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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

Dr. Gaspar Arneri, very scientist, smart, kind. I was worried about the common people.
Suok, a 12-year-old girl, very brave, kind, determined, sister of the heir Tutti
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.
Prospero. Gunsmith, very strong and courageous
Tibul. A gymnast, brave and honest.
Three fat men. Greedy, cowardly, cruel.
Aunt Ganymede. Kind and hospitable
Balloon seller. Greedy and cowardly huckster.
Razdvatris, dance teacher, skinny, stupid, funny.

Plan for retelling the fairy tale "Three Fat Men"

Dr. Arnery's Walk
Closed gate
Shooting from guns
The tower is collapsing
One Hundred Carpenters
Gymnast Tibul on Star Square
Hatch in the dome
Flight of the Balloon Seller
Unusual cake
broken doll
Underground passage
Strange Negro
Strongman Lapitup
Cabbage head
Impossible task
Lost doll
August the Clown's Showroom
Souk in the palace
Suok gets the key
Suok saves Prospero
Suok in captivity
Treason of the Guards
Rescue Suok
Victory of the people
The mystery of Suok and Tutti.

The shortest summary of the fairy tale “Three Fat Men” for a reader’s diary in 6 sentences

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

The main idea of the fairy tale "Three Fat Men"
Power based on extortion and cruelty will sooner or later be overthrown by the oppressed people.

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 Fat Men's 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 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"

Remember Yuri Olesha’s fairy tale “Three Fat Men” and the circus performer with the strange name Suok? So, Suok is not a first name, but a surname.

This story began in Odessa, where three girls were born and raised in the family of the Austrian emigrant Gustav Suok: Lydia, Olga and Serafima. The years of their maiden heyday fell on troubled times: war, then revolution, another and again war. Odessa of those years was a strange place: on the one hand, the city was flooded with various bandits and swindlers, on the other - writers and poets. There, three writers met the girls in 1918: writers Yuri Olesha and Valentin Kataev and poet Eduard Bagritsky.

Suok sisters, from left to right: Lydia, Serafima, Olga

20-year-old Olesha fell passionately in love with the youngest and most beautiful - 16-year-old Sima. He called her “my friend.” Kataev recalled this couple as follows: “Not tied to each other by any obligations, poor, young, often hungry, cheerful, tender, they were able to suddenly kiss in broad daylight right on the street, among revolutionary posters and lists of those executed.” Almost immediately they began to live together and moved to Kharkov.

Yuri Olesha

But Sima turned out to be, to put it mildly, fickle. For example, such a case is known. It was a hungry time. Olesha and Kataev (already famous writers) walked the streets barefoot, and to earn at least some money they composed poetic toasts and epigrams for other people’s holidays. However, they had an acquaintance, an accountant nicknamed “Mac,” who had virtually unlimited access to food cards; he was trying to court the Suok sisters. Olesha and Sima were already living together by that time, and Bagritsky was still married to Lida. But it was Bagritsky who came up with the idea of hiding this relationship from Mack. Serafima (she was 18 at the time) approached the accountant herself. Mack began to rejoice and began to treat the whole company.

These meetings continued for several days, and then Druzhochek suddenly announced that she had married Mac and had already moved in with him. Olesha was shocked by the betrayal. Kataev returned the flighty Sima home.

This is how Kataev described that evening: “Mack himself opened the door. When he saw me, he began to fuss and began to tug at his beard, as if anticipating trouble. I looked frightening: an officer's jacket from the time of Kerensky, canvas trousers, wooden sandals on my bare feet, a pipe smoking with shag in my teeth, and on my shaved head a red Turkish fez with a black tassel, which I received by order instead of a hat at the city clothing warehouse.

Don’t be surprised: this was the way of those glorious times - citizens were provided with what God sent, but for free.

You see...” Mac began, fiddling with the lace of his pince-nez.

Listen, Mac, don’t be a fool, call Buddy this very minute. I'll show you how to be a bluebeard these days! Well, turn around quickly!

“I’m here,” said Druzhochek, appearing at the door of a bourgeois furnished room. - Hello.

I came for you. There's no point in you chilling here. The key is waiting for you below. (Olesha was called “Key” in the company.)

Let me... muttered Mac.

“I won’t allow it,” I said.

“Excuse me, dear,” said Druzhochek, turning to Mac. “I’m very embarrassed in front of you, but you yourself understand that our love was a mistake.” I love Klyuchik and must return to him.

Let’s go,” I commanded.

Wait, I'll grab my things now.

Which things? - I was surprised. - You left Klyuchik in only a dress.

And now I already have things. And food,” she added, disappeared into the plush depths of the apartment and quickly returned with two packages. “Goodbye, Mac, don’t be angry with me,” she said to Mac in a sweet voice.”

Olesha's happiness did not last long - literally a few months later, Sima left him for the revolutionary poet Vladimir Narbut and went with him to Moscow. Narbut was known as a demonic figure. A hereditary Chernigov nobleman, he became an anarchist Socialist Revolutionary. He didn't have a hand. He was once sentenced to death, but was saved by the Reds.

Vladimir Narbut and Serafima Suok

Olesha tried to get Seraphima back from Narbut and even seemed to have achieved his goal, but after a while Narbut threatened suicide and Sima left - now forever.

A year later, Olesha married her sister Olga. And it is to her that his famous fairy tale “Three Fat Men” is dedicated. But for everyone who knew Sima Suok, it was obvious: she was the circus performer Suok and the doll of Tutti’s heir. This was not a secret for Olga either. Olesha himself told her: “You are the two halves of my soul.” But Suok herself from the fairy tale is not so simple: she is both a kind and brave circus performer and a soulless mechanical doll.

In "Three Fat Men" it is said that "Suok" means "all life" in the "language of the dispossessed." Olesha portrayed himself in the fairy tale as the gymnast Tibul: if you read “Tibul” backwards, you get “lubit.”

And the riddle of Seraphim herself was akin to the riddle of the doll girl Suok. Then no one condemned her: neither her friends nor the men she abandoned. Only much later will Kataev depict her in a very unsightly form in the book of memoirs “My Diamond Crown.” But today her prudence and indifferent attitude towards those who were nearby cannot but amaze.

Serafima Suok and Yuri Olesha (center) at Mayakovsky's funeral

Her marriage to Narbut lasted until 1936. And then he was arrested. Sima herself did not go to Lubyanka to find out about his fate - her sister Lydia, by that time Bagritsky’s widow, went there instead. She ended up in camps for 17 years for her intercession.

Seraphima's next husband was the writer Nikolai Khardzhiev. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, Sima took advantage of this marriage in 1941 as an opportunity to leave Moscow for evacuation.

Viktor Shklovsky and Serafima Suok

In 1956, she married another classic - Viktor Shklovsky, for whom she worked as a stenographer, and he left the family for Sima. V. Katanyan recalled in his book “Touching Idols”:

“Viktor Borisovich (Shklovsky) was excited... Tears welled up in his eyes, but suddenly:
- When Elsa (Triole) asked me why I left my wife for Seraphima, I explained to her: “She told me that I was a genius, and Sima that I was curly.”

Olesha, having become a classic of Russian literature, stopped writing. At the end of his life he practically drank himself to death. Periodically he appeared in the Shklovsky-Suok family. Shklovsky usually went into his office, closing the door tightly. There was a conversation going on in the other room. The loud voice is Seraphim, the quiet voice is Olesha. About five minutes later Olesha came out into the corridor, disgustedly holding a large bill in his fingers. Sima saw him off, wiping away her tears.

During his life, Yuri Olesha did not say a single rude word about Seraphim. He called his love for Suok, who betrayed him, the most beautiful thing that happened in his life.

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

His virtuoso language is difficult to appreciate when reading an incomplete text of the work, but only its summary. "Three Fat Men" is a fairy tale novel published in 1928. It embodies the spirit of romantic revolutionary struggle against injustice and oppression, and is full of fascinating events and amazing characters.

Part one. Rope walker Tibulus. A hectic day for Dr. Gaspar Arneri. Ten chopping blocks

Summary: “Three Fat Men,” chapters 1-2. Everyone in the city knew about the scholarship of Gaspar Arneri, a doctor of all sciences, from street boys to noble persons. One day 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 rebel people were defeated, the gunsmith Prospero was captured by the guards and, by order of the Three Fat Men, he was put in a cage in the menagerie of the heir Tutti, and the gymnast Tibulus remained free to find him, the guards burned the workers' quarters.

Star area

Summary: “Three Fat Men,” chapter 3. The rich people rejoiced at Prospero’s captivity, and the working people rejoiced that Tibulus was free and laughed at the performance in the menagerie, where the rulers were portrayed by three fat monkeys. Returning home, Doctor Gaspar came to Star Square. It was called that because above it hung on cables the largest lantern in the world, similar to the planet Saturn. Tibulus appeared above the crowd filling the square. He walked along a cable that held a huge lantern. The guards were 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 his housekeeper, Aunt Ganymede, was worried about him, the doctor, like a true historian, set out to record the events of the day. Then a noise was heard behind him, the doctor looked around and saw that Tibul had climbed out of the fireplace.

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

Summary of “Three Fat Men,” chapter 4. At Court Square, the execution of the captured rebels was being prepared. A strong wind lifted a huge bunch of balloons into the air along with a stupid and greedy seller. He flew towards the Palace of 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 rebel people, the fat men order Prospero to be brought. The gunsmith says with contempt that the power of the rich will soon come to an end, which frightens the guests of the fat rulers. “We will execute you along with Tibulus when we capture him!” Prospero is taken away, everyone is about to start eating the cake, but they are interrupted by the loud screams of the heir Tutti.

A twelve-year-old boy, the future heir of the Three Fat Men, a spoiled prince, was angry: part of the guards who had gone over to the side of the people chopped up the heir’s favorite doll with sabers. As tall as he was, this doll was Tutti’s only friend, and he demanded that it be repaired.

The festive breakfast was urgently stopped and the execution was postponed, the State Council sent the captain of the palace guard Bonaventure with the broken doll to Doctor Arneri, with the order to repair the doll by the 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 pan, and the balls flew into the sky.

Negro and cabbage head

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

The government bribed the artists and a circus performance glorifying the Fat Men was held in one of the squares. The doctor and the black man also went there. The 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 balloon seller and discovers a secret passage to the palace kitchen.

Contingency

Y. K. Olesha, “Three Fat Men,” summary, chapter 6. Doctor Gaspar turned Tibul into a black man with the help of special liquids and was terribly upset when he carelessly revealed himself 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 amazed at the skill with which the doll is made and realizes that he has seen her face somewhere. Having disassembled the mechanism, he realizes that he will not have time to fix the doll by the 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 the stroller, and when he wakes up, he discovers that the doll has disappeared, it even seemed to him that it came to life and left him. He searched for the doll for a long time until he ended up in the booth of Uncle Brizak’s troupe of traveling artists. Here he remembered where he had seen the face of the heir’s doll - a little artist from Uncle Brizak’s troupe, a dancer named Suok, looked like her.

Part three. Suok. Difficult role of a little actress

“Three Fat Men,” summary, chapter 8. When the doctor saw Suok, for a long time he could not believe that she was not a doll. Only Tibul, who appeared in the booth, was able 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 outlined his plan: Suok will play the role of the heir's doll, open the cage of the armorer Prospero, and they will leave the palace through the secret passage that Tibulus 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 dressed the toy in a new dress, but also taught her to sing, write songs and dance. Heir Tutti was completely delighted. The fat rulers were also pleased, but they became terribly angry when the doctor, as a reward, demanded that the execution of the rebel workers be cancelled. Then the doctor said that the doll would break again if his demand was not fulfilled and the heir would be very dissatisfied. 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 made Tutti very happy - he was so bored having breakfast alone. And Suok also heard the iron heart of the heir Tutti beating.

Menagerie

Summary of the story “Three Fat Men,” chapter 10. The fat men wanted to raise Tutti to be cruel, so they deprived him of the company of living children and 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 working people will definitely overthrow the power of the fat and 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 how the key remained with Suok.

At night, the girl snuck into the menagerie and began looking for Prospero’s cage. Suddenly a terrible creature similar to a gorilla called her by name. The terrible beast died, having managed to hand Suok a small tablet: “Everything is written there.”

Part four. Armourer Prospero. The death of a candy store. 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 government rushed out of the palace, but at the menagerie they stopped in fear: 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 into the pastry shop - to look for the saucepan where the secret passage from the palace began. The guards, loyal to the fat men, grabbed the young dancer when she was ready to jump into the underground passage after Prospero. The gunsmith was released, Suok was to be executed.

The dance teacher Razdvatris was supposed to be taken to the Palace by order 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 the heir Tutti.

Victory

Yuri Olesha, “Three Fat Men,” summary, chapter 13. While Prospero was fleeing 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 he would not interfere with the reprisal against Suok with his tears.

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

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

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

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 Toub was written on the tablet. By order of the Fat Men, brother and sister - Tutti and Suok - were separated. Tutti became the heir, and Suok was given to traveling artists. Toub, by order of the Three Fat Men, made a doll that was 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 “whole life.”

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 the 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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There were two of you: sister and brother - Suok and Tutti.
When you were four years old, you were kidnapped from your home by the Three Fat Men guards.
I am Tub, a scientist. I was brought to the palace. They showed me little Suok and Tutti. Three Fat Men said this: “Do you see the girl? Make a doll that is no different from this girl.” I didn't know what it was for.

I made such a doll. I was a great scientist. The doll was supposed to grow like a living girl. Suok will be five years old, and so will the doll. Suok will become an adult, pretty and sad girl, 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 for a rare breed of parrot with a long red beard.

The Three Fat Men ordered 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. That no heart - neither iron, nor ice, nor gold - can be given to a person instead of a simple, real human heart.
They put me in a cage, and from then on they began to teach the boy that he had a heart of iron. He had to believe it and be cruel and stern. I sat among the animals for eight years. I have grown fur, and my teeth have become long and yellow, but I have not forgotten you. I ask your forgiveness. We have all been 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”..."
"Three Fat Men", Yuri Olesha

Y. Olesha, V. Meyerhold, 1930s.

A poignant tale by Yuri Olesha.
Once upon a time, in Soviet times, she was considered revolutionary, and the rebel Prospero was almost the most important hero.
In fact, this is a fairy tale about love. Of course, unhappy. Here, to use the fabulous “language of the dispossessed,” everyone was separated.

Olesha gave the little circus performer the name of his former lover - Sima Suok. Fate separated them: Simochka left him for another writer, Vladimir Narbut. Then Olesha married her sister Ole, also with the surname Suok.

Suok sisters: Lydia, Serafima, Olga. 1920s.

At the end of the tale, he made Heir Tutti the brother of the sad girl.
But her dear friend was the tightrope walker Tibul, in whom Olesha encrypted himself.
The circus performer's name should have simply been read backwards. And then it turned out “Lubit”.
Loves Suok.