Yorsh Shchetinnikov , also Yorsh Yershovich, son of Shchetinnikov - the central character of the Tale of Yersh Yershovich , a satirical tale from the late 16th - early 17th centuries, a Russian folk tale (published by Afanasyev, "Folk Russian Tales", No. 41 and note in the 4th volume, p. 36), the Soviet cartoon “About Ersh Ersovich,” presents satire on the Moscow legal proceedings of the 16th – 17th centuries. The bream with his comrades beats his forehead on Ruff, who, with his tricks, restored the whole kingdom of fish against himself. Ruff-Yabednik entangles a lot of witnesses; some of them in their testimonies give an excellent description of the accused. After many twists and turns, Ruff was convicted and sentenced to agonizing execution. The verdict has already been approved by all the judges, but Ruff is not discouraged: he spits in the eyes of the judges and safely hides from prosecution. This tale, preserved in the manuscript of the XVIII century., According to Academician A. N. Veselovsky, "preserved with amazing fidelity the form of verbal proceedings."
The plot of the cartoon (director Stanislav Sokolov based on the tales of Boris Shergin at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in 1979 ).
Yorsh and his family sailed to the bream lake and asked the bream to live in it for a couple of days. The bream was allowed to him, and the Ruffs settled for a long time, became insolent, bred and began to harass the bream. Then the bream appealed to the fish court with a request to judge who is entitled to live in the lake. Witnesses-watchmen confirmed that the lake was always bream, and the ruffs settled in it illegally. And the ruff began to lie as if the lake used to be theirs, and all the evidence burned out in a fire. The catfish judge admitted that the ruffs lived illegally in the lake and ordered them to leave it. And the ruff raged and began to stir up the water, but was caught by the fishermen Thomas and Yerema, but managed to escape from them.
Literature
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- Mitrofanova V.V. A folk tale about Ruff and a handwritten story about Ruff Ershovich. // Russian folk prose. Russian folklore-L., 1972. ТXI11.-С. 166-179.
- Smirnov-Kutatsky A.M. The Tale of Ersh Ershovich. - In the book: Proceedings of the Yaroslavl ped. Inst., vol. III, no. 1. Literary and linguistic collection. Yaroslavl, 1929, pp. 109-113.
- Baklanova N. A. About the dating of "The Story of Ersh Ershovich" // Transactions of the Department of Old Russian Literature. - M., L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1954. - T. X. - S. 310—331.
- Ruff Shchetinnikov // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.