Good world of Chukovsky's fairy tales. Literary relatives of "Crocodile" by Korney Chukovsky Once upon a time there was a Crocodile
The main characters of the fairy tale "Crocodile" are a toothy crocodile and a boy Vanya Vasilchikov. The crocodile walked the streets of the city of Petrograd and spoke Turkish. People followed him and teased him in every possible way. The angry crocodile first swallowed the dog who tried to bite him, and then the policeman who wanted to calm the crocodile. People began to scatter in panic, and only the boy Vanya Vasilchikov bravely took out a toy saber and began to threaten the crocodile that he would cut him into small pieces. The crocodile began to ask for mercy, but Vanya was adamant. Then the crocodile returned both the policeman and the dog named Druzhok. After that, Vanya drove the crocodile to Africa. The whole city rejoiced and glorified its savior Vanya.
And the crocodile flew on an airplane to Africa, where his wife Crocodile immediately began to complain to him about the bad behavior of children, little crocodiles. Before the head of the family had time to listen to all her complaints, guests came to him, various African animals, who began to ask the crocodile about how he went to Petrograd and what gifts he brought for them. The crocodile distributed gifts to all the guests, but then his children were offended that he did not bring them gifts.
To this, the crocodile told the kids that he brought them a special gift - a fragrant Christmas tree from Russia. And all the African animals began to dance around the Christmas tree.
Meanwhile, in Petrograd, wild animals appeared on the streets and began to misbehave. The gorilla kidnapped the girl Lyalya and jumped with her in her arms from roof to roof. The courageous Vanya Vasilchikov took up the rescue of Lyalya. He took out a toy gun. Frightened animals began to scatter. Vanya demanded that the animals return the girl Lyalya. But the animals, in response to his demand, began to resent and tell Vanya that their children were sitting in menageries, locked in cages. The animals promised to return Lyalya if their children were given freedom.
And Vanya freed all the animals and their children, but asked the animals to behave peacefully on the streets of the city. And from that time on, people and animals began to walk the streets together, and no one attacked anyone else. And soon the crocodile came to visit the author of the tale, where Vanya Vasilchikov met him with joy. This is the summary of the story.
The main idea of \u200b\u200bthe fairy tale "Crocodile" is that one should not anger dangerous animals that can show counter aggression. People teased the crocodile and as a result, he began to attack everyone. And although Vanya Vasilchikov sent the crocodile to distant Africa, the conflict situation could have been avoided if people had not mocked the outlandish animal.
The fairy tale "Crocodile" teaches to solve problems peacefully. When the animals demanded the release of their children from the menageries, Vanya Vasilchikov went to meet their demands, but set the condition that the animals at large behave decently and did not attack people. As a result, peace reigned in the city, and even the crocodile decided to visit the author of the tale.
In the fairy tale, I liked the boy Vanya, who was not afraid of the crocodile and forced him to return those whom the crocodile had swallowed. Vanya also freed the young animals from the menageries and achieved the peaceful coexistence of animals and people in the city of Petrograd. For this, all the inhabitants glorified Vanya Vasilchikov.
What proverbs are suitable for the fairy tale "Crocodile"?
Where there is courage, there is victory.
Friendship is a great power.
Harmony and harmony - happiness in any business.
lived and was
Crocodile.
He walked the streets
Smoking cigarettes,
spoke Turkish,
Crocodile, Crocodile Crocodile!
And behind him the people
And sings and yells:
"Here, freak, so freak!
What a nose, what a mouth!
And where does such a monster come from?
High school students behind him
Chimney sweeps behind him
And push him
offend him;
And some kid
Showed him shish
And some barbos
Bite him on the nose,
Bad watchdog, ill-mannered.
Looked Crocodile
And swallowed the watchdog,
I swallowed it along with the collar.
The people got angry
And calls and yells:
"Hey, hold it
Yes, knit it
Get to the police as soon as possible!"
He runs into the tram
Everyone shouts: "Ai-yay-yay!"
somersault,
Home,
At the corners:
"Help! Save! Have mercy!"
The policeman ran up:
"What's the noise? What's the howl?
How dare you walk around here
speak Turkish?
Crocodiles are not allowed to walk here.
Crocodile chuckled
And swallowed the poor man
I swallowed it with boots and a saber.
Everyone is trembling with fear
Everyone screams in fear.
Only one
Citizen
Didn't scream
Didn't tremble
He walks the streets without a nanny.
He said, "You're a villain
You eat people
So for this my sword -
Your head off your shoulders!" -
And waved his toy saber.
And the Crocodile said:
"You defeated me!
Do not ruin me, Vanya Vasilchikov!
Have pity on my crocodiles!
Crocodiles splash in the Nile
Waiting for me with tears
Let me go to the kids, Vanechka,
I'll give you a gingerbread for that."
Vanya Vasilchikov answered him:
"Though I feel sorry for your crocodiles,
But you, bloodthirsty bastard,
I'm going to cut it like beef.
I, glutton, have nothing to pity you:
You ate a lot of human meat."
And the Crocodile said:
"Everything I swallowed
I'll gladly give it back to you!"
And here is a live Policeman
Appeared instantly in front of the crowd:
Womb of the Crocodile
Didn't hurt him.
In one jump
From the mouth of a crocodile
Well, dance with joy,
Lick Vanya's cheeks.
Trumpets blew!
The guns fired!
Very happy Petrograd -
Everyone is cheering and dancing
Vanya dear kiss,
And from every yard
A loud "hooray" is heard.
The whole capital was decorated with flags.
Savior of Petrograd
From a furious bastard
Long live Vanya Vasilchikov!
And give him a reward
One hundred pounds of grapes
One hundred pounds of marmalade
One hundred pounds of chocolate
And a thousand servings of ice cream!
And a furious bastard
Down with Petrograd!
Let him go to his crocodiles!
He jumped into the airplane
Flew like a hurricane
And never looked back
And rushed with an arrow
To the native side,
On which is written: "Africa".
Jumped into the Nile
Crocodile,
Straight into the silt
Where did his wife the Crocodile live,
His children are a wet nurse.
Part two
The sad wife says to him:
"I suffered alone with the kids:
That Kokoshenka Lelyoshenka smits,
That Lelyoshenka knocks Kokoshenka.
And Totoshenka played a trick today:
I drank a whole bottle of ink.
I brought him to his knees
And left him without sweets.
Kokoshenka had a strong fever all night:
He swallowed the samovar by mistake, -
Yes, thank you, our pharmacist Behemoth
I put a frog on his stomach."
The unfortunate Crocodile was saddened
And shed a tear on her belly:
"How are we going to live without a samovar?
How can we drink tea without a samovar?
But then the doors opened
Animals appeared at the door:
Hyenas, boas, elephants,
And ostriches, and wild boars,
And the Elephant
dandy,
Stopudovaya merchant's wife,
And Giraffe is an important count,
As tall as a telegraph, -
All friends are friends
All relatives and godfathers.
Well, hug a neighbor,
Well, kiss the neighbor:
"Give us overseas gifts,
Treat us with unprecedented gifts!
Crocodile answers:
"I haven't forgotten anyone.
And for each of you
I've got gifts!
Monkey -
gingerbread,
Hippo -
Buffalo - a fishing rod,
Ostrich - a pipe,
Elephant - candy,
And the Elephant - a gun ... "
Only Totoshenko,
Only Kokoshenka
Didn't give
Crocodile
Nothing.
Totosha and Kokosha are crying:
"Daddy, you're not good!
Even for a stupid Sheep
Do you have candies.
We are not strangers to you
We are your children,
So why, why
Did you bring us anything?"
Smiled, laughed Crocodile:
"No, cubs, I have not forgotten you:
Here is a fragrant, green Christmas tree,
Brought from far from Russia,
All wonderfully hung with toys,
Gilded nuts, crackers.
We'll light the candles on the Christmas tree,
We'll sing some songs to the Christmas tree:
"You served human babies,
Serve us now, and us, and us!"
As the elephants heard about the Christmas tree,
Jaguars, baboons, wild boars,
Immediately by the hand
With joy they took
And around the Christmas trees
We squatted down.
It doesn't matter that, having danced, Behemoth
He threw a chest of drawers on the Crocodile,
And with a run, the steep-horned Rhinoceros
Horn, horn caught on the threshold.
Oh, how fun, how fun Jackal
Played the dance guitar!
Even the butterflies rested on their sides,
Trepaka danced with mosquitoes.
Dancing siskins and bunnies in the forests,
Crayfish are dancing, perches are dancing in the seas,
Worms and spiders are dancing in the field,
Ladybugs and bugs are dancing.
Part three
Dear Lyalechka girl!
She walked with the doll
And on Tavricheskaya street
Suddenly I saw an elephant.
God, what a monster!
Lyalya runs and screams.
Look, in front of her from under the bridge
Keith stuck his head out.
Lyalechka cries and backs away,
Lyalechka calls her mother ...
And in the gateway on the bench
A scary hippopotamus sits.
Snakes, jackals and buffaloes
Everywhere hiss and growl.
Poor, poor Lyalechka!
Run without looking back!
Lyalechka climbs a tree,
She pressed the doll to her chest.
Poor, poor Lyalechka!
What is it ahead?
Ugly scarecrow monster
Bares fanged mouth,
Stretches, reaches for Lyalechka,
Lyalechka wants to steal.
Lyalechka jumped from a tree,
The monster jumped towards her,
Grabbed poor Lyalechka
And quickly ran away.
And on Tavricheskaya street
Mommy Lyalechka is waiting for:
"Where is my dear Lyalechka?
Why isn't she coming?"
Gorilla Ugly
Lyalya dragged away
And down the sidewalk
She ran up.
Higher, higher, higher
Here she is on the roof
On the seventh floor
Jumps like a ball.
Fluttered up the pipe
Soot scooped up
I smeared Lyalya,
Sat on the ledge.
Sat down, trembled
Lyalya shook
And with a terrible cry
Rushed down.
Where can one find such
The bogatyr is removed,
What will beat the crocodile horde?
Who from the fierce claws
Angry Beasts
Will he rescue our poor Lyalechka?
Everyone sits and is silent,
And, like hares, they tremble,
And they won't stick their nose out into the street!
Only one citizen
Does not run, does not tremble -
This is the valiant Vanya Vasilchikov.
He is neither lions nor elephants,
No dashing boars
Not afraid, of course, not a bit!
They growl, they scream
They want to eat him
But Vanya boldly goes to them
And he gets a pistol.
Bang Bang! - and a furious Jackal
Faster than the deer galloped off.
Bang-bang - and the Buffalo ran away,
Behind him is a frightened Rhinoceros.
Bang Bang! - and the hippo
Runs after them.
And soon the wild horde
Disappeared without a trace.
And Vanya is happy, what is in front of him
The enemies dissipated like smoke.
He is a winner! He is a hero!
He again saved his native land.
And again from every yard
"Hurrah" comes to him.
And again cheerful Petrograd
He brings chocolate.
But where is Lala? Lyali no!
The girl was gone!
What if the greedy Crocodile
Was she grabbed and swallowed?
Vanya rushed after the evil beasts:
"Beasts, give me Lyalya back!"
Furiously animals sparkle with their eyes,
They don't want to give up Lyalya.
"How dare you," cried the Tigress,
Come to us for your sister,
If my dear sister
It languishes in a cage with you, with people!
No, you break these nasty cells
Where for the amusement of two-legged guys
Our native furry children,
Like in a prison, they are sitting behind bars!
Iron doors in every menagerie
You open for the captive animals,
So that unfortunate animals from there
We could get out soon!
If our beloved guys
They will return to our family,
If tiger cubs return from captivity,
Lion cubs with cubs and cubs -
We will give you your Lyalya."
And Vanyusha exclaimed:
"Rejoice, beasts!
to your people
I give freedom
I give you freedom!
I will break the cells
I will scatter the chains
iron bars
I'll break it forever!
Live in Petrograd
In comfort and coolness
But only, for God's sake,
Don't eat anyone
No bird, no kitten
Not a small child
Not Lyalechka's mother,
Not my dad!
"Walk along the boulevards,
Through shops and bazaars,
Walk where you want
Nobody bother you!
Live with us
And be friends
Pretty we fought
And shed blood!
We will break the guns
We'll bury the bullets
And you cut yourself
Hooves and horns!
bulls and rhinos,
Elephants and octopuses
Hug each other
Let's go dancing!"
And then grace came:
Someone else to kick and butt.
Feel free to meet the Rhino -
He will give way to the insect.
Polite and meek now Rhino:
Where is his old frightening horn!
There is a tigress walking along the boulevard -
Lyalya is not a bit afraid of her:
What is there to be afraid of when the animals
Now there are no horns or claws!
Vanya sits on a Panther
And, triumphant, it rushes along the street.
Or take, saddle Eagle
And it flies in the sky like an arrow.
The animals love Vanyusha so tenderly,
Animals pamper him and doves.
Vanyusha's wolves bake pies,
The rabbits clean his boots.
In the evenings quick-eyed Chamois
Vanya and Lyalya are read by Jules Verne.
And at night the young Behemoth
She sings lullabies to them.
Children crowded around the Bear
Mishka gives each candy.
Look, along the Neva along the river,
A wolf and a lamb are sailing in a canoe.
Happy people, and animals, and reptiles,
Camels are happy, and buffaloes are happy.
Today he came to visit me -
Who would you think? - Crocodile himself.
I sat the old man on the couch
I gave him a glass of sweet tea.
Suddenly Vanya ran in
And, like a native, he kissed him.
Here come the holidays! glorious tree
Will be today at the gray wolf.
There will be many happy guests there.
Let's go, children, there quickly!
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Literary relatives of "Crocodile" by Korney Chukovsky
In the fairy-tale world of Korney Chukovsky, the crocodile is everywhere - both in Africa and in Petrograd. Why this image is so often found in the work of Chukovsky and what kind of "crocodile-containing" works inspired the poet - Kultura.RF understands.
Vladimir Suteev. Illustration for Korney Chukovsky's fairy tale "Crocodile" ("Old, old fairy tale")
Vladimir Suteev. Illustration for Korney Chukovsky's fairy tale "Crocodile" ("Old, old fairy tale")
He walked the streets, spoke Turkish
The first Crocodile brought Chukovsky all-Union fame. The poem for children "Crocodile", which was later published with the subtitle "An old, old fairy tale", was written in 1915 and, according to contemporaries, turned the idea of \u200b\u200bchildren's poetry upside down. “Chukovsky's fairy tale completely canceled the previous weak and motionless fairy tale of icicles, cotton-wool snow, flowers on weak legs. Children's poetry opened. A path was found for further development”, - wrote literary critic Yuri Tynyanov.
“I wrote twelve books and no one paid any attention to them. But once I wrote jokingly "Crocodile", and I became a famous writer. I'm afraid that "Crocodile" knows by heart the whole of Russia. I'm afraid that on my monument, when I die, "Author of Crocodile" will be inscribed.
Korney Chukovsky
Chukovsky said that he composed the fairy tale almost by accident. The writer was traveling on a train with his 11-year-old son Nikolai, who suddenly developed a fever. Trying to entertain a sick child, Chukovsky began to recite at random, in a shamanic way:
Once upon a time there was a crocodile...
He walked along the Nevsky...
This is how the first part of the story came about. “My only concern was to divert the attention of the child from the attacks of the disease that tormented him. Therefore, I was in a terrible hurry: there was no time to think, pick up epithets, look for rhymes, it was impossible to stop even for a moment. The whole bet was on speed, on the fastest alternation of events and images, so that the sick little boy did not have time to moan or cry. So I chattered like a shaman", the author recalled.
Korney Chukovsky. Photo: kartinkinaden.ru
Korney Chukovsky. Photo: ergojournal.ru
Korney Chukovsky. Photo: optim-z.ru
The first edition of Crocodile was different from the one we know today. In it, the Crocodile walked along Nevsky Prospekt (now - along the streets) and spoke German, not Turkish. The German language during the First World War was practically officially banned for use in Russia. Chukovsky's contemporaries recalled that in Petrograd one could see posters with the text: "It's forbidden to speak German". Therefore, later the writer replaced German with a politically neutral, but betraying the exotic foreignness of the Crocodile to the city, the Turkish language.
A big crocodile walked the streets
While the children enthusiastically listened to the entertaining tale, literary critics, critics and even politicians were looking for hidden meanings in it. And they found - a lot of allusions, roll calls and inappropriate parodies.
The predecessors of Chukovsky's "Crocodile" are considered to be the Crocodile from a popular street song, as well as the character of Nikolai Agnivtsev's poem "The Crocodile and the Negress":
Folk city song
“A big crocodile walked the streets
She, she was green.
Nikolai Agnivtsev, "Crocodile and the Negress"
amazingly cute
Once upon a time there was a crocodile -
So four yards, no more! ..
And yes she lived
Also very cute
A black woman named Molly.
Crocodile and Dostoevsky
Chukovsky's children's fairy tale also had older predecessors. Fyodor Dostoevsky dedicated the satirical tale “Crocodile. An Extraordinary Event, or a Passage within a Passage. In this work, the official, who was in the stomach of a crocodile, deduced a whole theory that crocodiles were created to swallow people: “For, suppose, for example, you are given the opportunity to arrange a new crocodile - naturally, the question arises to you: what is the main property of a crocodile? The answer is clear: swallow people. How to achieve a crocodile with a device so that it swallows people? The answer is even clearer: by making it empty.”. What then remained for Chukovsky's Crocodile? Not only in the "Old, Old Tale", but also in other works, he effectively swallowed watchdog, policeman, washcloth, Barmaley and even the Sun.
Korney Chukovsky, "Crocodile"
Crocodile chuckled
And swallowed the poor man
I swallowed it with boots and a saber.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crocodile. An Extraordinary Event, or a Passage within a Passage"
“... Since I am dressed in cloth, and I have boots on my feet, the crocodile, obviously, cannot digest me”
It is known for certain that Chukovsky was familiar with the work of Dostoevsky. The writer himself recalled that he once annoyed Ilya Repin to the extreme by reading this tale. Dostoevsky's "Crocodile" was very disliked by the progressive public, because they saw in it an evil satire on Nikolai Chernyshevsky, the "martyr of the regime" exiled to Siberia.
Crocodile and "Mtsyri"
Fedor Konstantinov. Mtsyra's head. Illustration for the poem "Mtsyri". 1956
Pyotr Konchalovsky. Storm. Illustration for the poem "Mtsyri". 1920s
Mikhail Vrubel. Daemon. Illustration for the poem "Mtsyri". 1890
Chukovsky himself pointed out that Lermontov's poem "Mtsyri" was parodied in "Crocodile". The rhythms and motives of "Mtsyri" are recognized when the Crocodile tells his relatives about the sad fate of animals in city zoos. There are many similar passages in the poems.
Korney Chukovsky, "Crocodile"
Oh, this garden, terrible garden!
I would be glad to forget him.
There, under the whips of the watchmen
Many animals suffer...Find out dear friends
My soul is shaken
I saw so much grief there
That even you, Hippo,
And then he would howl like a puppy,We are every day and every hour
From our prisons they called you
And they waited, believed that here
Liberation will come.
Mikhail Lermontov, Mtsyri
And at the hour of the night, a terrible hour,
When the storm scared you
When, crowding at the altar,
You lay prostrate on the ground
I ran.You listen to my confession
Came here, thank you.
Everything is better in front of someone
Lighten my chest with words;Long time ago I thought
Look at the distant fields
Find out if the earth is beautiful
Find out for freedom or prison
We will be born into this world.
However, later Chukovsky noticed that this "Lermontov" monologue of the Crocodile is completely devoid of dynamics, eventfulness, and therefore children listen to him with the least interest.
"Poor Lyalechka" and Nekrasov
Nikolai Nekrasov was one of Chukovsky's favorite poets and the subject of his literary studies. It is not surprising that the epic style of Nekrasov was reflected in the poems of Chukovsky himself. In particular, contemporaries rightly compared Lyalechka's dangerous adventure from Crocodile with Nekrasov's Ballad of Two Great Sinners.
Korney Chukovsky, "Crocodile"
Snakes, jackals and buffaloes
Everywhere hiss and growl.
Poor, poor Lyalechka!
Run without looking back!Lyalechka climbs a tree,
She pressed the doll to her chest.
Poor, poor Lyalechka!
What is it ahead?Lyalechka jumped from a tree,
The monster jumped towards her.
Grabbed poor Lyalechka
And quickly ran away.
Nikolai Nekrasov, “Who is living well in Rus'”
There were twelve robbers
There was Kudeyar - ataman,
Many robbers shed
The blood of honest Christians,The hermit measured the monster:
Oak - three girths around!
I went to work with a prayer
Cuts with a damask knifeJust pan bloodied
Fell head on the saddle
A huge tree collapsed
The echo shook the whole forest.
The continuity was so bright that even Nadezhda Krupskaya noticed it. This comparison proved fatal for Krokodil: the authorities considered it inappropriate to parody the revolutionary poet, and the tale was not published for a long time.
A furious reptile - down with Petrograd
Vladimir Kanivets. Illustration for the fairy tale "Cockroach".
Vladimir Suteev. Illustration for the fairy tale "Moidodyr".
Frame from the filmstrip "Fly-Tsokotuha". 1963
As the Crocodile is subjected to persecution and insults in Petrograd, so the poem about him turned out to be objectionable in the Soviet Union. At first, Krupskaya branded Krokodil "bourgeois nonsense". Chukovsky was charged with a number of fantastic accusations: the Crocodile turned out to be a bourgeois and a monarchist, and the poem itself was a parody of Nekrasov. Later, the tradition of looking for malicious intentions in children's fairy tales was picked up by other "guardians of the pedagogical order." "Crocodile" and "Cockroach", according to critics, disorientated children because they gave incorrect information about the life of animals; "Moidodyr" allegedly developed superstitions and fears; and "Fly-sokotukha" was declared a petty-bourgeois fairy tale.
“With the“ Crocodile ”it was even easier: they announced publicly (in newspapers and at crowded meetings) that I depicted in this fairy tale - what would you think? - The rebellion of General Kornilov. The fact that "Crocodile" was written a year before the rebellion was raised did not cancel this implausible legend "- recalled Korney Ivanovich in the book "From two to five." He also said that well-known writers and scientists stood up for "Crocodile": a letter about the "rehabilitation" of the poem to the State Academic Council was signed by Alexei Tolstoy, Konstantin Fedin, Yuri Tynyanov, Samuil Marshak, Mikhail Zoshchenko and others. Unfortunately, the protest did not affect the fate of the tale: "Crocodile" was not published from the late 1920s until the mid-1950s. The defenders of the fairy tale were called the "Chukovsky group", that is, they were included in the lists of unreliable people.
Suddenly meet my good, my beloved crocodile
The crocodile became a cross-cutting character in Chukovsky's work, the poet even called his fairy tales "My crocodiliads." The crocodile appeared in his other poems at least four more times, and his appearance was always effective and dramatic. Most often, the Crocodile was the main antagonist ("The Stolen Sun", "Crocodile"), but in an "episodic" role he could also become the hero's savior (Moydodyr, Barmaley).
In Barmaley, Crocodile turns out to be the savior of children:
Happy, happy, happy, happy kids
She danced, played around the fire:
"You us
You are us
Saved from death
You freed us.
you are good time
saw us
oh kind
Crocodile!"
In Moydodyr, the Crocodile is more respectable than ever - and again swallows something:
Suddenly towards my good,
My favorite crocodile.
He is with Totosha and Kokosha
Walked along the alley
And a washcloth, like a jackdaw,
Like a jackdaw, swallowed.
His appearance becomes a turning point in the tale: after meeting with him, the dirty girl is immediately re-educated. The motive of re-education" is generally characteristic of Chukovsky's "crocodile" tales.
Only once the Crocodile appears in the fairy tales of Chukovsky as a chthonic mythological monster, equally far from the city streets and from the human image - in the fairy tale "The Stolen Sun":
And in the Big River
Crocodile
lies,
And in his teeth
Not a fire burns -
The sun is red
Sun stolen.
1
lived and was
Crocodile.
He walked the streets
Smoking cigarettes,
spoke Turkish,
Crocodile, Crocodile Crocodile!
2
And behind him the people
And sings and yells:
- Here, freak, so freak!
What a nose, what a mouth!
And where does this monster come from?
3
High school students behind him
Chimney sweeps behind him
And push him
offend him;
And some kid
Showed him shish
And some barbos
Bite him on the nose,
Bad watchdog, ill-mannered. 
4
Looked Crocodile
And swallowed the watchdog,
I swallowed it along with the collar.
5
The people got angry
And calls and yells:
- Hey, hold it.
Yes, knit it
Yes, take it to the police! 
6
He runs into the tram
Everyone shouts: - Ay-yai-yai!
And running
somersault,
Home,
At the corners:
— Help! Save! Have mercy! 
7
The policeman ran up:
- What's that noise? What's the howl?
How dare you walk around here
speak Turkish?
Crocodiles are not allowed to walk here.
8
Crocodile chuckled
And swallowed the poor man
I swallowed it with boots and a saber.
9
Everyone is trembling with fear
Everyone screams in fear.
Only one
Citizen
Didn't scream
Didn't tremble
10
He is a fighter
Well done,
He is a hero
Remote:
He walks the streets without a nanny. 
11
He said, "You're a villain,
You eat people
So for this my sword -
Your head off your shoulders! —
And waved his toy saber.
12
And the Crocodile said:
- You defeated me!
Do not ruin me, Vanya Vasilchikov!
Have pity on my crocodiles!
Crocodiles splash in the Nile
Waiting for me with tears
Let me go to the kids, Vanechka,
For that I will give you a gingerbread. 
13
Vanya Vasilchikov answered him:
- Although I feel sorry for your crocodiles,
But you, bloodthirsty bastard,
I'm going to cut it like beef.
I, glutton, have nothing to pity you:
You ate a lot of human meat.
14
And the Crocodile said:
Everything I swallowed
I'll gladly give it back to you!
15
And here is a live Policeman
Appeared instantly in front of the crowd:
Womb of the Crocodile
Didn't hurt him.
16
And Druzhok
In one jump
From the mouth of a crocodile
Skok!
Well, dance with joy,
Lick Vanya's cheeks. 
17
Trumpets blew!
The guns fired!
Very happy Petrograd -
Everyone is cheering and dancing
Vanya dear kiss,
And from every yard
A loud "hooray" is heard.
The whole capital was decorated with flags. 
18
Savior of Petrograd
From a furious bastard
Long live Vanya Vasilchikov!
19
And give him a reward
One hundred pounds of grapes
One hundred pounds of marmalade
One hundred pounds of chocolate
And a thousand servings of ice cream!
20
And a furious bastard
Down with Petrograd!
Let him go to his crocodiles!
21
He jumped into the airplane
Flew like a hurricane
And never looked back
And rushed with an arrow
To the native side,
On which is written: "Africa".
22
Jumped into the Nile
Crocodile,
Straight into the silt
Pleased
Where did his wife the Crocodile live,
His children are a wet nurse. 
Part two
1
The sad wife says to him:
- I suffered alone with the kids:
That Kokoshenka Lelyoshenka smits,
That Lelyoshenka knocks Kokoshenka.
And Totoshenka played a trick today:
I drank a whole bottle of ink.
I brought him to his knees
And left him without sweets.
Kokoshenka had a strong fever all night:
He swallowed the samovar by mistake, -
Yes, thank you, our pharmacist Behemoth
He put a frog on his stomach.
The unfortunate Crocodile was saddened
And shed a tear on her belly:
How are we going to live without a samovar?
How can we drink tea without a samovar? 
2
But then the doors opened
Animals appeared at the door:
Hyenas, boas, elephants,
And ostriches, and wild boars,
And the Elephant
dandy,
Stopudovaya merchant's wife,
And Giraffe is an important count,
As tall as a telegraph, -
All friends are friends
All relatives and godfathers.
Well, hug a neighbor,
Well, kiss the neighbor:
- Give us overseas gifts,
Treat us with unprecedented gifts!
3
Crocodile answers:
I haven't forgotten anyone
And for each of you
I've got gifts!
Lion -
halva,
Monkey -
gingerbread,
Eagle -
pastila,
Hippo -
books,
Buffalo - a fishing rod,
Ostrich - a pipe,
Elephant - candy,
And the Elephant - a gun ... 
4
Only Totoshenko,
Only Kokoshenka
Didn't give
Crocodile
Nothing.
Totosha and Kokosha are crying:
"Daddy, you're not good!"
Even for a stupid Sheep
Do you have candies.
We are not strangers to you
We are your children,
So why, why
Did you bring us anything?
5
Smiled, laughed Crocodile:
- No, cubs, I have not forgotten you:
Here is a fragrant, green Christmas tree,
Brought from far from Russia,
All wonderfully hung with toys,
Gilded nuts, crackers.
We'll light the candles on the Christmas tree,
We'll sing some songs to the Christmas tree:
- Human you served the kids,
Serve now to us, and to us, and to us! 
6
As the elephants heard about the Christmas tree,
Jaguars, baboons, wild boars,
Immediately by the hand
With joy they took
And around the Christmas trees
We squatted down.
It doesn't matter that, having danced, Behemoth
He threw a chest of drawers on the Crocodile,
And with a run, the steep-horned Rhinoceros
Horn, horn caught on the threshold.
Oh, how fun, how fun Jackal
Played the dance guitar!
Even the butterflies rested on their sides,
Trepaka danced with mosquitoes.
Dancing siskins and bunnies in the forests,
Crayfish are dancing, perches are dancing in the seas,
Worms and spiders are dancing in the field,
Ladybugs and bugs are dancing.
7
Suddenly the drums beat
Monkeys came running
- Tram-there-there! Tram-there-there!
Hippopotamus is coming to us.
- To us -
Hippopotamus?!
- Myself -
Hippopotamus?!
- There -
Hippopotamus?! 
Oh, what a growl has risen,
Shrieking, and bleating, and mooing:
- Is it a joke, because the Hippo himself
Complain here deign to us!
The crocodile ran away
She combed both Kokosha and Totosha.
And the excited, trembling Crocodile
I swallowed my napkin in excitement.
8
And the giraffe
Although the Count
He perched on the closet.
And from there
Camel
All the dishes were spilled!
And the snakes
Lackeys
Put on the livery
Rustling down the alley
Hurry as soon as possible
Meet the young king! 
9
And a crocodile on the doorstep
Kisses the guest's feet:
- Tell me, lord, what star
Showed you the way here? 
And the king says to him:
“Monkeys were brought to me yesterday.
That you traveled to distant lands,
Where toys grow on trees
And cheesecakes fall from the sky,
So I came here to hear about wonderful toys
And heavenly cheesecakes to eat.
And the Crocodile says:
— Please, your Majesty!
Kokosha, put the samovar on!
Totosha, turn on the electricity! 
10
And Hippo says:
- O Crocodile, tell us,
What did you see in a foreign land,
And I'll take a nap.
And the sad Crocodile got up
And slowly spoke:
- Find out, dear friends,
My soul is shaken
I saw so much grief there
That even you, Hippo,
And then he would howl like a puppy,
Whenever I could see him.
There are our brothers, as in hell -
In the Zoological Garden. 
Oh, this garden, terrible garden!
I would be glad to forget him.
There, under the whips of the watchmen
Many animals suffer
They groan and call
And heavy chains gnaw,
But they can't get out here
Never from cramped cages.
There is an elephant - fun for children,
Silly kids toy.
There's a little human
Deer pulling antlers
And the buffalo tickles the nose,
Like a buffalo is a dog.
Do you remember, lived between us
One funny crocodile ...
He is my nephew. I him
He loved like his own son.
He was a prankster and a dancer,
And the mischievous, and the laugher,
And now there in front of me
Exhausted, half dead
In a dirty tub he lay 
And, dying, he said to me:
"I do not curse the executioners,
Neither their chains nor their scourges
But you, traitors friends,
Damn I send.
You are so powerful, so strong
Boas, buffaloes, elephants,
We are every day and every hour
From our prisons they called you
And they waited, believed that here
Liberation will come
What are you going to get here?
To destroy forever
Human, evil cities,
Where are your brothers and sons
Doomed to live in captivity!
Said and died.
I stood
And swore terrible oaths
Villains people to take revenge
And release all the animals.
Get up, sleepy beast!
Leave your lair!
Plunge into the cruel enemy
Fangs and claws and horns!
There is one among the people -
Stronger than all heroes!
He is terribly formidable, terribly fierce,
His name is Vasilchikov.
And I'm behind his head
Wouldn't regret anything!
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Beasts bristled and, grinning, shouting:
- So lead us to the damned Zoo,
Where in captivity our brothers are sitting behind bars!
We will break the bars, we will break the shackles,
And we will save our unfortunate brothers from captivity.
And we gore the villains, we bite, we gnaw!
Through swamps and sands
Animal regiments are coming,
Their leader is ahead
Crossing your arms over your chest.
They go to Petrograd
They want to eat him
And all the people
And all the children
They will eat without mercy.
O poor, poor Petrograd! 
Part three
1
Dear Lyalechka girl!
She walked with the doll
And on Tavricheskaya street
Suddenly I saw an elephant.
God, what a monster!
Lyalya runs and screams.
Look, in front of her from under the bridge
Keith stuck his head out. 
Lyalechka cries and backs away,
Lyalechka calls mom ...
And in the gateway on the bench
A scary hippopotamus sits.
Snakes, jackals and buffaloes
Everywhere hiss and growl.
Poor, poor Lyalechka!
Run without looking back!
She pressed the doll to her chest.
Poor, poor Lyalechka!
What is it ahead?
Ugly scarecrow monster
Bares fanged mouth,
Stretches, reaches for Lyalechka,
Lyalechka wants to steal.
Lyalechka jumped from a tree,
The monster jumped towards her,
Grabbed poor Lyalechka
And quickly ran away.
And on Tavricheskaya street
Mommy Lyalechka is waiting for:
- Where is my dear Lyalechka?
Why doesn't she go?
2
Gorilla Ugly
Lyalya dragged away
And down the sidewalk
She ran up.
Higher, higher, higher
Here she is on the roof
On the seventh floor
Jumps like a ball. 
Fluttered up the pipe
Soot scooped up
I smeared Lyalya,
Sat on the ledge.
Sat down, trembled
Lyalya shook
And with a terrible cry
Rushed down.
3
Close the windows, close the doors
Get under the bed quickly
Because evil, furious beasts
They want to tear you apart!
Who, trembling with fear, hid in a closet,
Who is in the doghouse, who is in the attic ...
Dad buried in an old suitcase
Uncle under the sofa, aunt in the chest. 
4
Where can one find such
The bogatyr is removed,
What will beat the crocodile horde?
Who from the fierce claws
Angry Beasts
Will he rescue our poor Lyalechka?
Everyone sits and is silent,
And, like hares, they tremble,
And they won't stick their nose out into the street!
Only one citizen
Does not run, does not tremble -
This is the valiant Vanya Vasilchikov. 
He is neither lions nor elephants,
No dashing boars
Not afraid, of course, not a bit!
5
They growl, they scream
They want to eat him
But Vanya boldly goes to them
And he gets a pistol.
Bang Bang! - and the furious Jackal
Faster than the deer galloped off.
Bang-bang - and the Buffalo ran away,
Behind him is a frightened Rhinoceros.
Bang Bang! - and the hippo
Runs after them. 
And soon the wild horde
Disappeared without a trace.
And Vanya is happy, what is in front of him
The enemies dissipated like smoke.
He is a winner! He is a hero!
He again saved his native land.
And again from every yard
"Hurrah" comes to him.
And again cheerful Petrograd
He brings chocolate.
But where is Lala? Lyali no!
The girl was gone!
What if the greedy Crocodile
Was she grabbed and swallowed?
6
Vanya rushed after the evil beasts:
- Animals, give me Lyalya back!
Furiously animals sparkle with their eyes,
They don't want to give up Lyalya. 
“How dare you,” cried the Tigress,
Come to us for your sister,
If my dear sister
It languishes in a cage with you, with people!
No, you break these nasty cells
Where for the amusement of two-legged guys
Our native furry children,
Like in a prison, they are sitting behind bars!
Iron doors in every menagerie
You open for the captive animals,
So that unfortunate animals from there
We could get out soon!
If our beloved guys
They will return to our family,
If tiger cubs return from captivity,
Lion cubs with cubs and cubs -
We will give you your Lyalya. 
7
But here from every yard
The children ran to Vanya:
- Lead us, Vanya, to the enemy.
We are not afraid of his horns!
And the fight broke out! War! War!
And now Lyalya is saved.
8
And Vanyusha exclaimed:
- Rejoice, animals!
to your people
I give freedom
I give you freedom!
I will break the cells
I will scatter the chains
iron bars
I'll break it forever!
Live in Petrograd
In comfort and coolness
But only, for God's sake,
Don't eat anyone
No bird, no kitten
Not a small child
Not Lyalechka's mother,
Not my dad!
May your food be
Only tea, but curdled milk,
yes buckwheat porridge
And nothing more.
(Here Kokoshi's voice was heard:
- Can I eat galoshes?
But Vanya answered: - No, no,
God save you). 
- Walk along the boulevards,
Through shops and bazaars,
Walk where you want
Nobody bother you!
Live with us
And be friends
Pretty we fought
And shed blood!
We will break the guns
We'll bury the bullets
And you cut yourself
Hooves and horns!
bulls and rhinos,
Elephants and octopuses
Hug each other
Let's go dancing!
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And then grace came:
Someone else to kick and butt.
Feel free to meet Rhino -
He will give way to the insect. 
Polite and meek now Rhino:
Where is his old frightening horn!
There is a tigress walking along the boulevard -
Lyalya is not a bit afraid of her:
What is there to be afraid of when the animals
Now there are no horns or claws!
Vanya sits on a Panther
And, triumphant, it rushes along the street. 
Or take, saddle Eagle
And it flies in the sky like an arrow.
The animals love Vanyusha so tenderly,
Animals pamper him and doves.
Vanyusha's wolves bake pies,
The rabbits clean his boots.
In the evenings quick-eyed Chamois
Vanya and Lyalya are read by Jules Verne. 
And at night the young Behemoth
She sings lullabies to them.
Children crowded around the Bear
Mishka gives each candy. 
Look, along the Neva along the river,
A wolf and a lamb are sailing in a canoe.
Happy people, and animals, and reptiles,
Camels are happy, and buffaloes are happy. 
Today he came to visit me -
Who would you think? - Crocodile himself.
I sat the old man on the couch
I gave him a glass of sweet tea. 
Suddenly Vanya ran in
And, like a native, he kissed him.
Here come the holidays! glorious tree
Will be today at the gray wolf.
There will be many happy guests there.
Let's go, children, there quickly! 
