Snegurochka

Snegurochka, also Snegurka (Russian Снегурочка to German Snow Girl or Snow Maiden ) is a Russian fairy-tale figure. It is also the title of several Russian fairy tales. It served as a template for the eponymous play by Alexander Ostrovsky, this in turn. As a template for the opera with ballet Snegurochka by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov

The most well-known in Russia story comes from the collections of fairy tales by Alexander Afanasyev, which appeared from 1855 to 1863 in eight booklets. Some of these tales originate from Vladimir Ivanovich Dal.

Snegurochka in Wonderland

The best-known story from the collection of Afanasiew is about an old couple who wants a child, but never gets one. One day the couple sees children at the snowman. They decide to build a child out of snow. It comes to life and is called by the woman snow girl. The old people win the girl dear as their own daughter and keeping it down. As spring approaches, the otherwise very affable and intelligent snow girl is melancholy and disappears in the summer at the traditional jumping over a bonfire.

In another snow girl fairy tale from the collection of Ivan Chudjakow the snow girl comes from a melted snow globe. It also arises in the house of an elderly couple, of which there is assumed to be daughter. Snegurochka lost his way a little later in the woods and ends up with the witch Baba Yaga, which holds it in and working as a nanny. With the help of an ox Snegurochka escapes and finds back to his foster parents.

In (later of Tchaikovsky provided with a spectacle of music) fairytales Drama of Alexander Ostrovsky Snegurochka is the daughter of Father Frost and the goddess of spring. Through these roots it is a hand of cool mind, on the other hand, full of longing for love. She falls in love with a man she wants to marry, but she will melt under the powerful summer sun, whereupon her fiance drowned in the sea. Puts the power of God summer behind her death.

Today's meaning of Snegurochka

Today is Snegurochka in the Russian population mainly known as a companion of Father Frost on New Year's night when this brings gifts to Russian children. This role plays Snegurochka since the 1920s, when this myth was rebuilt by the Communists as a counterpoint to traditional Christian Christmas themes and continued in the post-Soviet Russia.

Films

The story of Snegurochka in the version of Ostrowski has been filmed several times. For the first time since the age of empire as a silent film by film pioneer Starewitsch 1914, for the second time as a Soviet fairy tale film in 1965 under the director Pawel Kadotschnikow. Motifs of the fairy tale can be found also in the 1964 filmed in the USSR fairy adventure in the Magic Forest - Father Frost with Natalya Sedych; furthermore, the fairytale spring tale of Alexei Katyschew from the USSR from 1971 to Snegurochka relates; and also the fairy tale The Ice Fairy ( Ледяная внучка ) from the USSR in 1981 under the direction of Boris Rytsarev engages in the shape of the ice fairy - girl aspects of the snowflake - on girl.