Scheherazade was the daughter of the vizier of King Shahriyar and her father, the vizier, was so smart that he married a very wise woman, who bore him two daughters: Scheherazade and Dunyazade.
Mom taught her daughters how to behave with a man in order to turn his anger into mercy and be not just desired by him, but necessary.
When Scheherazade was 14 years old and she realized that she had become a girl, her mother called her to the chambers, where there were no other people's ears and told her these words:
"Allah is great and merciful, and may he help you understand once and for all the 4 rules that a woman must follow if she wants to enjoy her wife's happiness and well-being.
Rule One, my daughter: play by the rules that a man offers you.. Otherwise, he will enter into anger and bring down his strength on you. Remember, when a hard force, like a ruthless knife, approaches you, become softer than butter so that it does not cause you any harm. Soft hard can not hurt. When a man offers you his game, offer him your game in such a way that he believes that this is his game.
What do you remember, my girl?
Accept the game that a man offers me and be soft in this game so that I myself start my own game with him.
"My smart girl. Now remember-
Rule Two: Always encourage a man to continue playing. Remember, as long as the game is on, he will need you and will think he loves you.
Tell me, how did you understand this rule?
I understood my mother that while I was playing with a man, he was interested in me, and he would love me.
"Verily Allah is over you, my daughter. Your wisdom makes me calm for your fate.
Now the Third Rule that you need to remember: no matter how cruel and angry your man comes to you, shine on him so that he melts and relaxes under the rays of the sun in your heart, like a lion after a hearty meal.
Men seek resistance in order to feel stronger. Do not let your man see strength in you, otherwise his mind will cloud and he will think that you are a man. And then there will be a fight. The sun in your heart and the softness of your soul will defeat your lion faster than all the armies he is ready to fight.
What do you understand, my wise girl?”
I realized that when a man comes to me, you need to love him with all your heart and accept his mood so that peace returns to his heart and his mind calms down.
“How smart you are, Scheherazade. May the mercy of Allah be with you,” said Scheherazade’s mother and continued, “as if you are Now the Fourth Rule, my girl: When your man is about to go about his business, let him go with such faith into yourself, let him go to the next room. Never tremble that he will find better than you. Remember: there are so few people in the world who know how to play with men that the fingers of one hand are enough to count them.
Women do not believe in themselves, because they believe that men are only interested in the female body, which only ages and becomes covered with folds and wrinkles. And every young woman is able to attract her husband with her body.
Maybe Scheherazade is young and will be able to attract a man, but she will not be able to keep her. For it is only the riddle game that keeps men. When you let a man go, self-confident and mysterious, then all day long, while he is in business, he asks himself the question, what else do I not know about her? Why is she so confident? I have to understand and solve it!
So how do you understand the Fourth Rule, Scheherazade?”
I let my man go to do his business, believing in myself so much that I make him run to me and unravel my secret.
“Oh, now I am sure, daughter, that nothing in the world can harm you. Allah protects you!”
A little time passed and Scheherazade's mother died, and three years later black times came.
King Shahriyar, having learned about the betrayal of his wife, every night brought a virgin to his chambers, satisfied his need for her, and killed her in the morning. This went on for three years and people fled the country, fearing for the life of their daughters.
And one day the king ordered his vizier (the father of Scheherazade) to bring him, according to custom, a girl, and the vizier went out and began to look, but did not find a single girl suitable for marriage and went to his home, oppressed and depressed, afraid for himself evil from the king.
And Scheherazade exclaimed: “I conjure you by Allah, oh father, marry me to this king, and then I will either stay alive, or I will be a ransom for the daughters of Muslims and save them from the king.” “I conjure you by Allah,” the vizier exclaimed, “do not expose yourself to such danger!” But Scheherazade said: “It must inevitably be!”
And then the father equipped Scheherazade and took him to King Shahriyar.
Remembering what her mother taught, Scheherazade taught her younger sister and told her: “When I come to the king, I will send for you, and you, when you come and see that the king has satisfied his need for me, say: “Oh sister, talk to us and tell us something to shorten the sleepless night, "- and I will tell you something in which, with the permission of Allah, our liberation will be."
And so the vizier, the father of Scheherazade, brought her to the king, and the king, seeing him, was delighted and asked: “Have you delivered what I need?” And the vizier said: "Yes!" And Shahriyar wanted to take Scheherazade, but she wept; and then he asked her: “What is the matter with you?”
Scheherazade said: "O king, I have a little sister, and I want to say goodbye to her." And the king then sent for Dunyazada, and she came to her sister, hugged her and sat down on the floor near the bed.
And then Shahriyar took possession of Scheherazade, and then they began to talk; and the younger sister said to Scheherazade: "I conjure you by Allah, sister, tell us something to shorten the sleepless hours of the night."
So Scheherazade fulfilled the First Rule taught by her mother.
“With love and willingness, if the impeccable king allows me,” Scheherazade replied, becoming so courteous and soft that the king, who was tormented by insomnia, hearing these words, was glad that he would listen to the story, and allowed it.
So Scheherazade fulfilled the Second Rule taught by her mother.
And Scheherazade began to tell the king a fairy tale, which you can find in the fairy tales "1000 and one nights." And while she was telling, she loved Shahriyar with all her heart, accepting his mood so that peace would return to the king's heart and his mind would calm down.
So Scheherazade fulfilled the Third Rule taught by her mother.
Scheherazade told tales until morning caught up with her, and she stopped the permitted speech. And her sister exclaimed: “O sister, how beautiful your story is, good, and pleasant, and sweet!”
But Scheherazade, remembering the Fourth Rule, which she received from her mother, said: “Where does it matter what I will tell you about next night, if I live and the king spares me!” And the king then thought to himself: “By Allah, I will not kill her until I hear the end of her story!”
Then the king went to judge, and judged, and appointed, and so it was until the evening. And the vizier anxiously waited for the king to order the beheading of his daughter, but did not wait, because Shahriyar retired to his chambers to enjoy the continuation of Scheherazade's story.
As you know, Scheherazade told the king fairy tales for three years and during this time she gave birth to three male children from the king. And when, after 1000 and one night, she finished telling him the last story, she rose to her feet and, kissing the earth, said: “O king of time, one in centuries and centuries, I am your slave, and now a thousand nights and one night, how I convey to you the tales of former people and the edifications of the ancients. Do I have a right before your majesty that I may wish a wish from you?
And the king said to her: "Wish, you will receive, O Scheherazade." And then she called the nannies and eunuchs and said to them: "Bring my children." And they brought them hastily, and there were three sons of them, one of whom walked, the other crawled, and the third suckled at the breast.
And when they were brought, Scheherazade took them and placed them before the king and, kissing the ground, said: “O king of time, these are your sons, and I wish you to free me from killing for the sake of these children. If you kill me, these children will be left without a mother and will not find a woman who will raise them well!”
And then the king wept, and pressed the children to his chest, and said: “O Scheherazade, I swear by Allah, I had mercy on you before these children appeared, because I saw that you were chaste, pure, noble and God-fearing. May Allah bless you, your father, your mother, your root and your branch. I call Allah as a witness that I have freed you from everything that can harm you.
And Scheherazade kissed the king's hands and feet, and rejoiced with great joy, and exclaimed: "May Allah prolong your life, and may increase your dignity and greatness."
And joy spread in the palace of the king, and it rushed through the city, and it was a night that is not counted among the nights of life, and its color was whiter than the face of the day. And in the morning the king was joyful and full of goodness, and he sent for all the soldiers, and when they appeared, he rewarded his vizier, the father of Scheherazade, with precious and magnificent clothes and said to him: “May Allah protect you because you married me to your noble daughter, who was the reason that I repented of killing other people's daughters. I saw that she was noble, pure, chaste and blameless, and Allah endowed me with three sons from her. Praise be to Allah for this great blessing."
And then he awarded honorary clothes to all the viziers, emirs and nobles of the reign and ordered to decorate the city for thirty days, without forcing any of the inhabitants to spend anything from the money - on the contrary, all expenses and expenses were made from the king's treasury. And the city was decorated with a magnificent decoration, the like of which had never been before, and the drums were beaten, and the flutes whistled, and all the players played, and the king endowed them with gifts and gifts, and distributed alms to the poor and the poor, and embraced with his generosity all the subjects and inhabitants of the kingdom.
And he lived with his courtiers in happiness, joy, and pleasure, and prosperity, until the Destroyer of pleasures and the Separator of meetings came to them.
This is how, my dear women, you can, like the wise Scheherazade, calm the mind of a strong man and imperceptibly become not just loved, but necessary. Unless, of course, you want to be the wife of an oligarch, president, minister, or at worst, a marshal.
But seriously speaking, the Four Rules of Scheherazade are your 4 states, dear women.
The First Rule allows you to manifest your Girlhood and start the Game.
The Second Rule awakens in you the state of the Mistress and inspires the man to continue your Games already.
The Third Rule manifests your Mistress state and fills a tired man with energy before you turn on the Fourth Rule, which activates your Queen state and you can let your man go on business, hunting for trophies that he will bring to your feet to try to solve again your secret, and actually play your Game!
Scheherazade (Scheherazade, Shikhirazade, Scheherazade) is the legendary protagonist of The Tale of King Shahriyar and His Brother, bordering the Persian fairy tale cycle A Thousand and One Nights and serving as a connecting thread between other stories.
Scheherazade is the eldest daughter of the royal vizier, a girl of rare beauty and a remarkable mind, who volunteered to free the people from the consequences of Shahriyar's unsuccessful marriage (having survived the betrayal of his wife, the king became convinced of the depravity of women, but since it was difficult to do without them, Shahriyar took possession of an innocent girl every night, and in the morning killed her).
Asking to go to the royal bedchamber as another victim-wife, Scheherazade used all her eloquence, telling the king tales before sunrise (which, not without intent, came at the most interesting place in the story). Curiosity in Shahriyar every time outweighed bloodthirstiness, and he gave Scheherazade a delay until the next night, wanting to hear the end of the tale, but the next night everything was repeated. Thus, the cunning girl played for time long enough, until Shakhriyar returned to common sense and refused to mass exterminate women.
When Natasha, with a habitual movement, opened his door, letting the princess pass in front of her, Princess Marya already felt ready sobs in her throat. No matter how much she prepared herself, or tried to calm down, she knew that she would not be able to see him without tears.
Princess Mary understood what Natasha meant in words: it happened to him two days ago. She understood that this meant that he suddenly softened, and that softening, tenderness, these were signs of death. As she approached the door, she already saw in her imagination that face of Andryusha, which she had known since childhood, tender, meek, tender, which he had so rarely seen and therefore always had such a strong effect on her. She knew that he would say to her quiet, tender words, like those that her father had said to her before his death, and that she could not bear it and burst into tears over him. But, sooner or later, it had to be, and she entered the room. Sobs came closer and closer to her throat, while with her short-sighted eyes she more and more clearly distinguished his form and searched for his features, and now she saw his face and met his gaze.
He was lying on the sofa, padded with pillows, in a squirrel-fur robe. He was thin and pale. One thin, transparently white hand held a handkerchief, with the other, with quiet movements of his fingers, he touched his thin overgrown mustache. His eyes were on those who entered.
Seeing his face and meeting his gaze, Princess Mary suddenly slowed down the speed of her step and felt that her tears had suddenly dried up and her sobs had stopped. Catching the expression on his face and eyes, she suddenly became shy and felt guilty.
“Yes, what am I guilty of?” she asked herself. “In the fact that you live and think about the living, and I! ..” answered his cold, stern look.
Literature of the peoples of Asia
Viktor Eremin
Scheherazade
Scheherazade (Scheherazade, Scheherazade) undoubtedly entered the history of world literature primarily as a symbol of female deceit and the art of seduction. Of course, we can say that the poor thing fought for her life and the lives of other girls in Persia, but a more thorough examination of this story inevitably leads to the conclusion that the vizier's family bet on their eldest daughter in the struggle for power in the country and won.
Recall the plot. Having once convicted his wife of treason, the angry Persian king Shahriyar killed her, all her slaves and maids - witnesses of adultery. After the execution of the unfaithful, the king began to take a new wife every evening, and in the morning he killed her so that he would never be horned again. The time has come, and there are no marriageable girls left in the city. Shahriyar again ordered his vizier to find and bring him a new wife.
The vizier returned home in great fear, not knowing what to do. And he had two daughters: the eldest - Scheherazade, an unusually wise girl who read a lot, and the youngest - Dunyazada (Dunyazade). Upon learning of her father's trouble, Scheherazade insisted that she be given in marriage to Shahriyar.
Immediately after the wedding, the young wife persuaded her husband to let her younger sister into their marriage bed in order to say goodbye to her before her death. The three of them spent the night, and an hour before dawn, Dunyazada asked her sister to tell a wonderful tale. And Scheherazade began the story...
“But then morning caught up with Scheherazade, and she stopped her permitted speeches. And her sister exclaimed: “O sister, how beautiful your story is, good, and pleasant, and sweet!”
But Scheherazade said: “Where is this before what I will tell you the next night, if I live and the king spares me!”.
And the king then thought to himself: “By Allah, I will not kill her until I hear the end of her story!”.
Then they spent that night embracing until morning, and the king went to judge, and the vizier came to him with a shroud under his arm. And after that, the tsar judged, appointed and dismissed until the end of the day and did not order the vizier, and the vizier was utterly amazed.
And then the presence ended, and King Shahriyar retired to his chambers.
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This, as you know, lasted a thousand and one nights, until the king forgot about his intention to execute his wife. The cunning girls deftly confused the ruler's head, refuting the now widespread proverb: "A man loves with his eyes, and a woman with her ears."
The question of the origin of the book "A Thousand and One Nights" has not been clarified to this day and is unlikely to receive an exact answer. Attempts to search for her ancestral home in India were unsuccessful. Already in the XI century. Arab scholars considered the book to be a translation from the ancient Persian collection of fairy tales “Khezar Efsane” *, compiled for Humai, the daughter of the Iranian king Ardeshir, who lived in the 4th century BC. BC. This assumption is confirmed by the now found passage from the "Khezar Efsane", which is attributed to the 9th century. But Humai's book included a maximum of two or three hundred tales.
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* A Thousand Stories.
The woman Shirazad appeared in Arabic translations around the beginning of the 10th century, thus the immortal Scheherazade was born. The book was then called "A Thousand Nights". According to the stories of the Arab medieval thinker an-Nadim, the sage Abd-Allah al-Jahshiyari, who really lived in the 10th century, decided to compile a book of thousands of fairy tales "Arabs, Persians, Greeks and other peoples", one for the night, but died, having managed to collect only 480 stories. The collection of al-Jahshiyari did not reach us, but it was already called "A Thousand and One Nights" and it is quite possible that the modern title of the book came from it.
In the future, the literary evolution of the collection continued until the XIV-XV centuries. More and more new fairy tales of different genres and origins were invested in its convenient design.
Now there are five versions of "A Thousand and One Nights", differing from each other in composition and in the order of the tales. The most famous version is reflected in Egyptian editions and, as scientists have established, acquired its form in Egypt at the end of the 15th - beginning of the 16th centuries. Today it is this book that is mostly known to the European reader.
In Europe, the "Thousand and One Nights" became known thanks to the French translation of the writer Antoine Gallant * (1646-1715), published in Paris in 1704-1712. Since the tales "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" were not found in any of the Eastern collections, Gallan was considered their author for some time. Subsequently, ancient Arabic records of these tales were found. However, even now a number of researchers continue to assert that "Aladdin ...", "Ali Baba ...", as well as the cycle of tales about Sinbad the Sailor, were created by Gallan, who completed them after the success of the first volume of The Thousand and One Nights he published.
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* Read more about Antoine Galland in my book 100 Great Storytellers, Chapter IV Antoine Galland.
Thanks to Gallan at the beginning of the 18th century. in Europe, a craze for oriental exoticism began. Some rulers built themselves mansions like the palaces of the Sultan. Salons in Europe were filled with Moorish carpets and cushions. Goethe wrote the "West-Eastern Divan", Mozart composed "The Abduction from the Seraglio". Great was the influence of "A Thousand and One Nights" on the work of various writers - Montesquieu *, Wieland **, Byron ***, Gauf ****, Tennyson *****, Dickens ******, Dumas père *******.
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* Charles-Louis de Seconda de Montesquieu (1689-1755) - the great French philosopher and writer. Author of the novel Persian Letters.
** Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) - the great German poet and philosopher. For more on him, see my book 100 Great Storytellers, Chapter VII Christoph Martin Wieland.
*** George Noel Gordon Byron (1788-1824) is a great English poet. For more on him, see 100 Great Poets, Chapter LVII, George Noel Gordon Byron.
**** Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827) - the great German storyteller, his most famous tales are devoted to oriental themes. For more information about the writer, see my book 100 Great Storytellers, Chapter XII Wilhelm Hauff.
***** Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) - the great English poet. For more information on him, see the book "100 Great Poets", chapter LV "Alfred Tennyson".
****** Charles John Huffham Dickens (1812-1870) is a great English writer. For more on him, see Chapter XXV of Samuel Pickwick.
******* Alexandre Dumas père (1802-1870) is a great French writer. For more on him, see chapters 59 "d'Artagnan and the Musketeers" and 60 "The Count of Monte Cristo".
Artists such as van Loo*, Delacroix** and Ingres*** created canvases depicting the chic decoration of harems and half-naked slave girls in frivolous poses. A book with a French translation by A. Gallan was also in the library of A.S. Pushkin, who admired the beauty of oriental fantasy. In other words, Antoine Galland shaped our vision of the East for three hundred years. They painted pictures from the life of the harem P. Picasso, O. Renoir, A. Matisse, and others.
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* Charles-Amedey-Philippe van Loo (1719-1795) - the famous French artist of the Rococo era. His paintings from the life of the harem were popular.
** Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) - the great French artist; his paintings depicting the life of the harem were extremely popular among the aristocracy of Europe.
*** Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) - the great French painter; his painting “Odalisque”, which is interpreted as an image of a harem inhabitant, received particular fame. No less popular were the paintings "Odalisque with slaves", "In the harem", etc.
The musical embodiment of "1001 Nights" was received in the symphonic suite of Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov "Scheherazade". Maurice Ravel* created in 1898 the overture for the orchestra "Scheherazade".
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* Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - the great French impressionist composer; Spanish Basque by nationality.
Until 1917, there were no translations of "A Thousand and One Nights" into Russian directly from Arabic, although retellings from Gallan began to appear from the 1760s. In 1929-1938. The only now eight-volume Russian translation of the collection was published, made by the Arabist Mikhail Alexandrovich Salie (1899-1961) under the editorship of the outstanding Arabist academician Ignaty Yulianovich Krachkovsky (1883-1951).
It is impossible to list all the books on the themes of the fairy tales of the Thousand and One Nights and the films based on them. The best I would call the film by Pier Paolo Pasolini "The Flower of a Thousand and One Nights" in 1974, but Scheherazade is not in this film. in the USSR in the 1980s. the trilogy “And Another Night of Scheherazade”, “New Tales of Scheherazade”, “The Last Night of Scheherazade”, where Tamara Yandieva* played the title role, was filmed. Director Takhir Sabirov**. The most famous film-Scheherazade today is Catherine Zeta-Jones ***, who began her career in 1990 with this role in the film “1001 Nights” by French director Philippe de Broca ****.
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* Tamara Khavazhovna Yandieva (b. 1955) - Soviet, Russian actress. She appeared in eighteen films. She is called the main Scheherazade of the national cinema.
** Takhir Mukhtarovich Sabirov (b. 1929) is a Soviet Tajik film director. His most famous films are the trilogy about Scheherazade.
*** Catherine Zeta-Jones (b. 1969) is a famous British actress. Her film career began with the role of Scheherazade in de Broca's 1001 Nights (1988).
**** Philippe de Broca (1933-2004) - famous French director. His most famous films are "Cartouche", "Magnificent", "A Thousand and One Nights", etc.
And about the image of Scheherazade herself, indirectly, but accurately, it is said at the very beginning of the Thousand and One Nights:
Don't trust women
Do not believe in vows and their oaths;
Their forgiveness, as well as their malice
Connected with only lust.
Love is feigned
Deception is hidden in their clothes.
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He is worthy of great surprise,
Who from women's charms remained unscathed ... *
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* Thousand and One Nights. In 8 volumes. T.1. M., 1959.
Scheherazade was the daughter of the vizier of the formidable and despotic Persian king Shahryar. It is known that Shahriyar was very unkind to women. So, once convicting his wife of infidelity, he in a rage ordered her to be killed immediately, but even this seemed to him not enough. And then Shakhriyar conceived a new revenge - every night he demanded a new young woman to his bedchamber, and in the morning he invariably ordered the murder of his nocturnal mistresses. Thus, the formidable ruler took revenge on all women for the betrayal of his wife. This went on for several years.
At that time, his vizier had a daughter named Scheherazade, a girl of extraordinary beauty and a sharp mind. So, one day she asked her father to marry her to Shahriyar. The vizier was horrified by such a proposal - to give his own beautiful daughter to the despot seemed to him complete recklessness, because all that awaited her ahead was inevitable death. But Scheherazade knew how to insist on her own, and soon Shahriyar had already called a new young wife to his bedroom.
Unlike all previous girls, Scheherazade was not content with just the function of a mistress, but began to tell the king a fairy tale. The plot of this tale turned out to be so exciting that when dawn came, the king wished to hear its continuation. And then Scheherazade promised him that if she lived until the next night, Shahriyar would certainly hear the continuation of the tale. So she managed to survive after a night with a formidable ruler, which, alas, not a single girl had managed to do before her. Probably, Scheherazade managed to make a considerable impression on the ruler, and when the next night came, he, contrary to his rules, ordered her to be called again.
Scheherazade again told her tale - and the night was barely enough to reach the end, and when the tale ended, the lord immediately demanded a new tale, and as a result she managed to stay alive again, and Shahriyar again waited for the next evening.
This went on for a thousand and one nights, and over the years Scheherazade managed not only to tell Shahriyar a huge number of fairy tales, but also to give birth to three sons. Shahriyar simply adored his eloquent wife, demanding more and more new tales from her, for which Scheherazade was a great craftswoman. When, after a thousand and one nights, all the tales of Scheherazade ended, the formidable ruler already loved her so much that he could not even think about her execution.
By the way, many researchers are inclined to believe that over the years when Shahriyar killed every new woman, he managed to become a severe psychopath, and Shaherazade conducted competent and effective psychotherapy sessions with her fairy tales, eventually correcting her husband’s sick psyche.
The image of the beautiful and at the same time cunning and seductive Scheherazade has inspired composers and poets many times. So, under the impression of "Arabian Tales" N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his famous symphonic suite, there is also a classical ballet with the same name, as well as several films.
The story of Shahriyar and Scheherazade is one of the most profound and amazing stories in literature. It is known that originally in Arabic tales this woman was called Shirazad (Šīrāzād), but today everyone knows her as Scheherazade.
Surprisingly, in many comments on the "Thousand and One Nights" Scheherazade is sung not only as an intelligent and talented woman, but as an insidious and cunning seductress, as if she did not save the lives of herself and thousands of innocent girls with her eloquence. Alas, sometimes history is cruel and unfair.
"Do not trust women, Do not believe their vows and oaths; Their forgiveness, as well as their malice, is connected with lust alone," - it is believed that these words at the beginning of the book indirectly refer to Scheherazade.
However, be that as it may, the image of the narrator Scheherazade is still associated primarily with an oriental beauty, seductive and desirable, sweet-sounding and eloquent.
Surely you have ever heard of a collection of Arabic tales called "A Thousand and One Nights". According to legend, they were composed by the beautiful wife of the Persian king Shahriyar, trying to avoid a painful death. What is this story and who is Scheherazade, the article will tell.
According to legend, Scheherazade (her name is slightly different in different sources, she was called Scheherazade or Shikhirizade) is the eldest daughter of the vizier of Persia. A girl of noble birth, she was dazzlingly beautiful and slender, and also very intelligent. She received a good upbringing and education. Sheikh took her as his wife. The story of the girl is detailed below, from the story it will become clear who Scheherazade is. But first, about the amazing country in which the heroine of our article was born and lived.
In the 6th century BC, the state of Persia (modern Iran) flourished in the East. In ancient times, it was the center of the greatest empire in history, the territory of which was simply vast, stretching from Egypt in Africa to the Indus River in South Asia. The Persian kings were the rulers of most of the world known at that time.
Everyone called this region a wonderland and said that black-eyed Persian women were distinguished by rare beauty. One of the most famous women who survived to this day was Scheherazade. Her photo does not exist, since the girl lived many centuries ago. We can only imagine it according to descriptions from ancient legends.
And now we will tell you who Scheherazade is. The Persian king Shahriyar once found his beloved wife in the arms of a slave. The traitor was executed, but Shahriyar no longer believed any woman in the world. He began to spend every night with his new wife, who was executed in the morning. Soon the Sheikh's harem was empty. He began to marry young girls. But each was executed in the morning after spending the night with the king. And soon there was not a single girl and young woman left in the state, except for the young daughter of the vizier - the beautiful Scheherazade. The king ordered to prepare a 17-year-old girl for his wife. Shedding tears, the vizier said goodbye to his beloved daughter and took her to the sheikh. But the girl was very smart, even as a child her mother taught her how to treat men, and Scheherazade hoped to avoid an evil fate. She persuaded her little sister to play along with her at the right time.
And after Scheherazade was sentenced to death, like all the previous wives of the padishah. The girl asked permission to say goodbye to her younger sister. When the girl was brought, she began to cry and asked Scheherazade to tell her one of her wonderful tales for the last time. The sheikh graciously allowed, and now his young wife began to tell... Her tale turned out to be very interesting, and Shahriyar listened with great pleasure. But the wise Scheherazade stopped at the sharpest point and asked her husband to allow her to tell her the next night, as she was very tired. The Sheikh agreed. And so it happened: every night the newlyweds made love, and after Scheherazade told a new magical story, interrupting at the most interesting place and asking her husband for permission to tell the tale tomorrow.
According to legend, a thousand and one nights passed, and the beauty knelt before the sheikh and said to him: "I don't know any more fairy tales. Now you can execute me, but first let me introduce you to someone." She brought and placed before the padishah three sons, one of whom ran, the second crawled, and the third sucked his breast. Shahriyar began to cry and tightly hugged his beloved wife and his children. And they lived happily ever after. Now you know who Scheherazade is.
Based on this ancient legend, many books have been written and feature films have been made. Inspired by this magical story, the Russian composer N.A. created a wonderful piece of music. Rimsky-Korsakov. Scheherazade is his most famous symphonic suite. It is performed not only by academic musicians, but also by pop artists.
The tales of Scheherazade have survived to this day as a monument of ancient Persian literature. Who has not heard the "Magic" Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves "," Hezar-Efsane", "Maruf the Shoemaker", " Adjiba and Gariba "and many others? Tradition says that they were all composed by the beautiful Scheherazade.
