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The doll looks like a real girl. She is dressed in a beautiful dress, and her blond hair is curled in curls. On the head of the doll is a huge bow made of delicate transparent fabric. The toy has large, as if alive, beautiful eyes. The doll was the size of a 7-8 year old child. The doll has no name. She is known to the whole magical world as the doll of Tutti's heir.

Creation history and owner

The scientist Tub made such a beautiful doll by order of the rulers of the city, the Three Fat Men, for their pupil, the heir Tutti. The fat men raised Tutti as their son so that he would inherit the throne. They took his sister away from him and instead gave her a doll.

It is clear that the doll was a very expensive toy. And this was one of the reasons why the three fat men, after the attack of the guards on Tutti and his doll, decided to repair the toy.

magical properties

At first glance, it may seem magical that the doll "could walk, sit, stand, smile, dance". However, all this is the usual skills of the most ordinary mechanical clockwork toys. Another thing is that the doll grew, grew in the same way as its owner grew.

Reincarnation and fate

Dr. Gaspar and the doll
(frame from the filmstrip "Three Fat Men", part 1)

The prince's doll is pierced with bayonets during the uprising. The doll was repaired by Dr. Gaspard Arnery. The doctor figured out the complex mechanism and tried to restore it, but failed: “There, in this cunning mechanism, there is a gear - it is cracked ... It is no good! It is necessary to make a new one... I have a suitable metal, like silver... But before you start working, you need to keep this metal in a solution of vitriol for at least two days. You know, two days…”. The doctor did not have enough time to fix the doll, he was taking it to the palace, but lost the toy on the way.

As a result, the role of the doll was played by the circus girl Suok, who, like two drops of water, looks like a lost toy. Everyone believed her. For an even more lively doll, as everyone thinks, which now knows how to sing songs and talk, the doctor, who “repaired” the doll, asks to spare ten rebels as a reward. Suok rescues Prospero, the head of the uprising, whom the Fat Men have settled in a menagerie, but they themselves do not have time to escape with him through a secret passage, and the girl is arrested.

The dance teacher Razdvatris finds the toy and wants to take it to the palace to receive a reward. But one of the guardsmen takes the doll away and takes it to the Fat Men himself. The guardsman went over to the side of the people and therefore replaced the living girl Suok, who was a prisoner of the rulers, with a spoiled doll. And at this time, the liberated Suok Prospero and the circus gymnast Tibul burst into the palace with an assault. This is how the fat man's empire collapses. Then Suok remembers the tablet, which was given to her by the scientist who invented the doll, but refused to invent an iron heart for Tutti. And on this tablet it is written that Suok is Tutti's sister, from whom he was separated as a child. Having united, the sister and brother go along with the circus, where they work as acrobats.

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Screen adaptations

"Three Fat Men", filmstrip in 2 parts. Artist K. Sapegin, Filmstrip Studio. USSR, 1966

Yuri Karlovich Olesha (1899-1960) - a writer who is considered one of the best stylists in Russian literature of the 20th century.

It is difficult to appreciate his virtuoso language by reading the incomplete text of the work, but only its summary. The Three Fat Men is a fairy tale novel published in 1928. This is the embodiment of the spirit of the romantic revolutionary struggle against injustice and oppression, it is full of fascinating events and amazing characters.

Part one. Rope walker Tibul. The hectic day of Dr. Gaspard Arnery. Ten blocks

Summary: "Three Fat Men", chapters 1-2. Everyone in the city knew about the scholarship of Gaspard Arneri, doctor of all sciences - from street boys to noble persons. Once he was going for a long walk outside the city, to the palace of the evil and greedy rulers - the Three Fat Men. But no one was allowed out of the city. It turned out that on this day the gunsmith Prospero and the circus gymnast Tibul led the assault on the government palace.

By evening, it turned out that the rebellious people were defeated, the gunsmith Prospero was captured by the guards and, by order of the Three Fat Men, was put in a cage in the menagerie of Tutti's heir, and the gymnast Tibul remained free to find him, the guards burned the quarters of the workers.

Star area

Summary: “Three Fat Men”, chapter 3. The rich rejoiced at the capture of Prospero, and the working people rejoiced that Tibul was free and laughed at the performance in the menagerie, where the rulers were portrayed by three fat monkeys. Returning home, Dr. Gaspar got to the Square of the Star. It was called so because above it hung on cables the largest lantern in the world, similar to the planet Saturn. Tibul appeared above the crowd that filled the square. He walked along a cable that held a huge lantern. The guards also divided into those who supported the people, and those who shouted: "Long live the three fat men!" Having reached the lantern along the wire, Tibul turned off the light and disappeared in the ensuing darkness.

Having reached home, where the housekeeper, Aunt Ganymede, was worried about him, the doctor, as a true historian, was going to write down the events of the day. Then there was a noise behind him, the doctor looked around and saw that Tibul had climbed out of the fireplace.

Part two. Doll of Tutti's heir. The Amazing Adventure of the Balloon Seller

Summary of “Three Fat Men”, Chapter 4. The execution of the captured rebels was being prepared on the Court Square. A strong wind lifted a huge bunch of balloons into the air along with a stupid and greedy salesman. He flew towards the Palace of the Three Fat Men and through the open window of the royal kitchen fell into the middle of a huge birthday cake. To avoid the wrath of the gluttonous rulers, the confectioners covered the seller with cream and candied fruits and served him to the table.

Celebrating the victory over the rebellious people, the fat men order Prospero to be brought. The gunsmith scornfully says that the end of the power of the rich will soon come, which frightens the guests of the fat rulers. "We will execute you along with Tibul when we capture him!" Prospero is taken away, everyone is about to start the cake, but they are interrupted by loud cries of the heir Tutti.

A twelve-year-old boy, the future heir to the Three Fat Men, a spoiled prince, was angry: some of the guardsmen, who had gone over to the side of the people, cut down the heir's favorite doll with sabers. As tall as him, this doll was Tutti's only friend, and he demanded to fix it.

The festive breakfast was urgently stopped and the execution was postponed, the State Council sent the captain of the palace guard Bonaventure with a broken doll to Dr. Arnery, with the order to fix the doll by morning.

The balloon seller really wanted to disappear from the palace. The cooks showed him a secret passage that began in one of the giant pots, and for this they asked for a ball. The seller disappeared into the pot, and the balloons flew into the sky.

Negro and cabbage head

Yu.K. Olesha, “Three Fat Men”, summary, chapter 5. In the morning, going to the doctor, Aunt Ganymede was very surprised when she saw a Negro in his office.

The government bribed the artists and on one of the squares there was a circus performance glorifying the Tolstyakov. The doctor and the Negro also went there. Spectators drive away the clown who called for the execution of the rebels, and the black man is mistaken for the same sold out circus performer. It turned out that it was Tibul. Fleeing from those who wanted to catch him and hand him over to the authorities by throwing cabbage heads at them, the gymnast stumbles upon a seller of balls and discovers a secret passage to the palace kitchen.

Contingency

Yu. K. Olesha, "Three Fat Men", summary, chapter 6. Dr. Gaspard turned Tibul into a black man with the help of special liquids and was terribly upset when he inadvertently opened up at the performance, and then disappeared.

The captain of the guards came to the scientist with a broken doll and an order to fix it by morning. The doctor is surprised at the skill with which the doll is made and realizes that he has seen her face somewhere. Having dismantled the mechanism, he realizes that he will not have time to fix the doll by morning and goes to the palace to explain this to the fat men.

Night of the Strange Doll

“Three Fat Men”, summary, chapter 7. On the way, the doctor falls asleep in a wheelchair, and when he wakes up, he finds that the doll is gone, it even seemed to him that she came to life and left him. He searched for a doll for a long time, until he got into the booth of Uncle Brizak's troupe of itinerant artists. Here he remembered where he had seen the face of the heir's doll - it looked like a little artist from Uncle Brizak's troupe - a dancer named Suok.

Part three. Suok. Difficult role of a little actress

“Three Fat Men”, summary, chapter 8. When the doctor saw Suok, he could not believe for a long time that she was not a doll. Only Tibul, who appeared in the booth, managed to convince him of this. When the doctor spoke about the extraordinary similarity between the girl and the doll and about his loss, the gymnast laid out his plan: Suok would play the role of the heir's doll, open the cage of the gunsmith Prospero, and they would leave the palace through a secret passage that Tibul had discovered.

On the way to the palace, they saw the dance teacher Razdvatris, carrying in his hands the found broken doll of the heir.

Doll with a good appetite

Y. Olesha, “Three Fat Men”, summary, chapter 9. Suok played her role well. The doctor announced that he not only changed the toy into a new dress, but also taught her to sing, compose songs and dance. Tutti's heir was delighted. The fat rulers were also pleased, but they became terribly angry when the doctor, as a reward, demanded that the execution of the rebellious workers be canceled. Then the doctor said that the doll would break again if his demand was not fulfilled and the heir would be very unhappy. The pardon was announced, the doctor went home, Suok remained in the palace.

She really liked the cakes and the doll had an appetite, which Tutti was very happy about - it was so boring for him to have breakfast alone. Suok also heard the iron heart of Tutti's heir beating.

Menagerie

Summary of the story “Three Fat Men”, chapter 10. The fat men wanted to raise Tutti cruel, so they deprived him of the society of living children, gave him a menagerie so that he would see only evil wild animals. Suok told him that in the world there is wealth and poverty, cruelty and injustice, that the working people will definitely overthrow the power of the fat and the rich. She told him a lot about the circus, that she could whistle music. Tutti liked the way she whistled a song on the key that hung on his chest so much that he did not notice that Suok had left the key.

At night, the girl made her way into the menagerie and began to look for the cage with Prospero. Suddenly she was called by name by a terrible creature that looked like a gorilla. The terrible beast died, having managed to hand Suok a small tablet: "Everything is written there."

Part four. Gunsmith Prospero. The death of the confectionery. Dance teacher Razdvatris

Yuri Olesha, "Three Fat Men", summary, chapters 11-12. The fat men received terrible news that the rebels were coming to the palace. All supporters of the authorities rushed out of the palace, but they stopped in fear at the menagerie: Prospero was moving towards them, holding a huge panther by the collar in one hand, and Suok in the other.

He released the panther, and he, together with Suok, began to make his way to the confectionery - to look for the pan, where the secret passage from the palace began. Guards loyal to the fat men seized the young dancer when she was about to jump into the underground passage after Prospero. The gunsmith was released, Suok was to be executed.

Dance teacher Razdvatris was supposed to be delivered to the Palace on the orders of the Three Fat Men, but he was stopped by the guards, who went over to the side of the people. They also got a broken doll of Tutti's heir.

Victory

Yuri Olesha, "Three Fat Men", summary, chapter 13. At the time when Prospero was running through the underground passage, three people entered Tutti's bedroom on the orders of the chancellor. They poured sleeping pills into Tutti's ear, putting him to sleep for three days, so that with his tears he would not interfere with the massacre of Suok.

She sat in the guardroom, guarded by guardsmen still loyal to the fat ones. At that moment, when the terrible chancellor came for her to take her to the court of the Three Fat Men, three guards went into the guard room, who went over to the side of the rebels. The chancellor received a terrible blow and fell unconscious, and instead of Suok, a broken doll was brought to court.

The judges could not get a word from the doll. The parrot, who was called as a witness, repeated Suok's conversation with Prospero and the creature that died in the cage, whose name was Tub.

Suok was sentenced to death by wild beasts. But when she was placed in front of the tigers, they did not react in any way to the tattered, dirty doll. A scandal broke out, but then the storming of the palace began by the insurgent people.

The victory of the rebels was complete, and the three fat men were put in the cage where Prospero was sitting.

Epilogue

The story of the great scientist Tub was written on the tablet. By order of the Tolstoys, brother and sister - Tutti and Suok - were separated. Tutti became the heir, and Suok was given to itinerant artists. Tub, on the orders of the Three Fat Men, made a doll that was supposed to remain with the heir. When he was ordered to replace Tutti's living heart with an iron one, he refused, for which he was thrown into a cage. Tutti means “separated” in the language of the disadvantaged, and Suok means “all life”.

And the faithful assistant of Tibul and Prospero, the brave little actress Suok from Uncle Brizak's booth! A girl with gray attentive and sly eyes and hair of the same color as the feathers of small gray birds. Who is she? Cinderella, who comes to the palace, where a handsome prince is impatiently waiting for her? I think, yes. But unlike the fabulous Cinderella, Suok not only does not stay in the palace among luxury and wealth, she takes away the heir Tutti from there. Or maybe this is a girl-doll, which was breathed into life by a wonderful master from the story of the German writer Hoffmann? And this is not excluded.

Olesha's friends who worked together at Gudok recall a gray-eyed girl, the same age as Suok, who lived in Mylnikov Lane. Passing along the alley, Olesha saw a girl. She was sitting at the open window and reading a book with enthusiasm. Soon Olesha learned which one - Andersen's fairy tales. And then he told his friends that he would certainly write a fairy tale so interesting that she would argue with Andersen himself, and he promised to dedicate his fairy tale to a girl from Mylnikov Lane.

I could consider this story as one of those romantic inventions that readers like so much, if ... if only on the very first and most luxurious edition of The Three Fat Men, decorated with 25 lovely colorful drawings by the artist M. Dobuzhinsky and printed on a special , almost with a watermark on the paper, there would not have been a dedication: “Valentina Leontievna Grunzaid”, or, speaking less solemnly, the girl Valya from Mylnikov Lane.

By the way, if you want to know what happened to this girl later, I’ll tell you that Olesha really gave her his fairy tale novel, that she read it, was friends with Olesha, and when she grew up, she married the writer Evgeny Petrov. And one more interesting detail. The strange name Suok - two sounds that the clown August uttered as if he were opening a small, round and hard-to-open wooden box - is also not an invention. In fact, Suok is the surname of Yuri Karlovich's wife.

This is how the portrait of the hero is gradually assembled bit by bit. That's how many different impressions, sometimes fleeting and the most unexpected, and sometimes strong, accumulated for a long time, can unite and melt in it. Now we know for sure that even the fabulous images of the tightrope walker Tibul and the rope dancer Suok are no exception in this sense. But once fairy-tale images were judged quite differently. Here is a story or a story for children - this is a completely different matter. Real life observations are indispensable here. Not like in a fairy tale. In one old translated children's book, the girl Mary even specifically asked her teacher: "What is the difference between a fairy tale and a story?" And Mrs. Bon, the teacher, answered her: “The story is true, and the fairy tale is fiction, an incident that is written and told for the amusement of children.” fables? “Oh no, my dear,” Madame Bon replies edifyingly, “to lie means to tell a lie with the intent to deceive, and storytellers warn that they want to tell fables, therefore, they do not intend to deceive.”

Well, how do storytellers still compose their fables? This question is already answered by the writer-storyteller himself, the very history of the creation of fairy-tale books. It only seems so that in a fairy tale the artist could give full rein to fantasy and completely dispense with real life observations. With Olesha, for example, the richest observations accumulated for the time being in the pantry of memory. And when the writer set about The Three Fat Men, everything suddenly came to life - a girl with a book at the window of a house in Mylnikov Lane, and fearless circus jumpers, and gymnasts, and riders, and rope dancers, whose art Yuri Karlovich admired more than once, of all spectacles most seem to be fond of the circus; and, finally, images of young heroines of fairy tales once read.

And note that the character of Suok - gaiety, courage, resourcefulness - was also imprinted in the features of her external appearance - a smile, a walk, a turn of her head, a gleam of gray attentive eyes. The artist made sure that Suok's pretty face became a reflection of her soul. It is no coincidence that Suok immediately liked Dr. Gaspard. And not only because she, like two drops of water, looked like a doll of Tutti's heir. No, she was charming with the charm of a living girl. Even the ferocious leather guards, at the sight of Suok, for a moment forgot their ferocity.

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The character of Suok - gaiety, courage, resourcefulness - was also imprinted in the features of her external appearance - a smile, a gait, a turn of her head, a gleam of gray attentive eyes. The artist made sure that Suok's pretty face became a reflection of her soul. It is no coincidence that Suok immediately liked Dr. Gaspard. And not only because she, like two drops of water, looked like a doll of Tutti's heir. No, she was charming with the charm of a living girl. Even the ferocious guardsmen, at the sight of Suok, for a moment forgot their ferocity.

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The character of Suok - gaiety, courage, resourcefulness - was also imprinted in the features of her external appearance - a smile, a gait, a turn of her head, a gleam of gray attentive eyes. The artist made sure that Suok's pretty face became a reflection of her soul. It is no coincidence that Suok immediately liked Dr. Gaspard. And not only because she, like two drops of water, looked like a doll of Tutti's heir. No, she was charming with the charm of a living girl. Even the ferocious guardsmen, at the sight of Suok, for a moment forgot their ferocity.

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