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Synopsis. By his first wife, a merchant had a single daughter, who was known as Vasilisa the Beautiful. When the girl was eight years old, her mother died; when it became clear that she was dying, she called Vasilisa to her bedside, where she gave Vasilisa a tiny, wooden, one-of-a-kind doll talisman (a Motanka doll), with explicit instructions ...
Despite this, Vasilisa became more beautiful every day. For each day she gave her doll food and asked for advice. Having finished eating, the doll would help with the tasks and even bring Vasilisa herbs to prevent sunburn. As the years passed, Vasilisa grew ever more beautiful as her stepmother's hatred of her intensified.
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Author: Folk Tales. Reading time: 16 minutes. Vasilisa the Beautiful is a folk tale. A story about a beautiful girl taken advantage by her stepmother and stepsisters and the only thing that comforted her was a doll her mother gave her. In an old, old Russian tsarstvo, I do not know when, there lived a sovereign prince with the princess his wife.
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Nov 21, 2023 · Vasilisa the Beautiful is an old Russian folk tale first written down in the mid-sixteenth century. It tells the tale of a beautiful girl named Vasilisa . When her mother dies, she gives her a ...
Vasilisa the Beautiful (Russian: Василиса Прекрасная) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki. By his first wife, a merchant had a single daughter, who was known as Vasilisa The Beautiful. When the girl was eight years old, her mother died and when it became clear that she was dying, she called Vasilisa to her bedside, where she ...
Aug 12, 2021 · VASILISA THE BEAUTY. NCE in a certain country lived a merchant. He had been married twelve years and had only one child, a daughter Vasilisa, whom everyone called Vasilisa the Beauty. When her mother died the little girl was eight years old. On her deathbed she called her young daughter to her, took out from under the bedclothes a Doll, gave it ...
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Jun 30, 2018 · WASSILISSA THE BEAUTIFUL. N a certain Tzardom, across three times nine kingdoms, beyond high mountain chains, there once lived a merchant. He had been married for twelve years, but in that time there had been born to him only one child, a daughter, who from her cradle was called Wassilissa the Beautiful. When the little girl was eight years old ...
