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In this section of the site you can read children's fairy tales online completely free of charge and without registration. Just select the author of the fairy tale you want in the right menu and you can immerse yourself in a fascinating read about magical adventures fairy-tale heroes. All fairy tales on our website with colorful illustrations and summary, therefore, we recommend that you first read a summary of the fairy tale before reading it to your children at night. Fairy tales for children on our website are presented in the form of an alphabetical list to make it easier for you to find the right fairy tale and read it online. Reading fairy tales online is not only interesting, but also very useful - this activity perfectly develops a child’s imagination.

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Remember your childhood. Each of us loved bedtime stories as a child. At first, when we did not yet know how to read, our parents and grandparents did it for us, showing colorful illustrations in the book. When we learned to read on our own, we began to read ourselves interesting tales. On our website we have selected fairy tales for children of any age: from 2 years to the age until children stop believing in fairy tales)) Each author's or folk tale carries with it certain meaning, which the author or the people put into this fairy tale under the influence of the corresponding time.Fairy tales contain basic principles of morality. It is from fairy tales that a child begins to understand what is good and what is bad. He learns to empathize with the heroes, tries to imitate them, so correctly selected children's fairy tales will play important role in raising children.

Fairy tales are presented on our website best authors of all times and peoples. The list of author's fairy tales is constantly expanding and supplemented with new arrivals. In the right menu you can see a list of authors whose fairy tales are published on the site. If you don’t see the author you need there, use the site search.

Folk tales

A site for children collects and publishes folk tales with colorful illustrations and a summary. In the right menu you can see a list of folk tales that are presented on our website. This list is constantly being updated with interesting folk tales.

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Fairy tale heroes

Each hero of a children's fairy tale can be classified into one of two types: good or bad. Almost any goes like a fairy tale the struggle between good and evil and, more often than not, good wins.

In addition, fairy tale heroes can be divided into the following categories:

Magical heroes (Kolobok, Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, Kashchei the Immortal, Baba Yaga, Vodyanoy, Beast,Serpent-Gorynych, Dragon, Chippolino, Gulliver...)

Magical animals(Puss in Boots, Ryaba Hen, Fox, Bear, Cheshire cat, Ugly duckling, Golden Cockerel, Gray Wolf, Crane, Traveling Frog...)

Social Heroes(princess, prince, king, queen, master, boyar, peasant, peasant...)

Representatives of professions(blacksmith, forester, swineherd, soldier, chimney sweep, priest, bishop...)

People different ages (grandmother, grandfather, granddaughter, Little Red Riding Hood, mother, father, brother, sister, groom, bride...)

Bogatyrs (Alyosha Popovich, Dobrynya Nikitich, Nikita Kozhemyaka, Ilya Muromets...)

Each fairy tale has its own atmosphere, characteristic of a certain people and era to which the author of the fairy tale belonged.

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If you close your eyes and travel back in time for a moment, you can imagine how ordinary Russian people lived. Large families they lived in wooden huts, they heated the stoves with wood, and the light was provided by homemade dry slivers. Poor Russian people had neither television nor the Internet, so what could they do when they weren’t working in the fields? They relaxed, dreamed and listened to good fairy tales!

In the evening the whole family gathered in one room, the children sat on the stove, and the women worked homework. At this time, the turn of Russian folk tales began. In every village or hamlet there lived a woman storyteller, she replaced the radio for people and told stories in a beautiful sing-song voice. ancient legends. The kids listened with their mouths open, and the girls quietly sang along and spun or embroidered while listening to a good fairy tale.

What did the respected storytellers tell the people about?

Good prophets kept in memory large number folk tales, legends and tales. All their lives they brought light ordinary peasants, and in old age they passed on their knowledge to the next talented storytellers. Most of the legends were based on real events from life, but over the years the fairy tales acquired fictitious details and acquired a special Russian flavor.

Note to readers!

The most famous storyteller in Rus' and Finland is a simple serf woman Praskovya Nikitichna, married to Vaska. She knew 32,000 poems and fairy tales, 1,152 songs, 1,750 proverbs, 336 riddles and a large number of prayers. Hundreds of books and poetry collections have been written based on her stories, but for all her talents, Praskovya Nikitichna was poor all her life and even worked as a barge hauler.

Another well-known storyteller throughout Russia is Pushkin’s nanny Arina Rodionovna. This is her with early childhood instilled in the poet a love of Russian fairy tales, and on the basis of her ancient stories, Alexander Sergeevich wrote his great works.

What do Russian fairy tales tell about?

Fairy tales made up ordinary people, are an encyclopedia folk wisdom. Through simple stories, workers and peasants presented their vision of the world and passed on information in encrypted form to subsequent generations.

Old Russian fairy tales are divided into three types:

Animal Tales. IN folk stories There are funny characters who are especially close to ordinary Russian people. The club-footed bear, little sister fox, little bunny, little mouse, and frog are endowed with pronounced human qualities. In the fairy tale “Masha and the Bear” Potapych is kind but stupid, in the story about the Seven Little Goats the wolf is cunning and gluttonous, and in the fairy tale “The Boasting Bunny” the little hare is cowardly and boastful. From the age of 2-3, it’s time for children to become familiar with good Russian fairy tales and example funny characters With expressed characters learn to distinguish between positive and negative characters.

Magical mystical tales. There are many interesting mystical characters in Russian fairy tales that could outshine famous American heroes. Baba Yaga Bone Leg, the Serpent Gorynych and Koschey the Immortal are distinguished by their realism and have been living in good folk tales for several centuries. They fought with mystical heroes who kept the people in fear epic heroes and brave noble princes. And the beautiful needlewomen Vasilisa the Beautiful, Marya, Varvara Krasa fought against evil spirits with intelligence, cunning and ingenuity.

Tales about the life of ordinary Russian people. Through the wise fairy tales the people talked about their existence and passed on the accumulated knowledge from generation to generation. A striking example- fairy tale “Kolobok”. Here an old man and an old woman bake an unusual loaf of bread, and call on the clear sun to forever warm our native land. The hot sun-bun goes on a journey and meets the winter hare, the spring wolf, the summer bear and the autumn fox. A tasty bun dies in the teeth of a voracious fox, but then is reborn again and starts a new one. life cycle eternal mother nature.

The page of our website contains the most beloved and popular best Russian fairy tales. Texts from beautiful pictures and illustrations in the style lacquer miniatures reading fairy tales is especially pleasant. They bring to children the priceless wealth of the Russian language, and drawings and large font allow you to quickly memorize stories and new words, and instill a love of reading books. All fairy tales are recommended for bedtime reading. Parents will be able to read aloud to their child and convey to the child the meaning inherent in wise old fairy tales.

The page with Russian folk tales is a collection of children's literature. Teachers can use the library for reading lessons in kindergarten both at school and in the family circle it is easy to perform performances with the participation of heroes from Russian folk tales.

Read Russian folk tales for free online with your children and absorb the wisdom of bygone generations!

is one of the oldest forms of storytelling, which in its simplest and game form tells children not only about the world around him, but also about manifestations of both the best and the ugliest. General statistics tell us that Russian folk tales interest children only up to school age, but it is these fairy tales that we carry in our hearts and let us pass them on to our children in a slightly modified form. After all, it is impossible to forget about Masha and the Bear, Ryaba the hen or the Gray Wolf; all these images help us learn and understand the reality around us. You can read Russian folk tales online and listen to audio tales for free on our website.

Types of Russian folk tales

Folk tales are basically divided into three categories. These are tales about animals, everyday life and fairy tales.

Russian folk tales about animals- these are some of the most ancient types of fairy tales that exist, their roots go back to the times Ancient Rus'. These fairy tales contain vivid and very memorable images; from childhood we all remember about Kolobok or Turnip, and thanks to such bright images the child learns to understand good and evil. Learns to distinguish character traits and lines of behavior: a fox is cunning, a bear is clumsy, a bunny is cowardly, and so on. Although the world of folk tales is fictional, it is so alive and vibrant that it fascinates and knows how to teach children only good deeds.

Russians everyday tales - these are fairy tales that are filled with the realism of our everyday life. And they are so close to life that when delving into these fairy tales, be careful, because this line is so thin that your growing child will want to embody and experience some of the actions on himself or carry them out in real life.

Russian fairy tales- this is a world in which magic and the evil associated with it takes on very terrible outlines and vital shades. Fairy tales- this is the search and rescue of a girl, a city or the world entrusted to the shoulders of one hero. But it is the help of many minor characters teaches us, who read these fairy tales, about mutual assistance to each other. Read and listen to folk tales online with us.

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• “The Fox and the Bear” (Mordovian);
• “The War of Mushrooms and Berries” - V. Dal;
• "Wild Swans" - H.K. Andersen;
• “Chest-airplane” - H.K. Andersen;
• “The Gluttonous Shoe” - A.N. Tolstoy;
• “Cat on a Bicycle” - S. Cherny;
• “Near the Lukomorye there is a green oak tree...” - A.S. Pushkin;
• “The Little Humpbacked Horse” - P. Ershov;
• “The Sleeping Princess” - V. Zhukovsky;
• “Mr. Au” - H. Mäkelä;
• "The Ugly Duckling" - H.K. Andersen;
• “Everyone in his own way” - G. Skrebitsky;
• “Frog – Traveler” - V. Garshin;
• “Deniska’s stories” - V. Dragunsky;
• “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” - A.S. Pushkin;
• “Moroz Ivanovich” - V. Odoevsky;
• “Mistress Blizzard” - Br. Grimm;
• “The Tale of Lost Time” - E. Schwartz;
• “Golden Key” - A.N. Tolstoy;
• “Guarantee men” - E. Uspensky;
• "Black chicken, or Underground inhabitants" - A. Pogorelsky;
• "The Tale of dead princess and about the seven heroes" - A.S. Pushkin;
• “Baby Elephant” - R. Kipling;
• “The Scarlet Flower” - K. Aksakov;
• “Flower - seven flowers” ​​- V. Kataev;
• “The cat who could sing” - L. Petrushevsky.

Senior group(5-6 years)

• “Winged, furry and oily” (model by Karanoukhova);
• “The Frog Princess” (Bulatov’s sample);
• “Ear of Bread” - A. Remizov;
• “Gray Neck” by D. Mamin-Sibiryak;
• “Finist - clear falcon” - r.n. fairy tale;
• “The Case of Yevseyka” - M. Gorky;
• “Twelve Months” (translated by S. Marshak);
• “Silver Hoof” - P. Bazhov;
• “Doctor Aibolit” - K. Chukovsky;
• “Bobik visiting Barbos” - N. Nosov;
• “Boy - Thumb” - C. Perrault;
• “The Trusting Hedgehog” - S. Kozlov;
• “Khavroshechka” (model by A.N. Tolstoy);
• “Princess - a piece of ice” - L. Charskaya;
• “Thumbelina” - H. Andersen;
• “Flower - seven-colored flower” - V. Kataev;
• “The Secret of the Third Planet” - K. Bulychev;
• "Wizard emerald city"(chapters) - A. Volkov;
• “A dog’s sorrows” - B. Zakhader;
• “The Tale of Three Pirates” - A. Mityaev.

Middle group (4-5 years old)

• “About the girl Masha, about the dog, the cockerel and the cat Nitochka” - A. Vvedensky;
• “Carrying Cow” - K. Ushinsky;
• “Zhurka” - M. Prishvin;
• “The Three Little Pigs” (translation by S. Marshak);
• “Fox - sister and wolf” (arranged by M. Bulatov);
• “Winter quarters” (arranged by I. Sokolov-Mikitov);
• “The Fox and the Goat” (arranged by O. Kapitsa;
• “About Ivanushka the Fool” - M. Gorky;
• “Telephone” - K. Chukovsky;
• “Winter's Tale” - S. Kozlova;
• “Fedorino’s grief” - K. Chukovsky;
• "Musicians of Bremen" - Brothers Grimm;
• “The Dog That Couldn’t Bark” (translation from Danish by A. Tanzen);
• “Kolobok - a prickly side” - V. Bianchi;
• “Who said “Meow!”?” - V. Suteev;
• "The Tale of an Ill-mannered Mouse."

II junior group(3-4 years)

• “The Wolf and the Little Goats” (arranged by A.N. Tolstoy);
• “Goby - black barrel, white hoof” (model by M. Bulatov);
• “Fear has big eyes” (arranged by M. Serova);
• “Visiting the Sun” (Slovak fairy tale);
• “Two Greedy Little Bears” (Hungarian fairy tale);
• “Chicken” - K. Chukovsky;
• “Fox, hare, rooster” - r.n. fairy tale;
• “Rukovichka” (Ukrainian, model N. Blagina);
• “The Cockerel and the Bean Seed” - (arranged by O. Kapitsa);
• “Three Brothers” - (Khakassian, translated by V. Gurov);
• “About the chicken, the sun and the little bear” - K. Chukovsky;
• "a fairy tale about a brave Hare - long ears, slanted eyes, short tail” - S. Kozlov;
• “Teremok” (model by E. Charushin);
• “Fox-bast-footer” (model by V. Dahl);
• “The Sly Fox” (Koryak, trans. G. Menovshchikov);
• “Cat, rooster and fox” (arranged by Bogolyubskaya);
• “Geese - Swans” (arranged by M. Bulatov);
• “Gloves” - S. Marshak;
• “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish” - A. Pushkin.

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Fairy tales - poetic stories about extraordinary events and adventures, featuring fictional characters. In modern Russian, the concept of the word “fairy tale” has acquired its meaning since the 17th century. Until that point, the word "fable" was supposedly used in this meaning.

One of the main features of a fairy tale is that it is always based on an invented story, with happy ending where good conquers evil. The stories contain a certain hint that enables the child to learn to recognize good and evil and to comprehend life through clear examples.

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Reading fairy tales is one of the main and important stages on your child's path to life. Various stories make it clear that the world around us is quite contradictory and unpredictable. By listening to stories about the adventures of the main characters, children learn to value love, honesty, friendship and kindness.

Reading fairy tales is useful not only for children. Having grown up, we forget that in the end good always triumphs over evil, that all adversity is nothing, and a beautiful princess is waiting for her prince on a white horse. Give a little good mood and plunge into fairy world simple enough!