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The Princess and the Pea is one of Andersen's best and most famous fairy tales about how one day a prince decided to find himself a bride, always a real princess. After one princess slept on a soft feather bed from a stack of 40 mattresses thick, under the lowest of which lay a small pea and all morning she complained that she had not gotten enough sleep, the prince realized that this was a real princess in front of him, because you can feel a small pea through 40 mattresses only she could.

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Once upon a time there was a prince, he wanted to marry a princess, but only a real princess. So he traveled all over the world,

I was looking for one, but there was something wrong everywhere; there were plenty of princesses, but whether they were real, he just couldn’t

recognize to the end, there was always something wrong with them. So he returned home and was very sad: he really wanted a real princess.

One evening a terrible storm broke out; Lightning flashed, thunder roared, rain poured down like buckets, what a horror! And suddenly there was a knock on the city gates, and the old king went to open it.

“Well, we’ll find out!” - thought the old queen, but didn’t say anything, but went to the bedchamber, took off all the mattresses and pillows from the bed and put a pea on the boards, and then took twenty mattresses and put them on the pea, and on the mattresses another twenty feather beds made of eider down.

It was on this bed that the princess lay down for the night.

In the morning they asked her how she slept.

Then everyone realized that this was a real princess. Of course, she felt a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds made of eiderdown! Only a real princess can be so tender.

The famous short fairy tale by G.H. Andersen. It tells how the prince was looking for a real princess as his wife, but could not find her. One day a girl, soaked in the rain, knocked on the royal gate. She assured everyone that she was a princess, but she didn’t look like her. And only a pea under the mattress could confirm this.

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Once upon a time there lived a prince, and he wanted to marry a princess too, but a real one. So he traveled all over the world, but there was nothing like him. There were plenty of princesses, but were they real? There was no way he could get to this point; So he returned home with nothing and was very sad - he really wanted to get a real princess.

One evening bad weather broke out: lightning flashed, thunder roared, and rain poured down like buckets; what a horror!

Suddenly there was a knock on the city gate, and the old king went to open it.

The princess stood at the gate. My God, what she looked like! Water ran from her hair and dress straight into the toes of her shoes and flowed out of her heels, and yet she insisted that she was a real princess!

“Well, we’ll find out!” - thought the old queen, but did not say a word and went into the bedroom. There she removed all the mattresses and pillows from the bed and placed a pea on the boards; She laid twenty mattresses on top of the peas, and twenty down jackets on top.

The princess was laid on this bed for the night.

In the morning they asked her how she slept.

Oh, very bad! - said the princess. - I barely slept a wink! God knows what kind of bed I had! I was lying on something so hard that my whole body is now covered in bruises! Just awful!

It was then that everyone saw that she was a real princess! She felt the pea through forty mattresses and down jackets - only a real princess could be such a delicate person.

And the prince married her. Now he knew that he was taking on a real princess! And the pea was given to the Cabinet of Curiosities; That's where it lies, unless someone stole it.

Know that this story is true!

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The main character of the fairy tale by H.H. Andersen is a princess, and a real one at that. What about the other characters in the fairy tale, and how did we also find out that the princess is real? It all started with the fact that one prince decided to get married. He traveled all over the world in search of a real princess, but was never able to find a worthy wife. The prince returned home and began to live in sadness.

But one day a girl knocked on the gate, claiming that she was a real princess. It was raining outside, and she was very wet and cold. The king let the guest in, and the old queen came up with a way to check whether the princess was a real princess or not. She went into the bedroom and, having removed numerous down jackets and feather beds from the bed, placed a small pea on the boards. Then she returned the feather beds to their place. The princess was put to bed on this bed. The next morning the girl came out of the bedroom, pale and sleep-deprived. She said that she could not sleep - something had been bothering her all night. Then the royal family realized that the princess was indeed real. She felt a tiny pea under the mass of soft feather beds. And the prince happily married the princess.

That's how it is summary fairy tales.

The main meaning of the fairy tale is that if a person wants to know something, he will definitely figure out how to do it. The fairy tale teaches you to be smart and resourceful, to invent original solutions to achieve the task.

In the fairy tale, I liked the queen, the mother of the prince. She managed to figure out a way to recognize a real princess. In her opinion, only a very pampered person could be like that. And the queen turned out to be right - the princess who came to their house was so pampered that she could not sleep because of a small pea.

What proverbs are suitable for the fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea”?

Resourcefulness is a great strength.
Ingenuity will help in any matter.

Andersen G-H. fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea"

The main characters of the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea" and their characteristics

1. The prince, young and handsome, is looking for a real princess as his wife, but apparently he himself does not know which princess is real.
2. A princess, young and beautiful, accustomed to sleeping on the softest feather beds, pampered and unaccustomed to other conditions.
3. Queen, the wise woman who came up with interesting way princess trials.

1. Search for the princess
2. Sadness
3. Storm
4. Queen's idea
5. Pea
6. Bad dream
7. Wedding

1. The prince is looking for the real princess, but he can't find her anywhere
2. The prince is sad
3. A terrible thunderstorm and a princess at the castle gates
4. The Queen puts a pea under the feather bed
5. The princess complains that she couldn't sleep
6. The prince marries the princess.

What does the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea" teach?
This fairy tale teaches us that having gotten used to very good conditions life, a person becomes pampered and cannot sleep even on soft feather beds, because they seem hard to him. This fairy tale teaches that everything in the world is relative.

Review of the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea"
I really liked this fairy tale, not because it has any special plot, but because it is written with humor. It describes a funny test that is designed to determine the real princess, and after this fairy tale, many probably checked whether they were able to feel a pea under a feather bed or pillow.

Proverb for the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea"
If you try it yourself, you will believe us.
Without experiencing it, you won’t know.

Summary, brief retelling fairy tales "The Princess and the Pea"
There lived in one country a handsome young prince who really wanted to find himself beautiful princess. He looked everywhere for a real princess, but could not find one.
He returned home and was very sad.
But then one day a terrible thunderstorm broke out and someone knocked on the castle gate. There was a princess there, a very wet princess.
She was taken to the castle and the queen decided to check whether she was a real princess or not. To do this, the queen put a pea on the bed, and on top of it were twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds.
Then the princess went to bed.
In the morning they asked her how she slept and the princess began to complain that she could not sleep all night because she was lying on something hard.
So everyone realized that in front of them was a real princess.
The prince married this princess, and the pea has been kept in the museum ever since.

Illustrations and drawings for the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea"