A little old man with a big nose sits by the fireplace and talks about his incredible adventures, convincing listeners that these stories are the pure truth.
While in Russia in winter, the baron fell asleep right in an open field, tying his horse to a small post. Waking up, M. saw that he was in the middle of the town, and the horse was tied to a cross on the bell tower - overnight the snow that had completely covered the city melted, and the small column turned out to be the snow-covered top of the bell tower. Having shot the bridle in half, the baron lowered his horse. Traveling no longer on horseback, but in a sleigh, the baron met a wolf. Out of fear, M. fell to the bottom of the sleigh and closed his eyes. The wolf jumped over the passenger and devoured the horse's hindquarters. Under the blows of the whip, the beast rushed forward, squeezed out the front of the horse and harnessed itself into the harness. Three hours later M. rode into St. Petersburg on a sleigh harnessed to a ferocious wolf.
Seeing a flock on the pond near the house wild ducks, the baron rushed out of the house with a gun. M. hit his head on the door - sparks flew from his eyes. Having already taken aim at the duck, the baron realized that he had not taken the flint with him, but this did not stop him: he ignited the gunpowder with sparks from his own eye, hitting it with his fist. M. was not at a loss during another hunt, when he came across a lake full of ducks, when he no longer had bullets: the baron strung the ducks on a string, luring the birds with a piece of slippery lard. The duck “beads” took off and carried the hunter all the way to the house; Having broken the necks of a couple of ducks, the baron descended unharmed into the chimney of his own kitchen. The lack of bullets did not spoil the next hunt: M. loaded the gun with a ramrod and skewered 7 partridges with one shot, and the birds were immediately fried on a hot rod. In order not to spoil the skin of the magnificent fox, the baron shot it with a long needle. Having pinned the animal to a tree, M. began to whip her with a whip so hard that the fox jumped out of his fur coat and ran away naked.
And after shooting at a pig walking through the forest with his son, the baron shot off the pig’s tail. The blind pig could not go further, having lost her guide (she was holding on to the tail of the cub, who led her along the paths); M. took hold of the tail and led the pig straight into his kitchen. Soon the boar also went there: after chasing M., the boar got its tusks stuck in a tree; the baron only had to tie him up and take him home. Another time, M. loaded the gun with a cherry pit, not wanting to miss the handsome deer - however, the animal still ran away. A year later, our hunter met the same deer, between whose antlers there was a magnificent Cherry tree. Having killed the deer, M. received both the roast and the compote at once. When the wolf attacked him again, the baron thrust his fist deeper into the wolf's mouth and turned the predator inside out. The wolf fell dead; Its fur made an excellent jacket.
The mad dog bit the baron's fur coat; she also went crazy and tore all the clothes in the closet. Only after the shot did the fur coat allow itself to be tied up and hung in a separate closet.
Another wonderful animal was caught while hunting with a dog: M. chased a hare for 3 days before he was able to shoot it. It turned out that the animal has 8 legs (4 on its stomach and 4 on its back). After this chase the dog died. Grieving, the baron ordered a jacket to be sewn from her skin. The new thing turned out to be difficult: it senses prey and pulls towards a wolf or a hare, which it strives to kill with shooting buttons.
While in Lithuania, the baron curbed the mad horse. Wanting to show off in front of the ladies, M. flew into the dining room on it and carefully pranced on the table without breaking anything. For such grace, the baron received a horse as a gift. Perhaps it was on this very horse that the baron burst into Turkish fortress, when the Turks were already closing the gates, they cut off the back half of M’s horse. When the horse decided to drink water from the fountain, the liquid poured out of it. Having caught the back half in the meadow, the doctor sewed both parts together with laurel twigs, from which a gazebo soon grew. And in order to scout out the number of Turkish cannons, the baron jumped on a cannonball launched at their camp. The brave man returned to his friends on an oncoming cannonball. Having fallen into a swamp with his horse, M. risked drowning, but he grabbed the braid of his wig tightly and pulled them both out.
When the baron was captured by the Turks, he was appointed bee shepherd. While fighting off a bee from 2 bears, M. threw a silver hatchet at the robbers - so hard that he threw it onto the moon. The shepherd climbed to the moon along a long stalk of chickpeas grown right there and found his weapon on a pile of rotten straw. The sun dried out the peas, so they had to climb back down on a rope woven from rotten straw, periodically cutting it and tying it to its own end. But 3-4 miles before the Earth, the rope broke and M. fell, breaking through a large hole, from which he climbed out using steps dug out with his fingernails. And the bears got what they deserved: the baron caught the clubfoot on a shaft greased with honey, into which he hammered a nail behind the impaled bear. The Sultan laughed until he dropped at this idea.
Having set off home from captivity, M., on a narrow path, could not miss the oncoming crew. I had to take the carriage on my shoulders, and the horses under my arms, and in two passes I had to carry my belongings through another carriage. The baron's coachman diligently blew his horn, but could not blow out a single sound. At the hotel, the horn thawed and thawed sounds poured out of it.
When the baron was sailing off the coast of India, a hurricane tore out several thousand trees on the island and carried them to the clouds. When the storm ended, the trees fell into place and took root - all except one, from which two peasants were collecting cucumbers (the only food of the natives). The fat peasants tilted the tree and it fell on the king, crushing him. The inhabitants of the island were extremely happy and offered the crown to M., but he refused because he did not like cucumbers. After the storm, the ship arrived in Ceylon. While hunting with the governor's son, the traveler got lost and came across a huge lion. The baron started to run, but a crocodile had already crept up behind him. M. fell to the ground; The lion jumped on him and fell straight into the crocodile's mouth. The hunter cut off the lion's head and drove it so deep into the crocodile's mouth that he suffocated. The governor’s son could only congratulate his friend on his victory.
Then M. went to America. Along the way, the ship encountered an underwater rock. From a strong blow, one of the sailors flew into the sea, but grabbed the heron’s beak and stayed on the water until rescued, and the baron’s head fell into his own stomach (for several months he pulled it out of there by the hair). The rock turned out to be a whale that woke up and, in a fit of rage, dragged the ship by its anchor across the sea all day. On the way back, the crew found the corpse of a giant fish and cut off the head. In the hole rotten tooth the sailors found their anchor along with the chain. Suddenly water rushed into the hole, but M. plugged the hole with his own butt and saved everyone from death.
While swimming in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Italy, the baron was swallowed by a fish - or rather, he himself shrank into a ball and rushed straight into the open mouth so as not to be torn to pieces. Because of his stomping and fuss, the fish screamed and stuck its muzzle out of the water. The sailors killed her with a harpoon and chopped her with an ax, freeing the prisoner, who greeted them with a kind bow.
The ship was sailing to Turkey. The Sultan invited M. to dinner and entrusted him with business in Egypt. On the way there, M. met a small walker with weights on his legs, a man with sensitive hearing, an accurate hunter, a strong man and a hero, who turned the blades of a mill with air from his nostrils. The baron took these guys as his servants. A week later the baron returned to Turkey. During lunch, the Sultan, especially for his dear guest, took out a bottle of good wine from a secret cabinet, but M. declared that the Chinese Bogdykhan had better wine. To this the Sultan replied that if, as proof, the baron did not deliver a bottle of this very wine by 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the braggart’s head would be cut off. As a reward, M. demanded as much gold as 1 person could carry at a time. With the help of new servants, the baron obtained wine, and the strong man carried out all the Sultan's gold. With all sails set, M. hurried to go to sea.
The entire navy of the Sultan set off in pursuit. The servant with powerful nostrils sent the fleet back to the harbor, and drove his ship all the way to Italy. M. became a rich man, but quiet life was not for him. The baron rushed to the war between the English and the Spaniards, and even made his way into the besieged English fortress of Gibraltar. On M.'s advice, the British pointed the muzzle of their cannon exactly towards the muzzle of the Spanish cannon, as a result of which the cannonballs collided and both flew towards the Spaniards, with the Spanish cannonball piercing the roof of one shack and getting stuck in the throat of an old woman. Her husband brought her some snuff, she sneezed and the cannonball flew out. In gratitude for the practical advice, the general wanted to promote M. to colonel, but he refused. Disguised as a Spanish priest, the baron sneaked into the enemy camp and threw dadelko cannons from the shore, burning wooden vehicles. The Spanish army fled in horror, deciding that a countless horde of Englishmen had visited them at night.
Having settled in London, M. once fell asleep in the mouth of an old cannon, where he hid from the heat. But the gunner fired in honor of the victory over the Spaniards, and the baron hit his head in a haystack. For 3 months he stuck out of the haystack, losing consciousness. in the fall, when the workers were stirring up a haystack with a pitchfork, M. woke up, fell on the owner’s head and broke his neck, which everyone was happy about.
The famous traveler Finn invited the baron on an expedition to the North Pole, where M. was attacked polar bear. The baron dodged and cut off 3 toes on the beast's hind leg, he released him and was shot. Several thousand bears surrounded the traveler, but he pulled on the skin of a dead bear and killed all the bears with a knife to the back of the head. The skins of the killed animals were torn off, and the carcasses were cut into hams.
In England, M. had already given up traveling, but his rich relative wanted to see the giants. In search of the giants, the expedition sailed across the Southern Ocean, but a storm lifted the ship beyond the clouds, where, after a long “voyage,” the ship moored to the Moon. The travelers were surrounded by huge monsters on three-headed eagles (radish instead of weapons, fly agaric shields; the stomach is like a suitcase, only 1 finger on the hand; the head can be removed, and the eyes can be removed and changed; new residents grow on trees like nuts, and when they grow old, they melt into air).
And this voyage was not the last. On a half-broken Dutch ship, M. sailed on the sea, which suddenly turned white - it was milk. The ship moored to an island made of excellent Dutch cheese, on which even grape juice was milk, and the rivers were not only dairy, but also beer. Locals were three-legged, and the birds built huge nests. Travelers here were severely punished for lying, with which M. could not but agree, because he cannot stand lies. When his ship sailed, the trees bowed twice after him. Wandering the seas without a compass, sailors encountered various sea monsters. One fish, quenching its thirst, swallowed the ship. Her belly was literally full of ships; when the water subsided, M. and the captain went for a walk and met many sailors from all over the world. At the baron's suggestion, the two tallest masts were placed upright in the fish's mouth, so the ships could float out - and found themselves in the Caspian Sea. M. hurried ashore, declaring that he had had enough of adventures.
But as soon as M. got out of the boat, the bear attacked him. The Baron squeezed his front paws so hard that he roared in pain. M. held the clubfoot for 3 days and 3 nights, until he died of hunger, since he could not suck his paw. Since then, not a single bear has dared to attack the resourceful baron.
Option 2
By the hot fireplace, a little old man with an impressive nose tells his adventures, vouching that they are all the pure truth.
While traveling around Russia, Baron Munchausen fell asleep in an open field and tied his horse to a post. In the morning, when the snow melted, the pillar turned out to be the top of the bell tower. Having shot through the bridle, M. went down to the ground and continued on his way in the sleigh. On the way, he met a wolf who ate the back of the mare, but the baron managed to harness it and continued on his way.
Then the baron told the audience about his unprecedented successes in hunting. Shooting ducks, he ignited the gunpowder in the gun with sparks from his eyes, another time he caught them on a string, he managed to plant seven partridges on a burning ramrod, and with the help of a long needle he caught a fox and with blows of the whip forced it to shed its luxurious skin intact. On another hunt, M. fired at a deer instead of a bullet cherry pit. The beast managed to escape, but a year later the baron shot it, receiving both meat and compote from the cherries of the tree that grew on the deer’s forehead. A jacket made from a dog helped the baron a lot when hunting; it points him to the tracks of a wolf and a hare.
Once the baron was captured by the Turks and they assigned him to graze their bees. Protecting the bees from the bears, M. found himself on the Moon, from where he was able to descend by tying a very long rope of rotten straw. He lured the bears onto a shaft smeared with honey. The Sultan appreciated the captive’s invention and sent him home. Returning to his homeland, M. had to carry a carriage and horses in his hands in order to miss an oncoming cart on a narrow road.
Finding himself on the island of Ceylon, M. almost became a victim of a lion and a crocodile. But he managed to cut off the lion's head and pushed it so deep into the crocodile's mouth that he suffocated. After this, the baron went to America, but on the way his ship was swallowed by a huge whale. There were hundreds of ships in its belly, and thanks to M.’s resourcefulness, they all managed to get out.
The Baron again went to Turkey, taking as his servant a fast walker, a man with very sensitive hearing, a strong man and a heroic blower. He bet the Sultan with all his gold that the Chinese ruler had the best wines on Earth. He ordered a bottle of Chinese wine to be delivered to him at four o'clock to check this. With the help of M.'s servants, he won the argument and the strongman took away all the Sultan's gold. The entire fleet of the Sultan was sent after them, but the hero-blower easily broke away from them. M. reached Italy and began to live for his own pleasure, but soon decided to take part in the war between the British and the Spaniards. Thanks to his resourcefulness and courage, the English army won, and the baron settled in London. Together with his relative, who dreamed of seeing giants, he went on a journey and ended up on an island made of cheese, where rivers of milk and beer flowed everywhere. Any lie was severely punished here, and M. fully supported this custom, because most of all he hated deception in any form.
After this adventure, the baron decided to settle down, but as soon as he stepped ashore, he found himself in the arms of a ferocious bear. M. managed to overcome him and since then not a single animal has dared to attack him.
Summary of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Raspe
A little old man with a big nose sat by the fireplace and told about his adventures. They listened to him and laughed:
Hey Munchausen! That's it Baron!
But he didn’t even look at them and continued to calmly tell how he flew to the moon, how he lived among three-legged people, how he was swallowed by a huge fish.
When one of the visitors, having listened to the baron, said that these were all your thoughts, Munchausen replied:
Those counts, barons, princes and sultans whom I had the honor to call my best friends always said that I was the most truthful person on earth...
Here are the stories of “the most truthful man on earth.”
While in Russia in winter, the baron fell asleep right in an open field, tying his horse to a small post. Waking up, Munchausen saw that he was in the middle of the town, and the horse was tied to a cross on the bell tower - overnight the snow that had completely covered the city melted, and the small column turned out to be the snow-covered top of the bell tower. Having shot the bridle in half, the baron lowered his horse. Traveling no longer on horseback, but in a sleigh, the baron met a wolf. Out of fear, Munchausen fell to the bottom of the sleigh and closed his eyes. The wolf jumped over the passenger and devoured the horse's hindquarters. Under the blows of the whip, the beast rushed forward, squeezed out the front of the horse and harnessed itself into the harness. Within three hours, Munchausen rode into St. Petersburg on a sleigh harnessed to a ferocious wolf.
Seeing a flock of wild ducks on the pond near the house, the baron rushed out of the house with a gun. Munchausen hit his head on the door - sparks flew from his eyes. Having already taken aim at the duck, the baron realized that he had not taken the flint with him, but this did not stop him: he ignited the gunpowder with sparks from his own eye, hitting it with his fist. Munchausen was not at a loss during another hunt, when he came across a lake full of ducks, when he no longer had bullets: the baron strung the ducks on a string, luring the birds with a piece of slippery lard. The duck “beads” took off and carried the hunter all the way to the house; Having broken the necks of a couple of ducks, the baron descended unharmed into the chimney of his own kitchen. The lack of bullets did not spoil the next hunt: Munchausen loaded the gun with a ramrod and skewered 7 partridges with one shot, and the birds were immediately fried on a hot rod. In order not to spoil the skin of the magnificent fox, the baron shot at it with a long needle. Having pinned the animal to a tree, Munchausen began to whip her with a whip so hard that the fox jumped out of his fur coat and ran away naked.
And after shooting at a pig walking through the forest with his son, the baron shot off the pig’s tail. The blind pig could not go further, having lost her guide (she was holding on to the tail of the cub, who led her along the paths); Munchausen. He grabbed the tail and led the pig straight into his kitchen. Soon the boar also went there: after chasing Munchausen, the boar got its tusks stuck in a tree; the baron only had to tie him up and take him home. Another time, Munchausen loaded the gun with a cherry pit, not wanting to miss the handsome deer - however, the animal still ran away. A year later, our hunter met the same deer, between whose antlers there was a magnificent cherry tree. Having killed the deer, Munchausen received both roast and compote at once. When the wolf attacked him again, the baron thrust his fist deeper into the wolf's mouth and turned the predator inside out. The wolf fell dead; Its fur made an excellent jacket.
The mad dog bit the baron's fur coat; she also went crazy and tore all the clothes in the closet. Only after the shot did the fur coat allow itself to be tied up and hung in a separate closet.
Another wonderful animal was caught while hunting with a dog: Munchausen chased a hare for 3 days before he was able to shoot it. It turned out that the animal has 8 legs (4 on its stomach and 4 on its back). After this chase the dog died. Grieving, the baron ordered a jacket to be sewn from her skin. The new thing turned out to be difficult: it senses prey and pulls towards a wolf or a hare, which it strives to kill with shooting buttons.
While in Lithuania, the baron curbed the mad horse. Wanting to show off in front of the ladies, Munchausen flew into the dining room on it and carefully pranced on the table without breaking anything. For such grace, the baron received a horse as a gift. Perhaps on this very horse the baron burst into the Turkish fortress when the Turks were already closing the gates - and cut off the back half of Munchausen's horse. When the horse decided to drink water from the fountain, the liquid poured out of it. Having caught the back half in the meadow, the doctor sewed both parts together with laurel twigs, from which a gazebo soon grew. And in order to scout out the number of Turkish cannons, the baron jumped on a cannonball launched at their camp. The brave man returned to his friends on an oncoming cannonball. Having fallen into a swamp with his horse, Munchausen risked drowning, but he grabbed the braid of his wig tightly and pulled them both out.
When the baron was captured by the Turks, he was appointed bee shepherd. While fighting off a bee from two bears, Munchausen threw a silver hatchet at the robbers - so hard that he threw it onto the moon. The shepherd climbed to the moon along a long stalk of chickpeas grown right there and found his weapon on a pile of rotten straw. The sun dried out the peas, so they had to climb back down on a rope woven from rotten straw, periodically cutting it and tying it to its own end. But 3-4 miles before the Earth, the rope broke and Munchausen fell, breaking through a large hole, from which he climbed out using steps dug out with his fingernails. And the bears got what they deserved: the baron caught the clubfoot on a shaft greased with honey, into which he hammered a nail behind the impaled bear. The Sultan laughed until he dropped at this idea.
Having set off home from captivity, Munchausen was unable to miss the oncoming crew on the narrow path. I had to take the carriage on my shoulders, and the horses under my arms, and in two passes I had to carry my belongings through another carriage. The baron's coachman diligently blew his horn, but could not blow out a single sound. At the hotel, the horn thawed and thawed sounds poured out of it.
When the baron was sailing off the coast of India, a hurricane tore out several thousand trees on the island and carried them to the clouds. When the storm ended, the trees fell into place and took root - all except one, from which two peasants were collecting cucumbers (the only food of the natives). The fat peasants tilted the tree and it fell on the king, crushing him. The inhabitants of the island were extremely happy and offered the crown to Munchausen, but he refused because he did not like cucumbers. After the storm, the ship arrived in Ceylon. While hunting with the governor's son, the traveler got lost and came across a huge lion. The baron started to run, but a crocodile had already crept up behind him. Munchausen fell to the ground; The lion jumped on him and fell straight into the crocodile's mouth. The hunter cut off the lion's head and drove it so deep into the crocodile's mouth that he suffocated. The governor’s son could only congratulate his friend on his victory.
Munchausen then went to America. Along the way, the ship encountered an underwater rock. From a strong blow, one of the sailors flew into the sea, but grabbed the heron’s beak and stayed on the water until rescued, and the baron’s head fell into his own stomach (for several months he pulled it out of there by the hair). The rock turned out to be a whale that woke up and, in a fit of rage, dragged the ship by its anchor across the sea all day. On the way back, the crew found the corpse of a giant fish and cut off the head. In the hole of a rotten tooth, the sailors found their anchor along with the chain. Suddenly water rushed into the hole, but Munchausen plugged the hole with his own butt and saved everyone from death.
Swimming in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Italy, the baron was swallowed by a fish - or rather, he himself shrank into a ball and rushed straight into the open mouth so as not to be torn to pieces. Because of his stomping and fuss, the fish screamed and stuck its muzzle out of the water. The sailors killed her with a harpoon and chopped her with an ax, freeing the prisoner, who greeted them with a kind bow.
The ship was sailing to Turkey. The Sultan invited Munchausen to dinner and assigned the matter to Egypt. On the way there, Munchausen met a small walker with weights on his legs, a man with sensitive hearing, an accurate hunter, a strong man and a hero who turned the blades of a mill with air from his nostrils. The baron took these guys as his servants. A week later the baron returned to Turkey. During lunch, the Sultan took out a bottle of good wine from a secret cabinet especially for his dear guest, but Munchausen declared that the Chinese Bogdykhan had better wine. To this the Sultan replied that if, as proof, the baron did not deliver a bottle of this very wine by 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the braggart’s head would be cut off. As a reward, Munchausen demanded as much gold as 1 person could carry at a time. With the help of new servants, the baron obtained wine, and the strong man carried out all the Sultan's gold. With all sails set, Munchausen hurried to go to sea.
The entire navy of the Sultan set off in pursuit. The servant with powerful nostrils sent the fleet back to the harbor, and drove his ship all the way to Italy. Munchausen lived a rich life, but a quiet life was not for him. The baron rushed to the war between the English and the Spaniards, and even made his way into the besieged English fortress of Gibraltar. On the advice of Munchausen, the British pointed the muzzle of their cannon directly towards the muzzle of the Spanish cannon, as a result of which the cannonballs collided and both flew towards the Spaniards, with the Spanish cannonball piercing the roof of one shack and getting stuck in the throat of an old woman. Her husband brought her a snuff, she sneezed and the cannonball flew out. In gratitude for the practical advice, the general wanted to promote Munchausen to colonel, but he refused. Disguised as a Spanish priest, the baron sneaked into the enemy camp and threw dadelko cannons from the shore and burned wooden vehicles. The Spanish army fled in horror, deciding that a countless horde of Englishmen had visited them at night.
Having settled in London, Munchausen once fell asleep in the mouth of an old cannon, where he hid from the heat. But the gunner fired in honor of the victory over the Spaniards, and the baron hit his head in a haystack. For 3 months he stuck out of the haystack, losing consciousness. in the fall, when the workers were stirring up a haystack with pitchforks, Munchausen woke up, fell on the owner’s head and broke his neck, which everyone was happy about.
The famous traveler Finn invited the baron on an expedition to the North Pole, where Munchausen was attacked by a polar bear. The baron dodged and cut off 3 toes on the beast's hind leg, he released him and was shot. Several thousand bears surrounded the traveler, but he pulled on the skin of a dead bear and killed all the bears with a knife to the back of the head. The skins of the killed animals were torn off, and the carcasses were cut into hams.
In England, Munchausen had already given up traveling, but his rich relative wanted to see the giants. In search of the giants, the expedition sailed across the Southern Ocean, but a storm lifted the ship beyond the clouds, where, after a long “voyage,” the ship moored to the Moon. The travelers were surrounded by huge monsters on three-headed eagles (radish instead of weapons, fly agaric shields; the belly is like a suitcase, only 1 finger on the hand; the head can be removed, and the eyes can be removed and replaced; new residents grow on trees like nuts, and when they grow old, they melt into air).
And this voyage was not the last. On a half-wrecked Dutch ship, Munchausen sailed across the sea, which suddenly turned white - it was milk. The ship moored to an island made of excellent Dutch cheese, on which even grape juice was milk, and the rivers were not only dairy, but also beer. The locals were three-legged, and the birds built huge nests. Travelers here were severely punished for lying, with which Munchausen could not but agree, because he cannot stand lies. When his ship sailed, the trees bowed twice after him. Wandering the seas without a compass, sailors encountered various sea monsters. One fish, quenching its thirst, swallowed the ship. Her belly was literally full of ships; when the water subsided, Munchausen and the captain went for a walk and met many sailors from all over the world. At the baron's suggestion, the two tallest masts were placed upright in the fish's mouth, so the ships could float out - and found themselves in the Caspian Sea. Munchausen hurried ashore, declaring that he had had enough of adventures.
But as soon as Munchausen got out of the boat, a bear attacked him. The Baron squeezed his front paws so hard that he roared in pain. Munchausen kept the clubfoot for 3 days and 3 nights, until he died of hunger, since he could not suck his paw. Since then, not a single bear has dared to attack the resourceful baron.
A funny old man shares his stories by the fireplace. Everyone doesn't believe our to the truthful baron! And it’s up to you, dear reader, to judge!
Blind Pig
While walking through the forest, I met little pig and a huge pig. I fired, but didn't hit. The piglet ran away. And the pig stood. I took a closer look and realized that the pig was blind. So I took a piece of the tail and took it to me. In the kitchen I was able to prepare my own food.
Crazy fur coat
While running away from a mad dog, I realized that it is difficult to run in a fur coat. Then I’ll throw her away and quickly lock myself at home. Through the window our hero saw how he was biting my clothes angry dog. And the next day a frightened servant came in to see me; it turns out the fur coat had gone berserk. Then I had to shoot her. My fur coat calmed down, and we put it in a separate closet. After that I put it on calmly.
Between a crocodile and a lion
It was terribly hot. We decided to take refuge in the forest. Turning towards the rustling sound, I realized that a lion was about to swallow me. After running a couple of meters, I saw a huge crocodile ahead. Not knowing what to do, I lay down. Covering your head with your hands. And then one head fell into the mouth of another enemy. Cutting off the head of a lion. I pushed it deeper into the crocodile’s mouth and he suffocated.
In the stomach of a fish
In Italy, our daredevil swam too far. And I saw a huge fish swimming with its mouth open. Curling into a ball, I fell into her mouth. And he began to move back and forth. The fish didn't like it, so I started jumping. She stuck her head out in pain. The sailors noticed and killed. I was scared. Suddenly, while cutting the fish, they hit me. Luckily, I survived unscathed! Seeing me, the sailors froze.
After planting the beans, I was able to climb to the moon and find my silver axe. But the hot sun scattered my plant. What to do? He wove a rope out of straw. Descending, I hung between the sky and the grass. Cutting off and tying one piece at a time, he tore off his rope. Since the distance was still large, I flew very quickly. And he found himself in a self-made hole. Having rested, I began to dig steps. As always, I solved the problem!
Happens to fairy-tale heroes all the time unusual stories. Many don't believe it. And they laugh. Our smart hero repeats: “Resourcefulness, ingenuity and the desire to win. It will help you get out of the most seemingly unsolvable situations!” Don't be afraid of anything, go forward!
Detailed retelling
This work was written by Erich Raspe about the adventures of Baron Munchausen.
An old man sits by the fireplace and talks about his adventures, vouching that it really happened.
Once, while traveling around Russia, Munchausen fell asleep right in a snowy field, and he tied his horse to a small peg. When the baron woke up, he was surprised to find himself in the middle of the city, and his horse hanging high on the cross of the church. It turned out that at night the snow melted, exposing the city, and the peg turned out to be nothing more than the top of a church cross. Having shot at the bridle, the baron lowered his horse to the ground. The following is about traveling on a sleigh drawn by a wolf.
One day, the baron noticed ducks swimming peacefully on the pond near his house. He grabbed a gun and wanted to shoot the birds. Munchausen was in a hurry. When he left the house, he hit the door frame, causing sparks to fly out of the unfortunate man's eyes. Pointing the weapon at the duck, he realized that there was nothing to set fire to the gunpowder; the flint was left at home. The hunter was not upset, he hit himself in the eye with his fist and the resulting sparks ignited the gunpowder.
The next duck hunt was also successful. The Baron forgot the bullets at home. Having tied a piece of bacon to the end of the string, he lured the birds, and they themselves began to string themselves onto the rope, swallowing the treat. When there were enough ducks, they took off into the air, carrying the baron himself with them. A savvy man strangled two ducks, went down a little and fell straight into the chimney of his house.
Partridge hunting was no less entertaining. He again had no cartridges. The charge was an ordinary ramrod, which pierced seven partridges and immediately fried them.
The Baron liked to hunt. Seeing the beautiful fox, he nailed her to a tree trunk with a long needle. I didn’t want to spoil the skin, so the baron began to beat the animal with a whip. The cheat took off her beautiful fur coat and disappeared into the thicket of the forest.
Another time, the baron caught a pig while hunting. She walked peacefully through the forest, holding her son's tail. The pig was blind. Munchausen shot off the ill-fated tail and took hold of its other end. So he brought the animal to his home. Later, he also brought to him a boar, whose tusks got stuck in a tree. The animal was tied up and taken home.
Once the baron used a cherry seed instead of a bullet. He shot at the deer, but the animal still ran away. Later, the hunter met a half-finished animal, in the midst of its horns, a cherry tree towered above it. This time he did not miss the deer. The baron killed the beast, receiving both roast and compote at once.
Munchausen was again attacked by a wolf, the baron was not afraid, he thrust his fist into the throat of the predator and turned it inside out. The wolf died, and a beautiful jacket came out of his skin.
A dog with rabies bit the baron's fur coat. The fur coat became infected and began to behave aggressively, ruining all the things in the closet. Munchausen calmed the fur coat with a shot and put it in another closet.
One day the baron shot a hare that had eight legs, but after a long pursuit of this animal, the dog died. The man was very upset and sewed a jacket from dog skin, which became indispensable for hunting. The jacket sensed prey a mile away and dragged its owner there, shooting buttons at the beast as it went.
While in Lithuania, Munchausen saddled an untrained horse and pranced around the table on it, without dropping a single vessel. Admiring people gave him this horse. Subsequently, the horse was pinched by the gate, and it was divided into two parts. Then the horse was sewn again, using laurel twigs.
Deciding to find out the exact number of enemy cannons, the baron flew back and forth on a cannonball. And finding himself with his horse in a swampy bog and stuck in it up to his neck, the resourceful Munchausen pulled himself and the horse out of this trap by his own pigtail.
The Baron was captured by the Turks, there he guarded the bees and managed to throw a silver hatchet onto the Moon itself, and then took it out.
Munchausen carried a team of horses and a carriage in his hands in order to pass the oncoming carriage.
While swimming in the Mediterranean Sea, the baron was swallowed by a fish and then freed by fishermen.
While living in London, the baron managed to fall asleep in a cannon, which was then fired, and he ended up in a haystack.
This is not all the adventures of the restless traveler. The Baron found himself in interesting situations many times. His intelligence and courage teach him not to retreat from his plans, but to go towards his goal.
Picture or drawing by Raspe - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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Gottfried August Burger
(Gottfried August Burger) 1747-1794
Amazing journeys on land and sea, military campaigns and funny adventures of Baron von Munchausen, which he usually talks about over a bottle with his friends
(Wunderbare Reisen zu Wasser und Lande, Feldzuge und lustige Abenteuer des Freyherrn von Munchausen, wie er dieselben bey der Flasche im Zirkel seiner Freunde selbst zu erzahlen pflegt) - Prose (1786/1788)
The duration of the adventures described in the book of Baron Munchausen is late XVIII c., during the plot main character turns out to be in different countries where the most things happen to him incredible stories. The entire narrative consists of three parts: the baron’s own narrative, Munchausen’s sea adventures and travels around the world and other remarkable adventures of the hero.
The incredible adventures of the most truthful man in the world, Baron Myusausen, begin on the way to Russia. On the way, he gets into a terrible snowstorm, stops in an open field, ties his horse to a post, and when he wakes up, he finds himself in a village, and his poor horse is struggling on the dome of a church bell tower, from where he takes it down with a well-aimed shot in the bridle. Another time, when he is riding a sleigh through the forest, a wolf, who attacked his horse in harness at full speed, bites into the horse’s body so much that, having eaten it, he himself finds himself harnessed to the sleigh, on which Munchausen gets safely to St. St. Petersburg.
Having settled in Russia, the baron often goes hunting, where amazing things happen to him, but resourcefulness and courage always show him a way out. predicament. So, one day he has to, instead of using a gun flint, forgotten house, use the sparks that fell from his eyes upon impact to fire the shot. Another time, with a piece of lard strung on a long rope, he manages to catch so many ducks that they were able to safely carry him on their wings to the house, where he, alternately wringing their necks, makes a soft landing.
While walking through the forest, Munchausen notices a magnificent fox, so as not to spoil its skin, he decides to catch it by nailing it to a tree by its tail. The poor fox, without waiting for the hunter's decision, leaves her skin and runs into the forest, so the baron receives her magnificent fur coat. Without coercion, the blind boar also comes to Munchausen’s kitchen. When the baron, with his well-aimed shot, hits the tail of the guide pig, which the mother was holding on to, the pig runs away, and the pig, holding on to the rest of the tail, obediently follows the hunter.
Most unusual hunting incidents are caused by Munchausen running out of ammunition. The baron shoots a cherry pit instead of a cartridge into the head of a deer, which then grows a cherry tree between its antlers. With the help of two gun flints, Munchausen explodes a monstrous bear that attacked him in the forest. The baron turns the wolf inside out, thrusting his hand into its belly through its open mouth.
Like any avid hunter, Munchausen's favorite pets are greyhounds and horses. His beloved greyhound did not want to leave the baron even when the time came for her to have offspring, which is why she gave birth while chasing a hare. Imagine Munchausen’s surprise when he saw that not only was her offspring rushing after his bitch, but the hare was also being pursued by her young hares, which she also gave birth to during the chase.
In Lithuania, Munchausen tames a zealous horse and receives it as a gift. During the Turkish assault in Ochakovo, the horse loses its hindquarters, which the baron later finds in a meadow surrounded by young mares. Munchausen is not at all surprised by this; he takes and sews the horse’s croup with young laurel sprouts. As a result, not only does the horse grow together, but the laurel sprouts also take root.
During Russian-Turkish war, in which our valiant hero could not help but take part, several more things happen to him funny incidents. So, he travels to the Turkish camp on a cannonball and returns back in the same way. During one of the transitions, Munchausen and his horse almost drowned in a swamp, but, having collected last strength, he pulls himself out of the quagmire by his hair.
The adventures of the famous storyteller at sea are no less fascinating. During his first trip, Munchausen visits the island of Ceylon, where, while hunting, he finds himself in a seemingly hopeless situation between a lion and the gaping jaws of a crocodile. Without wasting a minute, the baron cuts off the lion's head with a hunting knife and stuffs it into the crocodile's mouth until it stops breathing. Munchausen makes his second sea voyage in North America. Third, he throws the baron into the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, where he ends up in the stomach of a huge fish. Dancing a fiery Scottish dance in her belly, the baron makes the poor animal thrash in the water so much that Italian fishermen notice him. The fish struck by the harpoon ends up on the ship, and the traveler is freed from his imprisonment.
During his fifth voyage by sea from Turkey to Cairo, Munchausen acquires excellent servants who help him win an argument with the Turkish Sultan. The essence of the dispute boils down to the following: the baron undertakes to deliver a bottle of good Tokaji wine from Vienna to the Sultan’s court within an hour, for which the Sultan will allow him to take as much gold from his treasury as Munchausen’s servant can carry. With the help of his new servants - a walker, a listener and a sharp shooter, the traveler fulfills the conditions of the bet. The strongman easily carries out the entire treasury of the Sultan at one time and loads it onto a ship, which hastily leaves Turkey.
After helping the English during their siege of Gibraltar, the baron sets off on his northern sea voyage. Resourcefulness and fearlessness help out the great traveler here too. Finding himself surrounded by ferocious polar bears, Munchausen, having killed one of them and hid in his skin, exterminated all the others. He saves himself, gets magnificent bear skins and delicious meat, which he treats to his friends.
The list of the baron's adventures would probably be incomplete if he did not visit the Moon, where his ship was thrown by the waves of a hurricane.
There he meets the amazing inhabitants of the “sparkling island”, whose “stomach is a suitcase”, and the head is a part of the body that can exist completely independently. Sleepwalkers are born from nuts, and from one shell a warrior hatches, and from the other a philosopher. The baron invites his listeners to see for themselves in all this by immediately going to the Moon.
Following amazing trip Barona begins with an exploration of Mount Etna. Munchausen jumps into a fire-breathing crater and finds himself visiting the fire god Vulcan and his Cyclopes. Then, through the center of the Earth, the great traveler ends up in the South Sea, where, together with the crew of a Dutch ship, he discovers a cheese island. The people on this island have three legs and one arm. They feed exclusively on cheese, washed down with milk from the rivers flowing through the island. Everyone here is happy because there are no hungry people on this earth. After leaving the wonderful island, the ship on which Munchausen was, falls into the belly huge whale. It is unknown how things would have turned out further fate our traveler and we would have heard about his adventures if the ship’s crew had not managed to escape from captivity with the ship. By inserting the ship's masts into the animal's mouth instead of spacers, they managed to slip out. Thus ends the wanderings of Baron Munchausen.
It is believed that the fantastic “Adventures of Baron Munchausen” are based on the stories of a baron with the same last name who actually lived in Germany in the 18th century. He was a military man, served for some time in Russia and fought with the Turks. Returning to his estate in Germany, Munchausen soon became known as a witty storyteller who invented the most incredible adventures.
In 1786 German writer Raspe processed these stories and published them. He is generally considered to be the author of the book.
(Excerpts)
A little old man with a big nose sat by the fireplace and told about his adventures. They listened to him and laughed:
- Oh yes Munchausen! That's it Baron!
But he didn’t even look at them and continued to calmly tell how he flew to the moon, how he lived among three-legged people, how he was swallowed by a huge fish.
When one of the visitors, having listened to the baron, said that these were all your thoughts, Munchausen replied:
- Those counts, barons, princes and sultans, whom I had the honor to call my best friends, always said that I was the most truthful person on earth...
Here are a few stories from “the most truthful man on earth.”
Horse on the roof
I went to Russia on horseback. It was winter, it was snowing heavily. My horse was tired and began to stumble: I also wanted to rest. But I didn’t come across a single village on the way. Then I decided to spend the night in an open field.
There are no bushes or trees around, just some kind of post sticking out. I pulled the horse to the post, and I lay down next to him and fell asleep.
I slept for a long time. And when I woke up, I saw that I was not lying in a field, but in a village, there was a church nearby, and my horse was neighing on the roof of the church.
I thought and realized what happened. Last night this entire village was covered in snow, and only the top of the cross was sticking out. I did not know that it was a cross, and I tied my tired horse to it. And at night, when I was sleeping, a strong thaw began, the snow melted, and I found myself on the ground. But my poor horse remained there, on the roof.
Without hesitation, I fired, the bridle in half, and the horse quickly descended towards me.
Partridges on a ramrod
Oh, resourcefulness is a great thing! Once I happened to shoot seven partridges with one shot.
And it was like this.
I was returning from hunting, having spent all my bullets. Suddenly seven partridges flew out from under my feet. Of course, I couldn't let such a great catch slip away from me.
I loaded the gun - with what do you think? - with a ramrod! Yes, with an ordinary cleaning rod used to clean guns. Then I ran to the partridges, scared them and shot. The partridges flew up one after another, and my ramrod pierced seven at once. All seven partridges fell at my feet.
I picked them up and was amazed to see that they were fried! Yes, they are dust fried!
However, it couldn’t have been otherwise: after all, my ramrod became very hot from the shot, and the partridges that fell on it could not help but fry.
I dined with great appetite.
