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Gone down into the thicket of the sun,
Gloomy forest around the wall,
Prigoryunilsya Alenushka:
As now she live alone?
Neto her no dear mother,
Neither native father,
Tears drip on the stones
In the forest lake.
Who dispel thoughts bitter
Who will help her in trouble?
Only one cane with sedges
Reflected in the water.
And Dearest storonushka
All the sad and sorrowful.
Pity does not know Alyonushka,
What happens next with it:
Meet a happy girl,
And his love will find.
Oh, how fun is hoped
Knowing the story beforehand!

That these verses were born Andrei Usachev, when he stood at the pictures "Alenka" at the Tretyakov Gallery.

All known Eleanor Paston in his interviews and texts Vasnetsova says this: "Yes." You know, I think that Viktor Mikhaylovich Okhtirka depicted a girl and a girl like that's really kind of sad Russian. That is , the tale has not yet been speech. The fact that this work corresponds with the tale, written by Afanasyev. The picture was originally called "Alyonushka-fool!

The fact that one show was a picture Vasnetsov Three princess of the Underworld ". And there really was in the title is written: "On the subject of the Russian folk tale. There is nothing like that ever happened. And further, what happens with this picture: after the Mobile Vasnetsov continues to work on it already in Abramtsevo. Summer of 81, he lives in Abramtsevo and shows a picture of the All-Russia Exhibition 82 years, as he says later, Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov "substantially overhauled." And I think that's the transformation of an orphan girl from Akhtyrka in Alenushka in fabulous Alenushka occurred in First, to behold the way of processing pictures, and, secondly, in the perception of its audience. "

And so on .... On the sketch to "Alyonushka, Abramtsevo and Tretyakov cm. Materials E. Paston & Company.

IMHO, I was very disturbed childhood, why Alyonushka sits at the water with muddy feet, and can not wash them!: D