colossal pulp." It was a gigantic, aggressive monster with incredible strength. For example, once such a "colossal pulp" emerged from the depths and dragged a three-masted vessel to the bottom. In another story, described by de Montfort, a sea monster sank as many as ten warships in one night ... However, few believed the author. Zoologists laughed at de Montfort's book and mocked, by the way, in many respects fairly - de Montfort made a lot of conjectures, inaccuracies and fantastic guesses.

"Colossal pulp" from the book by Denis de Montfort

In general, by the beginning of the 19th century, all the stories about the giant "kraken", "polypus" and "colossal pulp" were amicably recorded in the section of "grandmother's fairy tales" and "children's horror stories".

A bolt from the blue
In 1861, the steam corvette Alekton returned to the shores of France from a long voyage. Captain Bouge delivered to the Academy of Sciences a 20-kilogram piece of meat and a detailed report on how his ship met the kraken near the island of Tenerife.

According to the captain, at two o'clock in the afternoon the patrol sailor noticed a huge creature swimming near the surface of the sea. On the head of the creature, like a ball of snakes, twisted a dozen long tentacles. The captain decided that the animal is of great value to science, and therefore ordered to attack and harpoon the kraken.

Several cannon shots were fired, but none hit the target. Finally, one of the sailors managed to pierce the body of the monster with a harpoon and throw on a rope loop - but when trying to get the kraken out of the water, he jerked violently and left only a small piece of his tail for the sailors "as a keepsake".

However, the ship's artist managed to make a wonderful drawing - finally, scientists have the first "real" proof of the existence of the kraken. Over the past century, several dead kraken have been washed ashore and examined by scientists; and this monster, as we have already said, managed to be filmed "live" on a video camera only in 2009.

Meeting of the corvette "Alekton" with a giant squid

Snail's nightmarish cousin
So, what is this animal - the kraken? The Kraken is a giant squid, a cephalopod mollusc. Yes, yes, no matter how strange it sounds, but the giant kraken is a distant relative of ordinary snails, shells and slugs!

Modern scientists distinguish between two types of giant squids: the giant architeutis squid (Architeuthis dux in Latin) and the Antarctic giant squid (Mesonychoteutis hamiltoni).

Ordinary (not giant) squids have long been known to man - the meat of this animal is eaten in many countries of the world, for example, in Greece, Portugal, Spain. Squid is very popular in Japanese cuisine, and we in Russia sometimes like to feast on squid “rings”. However, ordinary squids are small creatures, with half a meter in size and weighing about one and a half kilograms. The giant squid is another matter. The dimensions of his body are about five meters, and he weighs almost half a ton; however, the size of the body seems to be small in comparison with the length of the tentacles (tentacles) - they can be more than 20 meters in length! Lying on the ground, this monster can reach with its tentacles to the windows of the seventh floor!

In total, the giant squid has 10 tentacles: 8 ordinary and 2 hunting, longer ones. These tentacles are dotted with rows of powerful suckers, and each sucker is also "armed" with sharp curved teeth, similar to cat's claws. In the mouth of the squid there is a curved beak, curved like that of a parrot, very sharp and strong. Behind the beak is a radula, a kind of tongue dotted with sharp teeth. With this tongue, the squid quickly moves back and forth, preparing for itself "puree" from the caught prey.

On the head of the architevtis there are two monstrous eyes - these are the largest eyes in the world! The eye of a giant squid reaches 40 centimeters in diameter - that is, it is the size of a large school globe! Even to a modern person, this beast will seem creepy - and it is not difficult to guess how he frightened the superstitious medieval fishermen!

Ka-a-ak shandarahnet! ..
Is the giant squid dangerous for boats and ships? Do the legends about the ships sunk by the kraken lie, or is there some truth in these stories?

Yes, these legends have real grounds. For example, in 1946, a giant squid attacked the Norwegian tanker Brunswik (length 150 meters, displacement 15 thousand tons). The report of the ship's captain indicated that the squid was more than 20 meters long, and it swam at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour. First, the squid swam along the side of the tanker, then overtook, made a semicircle and unexpectedly pounced on the ship. Strong blows could not penetrate the steel hull of the ship, and after a while the squid swam away.

Giant squid eye

However, it was a modern tanker, steel, almost the size of a stadium. Imagine what would happen if a medieval fishing schooner made of wood was in place of the tanker? The squid's "beak" is a terrible weapon, its suckers, armed with razor-sharp claws, are no less terrible.

Squid tentacle with suckers

Why does a person very rarely encounter giant squids? The fact is that these creatures usually live at a very great depth, much more than a kilometer, and float to the surface only in exceptional cases. Zoologists say that only a very hungry or sick architectis can rise to the surface.

The main enemies of giant squids are not people at all, but sperm whales - toothed whales. For sperm whales, squid is the main food; however, the giant architheutis can be a very problematic breakfast. Boris Zenkovich, author of the book Around the World for Whales, describes a dramatic fight between a sperm whale and a giant squid: “The whale, as if in its death throes, either jumped out of the water or spun at the surface. The sailors noticed that his entire body was entangled in the tentacles of a giant squid. The sperm whale grabbed the squid in its mouth and tried to swallow it, but the tentacles that stuck to the whale's head got in the way. Finally, the sperm whale managed to free itself from the tentacles, he tore the squid and swallowed. "

There is a lot of evidence that giant squids over 30 meters long are found at great depths - and now they may well "devour whales", as described in the medieval chronicles.

For a snack
Someone will say: "It would be great to catch such a huge squid - how many delicious rings you could make from it!" I hasten to disappoint: the body of a giant architheutis contains a lot of ammonium chloride, or, simply, ammonia. Therefore, the meat of such a squid is nasty, smelly and completely inedible.

Another thing is the second species of the giant squid mesonichiteutis, which is found in the southern seas, off the coast of Antarctica. In length, it is somewhat smaller than its northern counterpart, but heavier and thicker. This giant squid has meat that is quite edible and very tasty, and from one carcass you can get up to 350 kilograms of those very "rings"! However, it will not be easy to catch such a "fish" - not only does it weigh half a ton, but also the beak is so strong that it can easily bite into a steel wire, let alone a fishing line ...

Medieval bestiaries describe many sea monsters. One of them is Keith.

It is clear that this is not exactly the whale that we know from biology textbooks (Odontoceti and Mysticeti).

Actually, the name itself - Kit (κῆτος) - originally meant "sea monster" (actually the womb, bulge, cf. μεγαχήτης).

Then they began to think that it was supposedly a miracle-yudo-fish-whale and gave this whale a new name - Fastitokolon.

Two points in the description of Keith have amazed the minds of people at all times. First, its size is comparable to that of the island. Relying on Borges, here is an excerpt from the Anglo-Saxon bestiary:

“Now, in my opinion, I also want to say in a verse and in a song about a certain fish, about a mighty whale. To our chagrin, he often turns out to be ferocious and dangerous for sailors. it is like a cliff or an enormous plexus of seaweed, surrounded by a sandbank that has risen from the date of the sea, so that it seems to sailors that they see the island with their own eyes; and then they tie their tall-breasted ship to an imaginary island, hobble their horses on the seashore and They fearlessly set off into the interior of the island. The ship stands at the shore on the quay, around it - water. Then, exhausted, the sailors make a halt, not feeling danger. They light a fire on the island, fan the flame harder; exhausted by labor, they rejoice in anticipation of rest. a whale tempted in deceit will feel that the travelers have firmly settled on it, that they have set up camp and enjoy a fine day, then this ocean creature suddenly it accelerates with its victims into salt water, plunging into the very abyss, and betrays the ship and people drowned by it into the palaces of death.

But even more interesting is its other feature:

When hunger plagues him, this guardian of the ocean opens his mouth as wide as possible. A pleasant smell emanates from its womb, which deceives other fish species. In reckless flocks, they swim into a huge mouth until it is full. This is the case with any person who allows himself to be lured away by a pleasant smell, an impious desire - and commits a sin against the King of glory.

JL Borges "The Book of Fictional Creatures"

Aspidochelon-fastitocolon itself is most often interpreted as an infernal figure (102, p. 61), albeit in the sea.

But this is at a relatively late time. Initially, the monstrous whale-aspidochelon, apparently, embodied the primitive fish, which is the mainstay of the earth.

Naturally, this super-fish also acted as the progenitor of all fish, about which the "Pigeon Book" says: "The whale is a fish for all mother fish."

The world will rest on this version of the whale (which is actually not an isolated case in the world mythological space), and its vibrations are the cause of earthquakes, and, as a result, they will lead to the end of the world.

So, in the image of the whale-aspidochelon-fastitocolon, the ambivalence of the water element is miraculously embodied: the whale is both death, he and birth (more precisely, rebirth).

It was in the sense of rebirth that Christian theologians interpreted the story of the whale and Jonah.

In general, in the Jewish tradition, the image of a sea monster - a whale, apparently has "long roots".

Moreover, "hellish" origin. The Bible says:

For this, the underworld expanded and opened its mouth without measure

Isaiah. 5:14

In the Russian canonical translation and the Septuagint, we have non-personalized "underworld" and "hell", but in the original this line sounds something like this "... Sheol multiplied her appetite and opened her mouth wide." Here Sheol appears to be a terrible monster, much like the Akkadian Tiamat.

It turns out that the then Whale is a mind-blowing monster, more like a dragon than a humpback or sperm whale.

There is reason to believe that the Greeks also saw in Kita a multifunctional creature, which is terrible both in the sea and on land. Remember the shaft Homer described?

... the black-haired king walked before Athena

Wonder Yudo whale fish

Wonder Yudo whale fish
From the poetic tale "The Little Humpbacked Horse" (1834) by the writer Pyotr Pavlovich Ershov (1815-1869).
Used: jokingly and ironically about some strange, ridiculous, incomprehensible phenomenon, object, creature, etc.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of winged words and expressions. - M .: "Lokid-Press"... Vadim Serov. 2003.

See what "Miracle Yudo Whale Fish" is in other dictionaries:

Miracle Yudo- THE MIRACLE OF YUDO. 1. People's poet. Fabulous monster. “We will come to the clearing, Straight to the sea to the ocean; Across it lies the Miracle Yudo fish whale ”(P. Ershov. The Little Humpbacked Horse). On the river, the waters were agitated, eagles screamed on the oaks, the bridge hummed, the miracle of Yudo was leaving ... ... Phraseological dictionary of the Russian literary language

This term has other meanings, see Miracle Yudo (disambiguation). "Miracle Yudo". Russian popular prints of the 19th century. Miracle Yudo character of Russian folk epics and ... Wikipedia

MIRACLE - YUDO- Obsolete term. Outside of Odessa, with the light hand of Ershov, a whale fish is called. In the city where the whaling fleet was based, even small children knew that a whale was an animal, not a fish. Therefore, Ch. Yu. In the Odessa language was once called Yuda, ... ... Big semi-explanatory dictionary of the Odessa language

Miracle, pl. miracles, miracles and (colloquially rare) miracles, miracles, cf. 1. In religious and mythological concepts, a phenomenon that contradicts the laws of nature and cannot be explained by them, but is possible as a result of the intervention of an otherworldly force. “Into miracles now, ... ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

miracle-, miracles Not a miracle with inf. (colloquial) not strange, not surprising. When you adopt wisely, then it is not a miracle and benefit from it. Krylov. Miracles in deciding what N. unusual or ridiculous. Miracle Yudo (nar. Poet.) 1) fabulous monster. ... ... Phraseological dictionary of the Russian language

WHALE- a mammal, symbolizing, due to its size, importance and significance. The archetype of absorption, suction, swallowing. Among many peoples, he was revered as a sea god. He often acted as a symbol of the devil: the open mouth of a whale served ... ... Symbols, signs, emblems. Encyclopedia

Wed ... The Tsarevich Sees: lies on the golden sand Miracle of the sea with a green tail. M.Yu. Lermontov. The sea queen. Wed Across it lies the Miracle Yudo fish whale. All its sides are dug, Palisades are driven into the ribs, On the tail of the cheese boron rustles, On the back the village stands; ... ... Michelson's Big Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary

In general three-term (vertically) mythological schemes of the universe, R. serve as the main zoomorphic classifier of the lower cosmic zone and are opposed to birds as the classifier of the upper zone and (less clearly) to large animals (often ... ... Encyclopedia of mythology

Only in combination is the miracle of Yudo heroes, the miracle of Yudo fish whale, the miracle of Yudo mahanna lip - fabulous and abusive - about the Tatar (Dal), also the miracle of Yudo - as the name of the sea king, in fairy tales. Apparently, this is just a rhymed education according to ... ... Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language by Max Vasmer

A monster, a bogeyman, a scarecrow, a scarecrow, a freak, a monster; (childish) beech; cruel, beast, monster, freak (moral). Miracle Yudo fish whale. ... Trediak. .. See the scarecrow ... Dictionary of Russian synonyms and expressions similar in meaning. under. ed. N. Abramova, M.: ... ... Synonym dictionary

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Below is a Russian fairy tale illustration from Ershov "The Little Humpbacked Horse"

Well, this is how our Ivan goes for the ring to the okiyan. The hunchback flies like the wind, And on the first evening, he waved a hundred thousand miles away And did not rest anywhere. Approaching the okiyan, Says the horse to Ivan: "Well, Ivanushka, look, Here in three minutes we will arrive at the clearing - Directly to the sea-okiyan; Across it lies the Wonder-Yudo fish-whale; For ten years he has been suffering, And until now he does not know Than to receive forgiveness; He will teach you to ask, So that you in the village of the sun Asked him for forgiveness; You promise to fulfill, Yes, look, do not forget! " Here they enter the clearing Directly to the sea-okiyanu; Across it lies the Miracle Yudo fish-whale. All its sides are dug, Palisades are driven into the ribs, There is a fuss rustling on the tail, The village stands on its back; The peasants plow on the lip, Boys dance between the eyes, And in the oak grove, between the mustaches, They are looking for the girls for mushrooms. Here is the skate running over the whale, It knocks on the bones with its hoof. Wonder-yudo fish-whale So the traveler says, Opening wide mouth, Sighing heavily, bitterly: "Way-road, gentlemen! Where are you from, and where?" - "We are ambassadors from the Tsar Maiden, We are both going from the capital, - The horse says to the whale, - To the sun directly to the east, Into the golden mansions." - "So, dear fathers, you can't ask the sun: How long can I be in disgrace, And for which sins I endure troubles and torments?" - "Okay, okay, whale fish!" - Our Ivan shouts to him. "Be a merciful father to me! See, how I suffer, poor man! For ten years now I've been lying here ... I'll serve them myself! .." "Okay, okay, whale fish!" - Our Ivan shouts to him. Then the skate hunted under him, Jumping to the shore - and set off, Only you can see how the sand Curls up in a whirlwind at your feet. Whether they are traveling close or far, Whether they are traveling low or high And they saw someone - I do not know anything. Soon the tale is spoken, The case is going on sluggishly. Only, brothers, I found out That the skate ran in there, Where (I heard from the side) The sky converges with the earth, Where the peasant women spin flax, Spinning wheels are put in the sky. Then Ivan said goodbye to the earth And found himself in heaven And went, like a prince, Hat on one side, cheering up.
"Eco miracle! Eco miracle! Our kingdom is at least beautiful," Ivan says to the horse. dirty; Here the ground is blue, And what a light! .. Look, hunchback, You see, where, to the east,

Like a lightning shine ...
Tea, heavenly light ...
Something is painfully high! "-
So Ivan asked the horse.
"This is the tower of the Tsar Maiden,
Our future queen, -
The hunchback shouts to him, -
The sun sleeps here at night
And at midday sometimes
The month enters for rest. "

Drive up; at the gate
From the pillars, the crystal vault;
All those pillars are curled
Slyly in gold snakes;
There are three stars on the tops
There are gardens around the tower;
On the silver branches there
In gilded in cages
The birds of paradise live
The royal songs are sung.
But the tower with the tower
Like a city with villages;
And on the tower of stars -
Orthodox Russian cross.

Here the skate enters the yard;
Our Ivan gets off him,
Goes to the tower to the month
And this speech is:
"Hello, Month Month!
I am Ivanushka Petrovich,
From distant sides
And brought you a bow. "
"Sit down, Ivanushka Petrovich, -
Said Month Month, -
And tell me the blame
To our bright country
Your parish from the earth;
What people are you from?
How did you get to this land, -
Tell me everything, do not hide it ", -
"I came from the earth Zemlyanskaya,
From a Christian country, -
Says, sitting down, Ivan, -
Moved okiyan
With a handrail from the queen -
Bow to the light tower
And say like this, wait:
"You tell my dear:
The daughter wants to know her,
What is she hiding for
Three nights, three days
Some kind of face from me;
And why is my brother red
Wrapped up in rainy gloom
And in the misty heights
Will not send a ray to me? "
So, seem like? - Craftswoman
The queen speaks red;

You can't remember everything in full
What she told me. "
"And what kind of queen?" -
"This, you know, the Tsar Maiden." -
"The Tsar Maiden? .. So she,
What have you taken away with you? "
Shouted Month Month.
And Ivanushka Petrovich
Says: "It is known by me!
You see, I am a king's stirrup;
Well, so the king sent me,
For me to deliver her
In three weeks to the palace;
Otherwise, father,
Threatened to put on a stake ".
The month cried with joy,
Well hug Ivan,
Kiss and have mercy.
"Ah, Ivanushka Petrovich! -
Said Month Month. -
You brought such a message
I don’t know what to count!
And how we grieved
That the princess was lost! ..
That is why, you see, I
Three nights, three days
I walked in a dark cloud
I was sad and sad,
I didn’t sleep for three days.
I didn't take crumbs of bread,
That is why my son is red
Wrapped up in a rainy darkness,
I extinguished my hot beam,
The world of God did not shine:

I was all sad, you see, for my sister,
Whether that red Tsar Maiden.
What, is she healthy?
Aren't you sad, not sick? "
"Everyone would seem to be a beauty,
Yes, she seems to have dryness:
Well, like a match, hey, thin,
Tea, about three inches in girth;
Here's how to get married,
So I suppose he will get fat:
The king, hey, is marrying her. "
The month cried out: "Ah, villain!

I decided to marry at seventy
On a young girl!
Yes, I stand firmly in that -
He will sit as a groom!
See what the old fuck is up to:
He wants to reap where he did not sow!
Enough, it hurts like varnish! "
Then Ivan said again:
"There is still a petition to you,
That about the whale forgiveness ...
There is, you see, the sea; miracle whale
Lies across it:
All his sides are pitted,
Palisades are driven into the ribs ...
He, the poor man, begged me,
So I ask you:
Will the torment end soon?
How can I find forgiveness for him?
And what is he lying on here? "
The clear month says:
"He bears torment for that,
What without God's command
Swallowed among the seas
Three dozen ships.
If he gives them freedom,
God will remove adversity from him,
All wounds will heal in a moment,
It will reward you with a long century. "

Then Ivanushka got up,
I said goodbye to a bright month,
I hugged my neck tightly
He kissed me three times on the cheeks.
"Well, Ivanushka Petrovich! -
Said Month Month. -
Thank you
For my son and for myself.
Take the blessing
Consolation for our daughter
And tell my dear:
"Your mother is always with you;
Completely cry and crash:
Soon your sadness will be resolved, -
And not old, with a beard,
A handsome young man
Will lead you to the tax. "
Well, goodbye! God be with you! "
Bowing as best he could
Ivan sat on the skate here,
Whistled like a noble knight,
And set off on the return journey.

The next day our Ivan
Came to okiyan again.
Here is the skate running over the whale,
It knocks on the bones with a hoof.
Wonder Yudo whale fish
So, sighing, he says:

"What, fathers, is my petition?
Will I receive forgiveness when? "
"Wait, you whale fish!" -
Then the skate shouts to him.

Here he runs to the village,
He calls the men to him,
Shakes her black mane
And this speech is:
"Hey, listen, lay people,
Orthodox Christians!
Kohl does not want which of you
To the waterman sit in the order,
Get out of here in a moment.
A miracle will immediately happen here:
The sea will boil violently
The whale fish will turn ... "
There are peasants and laymen,
Orthodox Christians
They shouted: "There will be troubles!"
And they set off home.
All the carts were collected;
They did not hesitate to lay down
All that was belly
And they left the whale.
Morning and midday met,
And in the village there is no longer
Not a single living soul
As if Mamai went to war!

Here the skate runs into the tail,
Close to feathers
And that urine is screaming:
"Wonderful yudo whale fish!
Because of your torment,
What without God's command
Have you swallowed among the seas
Three dozen ships.
If you give them freedom,
God will remove adversity from you,
All wounds will heal in a moment,
It will reward you with a long century. "
And, having finished such a speech,
Has bitten a steel bridle,
I took the trouble - and in a moment
Jump to the distant shore.

The miracle whale began to stir
Like a hill has turned
The sea began to excite
And throw from the jaws
Ships by ships
With sails and rowers.

There was such a noise
That the king of the sea woke up:
They fired copper cannons,
Forged pipes were blown;
The white sail has risen
The flag on the mast fluttered;
Pop with welcome to all service
He sang prayers on the deck;

And the rowers are merry row
A song burst out in response:
"Like a sailor, by the sea,
On a wide expanse,
That on the very end of the earth,
Ships are running out ... "

The waves of the sea swirled
The ships were out of sight.
Wonder Yudo whale fish
Shouts in a loud voice
Opening wide mouth,
Breaking the waves:
"How can I serve you, friends?
How to reward for the service?
Do you need colorful shells?
Do I need golden fish?
Do I need large pearls?
Ready to get everything for you! "-
"No, whale fish, we are rewarded
You don't need anything, -
Ivan says to him, -
Better get us a ring -
The ring, you know, the Tsar Maiden,
Our future queen. "-
"Okay, okay! For my friend
And an earring from the ear!
I will find before the lightning
The ring of the red Tsar Maiden ", -

Kit answered Ivan
And, like a key, fell to the bottom.

Here he hits with a reach,
Calls in a loud voice
Sturgeon all the people
And this speech is:
"You reach the lightning
The ring of the red Tsar Maiden,
Hidden in a drawer at the bottom.
Who will deliver it to me
I will reward him with the rank:
Will be a Duma nobleman.
If my order is clever
Do not obey ... I will! "
The sturgeons bowed here
And they left in order.

In a few hours
Two white sturgeon
We slowly swam to the whale
And they humbly said:
"Great King! Don't be angry!
We are all the sea, it seems
They went out and dug up,
But they did not open the sign either.

Only ruff is one of us
I would carry out your order:
He walks across all seas,
So, surely, the ring knows;
But, as it were,
Already taken away somewhere. "
"Find him in a minute
And send to my cabin! "-
Keith screamed angrily
And he shook his mustache.

The sturgeons bowed here,
They started to run to the zemstvo court
And they ordered at the same hour
Write a decree from the whale,
So that messengers will be sent as soon as possible
And they caught the ruff.
Bream, hearing this order,
He wrote a decree in his own name;
Catfish (he was called an adviser)
I signed the decree;
Black cancer decree folded
And attached the stamps.
Two dolphins were called here
And, having given the decree, they said
So that, on behalf of the king,
Ran all the seas
And that ruff-reveler,
A screamer and a bully,
Wherever they are found
They brought me to the sovereign.

Then the dolphins bowed
And the ruff set off to look.

They are looking for an hour in the seas,
They are looking for an hour in the rivers,
All the lakes emanated
All the straits swam across

Couldn't find a ruff
And came back
Almost crying with sadness ...

Suddenly the dolphins heard
Somewhere in a small pond
The cry is unheard of in the water.
Dolphins wrapped in a pond
And they dived to the bottom, -
Look: in the pond, under the reeds,
Ruff fights with a crucian carp.
"Attention! The devil take you!
See, what sodom they raised
Like important fighters! "-
The messengers shouted to them.
"Well, what do you care? -
Ruff shouts out to the dolphins boldly. -
I don't like to joke,
I'll chop everyone at once! "-
"Oh you, eternal reveler
And a screamer and a bully!
Everything, rubbish, you have to walk,
All would have to fight and shout.
At home - no, it’s not sitting! ..
Well, why dress up with you, -
Here is the Tsar's decree,
So that you swam to him immediately. "

There are prankster dolphins
Picked up by the bristles
And they went back.
Ruff well to tear and shout:
"Be merciful, brothers!
Give me a little fight.
That damned crucian carp
Carried me yesterday
With an honest gathering with all
Inimilarly different abuse ... "
For a long time the ruff still shouted,
Finally he fell silent;
And the prankster dolphins
Everyone was dragging by the stubble,
Saying nothing,
And they appeared before the king.


"Why haven't you been for a long time?
Where are you, the enemy's son, staggering? "
Kit screamed in anger.
A ruff fell on his knees,
And, confessing to the crime,
He prayed for forgiveness.
"Well, God will forgive you! -
The sovereign whale speaks. -
But for that your forgiveness
You obey the command. "

"Glad to try, miracle whale!" -
On the knees, the ruff squeaks.
"You walk all the seas,
That's right, you know the ring
Tsar Maidens? "-" How not to know!
We can find it at once. "
"So go quickly
Yes, find him quicker! "

Here, bowing to the king,
Ruff went, bent over, out.
I swore at the royal courtiers,
I dragged myself for the roach

And six herring
He broke his nose on the way.
Having done such a thing,
He rushed into the pool boldly
And in the underwater depth
I dug a box at the bottom -
Poods at least a hundred.
"Oh, it's not easy here!"
And come on from all the seas
Ruff to click herring to himself.

Herrings are gathered in spirit,
They started to drag the chest,
You can only hear everything -
"Ooh!" yes "oh-oh-oh!"
But no matter how much they shouted,
The bellies just ripped
And the damned chest
Not even one inch.
"Real herrings!
You should have a whip instead of vodka! "-
Screamed ruff from all hearts
And dived for sturgeon.

Sturgeons come here
And they raise without screaming
Firmly entangled in the sand
Red chest with a ring.

"Well, guys, look,
You are now sailing to the king,
I'll go down now
Yes, I'll rest a little:
Something overwhelms the dream,
So it closes its eyes ... "
Sturgeons swim to the king,
Ruff-reveler right into the pond
(From which dolphins
Dragged by the bristles)
Tea, fight with a crucian carp, -
I don't know about that.
But now we will say goodbye to him
And we will return to Ivan.

Quiet sea-okiyan.
Ivan is sitting on the sand,
Waiting for a whale from the blue sea
And purrs with grief;
Falling on the sand
The faithful hunchback sleeps.
The time was leaning towards evening;
The sun has already gone down;
In a quiet flame of grief
Dawn broke.
And the whale was not there.
"Let those thief run over!
See what a sea shaitan! -
Ivan says to himself. -
Promised before the lightning
Take out the Tsar Maiden's ring,
And until now I have not found
Cursed scoffing!
And the sun has already set,
And ... "Then the sea boiled:
A miracle whale appeared
And to Ivan he says:
"For your good deed
I have kept my promise. "
With this word a little chest
Blasted tightly on the sand,
Only the shore began to sway.
"Well, now I've got my revenge.
If I am forced again,
Call me again;
Your good deed
Do not forget me ... Goodbye! "
Then the miracle whale fell silent
And, splashing, fell to the bottom.

The little humpbacked horse woke up
Got up on his paws, dust himself off,
I looked at Ivanushka
And he jumped four times.
"Oh yeah Kit Kitovich! Nice!
I paid off my debt regularly!
Well, thanks, whale fish! -
The Little Humpbacked Horse is screaming. -
Well master, get dressed
Go on a path-path;
Three days have already passed:
Tomorrow is an urgent number.
Tea, the old man is dying. "
Here Vanyusha answers:
"I would be glad to raise
Why, you can't take the strength!
The chest is painfully dense
Tea, devils in it five hundred
The damned whale planted.
I've already raised it three times;
Such a terrible severity! "
Here the skate, without answering,
He lifted the box with his foot,
Like a pebble
And he swung it around his neck.
"Well, Ivan, sit down quickly!
Remember, tomorrow is a deadline
And the way back is far. "