THE FROG TSAREVNA
Long time ago there was a tsar who had three sons,the youngest of them was called Ivan.One day the tsar called his sons and said them: "MY DEAR SONS, WHILE IM NOT OLD I LIKE TO SEE YOU MARRIED".
the sons answered: "If that is your wish father, who would like us to marry"
"you must each of you go to an open field,take an arrow and shoot and wherever they fall you will find you destined brides there.so they aimed and shot the arrows,so the oldest son married with boyar's daughter,the middle son with merchant's daughter,but ivans arrow fell somewhere far and after finding for long time what he found was a frog sitting,ivan felt sad and married it.
Days passed and the tsar said to his sons. "I want to see which of your wives is the best neddle-woman,let them each make me a shirt by tomorrow morning.Ivan was sad because his wife couldnt make a shirt and he told his wife about that,the frog said "dont grieve and go to bed everything will be alright.when he went to bed the frog cast-off its skin and turned into vasilisa the wise and made a shirt . In the morning when he woke up he saw the frog but the shirt was all made and ready and when the saw the shirts he didnt like the others but when he saw the frogs shirt he said " that is a shirt to wear on holidays".
The tsar again called to his sons and told them to feast with him the next day with their wives
once again ivan came home sad and told his wife about that.the frog answered " dont be afraid and go to the feast alone and i will come later"
the next morning he went there , everyone was laughing at him but after they started to dance they heard strong noises and a beautiful woman came riding six white horses,everyone was admired, ivan ran home and saw the frog skin,he burned it and when vasilisa the wise came home and saw, she got sad and turned into a grey bird and flew away,he started to find her and on the way he saw a bear,bird,fish and drake. They said "dont kill us and who knows,you will need us one day"and after he walks more he sees a witch and tells him the way to his wife but first of he must kill koschei the deathless and then his wife will be free and but first of all you must find the magical needle and it is in a chest on a tree but it was too high , but suddenly that bear comes and brakes the tree and the chest then the bird and the drake come and open the chest but the needle falls in the sea but the fish gets the key and brings to ivan. ivan kills koschei and free his wife.and they live together.
the story wasnt bad and wasnt good, I abbreviated some parts because it was longer.
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