Masha's Tales

Mother-Goat goes to pick up cabbage, leaving her seven kids alone at home. Hungry Wolf tries to get into the house imitating mother Goat's voice to fool the little ones. He manages to deceive six kids, but the seventh, the smallest one, manages to hide in the oven.

Alyonushka and her brother Ivanushka went to the forest disobeying the parents. The children met the magical stove and the talking apple tree. The stove fed the children some cakes. Ivanushka was thirsty and Alyonushka went to the milk river with jelly shores to quench her brother's thirst. But Ivanushka did not wait for his sister to come back and drank from the puddle.

The Fox had a hut made of ice, while the Rabbit - a wooden one. When spring has arrived, the Fox's hut melted away, so she decided to move into the Rabbit's hut and kick him out from his own home.

Mom asked Red Riding Hood to carry some cakes to her grandmother. The cakes smelled so delicious that the girl decided to sit on a stump to eat a pie. At the same time the Wolf, who was nearby, overheard the Red Riding Hood, rushed to the grandmother's house, ate her and started to wait for the girl to arrive.

One angry woman had two daughters - one of her own and the second one - a stepdaughter. The woman pampered her own daughter and forced the stepdaughter to work very hard. Once the woman took her stepdaughter to the forest and left her there. The girl met Baba Jaga and the Farther Frost there, who defended her against Baba and took her to his home.

Once upon a time there lived a fisherman with his wife. Nearby there lived the Fox. One day the man went to a frozen pond to fish. On his way he found the Fox, who pretended to be dead, and picked her up. The Man started to fish and fell asleep over an ice-hole.

There was a village and a man, living in this village. In a deep forest near that village, the Bear settled in. The Bear asked the man for some tasty treats. The man gave the Bear two options of what he prefers to eat: the tops or the roots. The Bear decided to take the tops.

There lived a Tsar with his three sons. The oldest son married on nobleman's daughter, the second one married the merchant's daughter, while the youngest son - on the Frog. She was not pretty, but happened to be the Frog Princess who turned into a beautiful girl.

Masha tells the Russian fairy tale about the Snow Maiden which was molded by Grandmother and Grandfather. The Snow Maiden grew very fast. Grandmother and Grandfather cared much about her and did not let her out of the house to prevent her melting. When the summer had come they placed her into the fridge.

This is a story about the small but brave boy. The moral of the story is that no matter how big and tall you are, you should not offend the little ones. It may happen so that you will meet some tom thumb boy, who will beat any "giant".

There lived a woman who had three daughters - two of her own and the stepdaughter called Wee Little Havroshechka. She loved her own daughters and hated the stepdaughter who was forced to work till dawn.

There once lived a very old man with his wife. They were very lonely as they had neither children of their own nor grandchildren. Thus, the old man decided to make a bull made of straw to present to his wife.

In an enchanted forest there once lived three little piglets. They were very noisy and naughty, constantly laughing and playing music. Other forest creatures - their neighbours, got really tired of the piglets' shenanigans and expelled them from the forest.

This fairy tale is about one little and witty tailor, who had a chance to defeat the giant and obtain a fridge full of sweets. So he ate all of them at once. Then he decided to get out on the street, but could not, as he overate and got stuck in the door.

This story is about one very kind, but very poor Ali-Baba and his rich but greedy brother Kasym. Once upon a time Ali-Baba overheard the magic spell, which opens up the magic cape with numerous treasures. These treasures were stolen by the thieves and kept in this cave. One day Ali-Baba met Kasym and told him the secret spell.

Masha tells her version of the fairy tale about the poor girl called Cinderella. She lived with her stepmother who forced her to work till dawn. One day the stepmother asked Cinderella to crack three bags of nuts. The poor girl would never have managed to complete this task, if only the fairy had appeared in front of her.

This tale tells us about one Caliph from the East, who used to sit all day long in front of the window and listen to the birds chirping. Caliph was very powerful, but there was one thing that disappointed him - he could not understand the birds' language. Poor Caliph began to cry and no one was able to make him laugh.

There lived a boy called Jack. He was so poor that no girl would want to marry him. One day he went to the market to sell the cow and buy himself a suit. On his way to the market Jack met an old man, who offered him to buy a cow for a bean seed. Jack agreed and went home.

Masha tells the fairy tale called «The Swineherd" with the unexpected moral: even the most expensive things will not make the human out of a pig. The story tells about a naughty Princess who was so fond of unusual toys that she actually preferred them to any living creature.

There lived a Bluebeard man who once went for a walk and met a girl with blue hair. Somehow the Bluebeard man found himself locked in a dark closet. He was very sad until he found the secret door with numerous sweets inside.

This story is about Yemelya, his lazy wife and pike, which plays the role of a goldfish in this story. The moral of the story: before making a wish, it is necessary to think about the consequences for you and people around you.

This is the story about the Fox, the Cat and the Rooster. The sneaky Fox wanted to fool the Cat in order to eat the Rooster and get a rolling-pin. No matter how the Fox tried to butter up the Cat, he denied hand over the Rooster to the Fox.

The Soldier was on his way home and got very hungry. He sat on the stump and suddenly noticed Baba Yaga's small hut. Baba Yaga wanted to eat him at first as she was hungry, but then he cooked axe porridge. Baba Yaga tried it and immediately realized that a healthy diet will bring her much more benefit health-wise.

Once upon a time there was a king. He was very cranky and foolish. One day he wished to taste an exotic fowl and sent Yegor the huntsman to the deep forest. In the forest, Yegor met a starling, which turned into a beautiful girl. The Tsar saw Yegor to have successfully completed his task and also got the beautiful wife.

Once there lived an old man, who had no one but the Golden Cockerel. Once upon a time the spiteful goat settled near the old man's house. The goat dragged the Cockerel to the dark forest and planned to kick out the old man from his own house, but Cockerel was clever and made friends with the forest creatures and together they expelled the goat from the village.