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On a wintry evening three sisters are sitting at spinning wheels. As Tsar Saltan overhears from outside the door, the oldest sister boasts that, if she were Tsaritsa (the bride of the Tsar), she would prepare a sumptuous feast; the middle sister would weave a grand linen; the youngest promises to bear, as son for the Tsar, a bogatyr (warrior ...
In a Russian tale collected in Bashkortostan with the title "Про царя и его сына" ("About the Tsar and his Son"), a tsar announces he wishes to marry a woman who will bear him a son with legs of gold up to the knee, arms of silver up to the elbow, and with a moon on the front. In the same kingdom, the youngest of three poor ...
The third and the youngest, however, says: "I would not give the Tsar money and goods, but instead a son with strength and courage." The Tsar, who hears this conversation, takes the youngest woman as his wife. He places the other two as court cook and weaver. Envious of their youngest sister, the two join and come to the Tsar's court.
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Russian: Ска́зка о царе́ Салта́не, romanized: Skazka o tsare Saltanye) is a 1984 Soviet traditionally animated feature film directed by Lev Milchin and Ivan Ivanov-Vano and produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. It is an adaptation of the 1831 poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. There are few ...
The Swan Princess (Russian: Царевна-Лебедь) is a 1900 oil painting (oil on canvas) by the Russian artist Mikhail Vrubel. [1] It is based on the opera The Tale of Tsar Sultan by Rimsky-Korsakov (which was based on the fairytale of the same name by Pushkin).
[2] [3] His father was Sultan Abdul Hamid II, son of Sultan Abdulmejid I and Tirimüjgan Kadın. [4] His mother was Bidar Kadın, [5] [6] paternal Circassian and maternal Georgian belonged to Lortkipanidze family. [7] He was the second child of his mother. [4] He had a sister Naime Sultan two years elder than him. [2]
The Royal Mausoleum [1] (Malay: Kubah Makam Diraja) [2] in Batu Satu, Bandar Seri Begawan, is a significant historical and cultural landmark in Brunei. [3] Located along the Brunei River, it lies beyond Kampong Ayer and on the route from Bandar Seri Begawan to the Istana Nurul Iman. [4]
Of Kabardian Circassian origin, [2] [3] Bidar Kadın was born on 5 May 1855 in Kobuleti. [4] She was daughter of the prince Ibrahim Talustan Bey and his wife, Georgian princess Şahika İffet Lortkipanidze and had two brothers named Çerkeş Hüseyin Paşa and Çerkes Mehmed Ziya Pasha, who worked at the Sultan Palace.