Get ready, Your Highness! - The story of the Soviet writer Lev Kassil . It was written in 1964. The work shows the formation of the personality of the little crown prince of the fictional country of Jungahora, who suddenly begins to understand much of what had not previously been his concern. In 1978, a film of the same name was shot according to the story.
| Get ready, Your Highness! | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Date of first publication | 1964 |
Content
Story
In the Soviet pioneer camp "Spartak" on the Black Sea coast, a young heir, a prince from a certain eastern country of the Jungahora, comes to rest. The king - the brother of the prince - decides that it will be useful for the prince to live among ordinary Soviet children.
Additional Information
- In 2013, the story was included in the list of “ 100 books ” recommended for schoolchildren by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for independent reading.
- Jungahore Country - Kassil's allusion to Thailand [1] .
The prototype of the protagonist's grandmother was the first wife of the Thai prince of Chakrabon, Ekaterina Desnitskaya .
The children's writer Kassil even wrote the once very popular story “Be prepared, Your Highness!” - about the prince of a certain state similar to Thailand, who fell into the Soviet pioneer camp. It seems that it was Artek.
- Berezin V.S. "Victor Shklovsky"
The prototype of the hero of the work was Prince Fansai Sufanuvong, the eighth son of the legendary red prince Sufanuvong from the Kingdom of Laos , who was the leader of the Lao people in the fight against U.S. aggression in Indochina, and in December 1975 was elected the first president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic .
In the summer of 1962, Leo Kassil came to the Artek pioneer camp, where Fansai Sufanuvong rested. There they met for the first time. And in November 1962, Lev Kassil began writing the book “Be Ready, Your Highness!”, And finished the book in June 1964. During the second meeting, after writing the book, Lev Kassil presented Prince Fansai Sufanuwong with an authorial bookmark for books with handwritten inscription : “The prototype of the prince from the Jungahore!”.
Notes
- ↑ Lev Kassil wrote the novel “Be Ready, Your Highness!” In 1964, and she was filmed in 1978. True, in Kassil, the country from Siam-Thailand turned into a neutral Jungahore. - URL: Berezin V.S. Victor Shklovsky.