Who is the Snow Maiden in Ostrovsky's play. Snow Maiden (Spring Tale) A

Planning is educational - educational work. Thematic week "Wild animals in autumn"

MONDAY.
OD. Speech development. Russian folk tale “The Three Bears” goal: to create interest and need for reading; develop the ability to listen to a fairy tale and follow the development of the action. Empathizing with the heroes of the work; develop the ability to dramatize an excerpt from a fairy tale.
Physical development. Learn:

1 p.d. Exercise "Guests have come to us." Goal: to introduce children to ways of expressing greetings “hello, good afternoon, come in, I missed you so much, it was boring without you, etc.”
Walk
Collecting fallen leaves around trees, caring for broken branches. Goals: to encourage independent fulfillment of basic tasks
2 p.d. Game situation "Cleaning up order in the doll's corner." Goal: to show children that cleaning together is faster, to foster a sense of teamwork.

Cognitive development:
1 p.d. Examination of the painting "Animals in the Forest". Goal: develop observation skills, learn to answer the teacher’s questions.
Walk
Watching the road. Purpose: to introduce the sidewalk, remember the rules of behavior on the road
2 p.d. Cognitive and research activities with magnets. Goal: to arouse cognitive interest in children.

Speech development:
1 p.d. Conversation on the painting "Animals in the Forest". Goal: to promote the development of monologue speech.
Walk
Compose a descriptive story about an animal of the teacher's choice. Goal: continue to learn how to compose descriptive stories according to the model.
2 p.d. Reading K. Chukovsky "Hedgehogs laugh." Goal: to instill an interest in reading, develop a sense of humor.

1 p.d. Laying out the bunny from circles and semicircles. Goal: to teach children to focus on a model, to develop spatial perception.
Walk
Examination of the illustration for the fairy tale "Teremok". Goal: learn to look at illustrations, develop interest in art.
2 p.d. Structural-model activity "Bed for a squirrel." Goal: continue to learn how to design pieces of furniture and analyze buildings.

Physical development:
1 p.d. Physical exercise "Funny animals". Goal: learn words, help relieve tension.
Walk
P.i. "By the bear in the forest." Purpose: to introduce new game. P.i. "Through the stream." Goal: to practice maintaining stable balance while jumping.
2 p.d. Exercise "Listen to the signal." Goal: to develop the ability to walk while completing a task.

TUESDAY
OD. Artistic and aesthetic development. Modeling. "Three Bears Bowls" Teach children to make bowls different sizes using the technique of rolling the clay in a circular motion. Learn to flatten and pull the edges of the bowl up. Strengthen the ability to sculpt accurately.

Social and communicative development:
1 p.d. Exercise "The fox doesn't know how to dress." Goal: to encourage children to talk about the sequence of dressing.
Walk
S.r. game "Family". Goal: stimulate play activity children.
2 p.d. Conversation: “Let’s help the girl find her grandmother.” Goal: to bring children to the understanding that they cannot leave the house, group, or site without permission; talk to strangers.

Cognitive development:
1 p.d. Exercise "Call the fox." Goal: to develop the ability to change the strength of the voice, speak loudly, but not shout.
Walk
Monitoring the roadway. Goal: expand ideas about transport.
2 p.d. Conversation "How animals prepare for winter." Goal: expand children's environmental awareness.

Speech development:
1 p.d. Exercise "Hedgehog". Goal: to promote the development of speech breathing.
Walk
Exercise "Name the baby." Goal: to promote speech development, enrich vocabulary.
2 p.d. Reading Mamin-Sibiryak "The Tale of brave hare - long ears...". Goal: to develop the ability to listen carefully to new fairy tales.

Artistic and aesthetic development:
1 p.d. Song-dramatization "Bunny" (Zheleznova). Goal: to develop an ear for music.
Walk
Independent construction of children according to diagrams. Goal: to develop the ability to use building diagrams.
2 p.d. Application with a subgroup "Bunny" made of cotton pads. Goal: to develop children's creative abilities, to cultivate interest in creating applications.

Physical development:
1 p.d. Show breathing exercises. Goal: to form ideas about proper breathing.
Walk
P.i. " Autumn leaves". Goal: to develop the ability to move with objects. P.I. “Catch a spider.” Goal: to train children in jumping.
2 p.d. Exercise "Bunny galloping." Goal: to develop the ability to jump.

Notes, individual work, project implementation.

WEDNESDAY
OD. FEMP. Quantity: as much as. Learn to compare one group of objects with another, sequentially superimposing one object on another; distinguish between equality and inequality (without counting) by the number of objects included in a group; distinguish between left and right hands.
Physical development. Learn:
– while walking and running, stop at the teacher’s signal;
– when jumping, land on bent legs. Practice rolling balls. Outdoor game “At the bear in the forest.”

Social and communicative development:
1 p.d. Exercise "Abandoned things". Goal: to develop the ability to carefully hang things on a chair before going to bed.
Walk
Assist the janitor in cleaning the area. Goal: to cultivate a desire to work.
2 p.d. View presentation about native land. Goal: to cultivate a sense of patriotism and love for the small homeland.

Cognitive development:
1 p.d. View the educational presentation "Hare". Goal: tell children about how hares prepare for winter.
Walk
Board game"Who eats what." Goal: remember with children what wild and domestic animals eat.
2 p.d. Di. "Whose tail." Goal: to consolidate children’s ideas about the appearance features of wild and domestic animals.

Speech development:
1 p.d. Compose a descriptive story about an animal of the teacher's choice. Goal: continue to learn how to write descriptive stories based on the model.
Walk
Interactive game "Looking for Mom." Goal: consolidate knowledge about domestic and wild animals.
2 p.d. Finger game"The squirrel is sitting on a cart." Goal: develop motor skills, activate vocabulary.

Artistic and aesthetic development:
1 p.d. Excursion to the Dymki mini-museum in senior group. Goal: to introduce children to the world of art.
Walk
Toys for tabletop theater. Goal: to promote the development of director's acting and imagination.
2 p.d. Help the teacher in making masks for the fairy tale "Teremok". Goal: to encourage children to participate in the creation of theatrical attributes.

Physical development:
1 p.d. Physical exercise "Funny animals". Purpose: repeat words, help relieve tension.
Walk
P.i. "From bump to bump." Goal: develop the ability to jump on two legs while moving forward. P.i. "By the bear in the forest." Goal: learn words.
2 p.d. Exercise "Throwing the ball." Goal: to teach students to work in pairs.

Notes, individual work, project implementation.

THURSDAY
OD. Artistic and aesthetic development. Drawing. "Colored Balls" Teach children to draw continuous lines in a circular motion, without lifting the pencil (felt-tip pen) from the paper; hold the pencil correctly; use pencils when drawing different colors. Draw children's attention to the beauty of colorful images.
Musical development. According to plan music worker

Social and communicative development:
1 p.d. Exercise "What happened before" Purpose: to inform children about their past, compare with the present.
Walk
Collecting fallen leaves around trees, caring for broken branches. Goals: to encourage students to independently carry out basic tasks.
2 p.d. Exercise "Mirror". Goal: to help children understand their emotional mood.

Cognitive development:
1 p.d. Educational game "How are they alike and how are they different?" Goal: to develop the ability to compare adult animals with their young.
Walk
Board game "Hide the Bunny". Goal: in game form show the behavior of a hare in winter.
2 p.d. Working with a collection of papers. Purpose: to draw children’s attention to the variety of paper and remember its properties.

Speech development:
1 p.d. Di. "Multi-colored chest." Goal: to learn to focus on endings when agreeing words in gender.
Walk
Pronunciation of pure sayings. Goal: development of phonemic hearing and onomatopoeia ability.
2 p.d. Reading L. Tolstoy's "Fox". Goal: expand your understanding of the life of a fox.

Artistic and aesthetic development:
1 p.d. Application with a subgroup "Bunny" made of cotton pads. Goal: to develop children's creative abilities, to cultivate interest in creating applications.
Walk
Application didactic game"Collect the caterpillar." Goal: develop color vision, learn to find shades of a given color.
2 p.d. Discussion of the heroes of the fairy tale "Teremok". Goal: prepare for the performance.

Physical development:
1 p.d. Exercise "Like mice". Goal: to develop the ability to walk and run on toes.
Walk
P.i. "Autumn leaves". Goal: to develop the ability to move with objects. P.i. "Shaggy Dog" Goal: to develop the ability to move in accordance with the text.
2 p.d. Exercise "Throw, don't yawn." Goal: to teach how to take the correct starting position when throwing.

Notes, individual work, project implementation.

FRIDAY
OD. Conversation on the painting “Squirrels in Autumn.” Learn to look at pictures of animals, develop the ability to distinguish and name significant features and body parts, discuss the picture. Exercise in developing an understanding of a general word (wild animals); stimulating the use of nouns in speech in the singular and plural(bear - bears, hare - hares). Expand and activate lexicon children based on enriching ideas about wild animals.
Physical development. Learn:
– while walking and running, stop at the teacher’s signal;
– when jumping, land on bent legs. Practice rolling balls. Outdoor game “At the bear in the forest”

Social and communicative development:
1 p.d. Conversation "How to behave in the forest." Goal: to form the basis of safe behavior in the forest (do not leave your mother’s side, do not touch animals).
Walk
Cleaning toys on the veranda. Goal: to create a desire to keep the veranda clean and tidy.
2 p.d. Exercise "The neatest one." Goal: to teach children to take care of their appearance.

Cognitive development:
1 p.d. Di. "Tell me where." Goal: develop spatial perception, distinguish the position of an object relative to oneself.
Walk
Observation of herbaceous plants. Goal: examine the grass in late autumn, compare the grass with the trees.
2 p.d. Board game "Spread the Animals". Goal: to develop the ability to adhere to rules, classify domestic and wild animals.

Speech development:
1 p.d. Di. "Add a word." Goal: to develop the ability to find the right word.
Walk
Exercise with the ball "Summer or autumn". Goal: differentiate the signs of summer and autumn, form coherent speech.
2 p.d. Reading "Tales about a brave hare - long ears...". Goal: to attract children to discuss the fairy tale.

Artistic and aesthetic development:
1 p.d. Staging "Teremok". Goal: to introduce children to theatrical culture.
Walk
Independent artistic activity with external material. Goal: to promote aesthetic development children.
2 p.d. Design of the exhibition "Fluffy Bunnies". Goal: to please children, to draw attention to the beauty of the work.

Physical development:
1 p.d. Exercise "Autumn leaves". Goal: to help strengthen the respiratory system.
Walk
P.i. "Throw it - catch it." Goal: to develop the ability to throw and catch a ball. P.i. "By the bear in the forest." Goal: to develop the speed of reaction to a verbal signal.
2 p.d. Self-massage of hands "Let's play with our hands." Goal: to help strengthen the body of children.

Notes, individual work, project implementation.

The action takes place in the country of the Berendeys in mythical times. The end of winter comes - the goblin hides in a hollow. Spring flies to Krasnaya Gorka near Berendeyev Posad, the capital of Tsar Berendey, and with it the birds return: cranes, swans - Spring's retinue. The land of the Berendeys greets Spring with cold, and all because of Spring’s flirtations with Frost, the old grandfather, Spring herself admits. Their daughter was born - Snegurochka. Spring is afraid to quarrel with Frost for the sake of her daughter and is forced to endure everything. The “jealous” Sun itself is angry. That’s why Spring calls all the birds to warm themselves up by dancing, just as people themselves do in the cold. But just when the fun begins - the choirs of birds and their dances - a blizzard rises. Spring hides birds in the bushes until the new morning and promises to warm them up. Meanwhile, Frost comes out of the forest and reminds Vesna that they have a common child. Each of the parents takes care of the Snow Maiden in their own way. Frost wants to hide her in the forest so that she can live among obedient animals in a forest chamber. Spring wants a different future for her daughter: for her to live among people, among cheerful friends and boys playing and dancing until midnight. The peaceful meeting turns into an argument. Frost knows that the sun god of the Berendeys, the hot-tempered Yarilo, has vowed to destroy the Snow Maiden. As soon as the fire of love is lit in her heart, it will melt it. Spring doesn't believe it. After a quarrel, Moroz offers to give their daughter to be raised by the childless Bobyl in the settlement, where the boys are unlikely to pay attention to their Snow Maiden. Spring agrees.

Frost calls Snow Maiden from the forest and asks if she wants to live with people. The Snow Maiden admits that she has long been yearning for girlish songs and round dances, that she likes the songs of the young shepherd Lelya. This especially frightens the father, and he tells the Snow Maiden, more than anything else, to beware of Lel, in whom the “scorching rays” of the Sun live. Separating from his daughter, Moroz entrusts the care of her to his forest “leshutki”. And finally gives way to Spring. Begin folk festivals- farewell to Maslenitsa. The Berendeys greet the arrival of Spring with songs.

Bobyl went into the forest for firewood and saw the Snow Maiden dressed like a hawthorn. She wanted to stay and live with Bobylya and her adopted daughter.

Life is not easy for the Snow Maiden with Bobyl and Bobylikha: the named parents are angry that she, with her excessive bashfulness and modesty, has scared off all the suitors and they are not able to get rich with the help of their adopted daughter’s profitable marriage.

Lel comes to stay with the Bobylys because they alone are ready to let him into the house for money collected by other families. The rest are afraid that their wives and daughters will not resist Lel's charm. The Snow Maiden does not understand Lel’s requests for a kiss for a song, for a gift of a flower. She plucks a flower with surprise and gives it to Lelya, but he, having sung a song and seen other girls calling him, throws away the already withered flower of the Snow Maiden and runs away to new fun. Many girls quarrel with guys who are inattentive to them because of their passion for the beauty of the Snow Maiden. Only Kupava, the daughter of the rich Sloboda resident Murash, is affectionate towards the Snow Maiden. She tells her about her happiness: a rich trading guest from the royal settlement of Mizgir has wooed her. Then Mizgir himself appears with two bags of gifts - bride price for girls and boys. Kupava, together with Mizgir, approaches the Snow Maiden, who is spinning in front of the house, and calls her to last time lead girls' round dances. But when he saw the Snow Maiden, Mizgir fell passionately in love with her and rejected Kupava. He orders his treasury to be carried to Bobyl's house. The Snow Maiden resists these changes, not wishing harm to Kupava, but the bribed Bobyl and Bobylikha force the Snow Maiden to even drive Lel away, which Mizgir demands. The shocked Kupava asks Mizgir about the reasons for his betrayal and hears in response that the Snow Maiden won his heart with her modesty and bashfulness, and Kupava’s courage now seems to him a harbinger of future betrayal. The offended Kupava asks for protection from the Berendeys and sends curses to Mizgir. She wants to drown herself, but Lel stops her, and she falls unconscious into his arms.

In the chambers of Tsar Berendey, a conversation takes place between him and his close associate Bermyata about the troubles in the kingdom: for fifteen years now Yarilo has been unkind to the Berendeys, the winters are getting colder, the springs are getting colder, and in some places there is snow in the summer. Berendey is sure that Yarilo is angry with the Berendeys for cooling their hearts, for “cold feelings.” To quench the Sun’s anger, Berendey decides to appease him with a sacrifice: on Yarilin’s day, the next day, to tie together as many brides and grooms as possible in marriage. However, Bermyata reports that because of some Snow Maiden who showed up in the settlement, all the girls quarreled with the guys and it is impossible to find brides and grooms for marriage. Then Kupava, abandoned by Mizgir, runs in and cries out all her grief to the king. The king orders to find Mizgir and convene the Berendeys for trial. Mizgir is brought in, and Berendey asks Bermyata how to punish him for cheating on his bride. Bermyata offers to force Mizgir to marry Kupava. But Mizgir boldly objects that his bride is the Snow Maiden. Kupava also does not want to marry a traitor. The Berendeys don't have death penalty, and Mizgir is sentenced to exile. Mizgir only asks the king to look at the Snow Maiden himself. Seeing the Snow Maiden who came with Bobyl and Bobylikha, the Tsar was amazed by her beauty and tenderness and wants to find a worthy husband for her: such a “sacrifice” will certainly appease Yarila. The Snow Maiden admits that her heart does not know love. The king turns to his wife for advice. Elena the Beautiful says that the only one who can melt the Snow Maiden’s heart is Lel. Lel invites the Snow Maiden to make wreaths before the morning sun and promises that by morning love will awaken in her heart. But Mizgir does not want to give up the Snow Maiden to her opponent and asks permission to enter into the fight for the Snow Maiden’s heart. Berendey allows and is confident that at dawn the Berendeys will joyfully meet the Sun, which will accept their atoning “sacrifice.” The people glorify the wisdom of their king Berendey.

At dawn, girls and boys begin to dance in circles, in the center are the Snow Maiden and Lel, while Mizgir appears and disappears in the forest. Admired by Lelya’s singing, the king invites him to choose a girl who will reward him with a kiss. The Snow Maiden wants Lel to choose her, but Lel chooses Kupava. Other girls make peace with their loved ones, forgiving them of their past infidelities. Lel is looking for Kupava, who has gone home with her father, and meets a crying Snow Maiden, but he does not feel sorry for her for these “jealous tears” caused not by love, but by envy of Kupava. He tells her about secret lovemaking, which is more valuable than a public kiss, and only for true love is he ready to take her to meet the Sun in the morning. Lel reminds how he cried when Snegurochka did not respond to his love before, and goes to the guys, leaving Snegurochka to wait. And yet, in the heart of the Snow Maiden, there is not love yet, but only pride that Lel will lead her to meet Yarila.

But then Mizgir finds the Snow Maiden, he pours out his soul to her, full of burning, real male passion. He, who has never begged a girl for love, falls to his knees in front of her. But the Snow Maiden is afraid of his passion, and his threats to take revenge for his humiliation are also terrible. She also rejects the priceless pearls with which Mizgir is trying to buy her love, and says that she will exchange her love for Lel’s love. Then Mizgir wants to get the Snow Maiden by force. She calls Lelya, but the “leshutki”, whom Father Frost instructed to take care of his daughter, come to her aid. They take Mizgir into the forest, luring him with the ghost of the Snow Maiden, and he wanders in the forest all night, hoping to overtake the ghost Snow Maiden.

Meanwhile, even the heart of the king’s wife was melted by Lel’s songs. But the shepherd deftly dodges both Elena the Beautiful, leaving her in the care of Bermyata, and the Snow Maiden, from whom he runs away when he sees Kupava. It was precisely this kind of reckless and ardent love that his heart was waiting for, and he advises the Snow Maiden to “eavesdrop” on Kupavi’s hot speeches in order to learn to love. The Snow Maiden, in her last hope, runs to her mother Vesna and asks her to teach her real feelings. On the last day when Spring can fulfill her daughter’s request, since the next day Yarilo and Summer take over, Spring, rising from the water of the lake, reminds the Snow Maiden of her father’s warning. But the Snow Maiden is ready to give her life in a moment true love. Her mother puts a magic wreath of flowers and herbs on her and promises that she will love the first young man she meets. The Snow Maiden meets Mizgir and responds to his passion. The immensely happy Mizgir does not believe in the danger and considers the Snow Maiden’s desire to hide from Yarila’s rays to be an empty fear. He solemnly brings the bride to Yarilina Mountain, where all the Berendeys have gathered. At the first rays of the sun, the Snow Maiden melts, blessing the love that brings her death. It seems to Mizgir that the Snow Maiden deceived him, that the gods mocked him, and in despair he throws himself from Yarilina Mountain into the lake. “The Snow Maiden’s sad death and the terrible death of Mizgir cannot disturb us,” says the Tsar, and all the Berendeys hope that Yarila’s anger will now fade away, that he will grant the Berendeys strength, harvest, life.

Retold by E.P. Sudareva.

Folk tales occupy a rather serious place in the Russian ethnic group. They express the aspirations, hopes, fears, and even just people. Most Russian fairy tales are permeated with kindness and faith in justice. Sometimes we come across the fact that a writer takes as a basis the plot of some folk tale and develops it in his own way. An example is the work of such a writer as Nikolai Ostrovsky. "Snow Maiden", summary which everyone has known since childhood, received a new and instructive twist under the author’s pen.

Love of Frost and Spring

Let's take a closer look at what N. Ostrovsky writes about. “The Snow Maiden,” the summary of which can be conveyed in a few sentences, is filled with a lot of instructive messages for readers. Imagine the ancient mythical country of the Berendeys. And then one day an unprecedented event occurred in her. Spring comes to Krasnaya Gorka near Berendeyev Posad (the royal capital). Yes, not alone, but with all her magnificent retinue. She has a noble retinue - cranes and swans. However, the country of the Berendeys does not greet Spring kindly (as it seems to her, the reason for this is their relationship with old Frost). After all, the father of her daughter named Snegurochka is Frost.

Not only in the country of the Berendeys are dissatisfied with this course of things. The sun also expresses dissatisfaction and threatens to no longer warm the earth. Therefore, Spring, in order to somehow help the animals warm up, invites them to sing and dance. However, as soon as they begin to move, an angry cold blizzard immediately arises. Spring gathers all the birds and hides them in the bushes in the hope that the next day will bring long-awaited warmth.

Father's warning

On top of everything else, old Frost appears from the forest, reminding Spring to take care of common child. He offers to hide the Snow Maiden in the depths of the forest, where the warm tower is located. Mother Spring also shows care in her own way - she wants her child to live among people and enjoy life with them. The meeting turns into a quarrel. Frost knows that the hot Yarilo wants to destroy the Snow Maiden, making it so that when the fire of love lights up in her heart, she will simply melt. He tells all this to Vesna. But she doesn’t believe Moroz’s arguments.

From the very beginning we see the difference in the plots of the folk tale and the one written by Ostrovsky. “The Snow Maiden,” a summary of the chapters of which we are considering, continues like this. After a long argument, the parents decided to give the girl to be raised by the childless Bobyl. They say there are no guys there, which means the Snow Maiden’s heart will be safe. The girl herself admits that she has long dreamed of living with people, singing songs and having fun round dances. In addition, it turns out that the Snow Maiden is not completely indifferent to the young shepherd Lel. This especially alarmed Moroz. He warns his daughter with all the sternness of a father to stay away from the shepherd, communication with whom could destroy her.

Adoptive parents

The summary of the story “The Snow Maiden” (Ostrovsky superbly describes the farewell to Maslenitsa) will continue with the fact that the Berendeys rejoice at the arrival of Spring, greeting it with songs and dances. Bobyl meets a beautiful, richly dressed girl, who asks to be her adopted daughter. Life is not easy for the Snow Maiden. The thing is that, being overly bashful, she, according to the Bobyls, discouraged all potential suitors. But they so wanted to get rich at the expense of the family into which the girl would be married.

Suddenly, the shepherd Lel comes to stay with the Bobylys. No one wanted to take a handsome and charming guy into their house, fearing that the owner’s daughters would not be able to resist him. What to take from the poor shepherd? A very unprofitable game. Therefore, fellow villagers collect money and give it to Lel so that he can find a place to live somewhere other than with them. Tempted by money, the Bobyls allow the young man into the house.

The Snow Maiden's inexperience

How accurately and deeply Ostrovsky reveals his characters! “The Snow Maiden” is a play, a brief summary of which cannot convey the entire palette of characters. Let's look into the relationship between the handsome shepherd and the innocent, modest Snow Maiden. Despite the fact that she likes Lelya’s songs, and the guy himself, the girl’s innate shyness clearly prevents the young people from getting closer.

And the shepherd turned out to be not entirely selfless. He doesn’t just want to sing for the pleasure of his ears. He asks for more material gifts. For example, kisses. But Snegurochka does not understand Lelya’s aspirations. She gave the young man a flower with all her heart for the song he sang. The shepherd, tired of explaining the obvious, threw him out and retired to other girls who, in his opinion, could better appreciate talent and beauty.

Beauty is a subject of envy and resentment

What else does Ostrovsky emphasize? “The Snow Maiden” (a summary of the fairy tale cannot be left without some details) was written a long time ago, but even today we find many teachable moments. So, Snegurochka, despite her popularity among young people, cannot find friends. After all, all the guys are looking at her, and the girls don’t want to communicate with Vesna’s daughter.

The only one who showed kindness to the Snow Maiden was Kupava, the daughter of a rich peasant. She is so frank with the girl that she shares her happiness - the rich merchant Mizgir from the Tsar's Posad wooed her. There will be a wedding soon. After some time, the groom himself appears. He arrives with many gifts that he wants to give to Kupava’s relatives and close people in honor of his marriage.

Kupava introduces Snegurochka to her lover and invites her to a bachelorette party organized on the occasion of her imminent marriage. But Mizgir falls in love with the Snow Maiden at first sight, completely forgetting about Kupava. He officially announces to the girl the termination of the engagement, citing his unexpected love for the Snow Maiden. Kupava is so shocked that she decides to commit suicide by drowning herself in the river, but the shepherd Lel manages to save her. Of course, Kupava, like all the other girls in the village, harbored a grudge.

Disfavor of God Yarila

Let's continue to study the summary. The fairy tale “The Snow Maiden” (Ostrovsky built it on the basis of ancient folk beliefs) takes us back to a time when people worshiped natural gods. So, it seems to Tsar Berendey that in Lately God Yarilo is unkind to his kingdom. It provides little warmth, does not allow the crop to ripen, and generally appears rarely.

He tells his close associate Bermyata about this. The Tsar is sure that Yarilo is angry with his subjects for the lack of warmth of love in their hearts. As a bright and warm deity, this is unpleasant for him.

Berendey's plan: summary

Ostrovsky N., whose “Snow Maiden” “bares” everything human passions, leads to an angry Kupava. She asks to punish the traitor. Justifying himself, Mizgir explained to the king that he no longer considered Kupava his bride, and did not want to marry without sincere love. After listening to the merchant, the previously silent Bermyata suggested that the king force him to marry Kupava. However, here the girl herself opposed, declaring that she didn’t need such a traitor for nothing. Mizgir replied that from now on he considers the Snow Maiden his bride.

All this interferes with Berendey’s plan, according to which his subjects need to conclude maximum amount marriages. And the sooner the better. This should appease Yarila. Bermyata was skeptical about the royal plans, citing the fact that recently more and more suburban girls are quarreling with their boyfriends. They are captivated by the beauty of the Snow Maiden.

The Tsar meets the Snow Maiden

The angry Berendey sentences the merchant to exile from the country. Mizgir agrees with the punishment, but invites the king to look at the beauty for himself, because of whom there is so much talk. Soon Bobyli and his adopted daughter appeared before the king.

Berendey was amazed at the beauty and chastity of the Snow Maiden, immediately estimating that if she were given a successful marriage, Yarilo would definitely be satisfied. However, here again the question of grooms arose. The Snow Maiden's heart is cold, and she does not want to get married. Puzzled Berendey asks his wife, Elena the Beautiful, for advice. The queen, having understood the situation, explained to her husband that only the shepherd Lel could melt the girl’s heart.

Magic gift of Spring

It would seem that the outcome is not far off. But passions are only heating up. This is exactly what Ostrovsky intended. The Snow Maiden (a summary of the actions of this fairy tale accurately conveys the libretto for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera) does not interest Lel. He is very passionate about Kupava, so much so that he wants to sing his songs only for her. Inviting the Snow Maiden to a night celebration, the shepherd is not at all going to give her his heart, hinting that the girl has not already appreciated his aspirations. She does not understand carnal feelings, and Lel rejects the girl.

Mizgir also wastes no time and strives to win his beloved. But the Snow Maiden is not interested in the merchant’s wealth. The angry Mizgir tries to take the girl by force, but the magical inhabitants of the forest protect the daughter of old Frost. As Ostrovsky wrote, the Snow Maiden (the very brief summary does not allow us to fully reveal all the nuances of the plot) is always under the tutelage of Leshy.

In desperation, she asks Vesna to teach her human love. The mother, on the last day of her reign (after all, Yarilo rises in the morning) cannot refuse her daughter. But she still recalled that these feelings are “like death.” The Snow Maiden agrees to do anything just to know love. Spring puts a magic wreath on the girl’s head: the first man her daughter meets will become her chosen one.

The destructive rays of the sun

The Snow Maiden meets Mizgir, to whom she gives her love. The merchant is happy and does not believe the Snow Maiden’s fears about the first rays of the Sun. He solemnly brings the girl to Yarilina Mountain, where all the Berendei have gathered, and the king blesses all the couples who are going to get married.

Unfortunately, Ostrovsky ends the tale tragically. The Snow Maiden (the summary does not contain all the girl’s experiences) dies with the first rays of the sun. The merchant is so shocked that he rushes straight from the mountain into the pool, where he drowns. However, their death did not make an impression on Tsar Berendey. He believes that Yarilo received a great sacrifice, and now life in their kingdom will improve.

“The Snow Maiden” is perhaps the least typical of all Alexander Ostrovsky’s plays, which stands out sharply among his other works for its lyricism, unusual themes (instead of social drama the author paid attention to personal drama, identifying it as central theme theme of love) and absolutely fantastic surroundings. The play tells the story of the Snow Maiden, who appears before us as a young girl desperately yearning for the only thing she never had - love. Remaining true to the main line, Ostrovsky simultaneously reveals several more: the structure of his half-epic, half-fairy-tale world, the morals and customs of the Berendeys, the theme of continuity and retribution, and the cyclical nature of life, noting, albeit in an allegorical form, that life and death always go hand in hand.

History of creation

The appearance of the play in Russian literary world owes it to a happy accident: at the very beginning of 1873, the Maly Theater building was closed for major repairs, and a group of actors temporarily moved to the Bolshoi. Deciding to take advantage of opportunities new scene and attract spectators, it was decided to organize an extravaganza performance, unusual for those times, using the ballet, drama and opera components of the theater team at once.

It was with the proposal to write a play for this extravaganza that they turned to Ostrovsky, who, taking the opportunity to implement a literary experiment, agreed. The author changed his habit of looking for inspiration in unsightly sides real life, and in search of material for the play turned to the creativity of the people. There he found a legend about the Snow Maiden girl, which became the basis for his magnificent work.

In the early spring of 1873, Ostrovsky worked hard to create the play. And not alone - since stage production is impossible without music, the playwright worked together with the then very young Pyotr Tchaikovsky. According to critics and writers, this is precisely one of the reasons for the amazing rhythm of “The Snow Maiden” - words and music were composed in a single impulse, in close interaction, and were imbued with each other’s rhythm, initially forming one whole.

It is symbolic that last point Ostrovsky staged The Snow Maiden on his fiftieth birthday, March 31. And a little more than a month later, on May 11, the premiere performance took place. It received quite different reviews among critics, both positive and sharply negative, but already in the 20th century literary scholars firmly agreed that “The Snow Maiden” is the brightest milestone in the playwright’s work.

Analysis of the work

Description of the work

The plot is based on - life path the Snow Maiden girl, born from the union of Frost and Spring-Red, her father and mother. The Snow Maiden lives in Berendey's kingdom, invented by Ostrovsky, but not with her relatives - she left her father Frost, who protected her from all possible troubles, - but in the family of Bobyl and Bobylikha. The Snow Maiden longs for love, but cannot fall in love - even her interest in Lelya is dictated by the desire to be one and only, the desire for the shepherd boy, who equally gives warmth and joy to all the girls, to be affectionate with her alone. But Bobyl and Bobylikha are not going to shower her with their love; they have a more important task: to cash in on the girl’s beauty by marrying her off. The Snow Maiden indifferently looks at the Berendey men who change their lives for her, reject brides and violate social norms; she is internally cold, she is alien full of life Berendeys - and therefore attracts them. However, misfortune also befalls the Snow Maiden - when she sees Lel, who is favorable to another and rejects her, the girl rushes to her mother with a request to let her fall in love - or die.

It is at this moment that Ostrovsky clearly expresses the central idea of ​​his work: life without love is meaningless. The Snow Maiden cannot and does not want to put up with the emptiness and coldness that exists in her heart, and Spring, which is the personification of love, allows her daughter to experience this feeling, despite the fact that she herself thinks it’s bad.

The mother turns out to be right: the beloved Snow Maiden melts under the first rays of the hot and clear sun, having, however, managed to discover a new world filled with meaning. And her lover, who had previously abandoned his bride and was expelled by Tsar Mizgir, gives up his life in the pond, striving to reunite with the water, which the Snow Maiden has become.

Main characters

(Scene from the ballet performance "The Snow Maiden")

Snow Maiden - central figure works. Young woman extraordinary beauty, desperately wanting to know love, but at the same time cold at heart. Pure, partly naive and completely alien to the Berendey people, she turns out to be ready to give everything, even her life, in exchange for knowledge of what love is and why everyone craves it so much.
Frost is the father of the Snow Maiden, formidable and strict, trying to protect his daughter from all kinds of troubles.

Vesna-Krasna is the mother of a girl who, despite a premonition of trouble, could not go against her nature and her daughter’s pleas and endowed her with the ability to love.

Lel is a windy and cheerful shepherd who was the first to awaken some feelings and emotions in the Snow Maiden. It was precisely because she was rejected by him that the girl rushed to Vesna.

Mizgir is a trade guest, or, in other words, a merchant who fell in love with the girl so much that he not only offered all his wealth for her, but also left Kupava, his failed bride, thereby violating the traditionally observed customs of the Berendey kingdom. In the end, he found reciprocity with the one he loved, but not for long - and after her death he himself lost his life.

It is worth noting that despite a large number of characters in the play, even minor characters turned out to be bright and characteristic: that Tsar Berendey, that Bobyl and Bobylikha, that the former bride of Mizgir Kupava - all of them are remembered by the reader, have their own distinctive features and features.

“The Snow Maiden” is a complex and multifaceted work, including both compositionally and rhythmically. The play is written without rhyme, but thanks to the unique rhythm and melodiousness present in literally every line, it sounds smoothly, like any rhymed verse. “The Snow Maiden” is also decorated with the rich use of colloquial expressions - this is a completely logical and justified step by the playwright, who, when creating the work, relied on folk tales, telling the story of a girl made of snow.

The same statement about versatility is also true in relation to the content: behind the seemingly simple story of the Snow Maiden (published in real world- rejected people - received love - was inspired human world- died) hides not only the statement that life without love is meaningless, but also many other, no less important aspects.

Thus, one of the central themes is the interrelation of opposites, without which the natural course of things is impossible. Frost and Yarilo, cold and light, winter and the warm season outwardly oppose each other, enter into irreconcilable contradiction, but at the same time, a red line through the text runs the idea that one does not exist without the other.

In addition to the lyricism and sacrifice of love, the social aspect of the play, displayed against the backdrop of fairy-tale foundations, is also of interest. The norms and customs of the Berendey kingdom are strictly observed; violation is punishable by expulsion, as happened with Mizgir. These norms are fair and to some extent reflect Ostrovsky’s idea of ​​an ideal old Russian community, where loyalty and love for one’s neighbor, life in unity with nature are valued. The figure of Tsar Berendey, the “good” Tsar, who, although forced to make harsh decisions, regards the fate of the Snow Maiden as tragic, sad, definitely evokes positive emotions; It is easy to sympathize with such a king.

At the same time, in Berendey’s kingdom, justice is observed in everything: even after the death of the Snow Maiden as a result of her acceptance of love, Yarila’s anger and dispute disappears, and the Berendeyites can again enjoy the sun and warmth. Harmony triumphs.

The story of Lelya and Kupava is so romantic that it has become a symbol of the purest, most sincere and honest love. It once existed in the form folk legend, however, since the 19th century it has been better known by author's fairy tale playwright Alexander Ostrovsky and the opera “The Snow Maiden” written by N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov.

The central place in this work is occupied by the Snow Maiden herself and her tragic story: the daughter of Frost and Spring, she dies as soon as her heart is warmed by love. Lel and Kupava find their happiness after experiencing their own dramas: Lelya is denied love by the Snow Maiden, and because of her, Mizgir leaves his fiancée Kupava.

In this “love quadrangle”, everyone has a specific role. Kupava embodies the living, earthly, human feminine principle. The character of the beautiful shepherd Lelya is borrowed from Slavic mythology: Ostrovsky’s contemporaries believed that in ancient times in Rus' this was the name of the divine patron of love and marriage, who could be compared to Cupid (modern researchers do not support this point of view). In the fairy tale, he has truly magical power over women’s hearts, to the point that he is simply not allowed to spend the night in houses where there are marriageable daughters. Both Lel and his beloved Kupava do big way to find true love: Kupava refuses the “marriage of convenience”, and Lel is ready to overcome his frivolity and open his heart. And while Snegurochka and Mizgir are in literally passions burn, Kupava and Lel experience the most real and living love.

The events of the fairy tale “The Snow Maiden” take place in pre-Christian times: the fictional kingdom of Berendey meets the arrival of spring and summer according to pagan customs. Alexander Ostrovsky treated very carefully folk heritage, creating original work, therefore, plots and motifs borrowed from folklore culture are neatly woven into this story.

Master stone-cutters also sought to preserve this charm: the lyricism of the musician’s image is emphasized by the delicate range of stone used. The meticulous detail of the work was evident in the design of the clothing: embroidery on the shirt, variegated plaid fabric on the pants, and an abundant pattern on the boots. And the patterned carved malachite of the base and the equally whimsically crafted fairy-tale grass-ant from the opite unite the characters of one fairy tale in this series - Lelya and Kupava.

From A. Ostrovsky’s spring fairy tale “The Snow Maiden”

Kupava:

I found you by force, my darling,

Heart friend, blue-winged darling!

Not on the eyes, no, not on the cheeks, -

Lie at your feet, blue-winged darling,

Kupava should lie at your feet.

Lel:

Flies fly and cling to the honeycomb,

A leaf clings to the water, a bee clings to the flower -

To Kupava Lel.

Kupava:

Blue-winged darling!

My heart is warm, grateful

I will remain with you forever; you are shameful

From the burning needles of ridicule and subjugation

Kupave saved the girl's pride.

With everything honest people with a kiss

He compared me, forgotten, with everyone.

Lel:

Didn't I know what kind of heart

I'll buy it for myself while kissing you. If

From a stupid shepherd boy

There is no reason, so the prophetic heart will find

He has a girlfriend.

Kupava:

Girlfriend? No, a dog.

Beckon me when you want to caress me,

Drive and hit if the caress gets boring.

I'll leave without a complaint, just with a glance

I'll tell you that I'm tearing up, that I, they say,

I'll come again when you beckon.

Lel:

My soul, Kupava, orphan

I had my fun and freedom.

The winning head has rocked

To dear hands, eyes filled with admiration

To the sweet eyes, the heart ached

To a warm shelter.

Kupava:

Lel is handsome,

I don’t know how long your love will last;

My love forever and ever

The last one, blue-winged darling!

Lel:

Let's go quickly! The shadows of the night are fading.

Look, the dawn is a barely visible stripe

Cut through the eastern sky,

It grows, clearer, wider. This

The day woke up and opened his eyelids

Shining eyes. Let's go to! The time has come

Meet the rising of Yaril the Sun. Proudly

Lel will show the Sun in front of the crowd

My beloved friend.