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SEA KING and Vasilisa the Wise

Miles and miles away, in the fairy country, there lived a king and queen, the children they were not. King went to foreign lands, on the far side, a long time not been home, at that time the queen gave birth to a son, Prince Ivan, and the king of that and does not know.

He began to keep a track in the state, was driven to his land, and the day-it was a hot-hot, the sun was scorching heat! And attacked him great thirst, neither give, if only water to drink! Looked around and saw a large lake not far away, drove to the lake, got off his horse, he lay on the ground and began to swallow cold water. Drinking and does not feel the misfortune: but the king of the sea grabbed his beard.

- Let me go! - Asks the king.

- I will not let, do not dare to drink it without my permission!

- What you want to take up farming, just let go!

- Give what you do not know the house.

The king thought and thought ... What he does not know the house? I believe, knows everything, he knows - and agreed. Tried beard - no one keeps; arose from the ground and sat on his horse and rode home.

Here comes home, the Queen welcomed him with the prince, so happy, and he had learned about his dear child, and burst into bitter tears. He told the queen, like what happened to him, cried together, why, there was nothing to do, tears not fix things.

They lived in the old way, and the prince himself grows so grows like dough into dough - by leaps and bounds - and grew big.

"No matter how you keep to yourself - thinks the king - and ought to be given: it neminuchee!" Prince Ivan took the hand, led directly to the lake.

- Look here - he says - my ring, and I accidentally dropped yesterday.

Left one prince, and he turned back. Became a prince to seek the ring, is on the shore, and the old woman comes to meet him.

- Where are you going, Prince Ivan?

- Fuck off, do not bother, you old witch! And without you, shame.

- Well, stay with God!

And the old woman went away.

And ... Ivan Tsarevich porazdumalsya: "What I cursed the old woman? Give her turn back, and the old people are cunning and shrewdness! Avos says that good." And the old woman began to roll:

- Gates, grandmother, forgive my word stupid! After all I uttered in annoyance: father forced me to look for the ring, I go, look out for, but there is no ring!

- Do not ring for you here: give your father the sea king, king of the sea will come and take you with me to the underwater kingdom.

Prince wept bitterly.

- Do not grieve, Prince Ivan! Will be on your side of the fence, just listen to me, old woman. Hide out for the currant bush, held her tihohonko. Twelve doves fly here - all beautiful maiden, and after them, and thirteenth, will swim in the lake, and in the meantime you carry away from the last shirt and so far do not give until you give it a ring. Unless you manage to do it, you are lost forever, a king of the sea round about the palace is a high fence, the whole ten miles away, and on each spoke to the head stuck, only one empty, is not pleasing to hit it!

Prince Ivan thanked the old woman hid behind a currant bush and waiting for the pore-time.

Suddenly twelve doves fly, hit the damp earth and turned red girls, every one of ineffable beauty, neither want, nor vzgadat or pen to write! Poskidali dress and set off into the lake: playing, splashing, laughing and singing songs.

After them came and thirteenth dove, hit the damp earth, turned maiden, threw off the white body shirt and went to bathe, and she was all handsome, all beautiful!

Long Prince Ivan could not take their eyes, long peek at it but I remember saying to him that the old woman crept up quietly and took the shirt.

Came out of the water maiden, will suffice - no shirt, took one, leaving everything behind to seek, looking, looking - not to be seen anywhere.

- Do not look, my dear sister! Fly away home, my fault, overlooked, and she'll respond. Sisters-maiden hit the damp earth, and became a dove flapped its wings and flew away. There was one girl who looked out and said:

- No matter who prevails, whom my shirt, come here, if the old man - be my own master, the number of middle age - will be my friend's favorite, if match for me - you will be my good friend!

Only to have the last word, seemed to Prince Ivan. She gave him a gold ring and says:

- Ah, Prince Ivan! What have not you come? King of the sea is angry at you. That is the road that leads to an underwater kingdom, go on it boldly! There and find me, because I am the daughter of the Sea King, Vasilisa the Wise.

Vasilisa the Wise turned dove and flew away from the prince.

A Prince Ivan went to the underwater world, and he is - and there is the same light as we do, and there fields and meadows, and groves of green, and the sun warms.

He comes to the Sea King. Shouted at him king of the sea:

- What did not happen so long? For the fault here's your service: I've got a wasteland for thirty miles in length and breadth - some ditches, gullies yes STONE ISLAND! To be there by tomorrow's hand smoothly, and rye would be planted and grown used to the early morning so high that it could bury the jackdaw. If that does not do - your head from the shoulders down with!

Prince Ivan is on the Sea King, himself drenched with tears. Saw him through the window of his high towers Vasilisa the Wise and asks:

- Hail, Prince Ivan! With tears hosed?

- How can I not cry? - Meets the prince. - Made me king of the seas overnight raze ditches, gullies and sharp stones and sow rye, so she grew up in the morning and was able to hide her jackdaw.

- It does not matter, the trouble will come. Get down to the god to sleep, sleep on it, you're done!

Went to bed, Prince Ivan and Vasilisa the Wise came to the porch and cried with a loud voice:

- Gay you, my faithful servant! Dub-ka deep ditches, carry the stone island, ye shall sow rye spiked, so ripe in the morning.

Woke up at dawn, Prince Ivan, looked - all set: no ditches or Buerakov stands field as palm smooth, and painted on it rye - is so high that the jackdaw buried.

Went to the Sea King with the report.

- Thank you, - says the king of the sea - that was able to do a service. Here's your other job: I've got three hundred stacks, each haystack three hundred stacks - all wheat Beloyarov, thrashing me by tomorrow all the wheat pure clean up a single grain, and do not break stacks and sheaves not break. If you do not do - your head from the shoulders down with!

- Yes, Your Majesty! - Said Ivan Tsarevich, again went through the yard so drenched with tears.

- What are bitterly weeping? - Asks him Vasilisa the Wise.

- How can I not cry? Ordered me king of the seas in one night all stacks threshing grain does not drop, but not to break stacks and bundles of not crashing.

- It does not matter, the trouble will come! Go to bed with God tomorrow is a new day.

The prince went to bed, and Vasilisa the Wise came out on the porch and cried with a loud voice:

- Gay you, ants crawling! How many of you in this world there is no - all here and crawl povyberite batyushkinyh stacks of grain pure clean.

King of the sea is calling in the morning Ivan Tsarevich:

- Have rendered a service?

- Concelebrated, Your Majesty!

- Let's see.

Came down to the floor - all stacks are intact, came into barns - all bins polnehonki grain.

- Thank you, brother! - Said the king of the sea.

- Do I still have the church of pure wax, to the dawn was ready, it will be your last service.

Again, this is Prince Ivan in the yard and tears wash.

- What are bitterly weeping? - Asks him out of high towers Vasilisa the Wise.

- How can I not cry, good fellow? Ordered the king of the sea for one night to make the church of pure wax.

- Well, that's not a problem, the trouble is ahead. Lie down to sleep, sleep on it.

The prince went to bed, and Vasilisa the Wise came out on the porch and cried with a loud voice:

- Gay you industrious bees! How many of you in this world to eat, all the flocks and fly blind by pure wax Church of God, that by the morning 'was ready.

Got up in the morning, Prince Ivan, looked - is a church of pure wax, and went to the Sea King with the report.

- Thank you, Prince Ivan! Public servants, I was, no one was able to please so as you. So be for my successor, the whole kingdom of savers, choose the any of the thirteen daughters of my wife.

Prince Ivan chose Vasilisa the Wise, once they were married, and to celebrate, feasted for three days.

As much time passed stoskovalsya Prince Ivan by his parents wanted him to Holy Russia.

- What is so sad, Prince Ivan?

- Oh, Vasilisa the Wise, felt sad for the father, the mother, wanted to Holy Russia.

- Here is the trouble has come! If we leave, will be a great race for us, king of the sea is angry and betrayed us death. It is necessary to make a shift!

Vasilisa the Wise spat at three corners, locked the doors to his mansion and ran with Ivan Tsarevich on Holy Russia.

The next day came ranehonko sent from the sea king - raise young, to the palace of the king to call. Knocking at the door:

- Awake, Awake! Father is calling you.

- Not yet, we do not get enough sleep: come after! - Meets one salivating.

That's sent away, wait an hour or two, and again knocking:

- Is not it time, time to sleep, it's time, time to get up!

- Wait a little: get up, get dressed! - Meets the second watering.

The third time came to send:

- King of de sea is angry, why so long they are slacking.

- Who will be! - Meets the third watering.

Waited, waited and let's sent back to knock: no response, Council review! Broke down the door, and in the mansion is empty.

Reported to bestow, tea young fled; embittered he sent them a great chase.

And Vasilisa the Wise and Ivan Tsarevich is far, far away! Horseback riding on greyhounds without stopping, without rozdyhu.

Well, Iwawa Prince, dropping to the wet ground so listen for the pursuit of the king of the sea?

Prince Ivan dismounted, pressed his ear to the damp ground and said:

- I hear gossip and top horse!

- It's driven us! - Said Vasilisa the Wise and immediately drew the horses green meadow, Prince Ivan - the old shepherd, and she became myrrh lamb.

Comes over the chase:

- Hey, old man! Do not see you - not ridden there a fine young man with a maiden?

- No, good people, did not see - meets Prince Ivan - forty years as grazing on the site - no bird by not proletyvala, no animal by not proryskival!

GATES chase ago:

- Your Majesty! Nobody in the path does not have driven, the type only: shepherd herding sheep.

- Why do not you miss? After this they were! - Cried the king of the sea, and sent a new pursuit.

A Prince Ivan and Vasilisa the Wise long jump at the greyhound horses.

- Well, Prince Ivan, dropping to the wet ground so listen for the pursuit of the king of the sea?

Prince Ivan dismounted, pressed his ear to the damp ground and said:

- I hear gossip and horse top.

- It's driven us! - Said Vasilisa the Wise, she became the church, Prince Ivan drew an old priest, and horses - trees.

Comes over the chase:

- Hey, Father! Do you not see, did not pass there a shepherd with a lamb?

- No, people: good, not seen, forty years of toil in the church - no bird flew past the no, no animal by not proryskival.

Turned the chase back:

- Your Majesty! Nowhere to be found Shepherd with Lamb, just in the way, and saw that the church was so butt-old man.

- What are you the church is not broke, do not pop captured? It's the most they were! - Cried the king of the sea, and he galloped vdogon for Ivan Tsarevich and Vasilisa the Wise.

And they are far left.

Vasilisa the Wise said again:

- Ivan Tsarevich Dropping to the wet ground - not to hear a chase?

Tears Prince Ivan from his horse fell at his ear to the damp ground and said:

- I hear gossip and horse-top than ever.

- This is the king rides.

Turnover Vasilisa the Wise horses lake, Prince Ivan - drake, and she became utkoyu.

Sea king rode to the lake, and immediately guessed who are duck and drake, hit the damp earth, and turned eagle. Eagle wants to kill them to death, but there it was: that is not smashed on ... is about to hit the duck and drake will dive into the water, about to hit a duck, and a duck in the water dive! Fought and struggled, so could not do anything. Sea king rode in his underwater kingdom, and Vasilisa the Wise and Ivan Tsarevich waited a good time and went to Holy Russia.

Long or a short, they arrived in the fairy kingdom.

- Wait for me in the grove, - said Ivan Tsarevich Vasilisa the Wise - I'll report back to front his father and mother.

- You do forget, Prince Ivan!

- No, I will not forget.

- No, Prince Ivan, do not tell, will forget! Remember me, even then, as will be two dove into the windows to beat!

Prince Ivan came to the palace, saw his parents threw her arms around him and kissed him, pardon, to celebrate, Prince Ivan had forgotten about Vasilisa the Wise.

Live another day, and with his father, mother, and a third planned to propose to a princess.

Vasilisa the Wise went to the city and went to work in prosvirne workers. Steel wafer cook, she took the two pieces of dough, a blind couple doves and put in the oven.

- Solve, mistress, what will become of these pigeons?

- And that would be? Eat them - that's all!

- No, do not guess!

Vasilisa the Wise opened the oven, opened the window - and at the moment Well pigeons fluttered and flew straight to the palace, and began to beat in the window, how many royal servants tried, nothing could ward off.

Only then Prince Ivan remembered Vasilisa the Wise, sent messengers to all corners asking yes search and found it at prosvirni, took her white hands, kissed the mouth of sugar led to the father, the mother, and began to live together happily yes yes good ever after.