Dragonfly and ant (cartoon, 1913)

The dragonfly jumped in the summer , danced, and at that time the ant gathered reserves for the winter. Winter has come . The dragonfly did not have time to look back, but there is already nothing. She came to the ant and said: “Don’t leave me, dear godmother! Let me gather my strength and feed and warm up only for the last days. ” The ant answers her: “Have you sung everything? This case! So, come on, dance! ”And closes the door. The dragonfly leaves and painfully dies.

In the cartoon, instead of a dragonfly, a grasshopper is involved. According to D. Yu. Kobyakov , in the fable the word "dragonfly" also meant a grasshopper, since both insects were called that in the 19th century ^[2] .

According to Lev Uspensky’s remark, since Krylov’s work dates back to La Fontaine’s fable La cigale et la fourmi (“The Cicada and the Ant”), where in the original both heroes are female, Krylov was required to leave at least a cicada as a “woman”, but this word it might have seemed to him insufficiently understood by the majority of Russians, and "as a result, a strange hybrid of two different insects appeared in the fable. This creature is called a" dragonfly ", but" jumps "and" sings "" in soft ants, "that is, in the grass, clearly like a grasshopper " ^[3] .

• " Dragonfly and Ant ” on the Internet Movie Database
• Dragonfly and Ant on Big Cartoon DataBase