The Scarlet Flower. The fairy tale of the Pelagia keybox

Sergey Timofeevich Aksakov (1791 - 1859) - Russian writer, literary and theater critic. Born in Ufa in a noble family belonging to an old family, graduated from the Kazan gymnasium and entered Kazan University. In the gymnasium S.T. Aksakov began to write poetry, in the university years he participated in the work of the student theater. Without graduating from the university, he moved to St. Petersburg, where he entered the service in the commission to draw up laws as a translator. However, this work was not very interesting to the future writer, he was increasingly interested in literary activity. In 1847 S.T. Aksakov published "Notes on the Removing of Pisces", in 1849 - "Notes of a Ruzhny Hunter", both books were considerable success. But a truly writer became famous for his autobiographical books-"Family Chronicle" (1856) and "Children"s years of Bagrov-Venuka" (1858), written on the basis of children"s memories and family traditions. . How the application to "childhood Bagrov-Vyuka" was printed and the fairy tale "Scarlet Flower" was also printed. According to the author himself, for the first time he heard the plot of a "scarlet flower" from the Key of Pelageya: "This fairy tale, which I heard for several years more than a dozen times, because I really liked it, later I learned by heart and told it. "Scarlet Flower" is one of the many variations of the plot of the European fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". This work teaches readers to value in a person not external beauty, but spiritual qualities, a rich inner world. The heroine of the fairy tale was able to see that behind the terrifying appearance of the beast is hidden a kind and loving heart, was able to love the Forest Beast, a miracle of the sea "and thereby destroying witchcraft spells