Summary of “Frogs”


“The Frog Princess” is a fairy tale invented by the Russian people. Like many similar ones, she teaches kindness, purposefulness. Learn about what this work, understand its meaning, draw conclusions will help a short summary. “The Frog Princess” (work) refers to Russian folk art. The tale is listened to with pleasure by the kids. The fifth grade students study the work more deeply. Quickly get acquainted with it briefly.

“The Frog Princess” begins, like some other fairy tales. In the first lines the reader will learn that the king lived, who had three sons. Once he decided to marry them. What happened next, you will learn right now.

What came up with the head of the fabulous state

The king came up with a very interesting way – he decided that fate itself would indicate to his sons where to look for brides. He ordered the young men to take stelae and onions. The latter is a device made of a flexible stick and a strong rope

– strings. In it, the arrow rests with a blunt end, then with the help of hands it is necessary to pull the bowstring towards you, holding this edge of the arrow with your hand. After that, the fingers unclench, and the mini-spear rushes into the distance.

The king said: “Where arrows fly, there everyone should seek his own happiness.” About the fact, where the mini-lances of the brothers fell, the work itself and our short content of the fairy tale “The Frog Princess” tells the story. The elder’s arrow fell on the boyar court. There was just a girl for marriage. The weapon of the middle pleased directly with the merchant. This delighted the young lady from this family.

Only Ivan could not immediately find his arrow, so she flew away. He had to go to the forest and seek his own happiness there. This will be described later by a brief tale. The frog prince and Ivan will soon meet.

Where the arrow fell

Long or not, my younger brother was walking, but he was in the swamp. He sees a frog holding it. The Tsarevich asked her to give what she had found, but she

refused. She said that now the young man should take her to the palace, because this is the order of the king himself. Ivan was not happy with this turn of fate, but there was nothing to do. The obedient son of his father wrapped the frog in a kerchief and brought it to the palace. Of course, it was not without ridicule. Whether it’s the case, the prince’s bride-a resident of the swamp-is wet, cold, slippery.

Kvakushke had to prove that the external appearance is not so important, the main thing is the inner content. After all, you can be a beauty, but stupid and unskillful. This is one of the conclusions of the work, which is briefly described. The frog princess was a master of all trades, in this the reader will be convinced right now.

The first task of the king

When all the potential brides were taken to the palace, the king ordered his sons to marry them. Then he ordered the girls to show their skills. To do this, they had to sew him in the morning in a shirt.

Do not convey in words how upset Ivan. Seeing this state of her husband, the cuckoo told him not to worry, but went to sleep better. After all, as you know, the morning is wiser than the evening. This clever proverb of the Russian people must be adopted. In fact sometimes it seems in the evening that some problem can not be solved, everything appears in a sad light. Then you just need to go to the bedchamber, have a good night’s sleep, and in the morning there are several exits from the situation, and the world will again shine in rainbow colors.

This was known also by the wise princess-frog. The tale continues with the fact that, having packed the groom, she went to the porch, threw off the frog’s skin and turned into Vasilisa the Wise. The girl said to come to the nurse’s nurse. She ordered them to sew a beautiful shirt to the tsar till morning, which they did. What was Ivan’s amazement when, waking up, he saw a beautiful robe for the priest, embroidered with precious stones and decorated with intricate patterns. He took his shirt and went to the palace.

Who did how to cope with the test of the king

The people had already gathered there, and the tsar watched the new things. He took a shirt sewn by the bride of his elder brother, looked at the clothes critically and said that it was only in a black hut to wear. Most likely, he meant the following – in olden times, the huts were stoked “in black.” Smoke did not go out into the pipe, but into small windows high up. Therefore, the walls, the ceiling in such a room were smoked, since the products of combustion were deposited on them. It was about this hut that the king said, since in a palace in such a shirt it would be simply embarrassing to walk.

He also did not appreciate the merchant’s creativity, when he saw her shirt, said that in such a bath only to go. Pleasantly surprised him only princess frog. The fairy tale turns to an interesting moment. Seeing the work of art, embroidered with silver and gold, which brought a younger son, the father said that this shirt only for the holiday wear.

The second task

After that, the head of state ordered his daughters to bake bread. This is what the brief content will be about right now. “The Frog Princess” for the readers’ diary is a very successful work. It will allow the child to learn to draw conclusions, it is easy to remember the meaning of such an interesting story.

Next, the fifth grader learns about how the girls coped with the second task. You can write about it briefly in your reader’s diary.

Wives of older brothers decided to spy on how to bake a frog bread. They sent one grandmother to peek, but Vasilisa the Wise was smarter than them. She kneaded the dough, broke the upper part of the stove and set the quartz directly on top of it. That’s exactly what the merchant woman did with the boyar. In fact, Vasilisa and her assistants baked an amazing dish.

The king, seeing what happened at the senior daughter-in-law, became angry and sent these burnt bread to the people’s. And he praised the frog’s baking, he said that it is possible to eat it on holidays.

Then the king-father invited his sons and their wives to the palace for a feast, ordered everyone to come the next day. Again, the younger son was upset – how he would appear there with such a companion, because they would laugh. But the frog comforted him. Everyone went to the palace, and Ivan’s wife told him that she would arrive later. What happened next will quickly describe the summary. The frog princess threw off the skin in which she was forced to be, dressed beautifully and struck everyone with her appearance – she was such a beauty.

She also pleasantly surprised her with dances: when she waved her sleeve, a lake appeared. Then I did it a second time. The bones hidden in the sleeve turned into swans that began to float on the lake.

Ivan liked the new look of his wife. While everyone was having fun, he ran home and burned the frog’s skin, throwing it into the oven. When Vasilisa appeared, she was very upset, as she had only 3 days to go to the frog’s appearance, and then she would again become a girl. Now it should be taken away Koschey. “Look for me from him,” the beautiful woman said and disappeared.

Searches for the sweetheart

Not only in this fairy tale fell a good fellow, as he was stolen by the evil Koshchei (as described above by a brief summary), the frog princess. Pushkin AS also sometimes turned to similar subjects. Suffice it to recall his work in verse “Ruslan and Lyudmila,” where the young beauty was abducted by the old Chernomor. To save his Vasilisa from Koshchei, Ivan went to look for her in the forest. There he met an old man who gave a ball, the thread was to indicate to the Tsarevich the way.

The youth’s kindness helped the end result. In the field he met a bear, he wanted to kill him, but he begged and said that someday he would need him. Ivan felt sorry for him, did not shoot, like in Drake, a hare who also met on the way. After that he saved the pike, thrown ashore, he put it back in the sea. So the brief content came to an end.


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Summary of “Frogs”