• This story occurred in distant times. The nomads came to the ground of the Crimea, who were equipped with Demerji - then she was called Funna ("smoking") - "Devilish" forge. In it, they brought the rare fortress Steel, who chopped any weapon, like paper, herself was not even jerked. Local residents prayed - they asked for a blacksmith not to ruin them, sent a delegation of respected people to him, but he killed ambassadors. And then the local girl Maria went to him - she hoped to persuade the blacksmith to close her blacksmith and leave their places. However, he, seduced by the beauty and youth of the girl, decided to leave her on the mountain, making his concubine. Maria pushed the rapist, and he, falling on Mountain, fell his hair and beard. In the rage, the blacksmith grabbed one of the newly forged daggers and killed the girl. I could not stand the old mountain of such atrocities and collapsed, buried under it and the forge, and a blacksmith, and all his handicrafts. And when the flame and smoke went, the locals saw a completely different mountain - on her slope, as a giant sculpture, froze huge stones (now this "sculptural group" is called "valleys"), and at the top there was a fancy rock, resembling a female head - Memory About Mary, the last victim of a cruel blacksmith.

• This story happened when only wild animals lived in Crimea, among which there were many huge bears. They ruled the leader - old and terrible. Once, returned to the place of the night, the bears saw the wreckage of the ship, and next to the little girl, the only one who survived after the shipwreck. Bears have left her, and they fell in love and attached to her. Most of all they liked how she sings, - the girl had a wonderful voice. One day the boat was nailed to the shore, in which the exhausted, but very beautiful young man was lying. The girl moved him to a secluded place, and the boat hid in the rocks - so that the bears could not have guessed anything. Having come to themselves, the young man told that he fled from robbing tribes, which had yet been captured by a child. The girl began to push the young man, wore him food and drink. Young people and did not notice how to love each other, and the young man, recovered, offered the girl to flee with him. She agreed. On the appointed day, when the bears, as always, went hunting, the young man and the girl got into the boat and swam away from the Crimean coast. But soon the bears returned to his lair and, without finding the girl, rushed to the sea. And the leader lay down at the water and with force he began to pull the water, the sea of \u200b\u200bmello, and the boat attracted back to the shore. And then the girl was singing: the bear heard and stopped drinking water. The girl and the young man were able to float, and the old bear, sicked, and remained lying in the Parthenite Valley, looking in the distance and waiting for that he loved so much, one day will return.

• In those days when Crimea Rules Turkish Sultan, lived in the village of Mashor Peasant Abija Aka. The only wealth of this man was daughter - Beauty Arza. She loved in the evenings to come to the fountain near the shores of the sea - to dial water into the copper jug. There, and saw her old merchant Ala-Baba, and a monstrous plan arose in his head - he decided to kidnap Arza and sell it into slavery in the market in Istanbul. Arza was wondering for a guy from the neighboring village - all fellow villagers walked at their wedding. In the evening, the labored bride decided to go to his beloved fountain for the last time - sit on his stones, say goodbye to his girlish life. There and climb her Ali Baba. Arrow came running to the coastal fountain, but it was too late: while he, looking for a bride, ran around the surroundings, the girl was already carried on the ship to Istanbul, where they were sold in the Harem of Sultan himself.
• In Harem, Arza gave birth to a son, and a few days later, on the anniversary of his abduction, rose with the baby on his hands on the highest tower of the Sultansky Palace and rushed down - in the muddy waters of Bosphorus. In the same evening, a sad mermaid with a child in his arms went ashore from Mishor. She walked over to the fountain, which unexpectedly began to beat much more, washed, sat near him, looking at his native village with melancholy, and again went to the sea. Since then, the locals argue, once a year, the fountain "comes to life", and a mermaid comes to the beach with a child in his arms, in order to, after an hour, go back to the sea again - until next year.

• But I found a young man, strong and brave, which decided to kill the rushing horror on the whole district of the Giant. An excellent spring evening went to Kara-Dag and signed an old song about love. And he managed so beautifully and sincerely, that even cannibal got out of his asylum - listen. And when the song is over, I asked: "I spoy me again, I have a spring mood - I want to listen about love." "Do you want to see the one that loves love?" He asked his young man. And, having heard the affirmative answer, said: "Tomorrow I will give her to you." The next day, the young man came to Kara-Dag, together with his bride Elmbis. "Hey , Giant, - She shouted boldly, although she was trembling himself from fear - Look at me - now I will send you love! "Elmbis was so beautiful that the Giant, to consider it, widely revealed his only eye. And the girl took his bow widely. And he released a poisonous arrow. The cannibrants were rooted, he wanted to rush to his offenders, and he slipped and fell into his hole. He said the whole night there, and in the morning it was all. In the morning, people came out of their homes and were surprised that black There are no more mountains - she collapsed, burying under her wreckage of a terrible cannon, and in her place there were gear rocks, resembling a medieval castle. And about those terrible events today only remind the remains of the Treasure of Giant - Cherdelik's pebbles, which still can be found In these places.

• I think that our folklorists, welcoming the appearance of the "Legends of the Crimea," with the most close attention will continue to collect and study the folk works dedicated to this campaign peninsula.

The beautiful, fragrant nature of the Crimea, the centuries-old and tragic story, in which the paths of many peoples and the tribes of our Motherland, which reflected their heroic struggle against foreign invaders, "they also bear numbers", - all this could not not attract the attention of poets, Artists, composers ...

Two great poet of Slavs - Pushkin and Mitskevich - granted due in their work of the Crimean theme. Crimean landscape, the life of the people of this sunny Peninsula suggested not one inspired page Maxim Gorky, the forest Ukrainka, Mikhail Kotsjubinsky, Alexander Olesya, Vladimir Mayakovsky.

The past of Crimea was widely reflected and in the work of nameless folk poets, in folklore. The air of the Crimea, his picturesque mountains, his coastal cliffs, his groves, gardens, vineyards, I would say, breathe poetry, look at legends, fairy tales, songs.

The history of the Crimea is inherent from the history of ancient Russia, later - from the history of Ukraine and Russia.

For Ukraine, the Cossack times, the Crimean cities were associated with the terrible word of the capture, with Tatar raids for peaceful villages, as well as with the famous campaigns against the Turkish-Tatar enslavers. The reflection of the events of the time we see in many brilliant rows of Taras Shevchenko.

Russian people revealed immortal patriotic feats on the days of the Russian-Turkish war 1853-1856. These exploits were also reflected in numerous literary works, among which in the first place you need to put the challengely "Sevastopol stories" of Leo Tolstoy. S. N. Sergeev-Visk, who deservedly be called the singer of Crimea and who was the son of one of the defenders of Sevastopol during this war, dedicated her a three-volume novel "Sevastopol Strada", which is very popular with our readers. Firmly associated with the Crimea life and creativity of the unforgettable P. A. Pavlenko.

On this site are collected, of course, only part of the Crimean legends and legends, wonderful in their simplicity and internal truthfulness. In these works, a lot of fiction, sometimes there are sorcerers and sorcerers in them, supernatural forces ... But the main acting person in them is the people, the labor people with his courage, generosity, nobility. The loyalty to the native country and the native people, maiden cleanliness and unchanged love are hammered in the legends about the distant and close past of the Crimea, with which the Crimean Publisher introduces our public.

I think that our folklorists, welcoming the appearance of the "Legends of the Crimea," with the most close attention will continue to collect and study the folk works dedicated to this campaign peninsula.

Legends of Crimea

The rich centuries-old history of the Crimean Peninsula contributed to the fact that there is not only about each settlement, mountain or rock, but also about every stone on the road there is its own legend. Here are perhaps the most beautiful of them. Demerji - Mount-blacksmith Legends of Crimea_1 Demerji or Mount-a blacksmith welcomes the guests of the Crimea on the way from Simferopol in Alushta - she is visible all the time on the left side, and the cliff outstanding towards the sea resemble a female head. It is often possible to hear that this is the head of Queen Catherine II, but the local legend calls a completely different name - Maria. This story happened in such distant times that even the People's Solve cannot be called not only a year, but also a century. Then the nomads tribes came to the land of the Crimea, who were equipped with Demerji - then she was called Funna ("smoking") - "Devilish" forge. In it, they brought the rare fortress Steel, who chopped any weapon, like paper, herself was not even jerked. And fired all the terrible species of the blacksmith, who was even afraid of his associates. From smoke and heat forge, all living around - people, animals, plants, yes, it seemed, the Earth itself. Local residents prayed - they asked for a blacksmith not to ruin them, sent a delegation of respected people to him, but he killed ambassadors. And then the local girl Maria went to him - she hoped to persuade the blacksmith to close her blacksmith and leave their places. However, he, seduced by the beauty and youth of the girl, decided to leave her on the mountain, making his concubine. Maria pushed the rapist, and he, falling on Mountain, fell his hair and beard. In the rage, the blacksmith grabbed one of the newly forged daggers and killed the girl. I could not stand the old mountain of such atrocities and collapsed, buried under it and the forge, and a blacksmith, and all his handicrafts. And when the flame and smoke went, the locals saw a completely different mountain - on her slope, as a giant sculpture, froze huge stones (now this "sculptural group" is called "valleys"), and at the top there was a fancy rock, resembling a female head - Memory About Mary, the last victim of a cruel blacksmith.

Bear Mountain. The legends of the Crimea.

And this story happened when only wild animals lived in Crimea, among which there were many huge bears. They ruled the leader - old and terrible. In the afternoon, predators went hunting, and in the evening they returned to their lair. Once, returned to the place of the night, the bears saw the wreckage of the ship, and next to the little girl, the only one who survived after the shipwreck. Bears have left her, and they fell in love and attached to her. Most of all they liked how she sings, - the girl had a wonderful voice. Years went, the girl grew and turned into a real beauty. One day the boat was nailed to the shore, in which the exhausted, but very beautiful young man was lying. The girl moved him to a secluded place, and the boat hid in the rocks - so that the bears could not have guessed anything. Having come to themselves, the young man told that he fled from robbing tribes, which had yet been captured by a child. The girl began to push the young man, wore him food and drink. Young people and did not notice how to love each other, and the young man, recovered, offered the girl to flee with him. She agreed. On the appointed day, when the bears, as always, went hunting, the young man and the girl got into the boat and swam away from the Crimean coast. But soon the bears returned to his lair and, without finding the girl, rushed to the sea. And the leader lay down at the water and with force he began to pull the water, the sea of \u200b\u200bmello, and the boat attracted back to the shore. And then the girl was singing: the bear heard and stopped drinking water. The girl and the young man were able to float, and the old bear, sicked, and remained lying in the Parthenite Valley, looking in the distance and waiting for that he loved so much, one day will return.

Rocks Adalary.

Adalars, twin cliffs off the coast of Gurzuf, have long been exploring the fantasy of local residents who have composed about their instructive legend. In ancient times, she says, brothers Gemini lived in the Mount-Mount Castle - Princes Peter and George. And they had a mentor, an old nympholis, who heard a sorcerer and helped his brothers in everything on the battlefield, and in peaceful life. Once at night, he came to Peter and George to say goodbye: "I'm leaving. Do not persuade to stay, not mine. I leave gifts, they will help you learn how this world works, but remember about one condition - never use them in mercenary goals. " And Nympholis disappeared, as if there were no it, only two farewell lars remained on the table. In one, it turned out to be a rod, with the help of which it was possible to fall into the marine punch, in the other - wings, allowing to rise to heaven. Years passed, the sadness of the brothers in their mentor, but they used him with gifts often, hitting later familiar with the stories about what they saw on the seabed and heaven. And then they decided to marry the brothers, and found in the distant city of two twin sisters - written beauties. Peter and Georgy flew to the city, killed all its inhabitants, and the girls who loved them were captured. They did not forgive them this sister - they could not love the brothers. And then those forgetting about the Testament of Old Nympholis, they decided to hit them with their unprecedented possibilities. On the first day they tied to the wagon wings, put sisters into her and soared, climbing higher and higher. It seemed a little more and they could touch the sun with her hand, but then the Grozny Voice of Nympholis rang out: "Back!" Brothers were frightened and drowned her horses than caused sisters contempt: "You're unworthy of us, not a man you, and the hares are cowardly!" On the second day there were sisters brothers for the sea. But it was worth it to fall on the bottom, as Nimpholis was invisible before the wagon and repeated his order: "Back! You descended in a depth, you dare and destroy others!" But, remembering yesterday's sisters reaction, the brothers only frenched their horses more. The king of the marine and killed the brothers, and sisters. But, without having the opportunity to be together during his lifetime, they were united after death in the stone - turned into adalary twin rocks. For many centuries, they stand in the sea in front of Gurzuf, reminding that anyone else was able to conquer love by force.

As Yalta originated.

The Greek ship sailed through the Black Sea in search of new fertile lands, got into a terrible storm - what was still waiting for the Axinos - the inhospitable sea - as they called him in ancient Greece. The ship threw the waves as a chips, and soon the sailors who had fallen out of their forces lost hope for salvation and were waiting for deaths. And when the storm styled, such a thick fog dropped to the sea, which for two meters there was no longer visible even on the deck - no one on the ship knew, in which direction the ship was moving. So he wandered over the sea, while the people who floated on it did not end food and drink reserves. Now the death seemed to people inevitable. But when despair covered travelers, the fog scattered, the sun looked out and the shore appeared - the valley with emerald greens and transparent rivers and streams protected from the northern winds of the High Mountains. "Yulos!" - joyfully shouted the sentinent. The seafarers landed on the land founded the settlement, which Yulos called, which in Greater means "shore" - so there was one of the most beautiful Crimean cities, Yalta.

Bakhchisarai fountain.

Bakhchisarai fountain "Fountain of Love, Fountain Live, brought me a two roses as a gift" - Probably there is no man who would not know these Pushkin lines. The beautiful ancient legend about Khan Crimea Gera is connected with the fountain of the Bakhchisarai Palace. They say more cruel man than he, this fertile land and did not see. When he made raids, the earth burned under his feet of his warriors, many human lives were on his conscience, but Han himself did not know any pity, nor repentance, no love. However, sooner or later, any person agrees, and the cruel Crimea Gerai - Ironically, this is the time in his heart that the surroundings considered the stone, love knocked. It happened when a new slave was brought in Hama - a teenage girl Dilyra. She did not respond to the ardent feelings of Khan, but it did not prevent him from love to love her most in the world. But for a short time he lived in captivity - they say, the Khan's beloved wife poisoned the jealous rivals, after which the Crimea Gerai fell into a brutal longing. He buried the beloved in a luxurious mausoleum built on garden terraces, and near him commanded the fountain, who would tell about how the tears can cry the male heart. Later, Favorit Catherine II, Grigory Potemkin, ordered to transfer the fountain to the courtyard of Hansaraya, where he can see everyone.

Kara Dag - Black Mountain.

According to an old legend, once on Kara-Dag - Black Mount - a single-eyed giant cannibal lived. In the afternoon he slept, and as soon as the sun was sake, he left his asylum and announced the surroundings by a frightening roar. Stones were broken from him in the mountains, a hurricane wind began, and people hid in horror at home. To back up the monster, the most bold men assigned to the foot of the bull or a couple of sheep. Satisfied, the giant shouted until the next evening. But every fall, when the time of weddings came, the cannibal demanded the bride and for himself. Local residents had nothing left, except by choosing one of the girls, take her to Kara-Dag and leave on the rock. So it lasted for many years, but people continued to endure the mockery of the monsters, because they did not know how to get rid of it. But I found a young man, strong and brave, which decided to kill the rushing horror on the whole district of the Giant. An excellent spring evening went to Kara-Dag and signed an old song about love. And he managed so beautifully and sincerely, that even cannibal got out of his asylum - listen. And when the song is over, I asked: "I spoy me again, I have a spring mood - I want to listen to love." "Do you want to see the one that loves love?" He asked his young man. And, having heard the affirmative answer, said: "Tomorrow I will give her to you." The next day, the young man came to Kara-Dag, together with his bride Elmbis. "Hey , Giant, - She shouted boldly, although she was trembling himself from fear - Look at me - now I will send you love! "Elmbis was so beautiful that the Giant, to consider it, widely revealed his only eye. And the girl took his bow widely. And he released a poisonous arrow. The cannibrants were rooted, he wanted to rush to his offenders, and he slipped and fell into his hole. He said the whole night there, and in the morning it was all. In the morning, people came out of their homes and were surprised that black There are no more mountains - she collapsed, burying under her wreckage of a terrible cannon, and in her place there were gear rocks, resembling a medieval castle. And about those terrible events today only remind the remains of the Treasure of Giant - Cherdelik's pebbles, which still can be found In these places.

Mishhorsa Mermaid.

In those days when Crimea Rules Turkish Sultan, lived in the village of Mashor Peasant Abija Aka. The only wealth of this man was daughter - Beauty Arza. For all day, the girl worked, helping his father in the economy, and in the evenings came to the fountain on the seashore - to gain water into the copper jug. There, and saw her old merchant Ala-Baba, and a monstrous plan arose in his head - he decided to kidnap Arza and sell it into slavery in the market in Istanbul. There was time, Arza was asked for a guy from the neighboring village - all fellow villagers walked at their wedding. In the evening, the labored bride decided to go to his beloved fountain for the last time - sit on his stones, say goodbye to his girlish life. There and climb her Ali Baba. Arrow came running to the coastal fountain, but it was too late: while he, looking for a bride, ran around the surroundings, the girl was already carried on the ship to Istanbul, where they were sold in the Harem of Sultan himself. In Harem, Arza gave birth to a son, and a few days later, on the anniversary of his abduction, rose with the baby on his hands on the highest tower of the Sultansky Palace and rushed down - in the muddy waters of Bosphorus. In the same evening, a sad mermaid with a child in his arms went ashore from Mishor. She walked over to the fountain, which unexpectedly began to beat much more, washed, sat near him, looking at his native village with melancholy, and again went to the sea. Since then, the locals argue, once a year, the fountain "comes to life", and a mermaid comes to the beach with a child in his arms, in order to, after an hour, go back to the sea again - until next year.

Maiden Tower in Sudak.

The Maiden Tower in Sudak keeps the legend about the proud daughter of the Greek Archon, who loved the simple shepherd. The best grooms of Taurides were swatched to her, but she invariably remained cold to their plea, dreaming of the love of poor young men. Having learned about this, Archont ordered to grab the shepherd and throw in a deep stone well, where he had to die painful death - from hunger and cold. Several days have passed before the girl learned about the sad fate of his beloved. Acting where persuasion, and where and bribing, she managed to free it and bring it into his room. Having found it, the furious Archon initially wanted to kill the shepherd, but then I changed my mind and ordered a court doctor to cure him - a cunning plan was ripe in my father's head. When the young man recovered, he said that he wanted to send him to Greece with an important assignment. "A year later, the ship will return," he said his daughter - if your beloved will not change you, you will see the white flag on the mast. If it does not turn out there, it means that he is not worthy of you, and you will marry someone I will marry You will indicate. " The girl was left to wait on the shore, not suspecting that his father ordered to kill the shepherd on the road to Greece, and the body would throw away into the sea. But when, after the year, the ship appeared on the horizon, on the mast of which there was no white flag, she guessed everything. The daughter of Archont asked her to file the best clothes and jewels, who had risen to the very high tower of the father's paternal palace and, approaching the clearance between her teeth, stepped down. Since then, the tower people call the maiden.

Elkhen-kaya - stone sailboats.

Rocks at the southern coast of the Kerch Peninsula - the real miracle of nature: it is impossible to imagine how they fell into the coastal zone, because they are at a distance of four kilometers from the coast. One of the versions can be considered an old legend about the rich council of Ergi Psaras, who lived once in a pantixapee (current Kerch). Everything was snapped - and rich goods on numerous warehouses, and the most luxurious house in the city. He was also a young handsome son, with the mother of which he once broke up, throwing her to the mercy of fate. Erbie found a enviable bride for the young man - the daughter of a rich merchant, but he loved the other for a long time - a woman who lived in the far village and was much older than the young psyche. He loved her as soon as she saw, she, looking at the young lover, recalled the Son, who once selected her husband - a poor fisherman. However, the Father has already rushing his son with a wedding, he ordered him to swim in Cafu, the current Feodosia, - to the bride. When the ship was already in the sea, Psarasu brought a letter from his son - he confessed in it that he could not betray his love and forever leaving his beloved in distant edges. The hung father ordered to raise the sail of another, who had long served his, the old ship - he wanted to catch up with his son. He did not even frightened a storm who risen on the sea, who wanted a huge sailboat on the waves, like a small serpent boat. And he could not stand the old ship, gave flow. At this time, zipper flashed, and literally a few meters from herself, Yergi saw the deck of the second ship, and on her - her son and a woman with gold hair, which was once with him. "Be careful, son, - that he shouted forces, - she is your mother!" At that time, thunder, which was shaking not only the sky, but also the earth, and the ships disappeared in the sea puchin forever. And when the storm was dated, people saw two rocks in the sea, reminiscent of sailboats (they were called Elken-Kaya, which means "stone sailboats"), one of which seemed to catch up with another. "Apparently, the father of his son did not hear," the locals say, "still runs away from it." Kizil - Shaitanova Yagoda This legend reads: when Allah created the world, people and animals rushed to distribute plants among themselves. Came and tricky Shaitan. "Well, what do you want?" He asked him Allah. That tricky squinted and said: "Give me a dogwood." "Take", "Allah told him, and Shaitan joined himself from joy: he saw that Kizil bloomed before all other trees and shrubs, which means that the harvest would give before. And the first berries are the most expensive, the Shaitan is lucky to the bazaar, sell and will help a lot of money. But hectre was calculated. Summer passed, and Kizil, although he blushed, still remained solid and tart. Spilled Shaitan from anger and told people: "Take it yourself, I don't need it." In the fall, people went to the mountains and, collecting almost black, very sweet berries, laughed at the cheating: it is necessary, as he calculated! Shaitan got angry and decided to take revenge on people. The next year he did so that Kizyl was twice as much laid. But the sun, I spent all his warmth on him, was exhausted, and after the fall, a harsh winter came with strong frost and cold winds. Since then, in Crimea, there is a sign: a big vintage of Kizyl - to Luta Winter.

The Black Sea covers an area of \u200b\u200b442 thousand square meters. kilometers, the greatest depth is 2.245 meters. The sea is almost 90% lifeless, as at depths exceeding 150-200 meters, the water is very saturated with hydrogen sulfide, which kills almost all living organisms.

In ancient times, local tribes called the Sea Temprunda, which means "dark baur". The ancient Greeks first gave the sea the name Pont Aksinsky - "non-microgenic". But after the reason and the heyday of the Greek colonies began to be called Evksinsky - "hospitable".

D.avno it was. So long ago, that even the time count was in the opposite direction. Lived in Tavrid proud and peace-loving tribe of the Highlanders. Lived quiet and peacefully. They did not attack anyone, and nobody attacked them. Cultivated the land and raised children. Smart Hands Hands learned to grow on the slopes of the mountains fragrant sweet grapes and roses. There is defdulating mountain ridge, but the mountains are patient and hardworking people. From the shores of the sea, they brought the ground in the baskets and fell asleep with her clefts. And the kind of mountains covered with grape vines, fruit trees, kizylovy and nut shrubs.

In mountain forests there was a lot of game, and the mountaineers were a laid arrows. But they did not abuse the weapons and tightened the lace theater only when they needed food. The village of Histsens is richly every year ... I heard about Tavrid in the distant Eldead, and the Greeks began to conquer this rich land.

The coast of Tavrida has many ships. They were sitting armed Ellians. They wanted to go to the shore under the cover of the night and attack sleeping horses. But the sea suddenly lit up a bluish flame, and the mountaineers saw the aliens. Greek ships went as if silver. The oars splashed water, and the splashes flicker as the stars in the sky. Even foam off the coast glowed with a blue dead glow.

The villages of the mountaineers crushed. Women and children hid in the caves, and men prepared to reflect the onslaught. They realized that the battle would not be for life, but for death: the Greeks were the countless set.

But then the clouds closed the stars as if clouds. This giant eagle-necks flew from the rocks and rushed to the sea. Melt huge wings, eagles have become circling over Greek ships. Ellina shouted in fright and closed heads heads. But then there was a formidable macobe of the GRIF-leader, and the birds covered with wooden shields covered with their iron bears began to dwell.

Highlanders were delighted, seeing support from the sky, and began to face huge boulders in the water.

We rebelled the sea, stamped, huge waves rose. Such huge, that salty splashes, breaking the darkness of the night, got to the sun and caused rain. Over the sea stood solid moan and rumble.

In fear, Hellen turned their ships back. But few people returned to their shores.

Since then, the Greeks began to call this sea of \u200b\u200bPonte Aksinsky - the non-microgenic sea. And they punished their children, so that they never raised the weapons against the residents of Taurides and never tried to go through Ponte Aksinsky.

You never know, a lot of time has passed since then, only again it began to pull the Greeks on the sunny shores of the rich Taurida. But they remembered their ancestors well, and not thousands of ships came to Pont Aksinsky, but only five. And they were sitting in them not armed warriors, but peaceful ambassadors with rich gifts for the mountaineers.

And the mountaineers agreed with the Greeks, and swore that they would never raise the weapons against each other.

Since then, Ellina settled away from Ellala and happily healed under the sun Taurida. They began to grow grapes and roses. He led trading with the mountaineers and wondered: why is such a gentle sea called Aksinsky - non-microgenic?

No, this is a kind and hospitable sea. And called the Greeks Sea Putom Evksinsky - hospitable sea ...

So he was heard since. Who goes to the Black Sea with an open heart and a peaceful flag, it is always welcoming - Pont Evksinsky. And for our enemies - Pont Aksinsky. Non-smart.

Rocks-islets stand in some distance from the shores of the sea opposite Artek.

D.aven-long ago on the top of the Bear Mountain stood a majestic castle. Twins Peter and Georgy lived in it. They lived together, in battle, they fought, defending each other. The princes had a faithful servant - old nympholis. Once he gave Nympholis to the brothers on Parliament Larz and said:

You will comprehend the mystery of the living, learn how the world is arranged. But remember, never use this gift with a mercenary purpose! Only for the joy of knowledge.

In one Larza was bone rod with the inscription: "Raise him - and the sea breaks down, lower it - you know about everything that is in the punching", and in another Larz - two silver wings, too, with the inscription: "Tie them - and bring you where you want, you will find out everything you wish. "

Interestingly healed the brothers, began to recognize the world ...

But the brothers were pleased that there are two sisters from one prince - beauties, twin girls.

Brothers would go with the world yes caress, deserve love and respect, and they did in a different way, in a bad one. Sisters brought by force to his castle, and violence and love together will never be seized. And in the "cage" donated soul from the sisters and nothing left in it, except for contempt and hatred for brothers.

And the brothers wanted at any price to buy beauties love. And they decided to surprise the sisters with gifts nympholis.

He will not condemn us, - said George. "After all, he knows how the friendship of these women needs us." No, not for the sake of koresti, and for the sake of happiness we decide we will take advantage of the gifts of the old servant.

Another day, tied the georgy horse wings, sat down on the horse brothers with sisters and rose up. Suddenly, the voice of Old Nympholis was heard:

George shrewd, turned pale for the first time in his life and turned the horse.

And sisters spoke mockingly and boldly:

Did not raise us to the sun, fled like a cowardly hare.

On the other day, Petr's harness in the chariot of horses and brought sisters and brother to the stormy sea. Raised the rod, the paunch was broken and they rushed down the bottom in the bottom. Not far left the shore, as Nifolis invisible for the beauties appeared to Peter and said:

Peter, you descended with an unclean idea to depth. I order you return, if you do not want to die and destroy everyone.

I did not answer Peter, hung the quick horses. The tsar of the Puchin was angry, hit the trident once - and killed the brothers, hit the second - and killed his sisters. But they did not died. Their bodies surfaced, joined forever in stone.

And people saw adalary twin rocks in the sea. They tell these cliffs about how the attempts will be brought up to take anything from the human soul.

Rocks twins in Gurzuf

(humorous version)

Gurzuf's jokers, the heirs of the famous Balaklava humorist and an amateur of the drawing starts of the XX century. Sasha Argiridi, Suspended in the story of A. I. Kurin "Leistic", explain the origin of the name Adalary is somewhat different, telling the legend that does not claim historical accuracy.

According to this legend, at the beginning of the XX century. In Hurzuf, one rich American woman visited the passage. A very big impression was made by Gurzufski-islands, and she wished to sail them on the boat. Local fishermen agreed to fulfill her desire. When they already walked to the island, he suddenly suddenly rose a storm. The boat rushed greatly, and in some moment from the hands of an American in the sea fell her handbag, in which there was a big amount of money. In despair, the lady exclaimed loudly: "Ay, dollars!", And made an emphasis on the second syllable. And the handbag with dollars and drowned into the sea. How many fishermen dived, but could not get it. Since then, many years have passed, and this handbag could not be found so anyone, although quite a few deals tried to do it. Only occasionally, the sea makes the shore opposite Adalar dollars. Since then, the islands are called - Ai-Dolira. By the way, in the book "Toponymy Crimea" the name Ai-Dolari is the second after Adalalar by an option for the name of two rocky islands in the Gurzuf Gulf.

One of the most beautiful places on Earth - Crimea - sheepskino not only rich historical events, but also all sorts of legends. Each piece of Crimea is literally saturated with history.

Unfortunately, many historical documents are so confused that they do not fully open the origin of one or another object and then people come to the revenue. It is the legends transmitted from the mouth that the legends allow us to look far back in the past to re-survive some moments of the Crimean history.

The famous Mermaid is one of the most popular and well-known sculptures of the South Coast. As the sculpture was erected that she survived during his location from the Mishor's coast, it was possible to determine reliably, but how truthful the legend about this girl is absolutely impossible.

We can say grateful words to those writers, philosophers, painters, traces of whom they introduce us, travelers and just readers, with amazing and sometimes incredible stories of education and the formation of this beautiful peninsula. Let some of the legends of just an artistic fiction and are really not reality, but that we probably never know.

Each legend is not unremitted by the people with some facility or a specific hero. And as always, most of them are ancient Greeks, all-seeing gods, evil sorcerers and good wizards. In almost every city, each distant corner of Crimea has monuments that have survived in different ways and remind us of this.

How true these legends, judge you, dear reader, and we will only try to more reliably state everything that we could find about the Crimean legends and what managed to keep our ancestors for us.

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