Title: Three fat men.

He completed two courses at the Law Faculty of Novorossiysk University (Odessa). He began his creative activity as a feuilletonist in the railway workers' newspaper "Gudok" (1922), where he published under the pseudonym "Chisel". Author of articles on theater and literature, books “The Cherry Pit”, “Three Fat Men”, “Envy” (1927), “Not a Day Without a Line”; plays “Three Fat Men” (first staged as a ballet at the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR in 1935), “Conspiracy of Feelings” (1929, adaptation of “Envy”, first staged at the E. Vakhtangov Theater), “List of Benefits” (1931, first staged at the Meyerhold Theater). Author of play and animation scripts (“Girl in the Circus” - 1950, “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights” - 1951, together with I. Ivanov-Vano), documentary film “Cinema for 20 years” (together with A. Macheret) .

Main characters:

Dr. Gaspard Arnely

Gymnast Tibul

Dance teacher Razdvatris

Prospero

Three fat men

Heir to Tutti

Characteristics of the main characters:

Doctor Gaspard Arneli is smart, brave, courageous.

Gymnast Tibul is dexterous, agile, brave.

Dance teacher Razdvatris is proud, cowardly, and unrestrained.

Prospero's squire is bold, strong, courageous.

Suok is fearless, brave, dexterous.

Three fat men - proud, lazy, evil.

The heir Tutti is kind, trusting, and unhappy.

Summary:

In one city there once lived a doctor. His name was Gaspar Arneri. He was a scientist, and there was no one in the country wiser than him. The country where Gaspar Arneri lived was ruled by Three Fat Men, gluttonous and cruel.
One day in the summer, in June, on a clear, sunny day, the doctor goes for a walk. In the square, he unexpectedly finds pandemonium, hears shots and, climbing the tower, sees artisans running from the Palace of the Three Fat Men, pursued by the guards. It turns out that the people, led by the gunsmith Prospero and the gymnast Tibulus, rebelled against the power of the Three Fat Men, but the uprising was defeated, and the gunsmith Prospero was captured. The bomb hits the tower from which Gaspar Arneri is watching what is happening, it collapses and the doctor loses consciousness. He woke up when evening came. The corpses of the dead are lying around. Returning home through Zvezda Square, the doctor sees how another leader of the uprising, gymnast Tibul, who remained free, fleeing from the guards pursuing him, deftly walks along a narrow wire directly above the square, and then escapes through a hatch in the dome. At home, the tired doctor is about to go to bed when suddenly a man in a green cloak crawls out of the fireplace. This is the gymnast Tibul. The next day, ten scaffolds are prepared in Court Square for the captured rebels. Then an extraordinary incident happens: the wind carries away the balloon seller along with the balloons and he falls straight into the open window of the palace confectionery and falls straight into a huge cake. To avoid punishment, the confectioners decide to leave the seller in the cake, smearing it with cream and covering it with candied fruits, and serve it in the hall where the ceremonial breakfast is being held. Thus, the balloon seller, trembling with fear that he will be eaten, witnesses what is happening in the hall. Cake tasting is temporarily postponed. The Three Fat Men want to see the captive gunsmith Prospero, and then, when, having enjoyed this spectacle, they are about to continue the feast, a twelve-year-old boy, Tutti’s heir, bursts into the hall screaming and crying.
The Fat Men have no children and are planning to hand over all their wealth and control of the country to Tutti, who is raised in the Palace as a little prince. Fat men pamper him in every possible way and indulge his whims. In addition, they want the boy to have a heart of iron, they do not allow him to play with other children, and his classes take place in a menagerie. Instead of a friend, an amazing doll was created for him, which is endowed with the ability to grow and develop along with Tutti. The heir is extremely attached to her. And now the beloved doll is broken: the rebel guards, who went over to the side of Prospero and the rebel people, stabbed it with bayonets.
The fat people don't want Tutti's heir to be upset. The doll urgently needs to be repaired, but no one is able to do this except the most learned doctor Gaspar Arneri. Therefore, it was decided to send him the doll, so that by the next morning, repaired, Tutti would have it again. Otherwise, the doctor will face serious trouble. Since the Fatties' mood is ruined, the cake with the balloon seller is taken back to the kitchen. The cooks, in exchange for balloons, help the seller get out of the Palace and show him a secret passage that starts from a giant saucepan.
Meanwhile, at the Fourteenth Market, the Three Fat Men organize festivities for the people: performances, entertainment, performances, during which the artists must campaign for the Three Fat Men and divert the people's attention from the scaffolds that are being erected for execution. At one such performance there are Dr. Arneri and the gymnast Tibul, who was turned by the doctor into a black man for conspiracy. During the performance of the strongman Lapitup, Tibul cannot stand it and drives him off the stage, revealing to the people that he is not a black man at all, but the real Tibul. A fight breaks out between him and the bribed circus performers. Tibulus defends himself with cabbage heads, picking them straight from the garden and throwing them at the enemy. Grabbing another head of cabbage, he suddenly discovers that it is a human head, and none other than the balloon seller. This is how Tibul learns about the existence of a secret underground passage to the Palace of Fat Men.
While Tibulus fights, Dr. Gaspar Arneri is found by the Fat Men's messengers and gives him the order and the broken doll. Doctor Gaspar Arneri is trying to fix the doll, but by morning he clearly cannot keep up. It takes at least two more days, and the doctor, along with the doll, goes to the Fat Men. On the way, he is stopped by the guards guarding the Palace and is not allowed to go further. They do not believe that he is really Gaspar Arneri, and when the doctor wants to show them the doll, he discovers that it is not there: having dozed off, he dropped it on the way. The upset doctor is forced to turn back. Hungry, he stops by Uncle Brizak's booth. Imagine his surprise when he discovers here a doll of the heir Tutti, which turns out to be not a doll at all, but a living girl named Suok, who looks like two peas in a pod to the doll. And then Tibulus, who soon appeared here, comes up with a plan to free Prospero.
In the morning, Doctor Arneri comes to the Palace. The doll was not only corrected by him, but looked even more like a living girl than before. Suok is a good artist and looks great as a doll. The heir is delighted. And then the doctor asks as a reward to cancel the execution of ten rebels. The indignant Fatties have no choice but to agree, otherwise the doll may be damaged again.
At night, when everyone is sleeping, Suok enters the menagerie. She is looking for Prospero, but in one of the cells she discovers a monster overgrown with fur, with long yellow claws, who hands her some kind of tablet and dies. This is the great scientist Tub, the creator of the doll for Tutti: he was imprisoned in the menagerie because he did not agree to make an iron heart for the heir. Here he spent eight years and almost lost his human appearance. Suok then finds Prospero's cage and frees him. With the help of a terrible panther released from a cage, Prospero and Suok break through to the very pan from where the underground passage begins, but Suok does not follow Prospero in time and is captured by the guards.
Suok's trial will take place the next day. So that the heir Tutti does not accidentally interfere and upset their plans, by order of the Fat Men he is temporarily put to sleep. Suok does not answer questions and does not react at all to what is happening. The angry Fat Men decide to give her to the tigers. Tigers released from the cage, seeing the prey, first rush towards it, but then unexpectedly turn away indifferently. It turns out that this is not Suok at all, but the same damaged doll that the rebel guards took away from the dance teacher Razdvatris who found it. The real Suok was hidden in a closet, replaced with a doll.
Meanwhile, shots are already heard and shells are exploding; the rebel people, led by the gunsmith Prospero and the gymnast Tibulus, storm the Palace.
The power of the Fat Men is coming to an end. And on that tablet, which the dying creator of the doll handed to the brave Suok, he revealed to her an important secret: she is Tutti’s sister, who was kidnapped with him at the age of four on the orders of the Fat Men and then separated from her brother. Tutti was left in the Palace, and the girl was given to a traveling circus in exchange for a rare breed of parrot with a long red beard.

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The time of wizards has passed. In all likelihood, they never actually existed. All these are fictions and fairy tales for very young children. It’s just that some magicians knew how to deceive all sorts of onlookers so cleverly that these magicians were mistaken for sorcerers and wizards. There was such a doctor. His name was Gaspar Arneri. A naive person, a fairground reveler, a dropout student could also mistake him for a wizard. In fact, this doctor did such amazing things that they really looked like miracles. Of course, he had nothing in common with sorcerers and charlatans who fooled too gullible people. Dr. Gaspar Arneri was a scientist. Perhaps he studied about a hundred sciences. In any case, there was no one in the country who was wiser and more learned than Gaspard Arneri. Everyone knew about his learning: the miller, the soldier, the ladies, and the ministers. Schoolchildren sang a song about him with the following refrain: How to fly from earth to the stars, How to catch a fox by the tail, How to make steam from a stone, Our doctor Gaspar knows.

Chapter 13
VICTORY

We have just described the morning with its extraordinary incidents, and now we will turn back and describe the night that preceded this morning and was, as you already know, full of no less amazing incidents.
That night, the armorer Prospero fled from the Palace of the Three Fat Men, and that night Suok was captured at the scene of the crime. In addition, that night three people with covered lanterns entered the bedroom of the heir Tutti. This happened approximately an hour after the armorer Prospero destroyed the palace confectionery and the guards took Suok prisoner near the rescue pan. It was dark in the bedroom. The tall windows were filled with stars. The boy was fast asleep, breathing very calmly and quietly. Three people tried their best to hide the light of their lanterns.
What they did is unknown. Only a whisper could be heard. The guard standing at the bedroom door outside continued to stand as if nothing had happened.
Obviously, the three who entered the heir’s room had some kind of right to be in charge of his bedroom.
You already know that the teachers of the heir Tutti were not distinguished by courage. Do you remember the incident with the doll? Do you remember how frightened the teacher was during the terrible scene in the garden when the guards stabbed the doll with sabers. You
They saw how the teacher got cold feet when he told the Three Fat Men about this scene.
This time the teacher on duty turned out to be just as much of a coward.
Imagine, he was in the bedroom when three unknown men entered with lanterns. He sat by the window, protecting the heir's sleep, and, in order not to fall asleep, looked at the stars and tested his knowledge of astronomy.
But then the door creaked, the light flashed and three mysterious figures flashed. Then the teacher hid in a chair. Most of all, he was afraid that his long nose would give him away. Indeed, this one is amazing
the nose clearly blackened against the background of the starry window and could be immediately noticed. But the coward reassured himself: “Perhaps they will think that this is some kind of decoration on the arm of a chair or the cornice of the opposite house.”
Three figures, slightly illuminated by the yellow light of the lanterns, approached the heir’s bed.
“Yes,” came a whisper.
“Asleep,” answered the other.
- Tes!..
- Nothing. He is fast asleep.
- So, go ahead.
Something jingled.
Cold sweat broke out on the teacher's forehead. He felt his nose grow with fear.
“It’s ready,” someone’s voice hissed.
- Let's.
Again something tinkled, then gurgled and poured. And suddenly there was silence again.
- Where to pour it?
- In ear.
— He sleeps with his head on his cheek. This is just convenient. Pour into your ear...
- Just be careful. Drop by drop.
- Exactly ten drops. The first drop seems terribly cold, but the second does not cause any sensation, because the first acts immediately. After it all sensitivity will disappear.
- Try to pour in the liquid so that there is no gap between the first and second drops.
“Otherwise the boy will wake up as if touched by ice.”
- Tes!.. I’ll pour it in... One, two!..
And then the teacher smelled a strong smell of lily of the valley. It spread throughout the room.
“Three, four, five, six...” someone’s voice counted down in a quick whisper. - Ready.
“Now he will sleep soundly for three days.”
- And he won’t know what happened to his doll...
“He’ll wake up when it’s all over.”
- Otherwise, perhaps, he would start crying, stamping his feet, and in the end
Three Fat Men would forgive the girl and give her life...
The three strangers disappeared. The trembling teacher stood up. He lit a small lamp, burning with a flame in the shape of an orange flower, and walked towards the bed.
The heir Tutti lay in lace, under silk covers, small and important.
His head with disheveled golden hair rested on huge pillows.
The teacher bent down and brought the light bulb closer to the boy’s pale face. A drop sparkled in the small ear, like a pearl in a shell.
A golden-green light shimmered in it.
The teacher touched her with his little finger. There was nothing left on the little ear, and a sharp, unbearable cold permeated the teacher’s entire hand.
The boy slept soundly.
And a few hours later that lovely morning arrived, which we already had the pleasure of describing to our readers.
We know what happened that morning to the dance teacher Razdvatris, but we are much more interested in finding out what happened to Suok that morning. After all, we left her in such a terrible situation!
At first it was decided to throw her into the dungeon.
“No, it’s too difficult,” said the State Chancellor. “We will arrange a quick and fair trial.”
“Of course, there’s no point in messing with the girl,” agreed the Three Fat Men.
However, do not forget that the Three Fat Men experienced very unpleasant moments while running away from the panther. They needed to rest. They said this:
- We'll sleep a little. And in the morning we will hold a trial.
With these words they went to their bedrooms.
The State Chancellor, who had no doubt that the court would sentence the doll, who turned out to be a girl, to death, gave the order to put the heir Tutti to sleep so that he would not soften the terrible sentence with his tears. Three men with flashlights, as you already know, did this.
The heir Tutti was sleeping.
Suok was sitting in the guardhouse. The guardroom is called a guardhouse. So, Suok was sitting in the guardhouse that morning. She was surrounded by guards. An outsider entering the guardhouse would be surprised for a long time:
Why is this pretty sad girl in an unusually elegant pink dress among the guards? Her appearance did not at all fit with the rough furnishings of the guardhouse, where saddles, weapons, and beer mugs were scattered.
The guardsmen played cards, smoked stinking blue smoke from their pipes, swore, and started fighting every minute. These guards were still loyal to the Three Fat Men. They threatened Suok with huge fists, made scary faces at her and stomped on her.
Suok took it calmly. To get rid of their attention and annoy them, she stuck out her tongue and, turning to everyone at once, sat with that face for an hour.
Sitting on the barrel seemed quite comfortable to her. True, the dress got dirty from such a seat, but even without that it had lost its former appearance: it was torn by branches, burned by torches, crushed by the guards, and sprinkled with syrups.
Suok did not think about her fate. Girls her age are not afraid of obvious danger. They will not be afraid of a pistol pointed at them, but they will be afraid of being left in a dark room.
She thought like this: “The gunsmith Prospero is free. Now he and Tibulus will lead the poor to the palace. They will free me."
While Suok was thinking in this way, the three guardsmen we talked about in the previous chapter galloped up to the palace. One of them, blue-eyed, as you already know, was carrying some mysterious package from
whose feet dangled in pink shoes with golden roses instead of buckles. Approaching the bridge where the guard loyal to the Three Fat Men stood, these three guardsmen tore the red cockades from their hats.
This was necessary so that the guard would let them through.
Otherwise, if the guard had seen the red cockades, he would have started shooting at these guards, because they had gone over to the side of the people.
They rushed past the guard, almost knocking over the chief.
“There must be some important report,” said the chief, raising his hat and brushing dust from his uniform.
At this moment, the last hour came for Suok. The State Chancellor entered the guardhouse.
The guardsmen jumped up and stood at attention, stretching out their huge gloves at the seams.
-Where is the girl? - asked the chancellor, raising his glasses.
- Come here! - the most important guardsman shouted to the girl.
Suok slid off the barrel.
The guard grabbed her roughly across the waist and lifted her up.
“Three Fat Men are waiting in the Courtroom,” said the Chancellor, lowering his glasses. - Carry the girl with me.
With these words, the chancellor left the guardhouse. The guardsman stepped behind him, holding Suok in one hand.
Oh, golden roses! Oh, pink silk! All this perished under a merciless hand.
Suok, who found it painful and awkward to hang across the guardsman’s terrible arm, pinched him above the elbow. She gathered her strength, and the pinch turned out to be thorough, despite the tight sleeve of her uniform.
- Crap! — the guardsman swore and dropped the girl.
- What? - the chancellor turned around.
And then the chancellor felt a completely unexpected blow to his ear. The Chancellor fell.
And the guardsman who had just dealt with Suok immediately fell behind him.
He was also hit on the ear. But how! You can imagine how powerful the blow must be to knock down such a huge and angry guardsman unconscious.
Before Suok could look back, someone's arms grabbed her again and dragged her.
These were also rough and strong hands, but they seemed kinder, and in them Suok felt like a hunter than in the hands of the guardsman, who was now lying on the shiny floor.
- Don't be afraid! - someone's voice whispered to her.
The fat men waited impatiently in the Courtroom. They themselves wanted to judge the cunning doll. Sitting around were officials, councilors, judges and secretaries. Multi-colored wigs - crimson, lilac, bright green, red, white and gold - glowed in the sun's rays. But even the cheerful sunlight could not decorate the pouting faces under these wigs.
The Three Fat Men were still suffering from the heat. Sweat fell from them like peas and spoiled the sheets of paper lying in front of them. Secretaries changed paper every minute.
“Our chancellor keeps himself waiting a long time,” said the First Fat Man, moving his fingers like a strangled man.
Finally the long-awaited ones appeared.
Three guardsmen entered the hall. One was holding a girl in his arms. Oh, how sad she looked!
The pink dress, which amazed yesterday with its radiance and expensive, skillful decoration, has now turned into pitiful rags. The golden roses withered, the sparkles fell off, the silk became wrinkled and frayed. The girl's head hung sadly
to the guardsman's shoulder. The girl was deathly pale, and her sly gray eyes went out.
The motley congregation raised their heads.
The Three Fat Men were rubbing their hands.
The secretaries took out long feathers from behind their equally long ears.
“Yes,” said the First Fat Man. - Where is the state chancellor?
The guard holding the girl stood in front of the meeting and reported. His blue eyes sparkled merrily:
— Mr. State Chancellor had an upset stomach on the way.
This explanation satisfied everyone. The trial has begun. The guardsman seated the poor girl on a rough bench in front of the judges' table. She sat with her head bowed.
The first Fat Man began the interrogation.
But here a very important obstacle was encountered: Suok did not want to answer a single question.
- Wonderful! - Fatty got angry. - Wonderful! So much the worse for her.
She doesn’t deign us to answer - good... The more terrible we will invent a punishment for her!
Suok did not move.
Three guardsmen stood on either side, as if petrified.
- Call witnesses! - Fatty ordered.
There was only one witness. They brought him in. This was a respected zoologist, the caretaker of a menagerie. He hung on a branch all night. It has only now been removed. That’s how he came in: in a colored robe, striped underwear and a night
cap. The hand of the cap dragged along the ground behind him like a gut. Seeing Suok, who was sitting on the bench, the zoologist staggered with fear.
He was supported.
- Tell me how it happened.
The zoologist began to talk in detail. He reported how, having climbed a tree, he saw between the branches the doll of the heir Tutti. Since he had never seen living dolls and did not imagine that dolls climb trees at night, he was very frightened and fainted.
- How did she free the armorer Prospero?
- Don't know. I didn't see or hear. My fainting spell was very deep.
“Will you tell us, ugly girl, how the gunsmith Prospero ended up free?”
Suok was silent.
-Shake her.
- Nice! - ordered the Fat Men.
The blue-eyed guardsman shook the girl by the shoulders. In addition, he gave her a painful flick on the forehead.
Suok was silent.
The fat men hissed with anger. The multi-colored heads shook reproachfully.
“Obviously,” said the First Fat Man, “we won’t be able to find out any details.”
At these words, the zoologist hit himself on the forehead with his palm:
- I know what needs to be done!
The meeting became wary.
— There is a cage with parrots in the menagerie. The rarest breeds of parrots are collected there. You, of course, know that a parrot can remember and repeat human speech. Many parrots have wonderful hearing and excellent speech
crumple... I think that they remembered everything that was said at night in the menagerie by this girl and the armorer Prospero... Therefore, I propose to call one of my amazing parrots to the Courtroom as a witness.
A roar of approval passed through the meeting.
The zoologist went to the menagerie and soon returned. On his index finger sat a large, old parrot with a long red beard.
Remember: when Suok wandered around the menagerie at night - remember! — one of the parrots seemed suspicious to her. Remember, she saw how he looked at her and how, pretending to be asleep, he smiled into his long
red beard
And now on the zoologist’s finger, as comfortably as on his silver perch, sat this very red-bearded parrot.
Now he smiled very unambiguously, glad that he would give poor Suok away.
The zoologist spoke to him in German. The parrot was shown the girl.
Then he flapped his wings and shouted:
- Suok! Suok!
His voice sounded like the crackling sound of an old gate being torn from its rusty hinges by the wind.
The meeting was silent.
The zoologist was triumphant.
And the parrot continued to make his denunciation. He actually conveyed what he heard at night. So if you are interested in the story of the liberation of the gunsmith Prospero, then listen to everything the parrot screams.
ABOUT! This was a truly rare breed of parrot. Not to mention the beautiful red beard, which could do credit to any general, the parrot conveyed human speech in the most skillful way.
- Who are you? - he cracked in a male voice.
And then he answered very subtly, imitating the girl’s voice:
- I'm Suok.
- Suok!
- Tibulus sent me. I am not a doll. I'm a living girl. I have come to free you. Didn't you see me when I entered the menagerie?
- No. I think I was asleep. Today I fell asleep for the first time.
- I'm looking for you in the menagerie. I saw a monster here that spoke in a human voice. I thought it was you. The monster died.
- This is Tub. So he died?
- Died. I got scared and screamed. The guards came and I hid in a tree. I'm so glad you're alive! I have come to free you.
- My cage is tightly locked.
- I have the key to your cage.
When the parrot squeaked the last phrase, everyone was indignant.
- Oh, vile girl! - the Fat Men shouted. - Now everything is clear. She stole the key from Tutti's heir and released the gunsmith. The armorer broke his chain, broke the panther's cage and grabbed the beast to pass freely
around the yard.
- Yes!
- Yes!
- Yes!
And Suok was silent.
The parrot shook its head affirmatively and flapped its wings three times.
The trial is over. The verdict was: “The imaginary doll deceived the heir Tutti. She released the most important rebel and enemy of the Three Fat Men - the gunsmith Prospero. Because of her, the best specimen of the panther died. That's why
the liar is sentenced to death. She will be torn to pieces by beasts.”
And imagine: even when the verdict was read, Suok did not move!
The entire assembly moved to the menagerie. The howls, squeaks and whistles of animals greeted the procession. The zoologist was most worried: after all, he was the caretaker of the menagerie!
Three Fat Men, advisers, officials and other courtiers sat on the podium. She was protected by bars.
Oh, how tenderly the sun shone! Oh, how blue the sky was! How the parrots' cloaks sparkled, how the monkeys twirled, how the greenish elephant danced!
Poor Suok! She didn't admire it. She must have looked with eyes full of horror at the dirty cage where the tigers were running, crouching. They looked like wasps - at least they had the same color: yellow with brown stripes.
They looked at people from under their brows. Sometimes they silently opened their scarlet mouths, from which they stank of raw meat.
Poor Suok! Goodbye circus, squares. August, little fox in a cage, dear, big, brave Tibul!
The blue-eyed guardsman carried the girl into the middle of the menagerie and laid her on the hot, shiny graphite.
“Let me…” one of the advisers suddenly said. - What about Tutti’s heir? After all, if he finds out that his doll died in the clutches of tigers, he will die of tears.
- Tes! - the neighbor whispered to him. - Tes! The heir Tutti was put to sleep... He will sleep soundly for three days, and maybe more...
All eyes turned to the pink pathetic lump lying in a circle between the cells.
Then the handler came in, slapping his whip and flashing his pistol. The musicians started playing a march. This was the last time Suok spoke to the public.
- Hello! - the tamer shouted.

The iron door of the cage rattled. The tigers ran out of the cage heavily and silently.
The fat men laughed. The councilors giggled and shook their wigs. The whip slammed. Three tigers ran up to Suok.
She lay motionless, looking at the sky with motionless gray eyes. Everyone stood up. Everyone was ready to scream with pleasure when they saw the reprisal of animals against the little friend of the people...

But... the tigers approached, one bent his forehead and sniffed, another touched the girl with his cat's paw, the third, without even paying attention, ran past and, standing in front of the podium, began to growl at the Fatties.
Then everyone saw that it was not a living girl, but a doll - a torn, old, worthless doll.
The scandal was complete. The zoologist bit off half of his tongue out of embarrassment.
The tamer drove the animals back into the cage and, contemptuously throwing the dead doll with his foot, went off to take off his formal suit, blue with gold cords.
The company was silent for five minutes.

And the silence was broken in the most unexpected way: a bomb exploded above the menagerie in the blue sky.
All the spectators fell with their noses into the wooden floor of the stand. All the animals stood on their hind legs. The second bomb exploded immediately. The sky was filled with white round smoke.
- What is this? What is this? What is this? - screams flew.
- The people are attacking!
- The people have guns!
- The guardsmen changed!!!
- ABOUT! An O!!!
The park was filled with noise, screams, and shots. The rebels broke into the park - that was clear! The whole company rushed to flee from the menagerie. The ministers drew their swords. The fat men were shouting obscenities. In the park they saw the following.
People were advancing from all sides. There were many of them. Bare heads, bloody foreheads, torn jackets, happy faces... These were the people who had won today. The guards mingled with him. Red cockades glittered on their hats. The workers were also armed. Poor people in brown clothes and wooden shoes advanced in a whole army. The trees bent under their pressure, the bushes cracked.
- We won! - the people shouted.
The Three Fat Men saw that there was no escape.
- No! - one of them howled. - Not true! Guardsmen, shoot them!
But the guardsmen stood in the same ranks as the poor. And then a voice boomed, covering the noise of the entire crowd. This was what the armorer Prospero said:
- Give up! The people won! The kingdom of the rich and gluttons is over! The whole city is in the hands of the people. All the Fat Men are captured.
A dense, motley, exciting wall surrounded the Fat Men.
People waved scarlet banners, sticks, sabers, and shook their fists. And then the song began. Tibulus in his green cloak, with his head bandaged with a rag through which blood was seeping, stood next to Pros-
feather.
- This is a dream! - one of the Fat Men shouted, covering his eyes with his hands.
Tibulus and Prospero began to sing. Thousands of people took up the song. She flew throughout the huge park, across canals and bridges. The people advancing from the city gates to the palace heard her and also began to sing. The song rolled like a sea wall along the road, through the gates, into the city, along all the streets,
where the working poor advanced. And now the whole city was singing this song. It was the song of a people who defeated their oppressors.
Not only the Three Fat Men and their ministers, caught in the palace, huddled and cowered and huddled into one miserable herd at the sounds of this song - all the dandies in the city, fat shopkeepers, gluttons, merchants, noble ladies, bald generals fled in fear and confusion, as if these were not the words of a song, but shots and fire.
They looked for places to hide, covered their ears, buried their heads in expensive embroidered pillows.
It ended with a huge crowd of rich people fleeing to the harbor to board ships and sail away from the country where they lost everything: their power, their money and the free life of lazy people. But then they were surrounded by sailors. The rich were arrested. They asked for forgiveness. They spoke:
- Don't touch us! We will no longer force you to work for us...
But the people did not believe them, because the rich had deceived the poor and workers more than once.
The sun was high above the city. The clear sky was blue. One would think that they were celebrating a big, unprecedented holiday.
Everything was in the hands of the people: arsenals, barracks, palaces, grain warehouses, shops. Everywhere there were guards with red badges on their hats.
Scarlet flags with the inscriptions fluttered at the intersections:
EVERYTHING MADE BY THE HANDS OF THE POOR BELONGES TO THE POOR. LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE! Down with lazy people and gluttons!
But what happened to the Three Fat Men?
They were taken to the main hall of the palace to show them to the people. Workers in gray jackets with green cuffs, holding guns at the ready, formed a convoy. The hall sparkled with thousands of sunspots. How many people were there! But
How different this meeting was from the one before which little Suok sang on the day she met the heir Tutti!
Here were all those spectators who applauded her in the squares and markets. But now their faces seemed cheerful and happy. People crowded together, climbed on each other's backs, laughed and joked. Some cried from
happiness.
The state halls of the palace had never seen such guests. And never before had the sun illuminated them so brightly.
- Tes!
- Quiet!
- Quiet!
A procession of prisoners appeared at the top of the stairs. The Three Fat Men looked at the ground. Prospero walked ahead, with Tibulus.
The columns staggered from enthusiastic screams, and the Three Fat Men went deaf. They were brought down the stairs so that the people could see them closer and be convinced that these terrible Fat Men were in their captivity.
“Here...” said Prospero, standing at the column. He was almost half the height of this huge column: his red head burned with an unbearable flame in the sunshine. “Here,” he said, “here are the Three Fat Men.” They crushed the poor people. They forced us to work until we sweat blood and took everything from us. See how fat they have become! We defeated them. Now we will work for ourselves, we will all be equal. We will not have a god -
whose, neither lazy people nor gluttons. Then we will feel good, we will all be full and rich. If we feel bad, then we will know that there is no one who is getting fat while we are hungry...
- Hooray! Hooray! - screams rang out.
The Three Fat Men sniffled.
- Today is the day of our victory. Look how the sun shines! Listen to the birds sing! Listen to how the flowers smell. Remember this day, remember this hour!
And when the word “hour” sounded, all heads turned to where the clock was.
They hung between two columns, in a deep niche. It was a huge oak box, with carved and enamel decorations. In the middle was a dark disk with numbers.
"What time is it now?" - everyone thought. And suddenly (this is the last “suddenly” in our novel)...
Suddenly the oak door of the box opened. There was no mechanism inside; the entire clock machine was broken. And instead of copper circles and springs, in this cabinet sat a pink, sparkling and shining Suok.
- Suok! - the audience sighed.
- Suok! - the children screamed.
- Suok! Suok! Suok! - applause thundered.
The blue-eyed guardsman took the girl out of the closet. It was the same blue-eyed guardsman who stole the doll of the heir Tutti from the cardboard box of the dance teacher Razdvatris. He brought her to the palace, he knocked down the state chancellor and the guardsman who was dragging the poor living Suok with his fist. He hid Suok in a clock cabinet and replaced her with a dead, torn doll. Remember how in the Courtroom he shook this scarecrow by the shoulders
and how did he give it to be torn to pieces by wild beasts?
The girl was passed from hand to hand. People who called her the best dancer in the world, who threw the last coins on her mat, took her into their arms, whispered: “Suok!”, kissed her, squeezed her on their chests.
There, under rough, torn jackets, covered with soot and tar, large, suffering hearts, full of tenderness, beat.
She laughed, ruffled their tangled hair, wiped fresh blood from their faces with her small hands, shook the children and made faces at them, cried and babbled something unintelligible.
“Give it here,” said the armorer to Prospero in a trembling voice; many thought that tears sparkled in his eyes. - This is my savior!
- Here! Here! - Tibul shouted, waving his green cloak like a huge burdock leaf. - This is my little friend. Go to court, Suok.
And from a distance, the little smiling doctor Gaspard was hurrying, making his way through the crowd...
Three Fat Men were driven into the same cage in which the gunsmith was sitting.
Prospero.

EPILOGUE

A year later there was a noisy and cheerful holiday. The people celebrated the first anniversary of liberation from the power of the Three Fat Men.
A performance for children was staged on Star Square. The posters bore the inscriptions: SUOK! SUOK! SUOK!
Thousands of children were waiting for the appearance of their favorite actress.

And on this holiday she was not alone: ​​a little boy, slightly similar to her, only with golden hair, came out on the stage with her.
It was her brother. And before that he was Tutti's heir.
The city was noisy, flags were crackling, wet roses were falling from the bowls of flower girls, horses decorated with multi-colored feathers were jumping, carousels were spinning, and on Star Square small spectators, transfixed, watched the performance.
Then Suok and Tutti were covered with flowers. Children surrounded them. Suok took a small tablet out of the pocket of her new dress and read something to the children.
Our readers remember this plaque. One terrible night, a dying mysterious man who looked like a wolf gave her a tablet from a sad cage in the menagerie.
This is what was written on it:

« There were two of you: sister and brother - Suok and Tutti.
When you were four years old, you were kidnapped from your home
Guardsmen of the Three Fat Men. I am Tub, the scientist. I was brought to the palace. To me
showed little Suok and Tutti. Three Fat Men said this: “You see
a girl? Make a doll that is no different from this girl.” I don't
knew what it was for. I made such a doll. I was a great student
nom. The doll was supposed to grow like a living girl. Suok turns five
years old, and so is the doll. Suok will become an adult, pretty and sad girl
Coy, and the doll will become the same. I made this doll. Then you were separated.
Tutti remained in the palace with the doll, and Suok was given to a traveling circus in exchange
of a rare breed of parrot with a long red beard. Three Fat Men in charge
They said to me: “Take out the boy’s heart and make an iron heart for him.” I
refused. I said that you cannot deprive a person of his human heart -
tsa. That no heart - neither iron, nor ice, nor gold - can
be given to man instead of a simple, real human heart. Me-
they put him in a cage, and from then on they began to instill in the boy that his heart
it is iron. He had to believe it and be cruel and stern. I
sat among the animals for eight years. I have grown hair and my teeth have become
long and yellow, but I have not forgotten you. I ask your forgiveness. We all
were dispossessed by the Three Fat Men, oppressed by the rich and greedy gluttons.
Forgive me, Tutti, which in the language of the dispossessed means: “Separated.”
Forgive me, Suok, which means: “All my life”....”

End.

Good day!
Many of us well remember Yuri Olesha’s fairy tale novel “The Three Fat Men” - a story about an imaginary country ruled by Three Fat Men - greedy, evil gluttons who in every possible way oppress the common people: artisans, small shopkeepers, poor traders and craftsmen. The people, languishing under the yoke of greedy rulers, rose up in revolt, led by the gunsmith Prospero and the tightrope walker Tibulus. But the fairy tale is not only about this, but also about the fate of the Heir Tutti and the girl Suok - brother and sister separated in childhood. The girl was an artist in a traveling circus, and the boy was taken by fat men to raise him to be a cruel ruler. Thanks to the girl’s kindness, her conversations, games and actions, the boy became kind and fair. An interesting and kind story, isn’t it? But where did the story of the creation of the novel begin? Where did the idea for the fairy tale come from?

Yuri Karlovich Olesha left us a rather modest creative legacy - in fact, only two significant works of art - “Three Fat Men” and “Envy”. But they were quite enough to firmly secure a place for themselves in Russian literature.
The images of the acrobat girl Suok and her mechanical double were not just born by chance, but represent a real quintessence of the feelings, impressions and memories of the writer himself.

When Olesha was little, he fell in love with a circus girl with golden curls, but what a shock it was for him when that same girl actually turned out to be a boy in disguise, a very unpleasant person in life. Afterwards, Yuri lived in Moscow in an apartment owned by Valentin Kataev, in Mylnikovsky Lane. The owner from time to time shared his square meters with many homeless writers. Olesha recalled that in that apartment there was a doll made of papier-mâché, which was brought by the artist Maf (Ilf’s brother), who was one of the temporary residents. That same doll surprisingly resembled a real girl. Writers often amused themselves by placing her on the window, from where she periodically fell out, shocking passers-by.
It is worth noting the fact that Yuri’s work was greatly influenced by Hoffman, whose works the writer simply adored, and the terrible story “The Sandman” made a huge impression. This work tells the story of a mechanical doll named Olympia, which replaced the hero of the story with his living lover.
It seems that everyone understands everything with the doll and the circus. But what is the history of the name Suok?
“Forgive me, Suok, which means: “All my life”…” (“Three Fat Men”). It turns out that three girls with the mysterious surname Suok actually lived in Odessa: Olga, Serafima and Lydia. Olesha was passionately in love with the youngest - Seraphim - Sima.

Suok sisters, from left to right: Lilia, Seraphima, Olga

The writer called her tenderly: “my little friend.” In almost the same way, in the fairy tale “The Three Fat Men” Tibul calls Suok. The first years they were happy, but Sima turned out to be, to put it mildly, a fickle person. One day, hungry writers decided to jokingly “promote” the accountant Mak, the owner of valuable food cards in those years. Taking advantage of the fact that he was fascinated by Sima, they came to visit him, had a hearty snack and suddenly noticed that Mack and Sima were not there. After some time, the couple returned and announced that they were... husband and wife. In those days, registering a marriage or divorce took a few minutes (remember the film “It Can’t Be” based on Zoshchenko’s stories?). The joke turned into misfortune for Olesha. Unable to see his friend’s grief, Kataev went to Mak and simply took Sima away from there. She did not resist too much, but managed to take with her everything she had acquired in a short time of family life. Olesha's newfound happiness did not last long.

Sima unexpectedly marries again and again not to Olesha - but to the “demonic” revolutionary poet Vladimir Narbut, it is he who will subsequently publish the fairy tale “Three Fat Men”. Olesha was able to return her this time, but by the evening a gloomy Narbut appeared at Kataev’s house and said that if Sima did not return, he would put a bullet in his forehead. This was said so convincingly that Sima left Olesha - this time forever. Between love and comfort, the real Suok preferred the latter. After Narbut perishes in the camps, and Lida - the older sister (and wife of E. Bagritsky) - goes to work for him and herself is sentenced to 17 years, Sima will marry the writer N. Khardzhiev. Then for another writer - V. Shklovsky.
And Olesha, abandoned by Sima, will one day ask the middle of the Suok sisters, Olga, “Wouldn’t you leave me?” - and, having received an affirmative answer, marries her. Olga will remain a patient, caring and loving wife until the end of her life, although she will always know that the new dedication to the fairy tale “Three Fat Men” - “Olga Gustavna Suok” - applies not only to her. “You are the two halves of my soul,” Olesha himself said honestly.

Olga Suok

The author of “Three Fat Men” will lean heavily on alcohol, which greatly undermined his health, and more than once come to talk to Sima, and when leaving, he will clutch money in his hand. On May 10, 1960, Yuri Karlovich will leave this world.

Initially Tamara Lisitsian was going to film the fairy tale, but in the end the production was made by Alexey Batalov. Batalov had dreamed of staging “Three Fat Men” for a long time, however, at first he was going to give Olesha’s characters a second life on the theatrical stage - at the Moscow Art Theater, where he worked. But then he was unable to carry out his plans, as Alexey Vladimirovich claims, for ideological reasons, because, according to him, the novel is a “caricature of the revolution,” and the images of the three fat men were copied from the “bourgeoisie from the Kremlin.” But nevertheless, Alexey Batalov's film was dynamic, full of humor, bright and emotional, delighting more than one generation of viewers. Alexey Batalov acted not only as the director of the film, but also took part in writing the script for the film, and played one of the main roles.

To play Tibul, the actor had to learn to walk on a tightrope. In addition to Batalov, the film features a whole galaxy of brilliant actors: Valentin Nikulin, Rina Zelenaya, Roman Filippov, Evgeny Morgunov, Alexey Smirnov, Viktor Sergachev, Georgy Shtil and others.
The Lithuanian girl Lina Braknite was chosen for the role of Suok, and she also had to work hard, mastering circus acrobatics and juggling.

Fortunately, there was always a mentor nearby - Batalov’s wife and part-time circus actress - Gitana Leontenko. However, the difficulties did not end with circus training. Since the dummy doll didn’t look very similar to the actress, Lina had to act as the doll in most scenes. The hardest thing was to maintain an unblinking gaze, for which the poor girl had a special film glued to her eyelids.

Here are some memories from Lina Braknite's interview:
“When I played a girl in the story, there wasn’t much makeup, but they did special makeup for the doll. They even glued my eyes on a special film - the doll couldn’t blink, and Alexey Batalov thought that I wouldn’t be able to hold out for long. Of course, there was a dummy doll, but my copy was used only for stunt scenes.

- So at first they glued my eyes, and then they started making do with just false eyelashes. It was also difficult to walk in a wig in the heat. Often it stuck to the hair, and in some places it was “removed” with a razor. But everything difficult is forgotten, and only the best remains in memory.”

The only thing the young actress did not fully cope with was the voice acting, so in some scenes Suok spoke with the voice of Alisa Freundlich.

By the way, Lina Branknite has not acted in films for a long time, but leads a quiet life in Lithuania, raising her granddaughter and helping her beloved husband, famous photographer and book publisher Raimondas Paknis.

And what happened to the doll mannequin itself, created for filming in 1966 by artist Valentina Malakhieva? The doll of the heir Tutti was made of latex, synthetics and papier-mâché and was supposed to be an exact copy of the actress Lina Braknite.

After filming, the doll was kept for a long time in the museum of the Lenfilm Film Studio, but then was sold into private hands. A collector who bought a Suok doll in a damaged state disassembled it into separate parts, creating two “improved” copies from them. Yulia Vishnevskaya acquired the original parts of the doll, put them together and restored the author’s “Doll of the Heir Tutti.” It was this doll with a difficult fate that became the pearl of the collection and a permanent exhibit of the Museum of Unique Dolls in Moscow.

And in Moscow, at the Polytechnic Museum at VDNKh, you can see the Suok doll, created by St. Petersburg mechanic and art designer Alexander Getsa.

The heroine of Yuri Olesha's novel is undoubtedly the master's favorite. Alexander Getsoi created a mechanical frame that hides a girl’s mannequin. Suok dances, freezes, looks at the viewer, brings the key to her lips and whistles... Her movements are regulated by a built-in timer. If the doll breaks, there is a special door in the back for repairing it.

The fashionista's outfit was designed by fashion designer Olga Denisova; the fabric, shoes and ribbons were chosen by the art mechanic himself. The master visited dozens of stores and sales to find a la vintage shoes that matched an amazing golden dress. Alexander Getsoi conceived his Suok in the style of mechanical dolls of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Thank you for attention!
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Olesha Yuri, fairy tale "Three Fat Men"

Genre: literary fairy tale

The main characters of the fairy tale "Three Fat Men" and their characteristics

1. Dr. Gaspar Arneri, very scientist, smart, kind. I was worried about the common people.
2. Suok, a 12-year-old girl, very brave, kind, determined, sister of the heir Tutti
3. The heir of Tutti, a boy of 12 years old, separated from Suok at 4 years old, is sad, quiet, kind and not at all evil.
4. Prospero. Gunsmith, very strong and courageous
5. Tibul. A gymnast, brave and honest.
6. Three fat men. Greedy, cowardly, cruel.
7. Aunt Ganymede. Kind and hospitable
8. Balloon seller. Greedy and cowardly huckster.
9. Razdvatris, dance teacher, skinny, stupid, funny.

1. Dr. Arnery's Walk
2. Closed gate
3. Shooting from guns
4. The tower is collapsing
5. One Hundred Carpenters
6. Gymnast Tibul on Star Square
7. Hatch in the dome
8. Flight of the Balloon Seller
9. Unusual cake
10. broken doll
11. Underground passage
12. Strange Negro
13. Strongman Lapitup
14. Cabbage head
15. Impossible task
16. Lost doll
17. August the Clown's Showroom
18. Souk in the palace
19. Suok gets the key
20. Suok saves Prospero
21. Suok in captivity
22. Treason of the Guards
23. Rescue Suok
24. Victory of the people
25. The mystery of Suok and Tutti.

1. Doctor Arneri witnesses the failed uprising and sees the escape of the gymnast Tibulus
2. The guards break the heir Tutti's doll and the Fat Men order Arneri to repair it.
3. Arnery loses the doll, but finds Suok, who goes with him to the palace and pretends to be the doll.
4. Suok talks to Tutti and receives the key to the menagerie
5. Suok releases Prospero and he escapes through an underground passage
6. They want to throw the Suok to the animals, but the people win and the Fat Men are put in a cage.

What does the fairy tale "Three Fat Men" teach?
This fairy tale teaches us courage, selflessness, kindness and justice. It teaches us to honestly do our job. Teaches not to be greedy and cruel. Teaches that the government should take care of the people, and not oppress them.

Review of the fairy tale "Three Fat Men"
I liked this fairy tale and especially the girl Suok, who turned out to be very brave. She was not at all afraid for her life, because she knew that she was doing the right and right thing. She helped her friends and her friends helped her. I also really like the smart doctor Gaspar Arneri in this fairy tale, honest and kind.

Proverbs for the fairy tale "Three Fat Men"
The rich know neither truth nor friendship.
If all the people breathe, there will be wind.
For the rich it is profit, but for the poor it is ruin.
God endured and commanded us.

Read the summary, a brief retelling of the fairy tale "Three Fat Men" chapter by chapter
Chapter 1. The Restless Day of Dr. Gaspar Arneri
Dr. Gaspar Arneri was so smart that he could pass for a wizard. He knew about a hundred sciences.
That day, the doctor decided to go to the park, which was located outside the city, not far from the palace of the Three Fat Men, and look for new beetles and other insects.
The doctor dressed carefully, despite the warm morning and bright sun, and decided to walk to the city ramparts, and there, near the city gates, hire a cab...
But it turned out that the gates were closed, and there were unusually many people around for a Tuesday.
The doctor asked what happened and learned that Tibulus and Prospero led the people to storm the palace of the Three Fat Men, and the guards were not letting the rest of the people out of the city.
The doctor realized that in his scientific research he had missed an important social event.
Then shots from cannons were heard and several people, including a doctor, climbed the tower to see what was happening near the palace.
The doctor had binoculars and they could see how people were running away from the palace, and how the horse guards were pursuing them.
Everyone rushed down, and the locksmith shouted that the guards would rush in and that they had captured Prospero.
And indeed the guards flew into the gate, stabbing and slashing, and after them they dragged a bound man - the gunsmith Prospero.
The tower was hit by a bomb and collapsed, and Dr. Gaspar Arneri fell.
Chapter 2. Ten chopping blocks.
The doctor lost consciousness, and when he came to his senses it was already evening. He saw a dead mechanic, and below there were many dead, already cold people. His glasses broke and his heels broke.
The doctor heard distant music and followed it. Soon he came to the illuminated quarter of the city. There life went on as usual. The flower girl was selling roses to a rich lady and her daughter. The lady said that it was good that Prospero was captured, because he wished them harm.
A boy ran by and pushed the lady and pulled the girl’s pigtail. He shouted that the gymnast Tibul was alive.
The flower girls were delighted. But then a procession passed by - a carriage with a coat of arms, guards and a hundred carpenters who were walking to make ten blocks.
The doctor hired a carriage and went home.
Chapter 3. Area of ​​a star
Dr. Arnery rode through the city and saw that some were happy that Prospero had been captured, while others, on the contrary, predicted the imminent death of the Fat Men.
The doctor reached Star Square. This square was so called because it was covered with a glass dome, and in the middle of it burned the largest lantern in the world, reminiscent of the planet Saturn.
There were a lot of people crowded here and guardsmen stood. They watched as a small figure made its way across the roof - the gymnast Tibul. He ran away from the guards and now wanted to get to the working-class neighborhoods through Zvezda Square.
Tibul stepped onto the steel cable that led from the house to the Star and walked waving his cloak.
The guards below prepared to shoot and the officer decided to personally shoot Tibul. He warned that the gymnast was about to fall into the pool and fired. The officer himself fell into the pool because some guardsman was faster and saved Tibul. The guards split up and began firing at each other.
At this time, Tibul reached the lantern and turned it off. Then he climbed out through the hatch onto the dome roof and ran away.
Dr. Arneri arrived home and began to write down what happened. Suddenly the gymnast Tibul enters his room.
Chapter 4. The Amazing Adventures of a Balloon Seller
The next day, ten scaffolds were being built on Court Square.
A strong wind was blowing and the balloon seller was lifted into the air. He was flying and screaming. A huge straw shoe fell off his foot and fell right on the head of the dance teacher Razdvatris. The teacher was very angry and began to shout. But he was immediately arrested as a disturber of public peace.
And the balloon seller flew straight to the Palace of the Three Fat Men.
He flew through the kitchen window and landed right on a huge cake that urgently needed to be served to three fat men.
The chief pastry chef was not at a loss; he ordered the seller to be coated with cream and sprinkled with candied fruits. Then the cake, along with the seller and the balloons, was placed on the table. The seller opened one eye and saw Three Fat Men.
The fat men discussed the cake and the rebellion. They decided not to execute Prospero yet in order to learn from him the names of the conspirators. And Prospero himself sat in a cage in the menagerie of the heir Tutti.
The guests wanted to see Prosepro and the Fat Men ordered to bring him.
They brought Prospero and he seemed very scary to the Fat Men. Prospero denounced the Fat Men and said that their power would soon end. The fat men promised him to execute him along with Tibulus.
Then Prospero was taken away and the Fat Men got ready to eat the cake. But just as they wanted to cut off the head of the balloon seller to find out what was inside, a loud cry was heard.
The heir, Tutti, a twelve-year-old boy who was to become the heir to all the Fatties' wealth, ran into the hall. He cried as the guards stabbed his favorite doll with sabers, which could walk, dance, sit and laugh. And the doll broke.
The fat men were afraid that there was a riot in the palace, because the guards shouted words of approval to the guards. But the Fat Men were even more frightened by the tears of the heir Tutti.
Therefore, the chancellor urgently wrote to Dr. Arnery to repair the heir’s doll, or he would be punished.
Meanwhile, the cooks were taking away the cake. One of them slipped and the cake fell. The cooks were having fun and laughing. Seeing that the main confectioners were not nearby, the seller offered the cooks the balls if they would help him escape.
One cook showed him a saucepan through which an underground passage led.
The cooks grabbed the balls and ran out onto the lawn, but then the pastry chef swore at them and the cooks released the balls. The balls flew high into the sky.
Chapter 5. The Negro and the Cabbage Head
In the morning, Aunt Ganymede brought a mouse in a mousetrap to Doctor Gaspar. She entered the room and saw the doctor, but then she saw a black man in red pants and dropped the mousetrap. The mouse ran away. And Doctor Gaspard said that the Negro loves scrambled eggs.
Then the doctor and the black man left, and Aunt Ganymede drank valerian drops.
Gaspard and the black man headed to the Fourteenth Market, where the artists bought by the Fat Men were giving a performance.
The first to speak was a clown who began to glorify the Fat Men, but they threw a cake at him and he ran away.
Then the strongman Lapitup came out, who began throwing weights and saying that Prospero’s head would break like that. The black man went after the strong man and began accusing him, naming his parents and sister. The strong man was confused and ran away.
And the crowd decided that the black man was just a bought artist and wanted to beat him. But the black man said that he was the gymnast Tibul and they immediately recognized him.
At this time the carriage and the guards appeared. Count Boneventura was looking for Dr. Arneri and the doctor was taken away. The strongman Lapitup wanted to catch up with the carriage and hand Tibul over, but did not have time.
Then he, the Spanish shooter and the director of the booth began to attack Tibul. Tibul jumped over the fence and ended up in the garden.
He began to throw cabbage at his pursuers, but suddenly one head spoke and said that she was a balloon seller. Tibulus tore the seller out of the ground.
At this time, a ball flew past and the Spaniard began to shoot at it. He missed and hit the director's hat. The director put a paper circle on his head, and the strong man Lapitup was bitten by a dog.
Tibulus ran away at this time.
Chapter 6. Unforeseen circumstance
When Tibulus entered Gaspar's room, he decided to make him a black man and rubbed him with a special liquid.
When the guards were taking him, Gaspar saw in the darkness of the carriage a beautiful girl who was lying completely motionless. The doctor thought she was sick and was called to cure her.
But when Gaspard was brought home, the captain of the guards gave him the order of the Three Fat Men. The doctor had until the morning to fix the doll. The doctor immediately doubted it, because he was not familiar with the mechanism of the doll.
He got to work and realized that he needed to make a new wheel, but for this the metal had to be aged for two days. Meanwhile, the doll reminded him of someone, but he couldn’t remember who.
The doctor decided to go to the palace and say that he would not be able to fix the doll by morning, let them do whatever they want with it.

Chapter 7. Night of the Strange Doll
The doctor was riding in a carriage and decided to take a nap. He began to count the elephants and was soon asleep. He dreamed of angry Three Fat Men.
But suddenly the carriage stopped. The guards did not want to let her through and demanded that they go back. The doctor said that he was Gaspar Arneri, but he was laughed at. Then he wanted to show the doll, but discovered that the doll was missing. It fell out somewhere along the way.
Gaspar Arneri drove back, looking everywhere for the doll. But she was nowhere to be found.
Finally he got hungry and wanted a snack. But everything was closed.
He saw a light on the outskirts and went there. It turned out to be a booth. The clown August opened the door for him and, recognizing Arneri, invited him to enter.
Augustus said that Tibulus had disappeared, then he remembered his daughter. The doctor became worried and asked where she was. Then the clown called Suok and a girl entered the booth. The doctor was stunned; in front of him stood a doll of the heir Tutti.
Chapter 8. The difficult role of a little actress
The doctor mistakes the girl for a doll and does not want to believe that she is a girl. But then the black Tibul appears, washes off the paint and kisses Suok.
Tibul assures the doctor that Suok is a very ordinary girl.
Then he tells Suok that she will have to play the role of the doll of the heir Tutti in order to penetrate the palace and free the armorer Prospero.
Tibul tells Suok about the underground passage that she must find.
Then Suok is dressed in the most beautiful dress and taken to the palace.
On the street, she sees a thin man take a real broken doll from a dog and run. It was the dance teacher Razdvatris.
Chapter 9. A doll with a good appetite
Heir Tutti was looking forward to the doll. And then Doctor Gaspar appeared with Suok. He walked through the palace and Suok walked next to him.
The heir was happy.
The doctor said that he taught the doll to dance and talk. The heir cried with happiness.
And Suok sang a beautiful song.
Then Three Fat Men came and began to ask what reward the doctor wanted. The doctor asked for clemency for everyone who was about to be executed. But the Fat Men shouted that the request was criminal.
Then the doctor whispered to Suok, “Die,” and she pretended to die. The heir burst into tears and asked everyone to have mercy.
The fat men gave up and the doctor calmly left.
The Suok doll remained with the heir. When the Heir began to eat the cake on the lawn, Suok also asked for a piece. The heir was glad that she would now have breakfast with him.
Suok was eating a cake and saw horror in the servant’s eyes - he had never seen dolls eat.
She stopped eating, and the servant sighed with relief. He decided that he was imagining it because of the heat.
Suko heard a knocking sound, reminiscent of a clock. And the Heir said that it was his iron heart beating.
Chapter 10. Menagerie
The heir left to do his homework, and Suok was left alone.
She did not know that the Fat Men were trying to make the Heir an angry and tough person, and therefore deprived him of the company of children. Leaving him with only a menagerie. Suok waited for the night.
When the heir returned, Suok began to tell him about her life and the Heir was surprised to learn about the poor and unhappy people. Then Suok said that she could whistle on the key and the Heir gave her the key to the menagerie. Suok whistled, and then mechanically put the key in her pocket.
When the heir fell asleep, Suok went to the menagerie. The guardsman decided that he was dreaming and he really was sleeping.
Suok walked between the cells and looked for Prospero.
Suddenly someone called her. She approached the cage and saw a strange, overgrown creature. The creature said that he believed that he would see her before he died, and handed Suok a tablet with some inscriptions. And then it died and Suok decided that it was Prospero who died. She screamed loudly.
Chapter 11. The death of the confectionery shop
The alarm was raised. Three guardsmen entered the menagerie, but did not notice anything. Then one saw something pink in the tree branches, and the guards decided that it was a parrot. They wanted to catch him, but then the old zookeeper came running and climbed the tree himself. But suddenly he screamed about the devil and fell down, entangled in the branches.
The guards fled.
And at that moment there was also panic in the palace. It was reported from the city that an uprising had begun and that it was headed by Tibul. The fat men lost their appetite and thought about how to suppress the uprising.
At this time, a terrible huge figure of a red-haired man appeared from the menagerie. He was leading a panther, and a little girl was sitting on his shoulder.
The panther rushed forward and the guards fled, throwing down their weapons. Prospero took two pistols, and Suok took one. They headed to the candy store and began to look for a way out. Propero smashed everything, knocking over pots and looking for an underground passage.
Finally the necessary pan was found, and Prospero jumped into it and disappeared.
But then a panther jumped into the pastry shop and Suok threw a teapot at it. The panther also rushed after Propero. The guards ran in.
Suok cried, she thought that Prospero was dead.
But a shot was heard from the pan, and then the guards pulled out the dead panther by the tail.
Suok laughed, and the guards arrested her.

Chapter 12. Dance teacher Razdvatris
That same evening, the guards came for the dance teacher Razvdatris and demanded that he urgently go to the palace. Razdvatris loved the Three Fat Men very much and immediately went with the guards.
There were a lot of people on the streets. Many chanted "Prospero".
Suddenly, the guardsmen's path was blocked by other guardsmen who did not want to let them through. Shots were fired and the carriage was overturned. The teacher fell and began to rummage through his things. Everything was in place, except the most valuable.
At this time, one of the guards saw something red in the box and grabbed the box. Three guards with red armbands hastily galloped into the palace.
Chapter 13. Victory
At night, three strangers entered the bedroom of the heir Tutti and began to pour some kind of drug into his ear. Teacher Tutti hid and watched the actions of the strangers. And the strangers said that now the heir would sleep for three days and would not know what happened to his doll.
Suok was in prison at that time and did not think about her fate. She thought about Tibulus and Prospero.
Three guards who were carrying the broken doll removed their red armbands, a symbol of the uprising, to be allowed into the palace.
The Chancellor ordered Suok to be brought. The huge guardsman roughly grabbed the girl and dragged her. But at that time he received a terrible blow to the ear and fell. Suok was grabbed by other hands and someone whispered to her: “Don’t be afraid.”
Suok was brought into the hall and began to interrogate. But Suok did not answer questions. The three fat men were angry and even ordered the guard to flick Suok on the nose. But Suok was still silent.
Then the zookeeper offered to bring a parrot. And the parrot began to tell what happened at night. He told how the girl said her name, how she freed Prospero.
The fat men sentenced Suok to death. She should have been torn to pieces by animals. But Suok was still silent.
Suok was thrown into a cage with the tigers, but the tigers did not pay attention to the girl. One simply touched it with his paw and walked away. Then everyone saw that in fact it was just a broken doll.
At this time the people went on an attack.
The fat men and ministers tried to flee to the harbor, but they were surrounded and caught. The fat men were brought back to the large hall and shown to the people.
And a guard with a red bandage brought Suok out of the closet and everyone applauded the brave girl.
Epilogue.
A year later, Suok and Tutti performed together at a festive performance. And the spectators threw flowers at them.
In the tablet that the dying creature gave to the menagerie, it was written that Suok and Tutti were brother and sister, who were separated at the age of four by Three Fat Men. This tablet was given to Suok by the old scientist Tub, who was forced to make a doll for the Heir and insert an iron heart into him. But the scientist refused to insert an iron heart into Tutti and for this he was put in a cage.
Tutti means Separated, and Suok means Whole Life.

Drawings and illustrations for the fairy tale "Three Fat Men"

If we talk about the possible origins of the image of Tutti’s heir, then I see two parallels here.

First, of course, the story of Kai and Gerda from Andersen's The Snow Queen. A kidnapped boy living in beautiful palaces under the supervision of an evil ruler is a direct analogue of Tutti’s “imprisonment” in the Palace of Three Fat Men. Separation from Kai's childhood friend - and from Tutti's sister. One person has an icy heart, another has an “iron” one. The girl who came to the palace and managed to save the recluse from soullessness and awaken life in him - in both fairy tales. And the very fact that, despite all the tricks of the villains, neither Kai nor Tutti ever became completely heartless.

And one more interesting detail. Freedom for Kai should be brought by the word “eternity”, made from pieces of ice. Kai cannot cope with the task alone, and only the joy of meeting Gerda helps the pieces of ice themselves form into the cherished word. Well, the heir Tutti is symbolically “liberated” by the meeting with Suok, whose name means “whole life.” “Eternity” and “all life” - there is a roll call of meanings.

The second possible parallel is not so obvious and much less rosy. I think that the image of Tutti’s heir could partly go back to the fate of a real historical character, Louis XVII. Louis the Seventeenth, as we know, never reigned: when the French Republic abolished the monarchy, he was still a child, heir to the deposed King Louis the Sixteenth. The entire royal family was imprisoned in the Temple Castle. Then the king and queen went to the scaffold, and the young heir remained in the castle under the supervision of a shoemaker, who treated him roughly and tried to re-educate him in a revolutionary way. In the end, the imprisonment undermined the prince's health and he died.

The tragic fate of little Louis is still considered one of the most shameful pages of the French Revolution: it turned out that the revolutionaries killed an innocent child. This story left an unpleasant aftertaste for centuries. Even opponents of the monarchy admitted that somehow everything turned out very ugly.

And perhaps the happy ending to Tutti's storyline is a kind of attempt to close the historical gestalt, i.e. somehow disown the dirty stain on the face of the revolution. An attempt to show an idealized alternative to the fate of Louis XVII: how wonderful everything could be if... if... For example, if Tibulus and Prospero, and not Marat and Robespierre, were at the head of the victorious people.

This method, by the way, is also used in the story “Dinka” by Valentina Oseeva. The story was written based on real events, which, however, were carefully “combed.” In particular, the boy Lenya, a street child and an orphan, with whom Dinka became friends, after which Dinka’s mother adopted him, also existed in reality. Only, unlike the book, he did not fit in with the family that adopted him and did not stay there for long. The adoption “experiment” ended in failure. But in the book, on the contrary, the realization of a dream is embodied: Lenya has become a reliable family member, Dinka’s brother and protector, and a support for his adoptive mother. He outlived his vagabond past and went to study...