Finist is a clear falcon. Fairy tale "Finist - Clear falcon

01.10.2019

Platonov

"Finist - clear falcon" - summary:

The father lived with three daughters, the mother died. The youngest was called Maryushka and she was a needlewoman and did all the housework. Among all the daughters she was the most beautiful and hardworking. Father often went to the market and asked his daughters what gifts to bring them. The eldest and middle daughters always ordered things - boots, dresses, and the youngest always asked her father to bring a feather of Finist, a clear falcon.

2 times the father could not find the feather, but on the third he met an old man who gave him the feather of Finist - a clear falcon. Maryushka was very happy and admired the feather for a long time, but towards evening she dropped it and Finist, a clear falcon, immediately appeared, hit the floor and turned into a good fellow. They talked with Maryushka all night. And the next three nights also - Finist flew in the evening and left in the morning.

The sisters heard that their younger sister was talking to someone at night and told their father, but he did not do anything. Then the sisters stuck needles and knives into the window, and when Finist, a clear falcon, flew in in the evening, he began to beat through the window and hurt himself, but Maryushka fell asleep from fatigue and did not hear it. Then Finist shouted that he was flying away and if Maryushka wanted to find him, she would have to demolish three pairs of cast-iron boots, wear 3 cast-iron staffs on the grass and swallow 3 stone bread.

The next morning Maryushka saw Finist's blood and remembered everything. The blacksmith made her cast-iron shoes and staffs, she took three stone loaves and went in search of Finist, the clear falcon. When she wore out the first pair of shoes, the staff and devoured the first bread, I found the hut in which the old woman lived. There she spent the night, and the next morning the old woman gave her a magic gift - a silver base, a golden spindle and advised her to go to her middle sister, maybe she knows where to look for Finist, the clear falcon.

When Maryushka wore out the second pair of cast-iron shoes and the second staff, devoured the second stone bread, she found the old woman's middle sister's hut. Maryushka spent the night with her and in the morning received a magical gift - a silver plate with a golden egg and advice to go to the older sister of the old women, who certainly knew where Finist was the clear falcon.

The third pair of cast-iron shoes worn out, the third staff and Maryushka devoured the third stone bread. Soon she saw the hut of her older sister, where she spent the night and in the morning received a magic gold sheath and a needle as a gift.

Maryushka went back barefoot and soon saw the courtyard, in which there was a beautiful tower. The hostess lived in it with her daughter and a servant, and the daughter was married to Finist, a clear falcon. Maryushka asked the hostess to work and the hostess took her. She rejoiced at such a skillful and unpretentious worker. And soon the daughter saw Maryushka's magical gifts and exchanged them for a meeting with Finist, a clear falcon. But he did not recognize Maryushka - she had become so emaciated during the long march. For two nights Maryushka drove the flies away from Finist, the clear falcon, while he was sleeping, but she could not wake him up - her daughter gave him sleeping pills for the night.

But on the third night Maryushka cried over Finist and her tears fell on his face and chest and burned him. He immediately woke up, recognized Maryushka and turned into a falcon, and turned Maryushka into a dove. And they flew to Maryushka's home. The father and sisters were very happy with them, and soon they played a wedding and lived happily until the end of their days.

Russian folk tale "Finist - a clear falcon", arranged by A.P. Platonov is included in .

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The tale "Finist - the clear falcon" - read:

A peasant and his wife lived in the village, they had three daughters.

The daughters grew up, and the parents grew older, and now the time has come, the turn has come - the peasant's wife has died. The peasant began to raise his daughters alone. All three of his daughters were beautiful, equal in beauty, and different in temperament.

The old peasant lived in prosperity and pitied his daughters. He wanted to take into the yard any old woman, so that she would take care of the household. And the younger daughter, Maryushka, says to her father: - There is no need, father, to take a bean, I myself will take care of the house. Marya was cheerful. And the older daughters said nothing.

Maryushka began to run the household instead of her mother. And she can do everything, everything goes well with her, and what she cannot do, she gets used to it, and when she gets used to it, she also gets along with business. Father looks, rejoices that Maryushka is so clever, hardworking, and meek in temper. And from herself Maryushka was good - a beauty written, and from kindness her beauty was added.

Her older sisters were also beauties, only they didn’t think their beauty was enough, and they tried to add it with blush and whitewash. It used to be that two older sisters would sit and wash themselves all day, and by evening they were all the same as they were in the morning. They will notice that the day has passed, how much blush and whitewash they have worn out, but rather did not, and they sit angry. And Maryushka will get tired in the evening, but she knows that the cattle are fed, the hut is cleanly tidied up, she cooked supper, kneaded bread for tomorrow, and the father will be pleased with her.

She will look at the sisters with her gentle eyes and will not say anything to them. And then the older sisters get even more angry. It seems to them that Marya was not like that in the morning, but by the evening she was prettier - why only, they do not know.

Father needed to go to the market. He asks his daughters:

And what do you, kids, buy, how to please you?

The eldest daughter says to her father:

Buy me, my dear, half-shawls, so that the flowers on it are large and painted with gold.

And for me, father, - the middle one says, - also buy half-hangers with flowers that are painted with gold, and in the middle of the flowers so that there is red. And buy me boots with soft tops, high heels, so that they stomp on the ground.

The eldest daughter was offended by the middle one, she had a greedy heart, she said to her father:

And for me, father, and for me buy boots with soft tops and heels, so that they stomp on the ground! And also buy me a ring with a porridge on your finger - after all, you have one eldest daughter.

The father promised to buy gifts, which were punished by the two older cherries, and asks the youngest:

Why are you silent, Maryushka?

And I don't need anything, father. I don't go anywhere from the yard, I don't need outfits.

Yours is not true, Maryushka! How can I leave you without a gift? I'll buy you a present.

And you don’t need a present, father, ”says the youngest daughter.

And buy me, my dear father, Finist's feather - the juice is clear, if it is cheap.

Father went to the bazaar, he bought the parks for the eldest daughters, which they punished him, and Finist's feather - clearly not our falcon. I asked all the merchants.

“No, - said the merchants, - such a product; on demand, - they say, - there is no for it ». The father did not want to offend his youngest daughter, his hardworking clever girl, but he returned to the court, and Finist's feather, it’s clear, did not buy a falcon. And Maryushka was not offended.

Nishto, father, - said Maryushka, - sometimes you go, then it will buy, my feather.

Time passed, and again my father needed to go to the market. He asks his daughters what to buy as a gift: he was kind. Big daughter says:

You bought me boots the last time, father, so let the blacksmiths now blow the heels on those boots with silver horseshoes.

And the middle one hears the older one and says:

And me, father, too, otherwise the heels are knocking, and not ringing - let them ring. And so that the horseshoe carnations are not lost, buy me another silver hammer: I’ll beat the carnations with it.

What do you want to buy, Maryushka?

And look, father, a feather from Finist - the falcon is clear, whether there will be, whether there is not.

The old man went to the bazaar, soon he handed over his business and bought gifts for the eldest daughters, and until the evening he was looking for a feather for the youngest, but no feather, no one gives it to buy. The father returned again without a gift for his youngest daughter. He felt sorry for Maryushka, and Maryushka smiled at her father: she was glad that she saw her parent again.

The time has come, my father went to the market again.

What should you, my daughters, buy as a gift?

The eldest thought and did not immediately come up with what she wanted.

Buy me something, father.

And the middle one says:

And for me, father, buy something, and add something else to something.

And you, Maryushka?

And you, father, buy me one of Finist's feathers - the falcon is clear.

The old man went to the market. He did his business, bought gifts for the eldest daughters, but did not buy anything for the youngest: that feather is not in the bazaar. Father goes home and sees: an old old man is walking along the road, older than him, completely dilapidated.

Hello grandfather!

Hello dear. What is your grief about?

And how could she not be, grandfather! My daughter told me to buy her one feather of Finista - the falcon is clear. I was looking for her that feather, but it is not. But she is my smaller daughter, and I feel sorry for her more than anyone.

The old old man thought about it, and then he says:

So be it! He untied his shoulder bag and took out a box.

- Hide, - he says, - a box, in it a feather from Finist - the falcon is clear. But remember also: I have one son; You feel sorry for your daughter, but my son. My son does not want to marry, and the time has come for him. If he doesn’t want to, you can’t be forced into bondage. And he says to me: whoever asks you for this feather, give it back, my bride is asking for it.

The old old man said his words - and suddenly he was not there, he disappeared into no one knows where. Was he or was he not? Maryushka's father was left with a feather in his hands. He sees that feather, and it is gray, simple. And you couldn't buy it anywhere. The father remembered what the old old man had told him, and thought:

“Apparently, my Maryushka’s fate is coming out - not knowing, not having seen, to marry someone who knows”.

The father came home, gave gifts to the eldest daughters, and gave the youngest a box with a gray feather. The older sisters dressed up and laughed at the younger:

And you stick your sparrow feather in your hair, and show off.

Maryushka said nothing, and when everyone went to bed in the hut, she put in front of her a simple gray feather of Finist — the falcon was clear and began to admire it. And then Maryushka took the feather in her hands, held it with her, stroked it and accidentally dropped it on the floor. Immediately someone hit the window. The window opened and Finist, a clear falcon, flew into the hut. He leaned to the floor and turned into a fine fellow.

Maryushka closed the window and began to talk to the fellow. And in the morning Maryushka opened the window, the fellow bowed to the floor, turned into a clear falcon, and the falcon left a simple gray feather and flew away into the blue sky. Maryushka the falcon greeted three evenings. During the day he flew over the skies, over the fields, over the forests, over the mountains, over the seas, and in the evening he flew to Maryushka and became a good fellow.

On the fourth evening, the older sisters heard Maryushka's quiet conversation, they heard the strange voice of a good fellow, and the next morning they asked the younger sister:

Who are you, sister, talking to at night?

And I speak my own words, - answered Maryushka.

I have no friends, during the day I am at work, I have no time to talk, and in the evening I talk to myself.

The older sisters listened to the younger, but did not believe her. They said to the priest:

Father, Marya has a betrothed, she sees him at night and talks to him. We ourselves have heard.

And the father answered them:

And you would not listen, - he says.

Why shouldn't our Maryushka be betrothed? There is no thin person here, she was a pretty girl and went out at her time; your turn will come.

So Marya did not recognize her betrothed by the succession, - said the eldest daughter.

I would have started to marry her before.

It's really yours, - judged the priest.

So fate does not count. Some bride sits in maids of old age, and another is dear to all people from a young age. The father said this to the eldest daughters, and he himself thought:

“Is the word of that old man coming true that he gave me the feather? There is no trouble, is he a good person
will be Maryushka's betrothed? "

And the older daughters had their own desire. As evening came, Maryushka's sisters took out knives from the cuttings, and the knives stuck in the window frame and around it, and besides the knives, they also stuck sharp needles and fragments of old glass there. Maryushka at that time cleaned the cow in the barn and saw nothing.

And so, as it got dark, Finist, a clear falcon, flies to Maryushka's window. He flew to the window, hit on sharp knives and on needles and glass, fought a pitchforkhe wounded her whole chest, and Maryushka was worn out during the day at work, she dozed off, waiting for Finist - the falcon was clear, and did not hear how her falcon was beating through the window.

Then Finist said loudly:

Goodbye, my red maiden! If you need me, you will find me, even though I will be far away! And first of all, coming to me, you will wear out three pairs of iron shoes, you will erase three cast-iron staffs on the road grass, and you will devour three stone breads.

And Maryushka heard Finist's words through the slumber, but she could not get up, she could not wake up. In the morning she woke up, her heart burned. She looked out the window, and in the window the blood of the finist - the falcon is clear. Maryushka began to cry then. She opened the window and put her face down on the spot where Finist's blood was. Tears washed away the blood of the Sokol, and Maryushka herself seemed to have washed herself with the blood of her betrothed and became even more beautiful.

Maryushka went to her father and said to him:

Do not scold me, father, let me go on a long journey. I'll be alive - we'll see you, and I'll die - to my family, to know, it was written to me.

It was a pity for the father to let go of his beloved youngest daughter who knows where. And you can't forbid her to live at home. The father knew: the loving heart of a girl is stronger than the power of her father and mother. He said goodbye to his beloved daughter and let her go.

The blacksmith made Maryushka three pairs of iron shoes and three cast-iron staffs, took Maryushka three stone loaves, she bowed to the priest and sisters, visited her mother's grave and set off on the road to look for Finist - the falcon is clear.

Maryushka is walking along the road. It goes not a day, not two, not three, it goes for a long time. She walked both in a clear field and in a dark forest, and also in high mountains. In the fields, the birds sang her songs, the dark forests welcomed her, from the high mountains she admired the whole world.

Maryushka walked so much that she worn out one pair of iron shoes, worn out the cast-iron staff on the road and devoured the stone bread, but her path does not end and Finist is nowhere to be found - the falcon is clear. Then Maryushka sighed, sat down on the ground, began to put on other iron shoes - and saw a hut in the forest. And already the night has come.

Maryushka thought: “I’ll go to the hut and ask the people if they have not seen my Finist - is the falcon clear?” Maryushka knocked on the hut. One old woman lived in that hut - good or bad, Maryushka did not know about that. The old woman opened the canopy - a red girl was standing in front of her.

Let me go, grandma, to sleep!

Come in, my dear, you will be a guest. How far are you going, young?

How far, close, I don't know myself, grandmother. And I'm looking for Finist - the falcon is clear. Have you heard of him, grandma?

How not to hear! I am old, I have been living for a long time, I have heard about everyone! How far is it for you to go, my dear.

The next morning, the old woman's mistress woke Maryushka up and said to her:

Go, dear, now to my middle sister. She is older than me and knows more. Maybe she will teach you good and tell you where your Finist lives. And so that you don’t forget me, the old one, take here the silver base - the golden spindle, you will become a tow of spinning, the golden thread will be pulled. Take care of my gift while it is dear to you, and not dear - give it yourself.

Maryushka took the gift, admired it and said to the hostess:

Thank you, grandma. Where should I go, which way?

And I'll give you a ball of scooter. Where the ball will roll, and you follow him. And you think about taking a break, sit on the grass - and the ball will stop, it will be waiting for you.

Maryushka bowed to the old woman and followed the ball. How long or short Maryushka walked, she didn’t count the way, she didn’t feel sorry for herself, but she sees - the forests are dark, terrible, in the fields the grass grows unbread, thorny, the mountains are bare, stone, and the birds do not sing over the ground.

Maryushka walked farther, more and more in a hurry. Look, you need to change your shoes again: another pair of iron shoes was worn out, and the cast-iron staff was worn out on the ground, and she devoured the stone bread. Maryushka sat down to change her shoes. She sees - the black forest is close, and night falls, and in the forest in one hut there is a light in the window. The ball rolled towards that hut.

Maryushka followed him and knocked on the window:

Good hosts, let me spend the night!

An old woman, older than the one who had previously greeted Maryushka, came out onto the porch of the hut.

Where are you going, red maiden? Who are you looking for in the world?

I am looking, grandmother, Finista - the falcon is clear. I was with an old woman in the forest, spent the night with her, she heard about Finist, but does not know him. Maybe, she said, her middle sister knows. The old woman let Maryushka into the hut. And the next morning she woke up her guest and said to her:

It’s a long way for you to look for Finist, I knew about him, but I guess I didn’t see him. Now go to our older sister, she should know about him. And so that you remember me, take a gift from me. By joy, he will be your memory, and by need he will help you. And the old lady gave her guest a silver dish a golden egg. She asked Maryushka for forgiveness from the old mistress, bowed to her and followed the ball.

Maryushka is walking, and the land around her has become completely alien. She looks - one forest on earth is growing, but there is no clear field. And the trees, the further the ball rolls, grow higher and higher. It has become completely dark: the sun and sky are not visible. And Maryushka kept walking and walking in the dark, until her iron shoes were trampled through and through, and her staff was worn out on the ground, and until she had devoured the last stone bread to the last crust.

Maryushka looked around - what should she do? She sees her little ball: it lies under the window near the forest hut. Maryushka knocked on the window of the hut:

Good hosts, shelter me from the dark night!

An old woman, the oldest sister of all old women, came out onto the porch.

Go to the hut, dove, - he says. - Look where you came so far! Further, no one lives on earth, I am extreme. You need to keep going in the other direction tomorrow morning. And whose will you be and where are you going?

Maryushka answered her:

I'm not from here, grandma. And I'm looking for Finist - the falcon is clear.

The older old woman looked at Maryushka and said to her:

Looking for the Finist Falcon? I know, I know him. I have lived in the world for a long time, so long ago that I recognized everyone, remembered everyone.

The old woman put Maryushka to bed, and the next morning she woke her up.

For a long time, - he says, - I have not done good to anyone. I live alone in the forest, everyone has forgotten about me, I remember everyone alone. I will do you good: I will tell you where your Finist - the clear falcon lives. And if you find him, it will be difficult for you: Finist - the falcon is now married, he lives with his mistress. It will be difficult for you, but you have a heart, but it will come to your heart and reason, and from reason, difficult things will become easy.

Maryushka answered:

Thank you, grandmother, - and bowed to her in the ground.

You will thank me later. And here is a present for you - take from me a golden embroidery frame and a needle: you hold the embroidery frame, and the needle will embroider itself. Go now, and what you need to do is go, you will find out for yourself.

The ball did not roll further. The older old woman came out onto the porch and pointed out to Maryushka which way she needed. Maryushka went as she was, barefoot. I thought:

“How will I get there? The land here is solid, alien, you need to get used to it ... "

It did not last long. And he sees - there is a rich courtyard in the clearing. And in the courtyard we have a tower: a carved porch, patterned windows.

At one window sits a rich, noble mistress and looks at Maryushka: what, they say, she wants. She remembered Maryushka: now she has nothing to put on and she ate the last stone bread on the road.

She said to the hostess:

Hello hostess! Do you not need a female worker for bread, for clothes?

It is necessary, - the noble hostess answers. - Do you know how to heat stoves, and carry water, and cook dinner?

I lived with my father without my mother - I can do everything.

Can you spin, weave and embroider?

Maryushka remembered about the gifts of old grandmothers.

I can, - he says.

Then go, - the hostess says, - to the kitchen of the people.

Maryushka began to work and serve in someone else's rich court. Maryushka's hands are honest, diligent - every business goes well with her. The hostess looks at Maryushka and is glad: she has never had such a helpful, kind, and clever worker; and Maryushka eats simple bread, drinks it with kvass, but does not ask for tea.

The mistress of her daughter boasted.

Look, - he says, - what a worker we have in our yard: submissive and skillful and affectionate on her face!

The mistress's daughter looked at Maryushka.

Ugh! - is talking. - Let her be affectionate, but I am more beautiful than her, and my body is whiter!

In the evening, as she finished the master's work, Maryushka sat down to spin. She sat down on a bench, took out a silver bottom - a golden spindle and is spinning. She spins, from the tow a thread stretches - the thread is not simple, but gold. She spins, but looks into the silver bottom, and it seems to her that she sees Finist there - the falcon is clear: he looks at her as if he were alive in the world. Maryushka looks at him and talks to him:

Finist is mine, Finist is a clear falcon, why did you leave me alone, bitter, to cry for you? These are my sisters, lovebirds, your blood has been shed.

And at that time the landlady's daughter entered the people's hut, stood at a distance, looking and listening.

Who are you grieving for, girl? she asks. - And what fun do you have in your hands?

Maryushka tells her:

I grieve for Finiste, the clear falcon. And I am spinning this thread, I will embroider Finista's towel - it would be better for him to wipe his white face in the morning.

Sell me your fun, - says the owner's daughter - Finist is my husband, I myself will spin a thread for him.

Maryushka looked at the mistress's daughter, stood up her golden spindle and said:

And I have no fun, I have work in my hands. And the silver base - the golden spindle is not for sale: my kind grandmother gave it to me.

The master's daughter was offended: she did not want to let go of the golden spindle from her hands.

If it’s not for sale, ”he says,“ then let’s make a change, I’ll give you a thing too.

Give it, - said Maryushka. - Allow me to look at Finist - the falcon is clear at least once with one eye!

The owner's daughter thought about it and agreed.

Please, girl, - he says. - Give me your fun ...

She took from Maryushka a silver bottom - a golden spindle, and she thought: “I’ll show her Finista for a little while, nothing will happen to him. I will give him a sleeping potion, and through this golden spindle my mother and I will get rich! "

By nightfall, Finist returned from the skies - a clear falcon, he turned into a good fellow and sat down to dinner with the family: mother-in-law, the mistress, and Finist with his wife. The landlord's daughter ordered Maryushka to be called: let her serve at the table and look at Finist, how the agreement was.

Maryushka has appeared; She serves at the table, serves food and does not take her eyes off Finist. And Finist was sitting as if he wasn’t there, ”he did not recognize Maryushka: she was exhausted by the way, walking towards him, and her face changed from sadness for him.

The hosts had supper, Finist got up and went to sleep in his room. Maryushka then says to the young mistress:

There are a lot of flies in the yard. I’ll go to Finist’s upper room, I’ll drive the flies away from him so that they don’t interfere with his sleep.

Let him go! - said the old mistress.

The young mistress was thinking here again.

But no, - he says, - let him wait.

And she herself followed her husband, gave him a drink for the night, and returned. “Maybe,” the daughter reasoned, “the worker has some other fun for such a change!”

Go now, ”she said to Maryushka. - Go, drive the flies away from Finist!

Maryushka came to Finist's room and forgot about the flies. She sees: her heart friend is asleep, a deep sleep. Maryushka does not look at him. She leaned close to him, breathes with him in one breath, whispers to him:

Wake up, my Finist is a clear falcon, I came to you. I trampled three pairs of iron shoes, worn three iron staffs on the road, devoured three stone bread! And Finist sleeps soundly, does not open his eyes and does not say a word in response.

Finist's wife, the owner's daughter, comes to the room and asks:

Driven away the flies?

She drove away, - Maryushka says, - they flew out the window.

Well, go to sleep in a human hut.

The next day, as Maryushka had done all the master's work, she took a silver saucer and rolls a golden egg over it: rolls around - and a new golden egg rolls off the saucer; rolls around another time - and again a new golden egg rolls off the saucer.

I saw the master's daughter.

Is it possible, - he says, - and you have such fun? Sell it to me, or I'll give you whatever you want, I'll give it for it.

Maryushka answers her:

I can't sell it, my kind grandmother gave it to me as a gift. I'll give you a saucer with a testicle for free. Here, take it!

The master's daughter took the gift and was delighted:

Or maybe what do you want, Maryushka? Ask what you want.

Maryushka and asks in response:

And I need the least. Allow me to drive off the flies from Finist again when you put him to rest.

Please, - says the young mistress.

And she herself thinks: “What will become of my husband from the glance of a strange girl! Yes, and he will sleep from the potion, he will not open his eyes, and the worker might have some other fun! "

By nightfall, again, as it was, Finist returned - a clear falcon from the skies, turned into a good fellow and sat down at the table to dine with his family. Finist's wife called Maryushka to serve at the table and serve food. Maryushka serves food, puts down cups, puts spoons, but she does not take her eyes off Finist. But Finist looks and does not see her - his heart does not recognize her. Again, as it happened, the owner's daughter gave her husband a drink with a sleeping potion and put him to bed, and the worker Maryushka sent to him and told her to drive off the flies.

Maryushka came to Finist, began to call him and cry over him, thought - today he will wake up, look at her and recognize Maryushka. For a long time Maryushka called him and wiped the tears from her face so that they would not fall on Finist's white face and wet him.

But Finist was asleep, he did not wake up and did not open his eyes in response. On the third day Maryushka finished all the housekeeping work in the evening, sat down on a bench in the people's hut, took out a gold sheath and a needle. She is holding a golden embroidery frame in her hands, and the needle itself is embroidering on the canvas. Maryushka is embroidering, she says:

Embroider, embroider, my red pattern, embroider for Finist - the falcon is clear, he would have something to admire!

The young mistress walked nearby. She came to a human hut, saw in Maryushka's hands a golden circlet and a needle that she was embroidering herself. Her heart sank with envy and greed, and she says:

Maryushka, darling, red maiden! Give me such fun or take whatever you want in exchange! I have a golden spindle, I will strain the yarn, linen, but I don’t have a golden shoulder with a needle - there is nothing to embroider with. If you don’t want to give in exchange, then sell! I'll give you a price!

It is forbidden! - says Maryushka. - You can’t either sell a gold hoop with a needle or give it in exchange. The kindest, oldest grandmother gave them to me for nothing. And I'll give them to you for free. The young hostess took a hoop with a needle, and Maryushka has nothing to give her, she says:

Come, if you want, from my husband, Finist, to drive away the flies. Before you asked for it yourself.

I’ll come, so be it, ”said Maryushka.

After dinner, the young hostess at first did not want to give Finist a sleeping potion, but then she changed her mind and added that potion to her drink: "Why should he look at the girl, let him sleep!"

Maryushka went into the room to the sleeping Finist. Her heart could not bear it now. She clung to his white chest and laments:

Wake up, wake up, my Finist, my clear falcon! I walked the whole land on foot, coming to you! Three iron staffs got tired of walking with me and were worn out on the ground, three pairs of iron shoes were worn out by my feet, three loaves of stone I devoured. Get up, wake up, my Finist, falcon! Have pity on me! But Finist is asleep, he does not smell anything, and he does not hear Maryushka's voice.

For a long time Maryushka woke Finist, cried over him for a long time, but Finist did not wake up - his wife's potion was strong. Yes, one hot tear of Maryushka fell on Finist's chest, and another tear fell on his face. One tear burned Finist's heart, and another opened his eyes, and he woke up at that very moment.

Ah, - he says, - what burned me?

Finist, my clear falcon! - Maryushka answers him. - Awake, I came! For a long, long time I was looking for you, I rubbed iron and cast iron on the ground. They could not stand the road to you, but I did! The third night I call you, and you are asleep, you do not wake up, you do not answer my voice!

And then Finist, a clear falcon, recognized his Maryushka, a red maiden. And he was so delighted with her that at first he could not utter a word for joy. He pressed Maryushka to his white chest and kissed her. And when he woke up, accustomed to the fact that Maryushka was with him, he said to her:

Be you my blue-gray dove, my faithful red maiden!

And at that very moment he turned into a falcon, and Maryushka turned into a dove. They flew away into the night skies and flew alongside all night, until dawn. And when they flew, Maryushka asked:

Falcon, falcon, and where are you flying, because your wife will miss you!

Finist Falcon listened to her and replied:

I'm flying to you, red maiden. And whoever changes her husband for a spindle, for a saucer and for a needle, that wife does not need a husband, and that wife will not get bored.

Why did you marry such a wife? - asked Maryushka. - Your will was not?

My will was, but there was no fate and love.

And they flew further next to each other. At dawn they sank to the ground. Maryushka looked around, she sees - her parent's house is as it was before. Maryushka wanted to see her father-parent, and immediately she turned into a red maiden. And Finist - a clear falcon hit the ground on the cheese and became a feather. She took Maryushka a feather, hid it on her chest, in her bosom, and came to her father.

Hello, my little daughter, beloved! I thought that you were not even in the world. Thank you for not forgetting your father, I returned home. Where have you been for so long that you were in no hurry to go home?

Forgive me, father. So I needed it.

Well, you need it that way. Thank you for the need passed. It happened that on a holiday in the city a large fair opened. Father was going to go to the fair the next morning, and the older daughters are going with him - to buy gifts for themselves. The father called the younger one, Maryushka. And Maryushka:

Father, - he says, - I'm tired of the road, and I have nothing to wear. At the fair, tea, everyone will be smart.

I'll dress you up there, Maryushka, - the father answers. - At the fair, tea, big bargaining.

And the older sisters say to the younger:

Put on our headwear, we have extra ones.

Ah, sisters, thank you! - says Maryushka.

Your dresses are too bad for me! Yes, I feel good at home.

Well, be it your way, - her father tells her. - What should you bring from the fair, what gift? Tell me, don’t offend your father!

Oh, father, I don't need anything, I have everything! No wonder I walked far and got tired on the road.

The father and his older sisters went to the fair. At the same time Maryushka took out her feather. It hit the floor and became a fine good fellow, Finist, only more beautiful than he was before. Maryushka was surprised, but out of her happiness she said nothing.

Then Finist said to her:

Don't be surprised at me, Maryushka. This is how I became from your love.

Though I am amazed - said Maryushka, - for me you are always the same, I love you everyone.

And where is your parent - father?

He left for the fair, and his sisters are with him.

Why didn't you, my Maryushka, go with them?

I have Finist, a clear falcon. I don't need anything at the fair.

And I don't need anything, - said Finist, - but I became rich because of your love.

Finist turned around from Maryushka, whistled through the window - now there were dresses, headdresses and a golden carriage.
They dressed up, got into the carriage, the horses rushed them away in a whirlwind. They arrived in the city for a fair, and the fair has just opened, all the rich goods and food are in a mountain, and the buyers are on the road. Finist bought at the fair all the goods, all the food that was there, and ordered them to be taken by carts to the village to Maryushka's parent. He did not buy only one wheel ointment, but left it at the fair. He wanted all the peasants who came to the fair to become guests at his wedding and go to him as soon as possible. And for a quick ride, they will need ointment.

Finist and Maryushka drove home. They ride fast, the horses do not have enough air from the wind. Halfway down the road, Maryushka saw her father and older sisters. They still went to the fair and did not arrive. Maryushka told them to toss and turn to the courtyard for her wedding with Finist, the clear falcon. And three days later, all the people who lived a hundred versts in the vicinity gathered to visit. Then Finist married Maryushka, and the wedding was rich.

At that wedding, our grandfathers and grandmothers were, they feasted for a long time, they dignified the bride and groom, they would not have dispersed from summer to winter, but it was time to harvest, the bread began to crumble; that is why the wedding was over and there were no guests left for the feast. The wedding ended, and the guests forgot the wedding feast, and Maryushka's faithful, loving heart was forever remembered in the Russian land.

Finist the Clear Falcon is a tale about how the girl Maryushka, with her sincerity and strong feelings, freed the Clear Falcon from the captivity of the evil queen. Finista-clear falcon is recommended to read for children aged 5 years and older.

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Finist-clear falcon: a fairy tale. Summary

The beginning of the story begins according to one of the usual fairy-tale scenarios. The father has three daughters, two of whom are not distinguished by intelligence and diligence, and the youngest Maryushka is both beautiful and clever. When going on the road, a father always asks his daughters what kind of gifts they would like to receive. The older girls only dream of fashionable things, and Maryushka dreams of the feather of the Yasn falcon. Once it happened that the old grandfather passed such a feather to his father, and here the story itself begins. Maryushka meets Finist - a good fellow and, going through the dirty tricks of the sisters, sets off on the road to save her beloved from an evil witch. The girl will have to meet Baba Yaga and her sisters, in exchange for her kindness and sincerity to receive magical gifts. It is they who will help Maryushka free Finist from the spell ...

Finist the Clear Falcon is a magical character in a folk tale

The fairy tale Finist the clear falcon (read "good fellow") is one of the few Russian folk tales named not after the main character, but after the name of a magical character. Finist is one of the good heroes of Russian folk art. The ability to turn into a falcon is manifested after the girl Maryushka calls him to her. Finist-clear falcon personifies pure love, easily passing through any obstacles.

One of the most interesting Russian folk tales is Finist - Clear Falcon. The summary will tell the reader about the plot, introduce the main characters, some clarifications will help to better understand the work.

Father and daughters

The story begins with the acquaintance of readers with a widowed peasant, who has three daughters. Once he told them that it would be nice to hire an assistant. To this the youngest daughter Maryushka replied that it was not necessary, she herself would do all the household chores.

Maria was a hardworking girl, and all her affairs were well argued. She was not only a needlewoman, but also a beauty, unlike her sisters. They were ugly, and besides, they were also greedy. From morning to evening, they sat in front of the mirror, whitewashed their faces, applied blush. Having got acquainted with this part of the work, the young reader can think about why to whiten his face, as the folk authors of the work "Finist - Clear Falcon" describe it. A summary will shed light on this question.

The fact is that in those days, tanning was considered the lot of poor peasant women who worked from morning till night under the scorching sun, and therefore their face and hands were tanned. The young ladies wore wide-brimmed hats, with delicate umbrellas to make their faces white. The waxy complexion was fashionable, and a light tan was removed with the help of white. The cheeks were plentifully smeared with blush, this was also a trend in the old days.

Peasant's trips to the bazaar

Once the priest went to the market, asked his daughters what to bring from there. The elders, who were very fond of dressing up, answered that they wanted shawls with large flowers. Father Maryushka asked the same question, and she asked, as the tale says, for Finist's feather - Jasn Sokol.

The father was able to fulfill the request of only the eldest daughters - he brought them beautiful semi-hangers. He did not find such a feather as Marya asked.

Here the priest goes to the bazaar for the second time. Older daughters ask for beautiful boots, he bought them a new thing. The youngest again wanted Father to bring her a feather, but he walked all day in search, but never found it.

The father went to the market for the third time, the tale "The Finist - the Clear Falcon" will also tell about this. A summary will tell about this case.

The older daughters, as usual, will ask to buy them new clothes, this time a coat. Marya is true to herself, she only wants a feather. Again, the priest succeeded in quickly fulfilling the requests of the eldest daughters, but the youngest did not.

Meeting with an old man

The peasant was returning from the bazaar. A very old grandfather met him. They talked, and the grandfather asked the father of his daughters where he was going. He replied that he was saddened because he could not fulfill the request of his beloved daughter.

The old man listened to the story of his fellow traveler and made him happy, saying that he had such a thing. And he took out nothing more than that very feather. The peasant looked - the feather is like a feather, there is nothing extraordinary in it. He also thought: what did Mary find in this thing that so wanted to have it?

Father arrived home with gifts. The older children put on new clothes, they cannot stop looking at themselves, and they began to laugh at the younger one, telling her that she was a fool, and remained so. They offered her to put a feather in her hair and show off. The attentive reader will understand what the story called "Finist - the Clear Falcon" reminds: this tale is very similar to "The Scarlet Flower". No wonder the famous collector of Russian folk tales Afanasyev wrote down two interpretations of this story. The first one is called "Finista's feather - Jasn Sokol", and its plot is similar to this one. In the second he appears. When he is put into the water, Finist, the Clear Falcon, arrives. Afanasyev's tale is listed in the collection as number 235.

Finist's apparition

Maryushka said nothing to the smirks of her older sisters, and when everyone went to bed, she threw her pen on the ground and spoke the magic words. In them, she urged the kind Finist, her fiancé, to appear to her. And he was not long in coming. A very handsome young man came to the girl. In the morning he hit the floor and turned into a falcon. Then he flew out the window, which the girl opened for him.

This went on for three days. By day the youth was a falcon. In the evening he flew to Marya, hit the floor and turned into a handsome man. Finist, the Clear Falcon, was already standing before her. A summary very soon tells about the next interesting point. In the morning he flew away again, and in the evening he returned.

What did the sisters' malice lead to

But the idyll of the young man and girl did not last long, the sisters found out about the night guest and told their father about it. But he did not believe them, ordered to look after himself better.

However, the envious did not stop there. They attached sharp knives to the frame and began to see what would happen next.

As usual, the falcon tried to fly into Masha's room, but could not, only hurt himself on the knives. Then Finist said that if anyone needs him, he will find him. He warned that it would be difficult. You can find it only when three pairs of iron shoes are worn out, the same number of staffs break and 3 iron caps become unusable.

Before that Maryushka was asleep, but when she heard these words, she woke up. However, it was already late, and when the girl approached the window, the bird had already disappeared. Finist flew away - Clear Falcon, pictures in the book will help you to clearly see this dramatic moment.

Marya hit the road

The girl cried, but there is nothing to do - you need to look for a loved one. She told the priest everything, announced that she was leaving, if fate pleased, she would return back unharmed.

The girl ordered herself 3 iron staffs, 3 caps and three pairs of shoes, set off on a difficult journey.

She walked through fields, forests, mountains, but no one touched her. On the contrary, the birds amused them with their songs, the streams washed their faces. When the staff broke, the shoes were worn out, the cap tore, and I saw a hut on chicken legs in the meadow. She asked her to turn around. The girl went into the house and saw Baba Yaga. The old woman asked the girl what brought her here.

Huts on chicken legs and their inhabitants

Marya told why she had come so far. Baba Yaga told where Finist is now - the Clear Falcon, the pictures will again help to vividly represent this moment. It turns out that the girl's groom was drunk by the magic queen and married to herself.

Grandmother gave the beauty a magic saucer and a golden testicle, told what to do with them. She advised me to hire that queen as a worker.

Marya set off again, after a while she again saw the hut, in it there was already another Baba Yaga - that sister. The old woman gave the girl a silver hoop and a gold needle, which she embroiders herself, and ordered not to sell to anyone, but to give it up for being allowed to see her beloved.

By this time Marya had worn out the next pair of shoes, the second cap and staff had become unusable. She went on, and when the third iron kit broke down, she again saw the hut. To the question of the third Baba Yaga, she replied that she needed Finist - the Clear Falcon. The characters in this scene behaved diplomatically. Marya spoke to the old woman with respect, for this she gave her a golden spindle and a silver base, taught her what to do with them.

The summary comes to the final points.

Finist - Yasny Sokol and Maryushka met

Marya went further, she met a wolf, who gave the girl a ride right to the place. Marya saw the palace, and in it the queen. Marya was hired as a servant. The queen took it, Maryushka worked during the day, and at night she put the testicle in a saucer and looks, and the saucer shows it to her.

The queen heard this, asked to sell the magic gizmos, but Marya said that she would give it away for nothing if she showed her Finista. But he slept in deep sleep, the girl could not wake him up, like the next night, when she gave the queen a magic hoop and a needle for a date.

On the third night, having given the spindle and the silver base to the queen, the girl again tried in vain to wake her beloved, he woke up only from her hot tears. He woke up, was glad that his beloved had found, and they returned home, had a great feast. That was the end of the fairy tale "Finist - Clear Falcon". The heroes - Maryushka and Finist - found each other, and good won.

The tale tells how the feisty queen captured the clear falcon Finist. A kind and sincere girl Marya, thanks to her love, freed the young man from captivity. The fairy tale "Finist-Clear Falcon" is suitable for children over five years old.

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Once upon a time there was a peasant. His wife died and three daughters remained. The old man wanted to hire a worker on the farm to help, but his younger daughter, Maryushka, said:

There is no need, father, to hire a woman worker; I myself will run the household.

OK. Maryushka's daughter began to run the household. She can do everything, everything goes well with her. Father loved Maryushka: he was glad that such a smart and hard-working daughter was growing up. And from herself, Maryushka is a beauty written. And her sisters are envious and greedy, ugly of themselves, and women of fashion - perefodnitsy - sit all day and whitewash, and blush, and dress up in new clothes, and their dresses are not dresses, boots are not boots, a scarf is not a scarf.

Father went to the market and asks his daughters:

What do you, daughters, buy, how to please?

Buy a half-bed, so that the flowers are larger, painted with gold.

And Maryushka stands still and is silent. Her father asks:

What do you want, daughter, to buy?

And to me, father, buy Finist's feather - the falcon is clear.

Father arrives, brings the daughters half-hangers, but he could not find a feather. Father went to the market another time.

Well, - he says, - daughters, order gifts.

Buy us one pair of boots with silver horseshoes.

And Maryushka orders again;

Buy me, father, Finist's feather - the falcon is clear.

Father walked all day, bought boots, but did not find a feather. Came without a feather. OK. The old man went to the market for the third time, and the eldest and middle daughters say:

Buy us a coat.

And Maryushka again asks:

And for me, father, buy Finist's feather - the falcon is clear.

Father walked all day, but he could not find a feather. He left the city, and an old old man met:

Great, grandpa!

Hello dear! Where are you taking the road?

To yourself, grandfather, to the village. Yes, here is my grief: my younger daughter ordered me to buy Finist's feather - the falcon is clear, but I did not find it.

I have such a feather, yes it is treasured, but for a kind person, wherever it went, I will give it back.

Grandfather took out a feather and gives it, but it is the most ordinary one. A peasant goes by and thinks: "What did Maryushka find good in him?"

The old man brought gifts for his daughters, the eldest and middle ones dress up, but they laugh at Maryushka:

As you were a fool, you are. Put your feather in your hair and show off!

Maryushka kept silent, stepped aside, and when everyone had gone to bed, Maryushka threw a feather on the floor and said:

Dear Finist - clear falcon, come to me, my bridegroom awaited!

And a young man of indescribable beauty appeared to her. By morning the fellow hit the floor and became a falcon. Maryushka opened the window for him, and the falcon flew away to the blue sky.

For three days Maryushka welcomed the young man; by day he flies as a falcon across the blue skies, and by nightfall he flies to Maryushka and becomes a good fellow.

On the fourth day, the evil sisters noticed and spoke to the father about the sister.

My dear daughters, - says the father, - you better look after yourself!

“Okay,” the sisters think, “let's see what happens next.”

They stuck sharp knives into the frame, and hid themselves, looking. Here is a clear falcon flying. He flew to the window and cannot get into Maryushka's room. He fought, fought, cut his whole chest, but Maryushka sleeps and does not hear. And then the falcon said:

Whoever needs me will find me. But it won't be easy. Then you will find me when you wear out three iron shoes, break three iron staffs, break three iron caps.

Maryushka heard this, jumped out of bed, looked out the window, but the falcon was gone, and only a trail of blood remained on the window. Maryushka cried with bitter tears, washed away the bloody trail with her tears and became even more beautiful. She went to her father and said:

Do not scold me, father, let me go on a long journey. I'll be alive - we'll see you, I'll die - so, to know, it is written in the family.

It was a pity for the father to let his beloved daughter go, but he let her go. Maryushka ordered three iron shoes, three iron staffs, three iron caps and set off on a long journey, looking for the desired Finist - the falcon is clear. She walked in a clear field, walked in a dark forest, high mountains. Birds gladdened her heart with cheerful songs, streams washed their white face, dark forests welcomed her. And no one could touch Maryushka: gray wolves, bears, foxes - all the animals ran to her. She wore out iron shoes, broke the iron staff and tore the iron cap. And now Maryushka comes out into the clearing and sees: there is a hut on chicken legs - it is spinning. Maryushka says:

Baba Yaga saw Maryushka and began to rustle:

I am looking, grandmother, Finista is a clear falcon.

Oh, beauty, it will be difficult for you to look for him! Thy clear falcon far away in the distant lands, in the distant state. The queen-sorceress gave him a potion and married him. But I'll help you. Here's a silver saucer and a golden testicle. When you come to the distant kingdom, hire a worker for the queen. When you finish your work, take a saucer, put in a golden egg, it will roll by itself. If they buy, don't sell. Ask Finist - it's clear to see the falcon. Maryushka thanked Baba Yaga and went. The forest has darkened, Maryushka became scared, she is afraid even to step, and towards the cat. He jumped to Maryushka and purred:

Don't be afraid, Maryushka, go ahead. It will be even worse, but you go and go, do not look back.

The cat rubbed its back and was like that, and Maryushka went on. And the forest became even darker.

Maryushka walked, walked, worn out her iron boots, broke her staff, tore her cap and came to the hut on chicken legs. Around the tyn, on the stakes of the skull, and each skull is burning with fire.

Hut, hut, stand with your back to the forest, in front of me! I have to climb into you, there is bread.

The hut turned to the forest with its back, and to Maryushka in front. Maryushka went into the hut and saw: Baba Yaga was sitting there - a bone leg, legs from corner to corner, lips on the garden bed, and her nose had grown to the ceiling.

Baba Yaga saw Maryushka and began to rustle:

Ugh, ugh, it smells of the Russian spirit! Red girl, are you trying to do this?

Did my sister have it?

Was, grandmother.

Okay, beauty, I'll help you. Take a silver hoop, a gold needle. The needle itself will embroider in silver and gold on crimson velvet. If they buy, don't sell. Ask Finist - it's clear to see the falcon.

Maryushka thanked Baba Yaga and went. And in the forest, knocking, thunder, whistling, skulls illuminate the forest. Maryushka felt scared. Lo and behold, the dog is running. The dog said to Maryushka:

Av, av, Maryushka, don't be afraid, dear, go. It will be even worse, don't look back.

She said and was like that. Maryushka went, and the forest became even darker. She grabs her legs, grabs her sleeves ... Maryushka walks, walks and does not look back. Whether it was long or short, I wore out the iron shoes, broke the iron staff, broke the iron cap. I went out into a clearing, and in the clearing there is a hut on chicken legs, around the tyn, and horse skulls on stakes, each skull is on fire.

Hut, hut, stand with your back to the forest, in front of me!

Ugh, ugh, it smells of the Russian spirit! Red girl, are you trying to do it, are you trying to do it?

I am looking, grandmother, Finista - the falcon is clear.

It is difficult, beauty, you will look for him, but I will help. Here is a silver base for you, a golden spindle. Take it in your hands, it will spin itself, the thread will not be simple, but gold.

Thank you grandma.

Okay, you’ll say thank you later, and now listen to what I’ll punish you: if they buy a golden spindle, don’t sell it, but ask Finist — it’s clear to see the falcon.

Maryushka thanked Baba Yaga and went, and the forest began to rustle, hum: a whistle arose, owls whirled, mice climbed out of their holes, and everything on Maryushka. And Maryushka sees - a gray wolf is running towards. The gray wolf says to Maryushka:

Don't grieve, he says, but sit on me and don't look back.

Maryushka sat on the gray wolf, and only she was seen. Ahead there are wide steppes, velvet meadows, honey rivers, jelly banks, mountains against the clouds. And Maryushka keeps jumping and jumping. And here in front of Maryushka there is a crystal tower. The porch is carved, the windows are patterned, and the queen is looking through the window.

Well, - says the wolf, - get off, Maryushka, go and get hired as a servant.

Maryushka climbed down, took the bundle, thanked the wolf and went to the crystal palace. Maryushka bowed to the queen and said:

I don’t know what to call you, how to dignify you, but will you need a worker?

The queen answers:

I have been looking for a woman worker for a long time, but one who could spin and weave and embroider.

All this I can do.

Then come in and sit down to work.

And Maryushka became a worker. Day is working, but night will come - Maryushka will take a silver saucer and a golden egg and say:

Roll, roll, golden egg, on a silver saucer, show me my darling.

An egg will roll on a silver saucer, and Finist will appear - a clear falcon. Maryushka looks at him and bursts into tears:

My Finist, Finist is a clear falcon, why did you leave me alone, bitter, to cry about you!

The queen overheard her words and says:

And, sell me, Maryushka, a silver saucer and a golden egg.

No, - says Maryushka, - they are not for sale. I can give them to you, if you allow Finist to see the falcon.

The queen thought, she thought.

Okay, - he says, - so be it. At night, when he falls asleep, I'll show him to you.

Night has come, and Maryushka is walking into the bedroom to Finist, the clear falcon. She sees - her heart friend is sleeping in a deep sleep. Maryushka looks, does not see enough, kisses the sugar lips, presses the white one to her chest - a heartfelt friend will not awaken asleep. Morning came, and Maryushka did not get her sweetheart ...

Maryushka worked all day, and in the evening she took a silver embroidery frame and a gold needle. Sits, embroiders, she says:

Embroider, embroider, pattern, for Finist - the falcon is clear. It would be something for him to dry off in the morning.

The queen overheard and says:

Sell me, Maryushka, a silver hoop, a gold needle.

I won’t sell, ”says Maryushka,“ but I’ll give it up, let me only meet Finist - a clear falcon.

Okay, - he says, - so be it, I'll show it to you at night.

The night is coming. Maryushka enters into Finist's bedroom — I’m clear to the falcon, and he sleeps in deep sleep.

Finist you are my, clear falcon, rise, wake up!

Finist sleeps - a lucid falcon in sound sleep. Maryushka woke him up - she didn't wake him up.

The day is coming. Maryushka is sitting at work, picking up a silver base, a golden spindle. And the queen saw: sell and sell!

I won't sell it, but I can give it up anyway, if you will allow me to spend at least an hour with Finist, a clear falcon.

OK. And she herself thinks: "It will not wake up all the same."

Night has come. Maryushka enters Finist’s bedroom — I’m clear to the falcon, and he sleeps in deep sleep.

Finist you are my - clear falcon, rise, wake up!

Finist sleeps, does not wake up. Woke me up, woke me up - I just can't wake up, and the dawn is near. Maryushka cried:

My dear Finist - a clear falcon, get up, wake up, look at your Maryushka, press her to your heart!

Maryushka's tear fell on Finist's bare shoulder - the falcon was clear and burned. Finist, a clear falcon, woke up, looked around and saw Maryushka. He hugged her, kissed her:

Is it really you, Maryushka! She wore out three shoes, broke three iron staffs, wiped three iron caps and found me? Let's go home now.

They began to get ready to go home, and the queen saw and ordered to trumpet the trumpets, to notify her husband about the betrayal.

Princes and merchants gathered, they began to keep the advice, like Finist - it is clear to punish the falcon.

Then Finist, the clear falcon, says:

Who, in your opinion, is a real wife: the one who loves deeply, or the one who sells and deceives?

Everyone agreed that Finist's wife is clear to the falcon, Maryushka.

And they began to live and live and make good money. We went to our state, they gathered a feast, sounded the trumpets, lit the cannons, and there was such a feast that they still remember.

Finist-clear falcon: a fairy tale. Summary

Finist the Clear Falcon is a magical character in a folk tale

A peasant and his wife lived in the village; they had three daughters. The daughters grew up, and the parents grew old, and now the time has come, the turn has come - the peasant's wife has died. The peasant began to raise his daughters alone. All three of his daughters were beautiful and equal in beauty, but in temperament they were different.

- It is not necessary, father, to take a bean, I myself will take care of the house.

Marya was cheerful. And the older daughters said nothing.

Maryushka began to run the household instead of her mother. And she can do everything, everything goes well with her, and what she cannot do, she gets used to it, and when she gets used to it, she also gets along with business. The father looks at his youngest daughter and rejoices. He was glad that Maryushka was so clever, hardworking and meek in nature. And from herself Maryushka was good - a beauty written, and from kindness her beauty was added. Her older sisters were also beauties, only they did not think their beauty was enough, and they tried to add blush and whitewash and dress up in new clothes. It used to be that two older sisters would sit, and they would be happy all day, and in the evening they would be the same as they were in the morning. They will notice that the day has passed, how much blush and whitewash they have worn out, but rather did not, and they sit angry. And Maryushka will get tired by evening, but she knows that the cattle are fed, the hut is clean, she cooked supper, kneaded bread for tomorrow, and the priest will be pleased with her. She will look at the sisters with her joyful eyes and will not say anything to them. And then the older sisters get even more angry. It seems to them that Marya was not like that in the morning, but by the evening she was prettier - why only, they do not know.

Father needed to go to the market. He asks his daughters:

- What do you, kids, buy, how to please you?

The eldest daughter says to her father:

- Buy me, sir, half-shawls, so that the flowers on it were large and painted with gold.

- And for me, father, - the middle one says, - also buy half-shawls with flowers that are painted in gold, and in the middle of the flowers so that there is red. And buy me boots with soft tops, high heels, so that they stomp on the ground.

The eldest daughter was offended by the middle one and said to her father:

- And for me, father, and for me buy boots with soft tops and with heels, so that they stomp on the ground. And also buy me a ring with a pebble on your finger - after all, I have one eldest daughter.

The father promised to buy gifts, which the two eldest daughters punished, and asks the youngest:

- Why are you silent, Maryushka?

- And I, father, do not need anything. I don't go anywhere from the yard, I don't need outfits.

- Your untruth, Maryushka! How can I leave you without a gift? I'll buy you a present.

“And you don’t need a present, father,” says the youngest daughter. - And buy me, my dear father, a feather of Finist - Clear falcon, if it is cheap.

The father went to the bazaar, he bought the gifts for the eldest daughters, which they had punished him, but the feather of Finist - Jasna the falcon did not find. I asked all the merchants.

“No, - said the merchants, - such a product; on demand, - they say, - there is no for it ».

The father did not want to offend his youngest daughter, a hard-working smart girl, but he returned to the court, and did not buy Finist's feather - Jasna the falcon.

And Maryushka was not offended. She was glad that her father had returned home, and said to him:

- Nishto, father. Sometimes you go, then it will buy, my feather.

Time passed, and again my father needed to go to the market. He asks his daughters what to buy as a gift: he was kind.

Big daughter says:

“You bought me, father, boots the last time, so let the blacksmiths now puff the heels on those boots with silver horseshoes.

And the middle one hears the older one and says:

- And me, father, too, otherwise the heels are knocking, and not ringing - let them ring. And so that the horseshoe carnations are not lost, buy me another silver hammer: I’ll beat the carnations with it.

- And what do you buy, Maryushka?

- And look, father, a feather from Finist - the Falcon is clear: whether there will be, whether there will be.

The old man went to the bazaar, he soon did his business and bought gifts for the eldest daughters, and until the evening he was looking for a feather for the youngest, and that feather is gone, no one gives it to buy.

The father returned again without a gift for his youngest daughter. He felt sorry for Maryushka, but Maryushka smiled at her father and did not show her grief - she endured him.

Time passed, my father went to the market again.

- What do you, dear daughters, buy as a gift?

The eldest thought and did not immediately come up with what she wanted.

- Buy me, father, something.

And the middle one says:

- And for me, father, buy something, and add something else to something.

- And you, Maryushka?

- And you, father, buy me one feather of Finist - Yasna the falcon.

The old man went to the market. He did his business, bought gifts for the eldest daughters, but did not buy anything for the youngest: that feather is not in the bazaar.

Father goes home, and he sees: an old old man is walking along the road, older than him, completely dilapidated.

- Hello, grandfather!

- Hello, you too, dear. What is your grief about?

- And how can she not be, grandfather! My daughter told me to buy her one feather of Finist - Yasna Sokol. I was looking for her that feather, but it is not. And I have a younger daughter, more than anyone I feel sorry for her.

The old old man thought about it, and then he says:

- Ying so be it!

He untied his shoulder bag and took out a box.

- Hide, - he says, - a box, in it is a feather from Finist - Clear falcon. But remember also: I have one son; You feel sorry for your daughter, but my son. An does not want my son to marry, and the time has come for him. If he doesn’t want to, you can’t be forced into bondage. And he says to me: someone will ask you for this feather, you give it back, he says - this is my bride asking.

The old old man said his words - and suddenly he was not there, he disappeared into an unknown direction: he was or was not!

Maryushka's father was left with a feather in his hands. He sees that feather, and it is gray, simple. And you couldn't buy it anywhere.

My father remembered what the old old man had told him, and thought: "Apparently, my Maryushka's fate is coming out - not knowing, not having seen to marry someone who knows whom."

The father came home, gave gifts to the eldest daughters, and gave the youngest a box with a gray feather.

The older sisters dressed up and laughed at the younger:

- And you put your sparrow feather in your hair and show off.

Maryushka said nothing, and when everyone went to sleep in the hut, she put in front of her a simple, gray feather of Finist - Yasna the falcon and began to admire it. And then Maryushka took the feather in her hands, held it with her, caressed it and accidentally dropped it on the floor.

Immediately someone hit the window. The window opened and Finist, the Clear Falcon, flew into the hut. He leaned to the floor and turned into a fine fellow. Maryushka closed the window and began to talk to the fellow. And in the morning Maryushka opened the window, the young man bent to the floor, the young man turned into a clear falcon, and the falcon left a simple gray feather and flew away into the blue sky.

For three nights Maryushka greeted the falcon. During the day he flew across the skies, over fields, over forests, over mountains, over seas, and by nightfall he flew to Maryushka and became a good fellow.

On the fourth night, the older sisters heard Maryushka's quiet conversation, they heard the strange voice of a good fellow, and the next morning they asked the younger sister:

- Who are you, sister, talking to at night?

- And I speak the words to myself, - answered Maryushka. - I have no friends, during the day I am at work, I have no time to talk, and at night I talk to myself.

The older sisters listened to the younger, but did not believe her.

They said to the priest:

- Father, Marya has a betrothed, she sees him at night and talks to him. We ourselves have heard.

And the father answered them:

“You wouldn't listen,” he says. - Why shouldn't our Maryushka have her fiancé? There is no skinny here, she is a good-looking girl and went out at her time. Your turn will come.

“So Marya didn’t recognize her betrothed,” said the eldest daughter. - I would have been the first to marry her.

“It's really yours,” judged the priest. - So fate does not count. Some bride sits in girls until she is old, and another is dear to all people from a young age.

The father said this to his eldest daughters, and he thought: “Is the word of that old old man coming true that he gave me a feather? There is no trouble, but will Maryushka be a good betrothed? "

And the older daughters had their own desire. When it was time for the evening, Maryushka's sisters took out knives from the cuttings, and they stuck the knives into the window frame and around it, and besides the knives, they also stuck sharp needles and fragments of old glass there. Maryushka at that time cleaned the cow in the barn and saw nothing.

And now, as it got dark, Finist - the Clear Falcon flies to Maryushka's window. He flew to the window, hit on sharp knives and on needles and glass, fought and fought, wounded his whole chest, and Maryushka got worn out in a day at work, she dozed off, waiting for Finista - Clear falcon, and did not hear her falcon beating through the window ...

Then Finist said loudly:

- Farewell, my red maiden! If you need me, you will find me, even though I will be far away! And first of all, coming to me, you will wear out three pairs of iron shoes, you will erase three cast-iron staffs on the road grass, and you will devour three stone breads.

And Maryushka heard Finist's words through the slumber, but she could not get up, she could not wake up. And in the morning she woke up, her heart burned. She looked out the window, and in the window Finist's blood dries in the sun. Maryushka began to cry then. She opened the window and leaned her face down to the place where Finist's blood was - Yasnas the Falcon. Tears washed away the falcon's blood, and Maryushka herself seemed to have washed herself with the blood of her betrothed and became even more beautiful.

Maryushka went to her father and said to him:

- Do not scold me, father, let me go on a long journey. I'll be alive - we'll see you, and I'll die - to my family, to know, it was written to me.

The blacksmith made Maryushka three pairs of iron shoes and three cast-iron staffs, took Maryushka three more stone loaves, she bowed to the priest and sisters, visited her mother's grave and set off on her way to look for the coveted Finist - Yasn the Falcon.

Maryushka is walking along the road. It goes not a day, not two, not three days, it goes for a long time. She walked both in a clear field and in a dark forest, and she walked in high mountains. In the fields, the birds sang her songs, the dark forests welcomed her, from the high mountains she admired the whole world. Maryushka walked so much that she worn out one pair of iron shoes, worn out the cast-iron staff on the road and devoured the stone bread, but her path does not end, and Finist is nowhere - Yasna the falcon.

Then Maryushka sighed, sat down on the ground, began to put on other iron shoes - and saw a hut in the forest. And already the night has come.

Maryushka thought: “I’ll go to the hut and ask the people if they have seen my Finist - Yasna the falcon?”

Maryushka knocked on the hut. One old woman lived in that hut - good or bad, Maryushka did not know about that. The old woman opened the canopy - a red girl was standing in front of her.

- Let me go, grandmother, spend the night.

- Come in, my dear, you will be a guest. How far are you going, young?

“How far, close, I don’t know myself, grandmother. And I'm looking for Finist - Yasna the falcon. Have you heard of him, grandma?

- How not to hear! I am old, I have been living for a long time, I have heard about everyone! How far is it for you to go, my dear.

The next morning, the old woman's mistress woke Maryushka up and said to her:

- Go, dear, now to my middle sister, she is older than me and knows more. Maybe she will teach you good and tell you where your Finist lives. And so that you don’t forget me, the old one, take here the silver base and the golden spindle, if you become a tow of spinning, the golden thread will stretch. Take care of my gift while it is dear to you, and not dear - give it yourself.

Maryushka took the gift, admired it and said to the hostess:

- Thank you, grandmother. Where should I go, which way?

And I'll give you a ball - a scooter. Where the ball will roll, and you follow him. And you think about taking a break, sit on the grass - and the ball will stop, it will be waiting for you.

Maryushka bowed to the old woman and followed the ball.

How long or short Maryushka walked, she didn’t count the way, she didn’t feel sorry for herself, but she sees: the forests are dark, terrible, in the fields the grass grows unbread, thorny, the mountains are bare, stone, and the birds do not sing over the ground.

Maryushka sat down to change her shoes. She sees: the black forest is close, and night is falling, and in the forest in one hut a light was lit in the window.

The ball rolled towards that hut. Maryushka followed him and knocked on the window:

- Good hosts, let me spend the night!

An old woman, older than the one who had previously greeted Maryushka, came out onto the porch of the hut.

- Where are you going, red maiden? Who are you looking for in the world?

- I am looking for, grandmother, Finista - Yasna the falcon. I was with an old woman in the forest, spent the night with her, she heard about Finist, but does not know him. Maybe, she said, her middle sister knows.

The old woman let Maryushka into the hut. And the next morning she woke up her guest and said to her:

- Finista will be far away for you. I knew about him, but I did not know. Now go to our older sister, she should know. And so that you remember me, take a gift from me. By joy, he will be your memory, and by need he will help you.

And the old lady gave her guest a silver saucer and a golden egg.

She asked Maryushka for forgiveness from the old mistress, bowed to her and followed the ball.

Maryushka is walking, and the land around her has become completely alien. She looks: one forest on earth is growing, but there is no clear field. And the trees, the further the ball rolls, grow higher and higher. It has become completely dark: the sun and sky are not visible.

And Maryushka walked and walked in the dark, until her iron shoes were trampled through and through, and the staff was worn out on the ground, and until the last stone bread she devoured to the last crumb.

Maryushka looked around - what should she do? She sees her little ball: it lies under the window near the forest hut.

Maryushka knocked on the window of the hut:

- Good hosts, shelter me from the dark night!

An old woman, the oldest sister of all old women, came out onto the porch.

“Go to the hut, dove,” he says. - Look where you came so far! Further, no one lives on earth, I am extreme. You need to keep going in the other direction tomorrow morning. And whose will you be and where are you going?

Maryushka answered her:

- I'm not from here, grandmother. And I'm looking for Finist - Yasna the falcon.

The older old woman looked at Maryushka and said to her:

- Looking for Finist-falcon? I know, I know him. I have lived in the world for a long time, so long ago that I recognized everyone, remembered everyone.

The old woman put Maryushka to bed, and the next morning she woke her up.

- For a long time, - he says, - I have not done good to anyone. I live alone in the forest, everyone has forgotten about me, I remember everyone alone. I will do you good: I will tell you where your Finist - the Clear Falcon lives. And if you find him, it will be difficult for you. Finist-falcon is now married, he lives with his mistress. It will be difficult for you, but you have a heart, but it will come to your heart and reason, and from reason, difficult things will become easy.

Maryushka answered:

- Thank you, grandmother, - and bowed to her in the ground.

- You will thank me later. And here is a present for you - take from me a golden embroidery frame and a needle: you hold the embroidery frame, and the needle will embroider itself. Go now, and what you have to do - go, you will find out for yourself.

Maryushka went as she was, barefoot. I thought: “As soon as I get there, the ground here is solid, alien, you need to get used to it”.

It did not last long. And he sees: there is a rich courtyard in the clearing. And in the courtyard we have a tower: a carved porch, patterned windows. At one window sits a wealthy noble mistress and looks at Maryushka: what, they say, she wants.

She remembered Maryushka: now she has nothing to put on and she ate the last stone bread on the road.

She said to the hostess:

- Hello, hostess! Do you not need a female worker for bread, for clothes, I will give you some clothes?

- It is necessary, - the noble hostess answers. - Do you know how to heat stoves, and carry water, and cook dinner?

- I lived with my father without my mother - I can do everything.

- Do you know how to spin, weave and embroider?

Maryushka remembered about the gifts of old grandmothers.

- I can, - he says.

“Go then,” the hostess says, “to the human kitchen.

Maryushka began to work and serve in someone else's rich court. Maryushka's hands are honest, diligent - everything goes well with her.

The hostess looks at Maryushka and is glad: she has never had such a helpful, kind, and clever worker; and Maryushka eats simple bread, drinks it with kvass, but does not ask for tea. The mistress of her daughter boasted:

- Look, - he says, - what a worker we have in our yard - submissive but skillful and affectionate on her face!

The mistress's daughter looked at Maryushka.

- Fu, - he says, - even if she is affectionate, but I am more beautiful than her, and my body is whiter!

In the evening, as she finished the master's work, Maryushka sat down to spin. She sat down on a bench, took out a silver base and a gold spindle and is spinning. She spins, a thread stretches from a tow, the thread is not simple, but gold; she spins, but she herself looks into the silvery bottom, and fancies that she sees Finist there - the clear falcon: he looks at her as if he were alive. Maryushka looks at him and talks to him:

- Finist my, Finist - Clear falcon, why did you leave me alone, bitter, cry for you all my life? These are my sisters, lovebirds, your blood has been shed.

And at that time the landlady's daughter entered the people's hut, stood at a distance, looking and listening.

- For whom are you grieving, girl? She asks. - And KE.KZ. Do you have fun in your hands?

Maryushka tells her:

- I grieve about Finiste - the Clear Falcon. And I am spinning this thread, I will embroider Finista's towel - it would be better for him to wipe his white face in the morning.

- Sell me your fun! - says the owner's daughter. - An Finist is my husband, I myself will spin a thread for him.

Maryushka looked at the mistress's daughter, stopped her golden spindle and said:

- I have no fun, I have work in my hands. And the silver base - the golden spindle is not for sale: my kind grandmother gave it to me.

The master's daughter was offended: she did not want to let go of the golden spindle from her hands.

“If it’s not for sale,” he says, “then let’s do a change: I’ll give you a thing too.”

- Give me, - said Maryushka, - let me look at Finist - the clear falcon at least once with one eye!

The owner's daughter thought about it and agreed.

“If you please, girl,” he says. - Give me your fun.

She took from Maryushka a silver bottom - a golden spindle, and she thought: “I’ll show her Finist for a little while, nothing will happen to him, I’ll give him a sleeping potion, and through this golden spindle my mother and I will be completely rich!”

By nightfall, Finist, the Clear Falcon, returned from the skies; he turned into a good fellow and sat down to dine with the family: the mother-in-law, the hostess, and Finist and his wife.

The landlord's daughter ordered Maryushka to be called: let her serve at the table and look at Finist, how the agreement was. Maryushka has appeared: she serves at the table, serves food and does not take her eyes off Finist. And Finist was sitting as if he wasn’t there, ”he did not recognize Maryushka: she was exhausted by the way, walking towards him, and her face changed from sadness for him.

The hosts had supper; Finist got up and went to sleep in his room.

Maryushka then says to the young mistress:

- There are a lot of flies in the yard. I’ll go to Finist’s upper room, I’ll drive the flies away from him so that they don’t interfere with his sleep.

- And let her go! - said the old mistress.

The young mistress was thinking here again.

- But no, - he says, - let him wait.

And she herself followed her husband, gave him a drink for the night, and returned. “Maybe,” the owner’s daughter reasoned, “the worker still has some fun for such a change!”

“Go now,” she said to Maryushka. - Drive the flies away from Finist!

Maryushka came to Finist's room and forgot about the flies. She sees: her heart friend is asleep, a deep sleep.

Maryushka looks at him, will not see enough. She leaned close to him, breathes with him in one breath, whispers to him:

- Wake up, my Finist - Clear falcon, I came to you; I trampled three pairs of iron shoes, worn three iron staffs on the road, devoured three stone loaves!

And Finist sleeps soundly, he does not open his eyes and does not say a word in response.

Finist's wife, the owner's daughter, comes to the room and asks:

- Driven away the flies?

- She drove away, - Maryushka says, - they flew out the window.

- Well, go to sleep in a human hut.

I saw the master's daughter.

- Oh, - he says, - and you have such fun? Sell it to me, or I'll give you whatever you want, I'll give it for it.

Maryushka answers her:

- I can't sell it, my kind grandmother gave it to me as a gift. And I'll give you a saucer with a testicle for free. Take it!

The master's daughter took the gift and was delighted.

- And maybe what you want, Maryushka? Ask what you want.

Maryushka and asks in response:

- And I need the least. Allow me to drive off the flies from Finist again when you put him to rest.

“If you please,” says the young mistress.

And she herself thinks: "What will become of my husband from the glance of a strange girl, and he will sleep from the potion, he will not open his eyes, but the worker may have some other fun!"

By nightfall, again, as it was, Finist returned - the Clear Falcon from the skies, he turned into a good fellow and sat down at the table to dine with his family.

Finist's wife called Maryushka to serve at the table and serve food. Maryushka serves food, puts down cups, puts spoons, but she does not take her eyes off Finist. But Finist looks and does not see her - his heart does not recognize her.

Again, as it happened, the owner's daughter gave her husband a drink with a sleeping potion and put him to bed. And the worker Maryushka sent to him and told her to drive away the flies.

Maryushka came to Finist; began to call him and cry over him, I thought that today he would wake up, look at her and recognize Maryushka.

For a long time Maryushka called him and wiped the tears from her face so that they would not fall on Finist's white face and wet him. But Finist was asleep, he did not wake up and did not open his eyes in response.

On the third day Maryushka finished all the housekeeping work in the evening, sat down on a bench in the people's hut, took out a gold sheath and a needle. She is holding a golden embroidery frame in her hands, and the needle itself is embroidering on the canvas. Maryushka is embroidering, she says:

- Embroider, embroider, my red pattern, embroider for Finist - Clear falcon, it would be something for him to admire!

The young mistress walked nearby; she came to a human hut, saw in Maryushka's hands a golden circlet and a needle that she was embroidering herself. Her heart sank with envy and greed, and she says:

- Oh, Maryushka, darling red maiden! Give me such fun or take whatever you want in exchange! I also have a golden spindle, I will strain the yarn, the linen, but I don’t have a golden hoop with a needle - there is nothing to embroider with. If you don’t want to give in exchange, then sell! I'll give you a price!

- It is forbidden! - says Maryushka. - You can’t either sell a gold hoop with a needle or give it in exchange. The kindest, oldest grandmother gave them to me for nothing. And I'll give them to you for free.

The young hostess took a hoop with a needle, and Maryushka has nothing to give her, she says:

- Come, if you want, from my husband, Finist, to drive away the flies. Before you asked for it yourself.

“I’ll come too, so be it,” said Maryushka.

After supper, the young hostess at first did not want to give Finist a sleeping potion, but then she hesitated and added that potion to her drink: "Why should he look at the girl, let him sleep!"

Maryushka went into the room to the sleeping Finist. Her heart could not bear it now. She clung to his white chest and laments:

- Wake up, wake up, my Finist, my clear falcon! I walked the whole land on foot, coming to you! Three iron staffs got tired of walking with me and were worn out on the ground, three pairs of iron shoes were worn out by my feet, three loaves of stone I devoured.

But Finist is asleep, he does not smell anything, and he does not hear Maryushka's voice.

Maryushka lamented for a long time, woke Finist for a long time, cried over him for a long time, and Finist would not have woken up: his wife's potion was strong. Yes, one hot tear of Maryushka fell on Finist's chest, and another tear fell on his face. One tear burned Finist's heart, and another opened his eyes, and he woke up at that very moment.

- Ah, - he says, - what burned me?

- My finist, clear falcon! - Maryushka answers him. - Wake up to me, I came! For a long, long time I was looking for you, I rubbed iron and cast iron on the ground. They could not stand the road to you, but I did! The third night I call you, and you are asleep, you do not wake up, you do not answer my voice!

And then Finist, the Clear Falcon, recognized his Maryushka, the red maiden. And he was so delighted with her that he could not utter a word for joy. He pressed Maryushka to his white chest and kissed her.

And when he woke up, accustomed to his joy, he said to Maryushka:

- Be you my gray dove, my faithful red maiden!

And at that very moment he turned into a falcon, and Maryushka turned into a dove.

They flew away into the night sky and all night flew alongside until dawn.

And when they flew, Maryushka asked:

- Falcon, falcon, and where are you flying, because your wife will miss you!

Finist Falcon listened to her and replied:

- I'm flying to you, red maiden. And whoever changes her husband for a spindle, for a saucer and for a needle, that wife does not need a husband, and that wife will not get bored.

- Why did you marry such a wife? - asked Maryushka. - Your will was not?

Falcon said:

- My will was, but there was no fate and love.

And at dawn they sank to the ground. Maryushka looked around; she sees: her parent's house is as it was before. She wanted to see her father-parent, and immediately she turned into a red maiden. And Finist - the Clear Falcon hit the ground on the cheese and became a feather.

She took Maryushka a feather, hid it on her chest in her bosom and came to her father.

- Hello, my younger daughter, beloved! I thought that you were not even in the world. Thank you for not forgetting your father, I returned home. Where have you been for so long that you were in no hurry to go home?

- Forgive me, father. So I needed it.

- And it is necessary, so it is necessary. Thank you for the need passed.

And it happened on a holiday, and a large fair opened in the city. Father was going to go to the fair the next morning, and the older daughters are going with him - to buy gifts for themselves.

The father called the younger one, Maryushka.

And Maryushka:

- Father, - he says, - I'm tired of the road, and I have nothing to wear. At the fair, tea, everyone will be smart.

“And I’ll dress you up there, Maryushka,” the father replies. - At the fair, tea, big bargaining.

And the older sisters say to the younger:

- Put on our headwear, we have extra ones.

- Oh, sisters, thank you! - says Maryushka. - Your dresses are too bad for me! Yes, I feel good at home.

“Well, be it your way,” her father tells her. - What do you need to bring from the fair, what gift? Tell me, don’t offend your father!

- Oh, father, I don't need anything: I have everything! No wonder I walked far and got tired on the road.

The father and older sisters went to the fair. At the same time Maryushka took out her feather. It hit the floor and became a fine good fellow, Finist, only more beautiful than he was before. Maryushka was surprised, but she said nothing for joy. Then Finist said to her:

- Do not be surprised at me, Maryushka, it was because of your love that I became.

- I'm afraid of you! - said Maryushka. - If you became worse, it would be better for me, it was calmer.

- And where is your parent - father?

- I went to the fair, and my sisters are with him.

- Why, my Maryushka, didn’t go with them?

“I have Finist, a lucid falcon. I don't need anything at the fair.

“And I don’t need anything,” said Finist. “I became rich because of your love.

They arrived in the city for a fair, and the fair has just opened, all the rich goods and food are in a mountain, and the buyers are on the road.

Finist bought at the fair all the goods, all the food that was there, and ordered them to be taken by carts to the village to Maryushka's parent. He did not buy only one wheel ointment, but left it at the fair.

He wanted all the peasants who came to the fair to become guests at his wedding and go to him as soon as possible. And for a quick ride, they will need ointment.

Finist and Maryushka drove home. They ride fast, the horses do not have enough air from the wind.

Halfway down the road, Maryushka saw her father and older sisters. They still went to the fair and did not arrive. Maryushka told them to toss and turn to the courtyard for her wedding with Finist, the Clear Falcon.

And three days later, all the people who lived a hundred versts in the vicinity gathered to visit; Finist then married Maryushka, and the wedding was rich.

The wedding ended, and the guests forgot the wedding feast, and Maryushka's faithful, loving heart was forever remembered in the Russian land.