Gzhel

Narrator 1
It was a long time ago, so long ago that there is no trace of that time left.
The stones turned to dust, the rivers dried up, and the people's memory remembers everything, keeps everything!
Narrator 2
-This story happened even when there were no winters on the blessed land of our ancestors.
The year was then divided into two parts: wet months and dry months.
Narrator 1
- Ros was rich, children grew up happy
Narrator 2
- Harvests were plentiful, then there were no hungry and unfortunate people on Rosi
Narrator 1
-This story happened in the land where the potters lived
Narrator 2
-Let the girls go to the meadow, lead round dances, sing songs, admire flowers
Dance of flowers
Narrator 1
-All the girls were good, it was impossible to look away from each
Narrator 2
- And a little lower, near the river, mothers were sitting. They admired the round dances, their daughters, and went about their business. They painted on the pots that their husbands had just burned in the kiln.
Girls dance. round dance
Narrator 1
- It's dark all around. But not a cloud covered the sky, but a horde of unkind people flew into the meadow! The evil people took away the beautiful girls in full.
Narrator 2
- Mothers sobbed. Husbands and sons were equipped for battle!
Narrator 1
- But the fathers and brothers did not catch up with the adversaries! A stormy river blocked their way!
Narrator 2
Wet months have come to Ros. The rivers overflowed, became deep and stormy!
Flowers froze in fear! The birds were quiet in their nests. Only mothers were not afraid! Send mothers to the banks of the stormy river
First mother
- Oh, mother river, hear our prayer!
Second mother
- Listen to our request!
third mother
- Do not refuse us, mother river!
River
-I am listening to you!
First mother
We ask Mother Nature for help!
Second mother
- We ask for your help!
third mother
-Make sure that our husbands and sons can catch up with enemies and return their daughters!
River
-I will fulfill your request! I'll send a prayer!
Snowflake dance
Narrator 1
-It became light-light around!
Narrator 2
-However, it is not dawn that has come to earth!
Narrator 1
- Outlandish flowers began to fall to the ground! People called them snowflakes later!
Narrator 2
- And the river was bound by frost, and it was covered with ice!
River
-I am falling asleep! Rejoice mother! Let, while I sleep under an ice blanket, your men will catch up with the adversary and return their daughters
All mothers
- Thank you mom!
1 Narrator
-And the Russian heroes caught up with the enemy, and they returned the girls to their native places!
2 Narrator
But nature has never been the same! Everything has changed!
1 Narrator
-Divided the year into four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter!
2 Narrator
- But the Russian people did not grieve! They knew that as long as there were frosts, the enemies would not poke their noses into their lands!
1 Narrator
- What trouble for the enemy, joy for the Russian people!
2 Narrator
-And as the ice on the river melted, potters from the village found, under the remnants of ice, outlandish white clay, which had never been seen before! They made beautiful dishes from this clay, and they were able to make whistles, even dolls from this clay.
1 Narrator
- Mothers came to the river, they looked at the white ice floes with which the river was still covered, at the blue waters, at the blue sky! One woman sketched a picture she saw in front of her on a pot that had just come out of her husband's oven. Then the first drawing appeared, which would later be called Gzhel!
Dance Gzhel
2 Narrator
- Potters lived in union with mother nature, nature protected them and gave their simple gifts!
1 Narrator
-Potters were proud of the fact that they live in a blessed land
2 Narrator
-That was a long time ago! But the popular rumor does not die!
1 Narrator
-Now you know everything that the rumor knew! Now you will be proud that your ancestors lived on the land that was once called Rosyu!