Alice's Adventures

Alice's adventures take place in a futuristic world, partly operating according to the laws of space opera : superlight ships, robots , aliens, and time travel are commonplace. The land of the future is described as technically developed, with full automation of production. Robots do household chores and dangerous work for humans.

The social structure of the Earth of the future is not specified. In the early books there were hints that it was utopian- communist . In Alice's Journey, the characters say to aliens: "On Earth, money was canceled long ago, we take it with us only to the planets, where they are still used." In later stories written after the collapse of the USSR , even on Earth, money, material values ​​and commercial organizations sometimes appear. At the level of public morality, earthlings in “Alice's Adventures” are significantly ahead of the people of the 20th century : they care about the nature and purity of the environment, do not fight, are ashamed of lies and are much easier to communicate. The population of the Earth is five billion people (“One hundred years ahead”, “Lilac ball”).

The space of “Alice's Adventures” is densely populated by intelligent civilizations that are at different stages of development (only at one conference of cosmoologists gathered representatives from 342 worlds). Their exact list is not reported, leaving the author and reader complete freedom of fantasy. Most often appear brastak, fixants, long-eared batons and Chumarozians (they all live on planets with an atmosphere close to the Earth). Mars is also inhabited, and in addition to colonists from the Earth has the indigenous population. An ambitious project is underway to transfer Venus to a more distant orbit from the Sun with a view to its subsequent settlement (Alice's Journey).

Although the solar system is completely colonized and safe, the deep space of Adventures is full of mysteries and dangers, such as artifacts and bases of the disappeared race of Wanderers. In the first stories about space travel of Alice, the Galaxy was a relatively safe place: space pirates were considered destroyed, there was no mention of any militant or emphasized anti-human planets or states. In later works in space, space pirates and slave traders continue to operate actively, and entire planets under the rule of cruel tyrants are mentioned. In contrast, there is InterGpol, headed by Commissioner Milodar. One of the important factors in the books is the time machine invented by earthlings, allowing you to move into the past and even slightly influence it. Thus, the staff of the Institute of Time copied books from the Library of Alexandria and the second volume of Gogol's “ Dead Souls ”. In addition, through time travel, it was discovered that the Age of Tales existed between the Ice Age (Age of Legends). In this epoch, the characters of children's fairy tales, such as dragons , wizards and giants, really existed on Earth. Part of Alice’s adventures takes place during her travels to the Fairy Tale Epoch, giving the cycle a hint of fantasy .

The action of the books takes place both on the Earth of the future and on other planets. Most of the planets appear in the works more than once, some have no names.

The only permanent character in the cycle is Alice herself. However, Alice has satellites that appear in books regularly. This is, first of all, her best friends Pashka Geraskin , Arkasha Sapozhkov and other classmates. Alice’s father, Professor Igor Seleznev, appears almost as often. A large role in a number of narratives is played by the alien Gromozek , an archaeologist from the planet Chumarosa.

Negative characters are rarely repeated, with the exception of a pair of space pirates - Rats and Merry U. Being defeated, in the following stories, they miraculously come to freedom again and continue their dark deeds.

Among the characters of the third plan there are many colorful and memorable robots, aliens, reasonable and not very animals and residents of the Epoch of Legends.

One of the main places in which the adventures of the heroes of the cycle take place or from which they begin. Located in Moscow in Sivtsev Vrazhek lane.

At the Moscow Institute of Time, they are working on the creation of different types of time machines and units close to it, as well as exploring history. Among the discoveries of the institute of time is the Epoch of Legends, a short period of time between the third and fourth Ice Age, when creatures actually existed that later became considered fictional: dragons, giants, wizards, gnomes, etc. Of the creatures taken out of the Epochs of fairy tales, composed The reserve of fairy tales, where fabulous creatures can live in peace and entertain children without fear of the onset of the Ice Age.

Autonomous cycles of stories, in most of the books of which events begin in this institution - “Alice's Adventures in the Mazes of History” and the cycle about the Fairy Tale Reserve and the Epoch of Legends , as well as some episodes of the series of adventures of the agent of the InterGalactic Police Cortex Orvat . For the first time, MIV is mentioned in the story “His Man in the Past” from the collection Girl with whom nothing will happen , but appears directly in the story One Hundred Years Ahead . There is a sub-cycle “Alice's Adventures in the Labyrinths of History”, in the books of which Alice or her friends find themselves in a different time thanks to MIV. All of them are written in the chrono-op genre.

• One Hundred Years Ahead (1978)
• Purple ball (1982)
• Alice and the Crusaders (1993)
• Pasha-troglodyte (1998)
• Ancient Secrets (1999)
• Bluebeard's Lounge (1999)
• Dragon Dawn (2001)
• Princes in the Tower (2002)

Employees of MIV:

• Academician Petrov - the head of the institution, one of the inventors of the time machine
• Richard Tempest
• Pirate Silver , watchman

In the television movie " Guest from the Future " there are other members of the Institute:

• Rob Werther , cleaner, secretary in the waiting room
• Polina , a specialist in the XX century
• Ivan Sergeevich , an expert in ancient history
• Professor Gogi , expert on the XVIII century
• Maria , Stone Age Specialist
• Litvak , Head of Human Resources
• Ivanov A.V. , brought "a reptile from the Mesozoic era"

The cycle often intersects with the Kora Orvat cycle and once with the Guslar cycle (the story “Alice in Guslar”). In addition to the main cycle, there are also works accompanying him, where individual characters of the series act: Richard Tempest - the story “Photograph of the Stranger” and the story “The Consecration of the Temple of Anand”; Julia Gribkova and Fima Korolev (characters in the novel “One Hundred Years Ahead”) - the story “Two Tickets to India”; Professor Seleznyov - the stories "The Mind for the Cat" and "Takan for the Children of Earth".

The time sequence described in the books of the event cycle

There is no official timeline for the stories.

The researcher of Alisa Seleznyova’s biography, Andrei Busygin, after analyzing all the novels and stories about her, was able to determine the approximate chronology and link the events that took place in them to the future dates:

1. The girl with whom nothing will happen: 2083-2086
2. Fairy Tale Reserve: Spring 2087
3. Kozlik Ivan Ivanovich: Spring 2087
4. Alice's Journey: Summer 2088
5. Repeaters: Autumn 2088 - Spring 2089
6. Island of Rusty Lieutenant: June 2089
7. Alice's Birthday: Autumn 2089
8. Purple ball: winter 2089-2090
9. Asteroid Prisoners: July 2090
10. One hundred years ahead: April 2091
11. Million Adventures: Spring - Summer 2091
12. Prisoners of the Yamagiri-Maru: Spring 2092
13. End of Atlantis: Spring 2092
14. Guy-do: July 2092
15. A city without memory: August 2092 ^[2]
16. Alice and the Crusaders: September 2092

This dating, of course, is not indisputable, and in some cases contradicts what has been said in the books themselves. For example, in the “City without memory” it is directly indicated that a year has passed since the end of “Guy-to”, and Alice and Pashka could not visit Guy-to because of the events of “The End of Atlantis”. Also in the novel “Alice's Adventures” there is a mention that the action takes place in 2074, while in “The End of Atlantis” Alice says that now is the year 2088.

All books about Alice Selezneva in a temporary (meaningful) order

1. The girl with whom nothing will happen.
2. Rusty Field Marshal.
3. Alice's journey.
4. Alice's birthday.
5. One hundred years ahead.
6. Prisoners of the asteroid.
7. Reserve of fairy tales.
8. Kozlik, Ivan Ivanovich.
9. Purple ball
10. Million adventures.
11. Guy-do.
12. Prisoners "Yamagiri-Maru."
13. The end of Atlantis.
14. A city without memory.
15. Guest in a jug.
16. Underground boat.
17. Alice and the Crusaders.
18. Golden Bear.
19. The war with the Lilliputians.
20. Emitter kindness.
21. Detective Alice.
22. Planet for tyrants.
23. Dangerous tales.
24. Children dinosaurs.
25. Ghosts do not happen.
26. Alice and the monster.
27. The secret of black stone.
28. Vampire Twilight.
29. Star Dog
30. Sapphire crown.
31. The bewitched king.
32. Alice and Alicia.
33. Queen of pirates on the planet of fairy tales.
34. Warlock and Snow Maiden.
35. Alice on the planet of mysteries.
36. Alice and the dragon.
37. Alice and pretenders.
38. Alice on a living planet.
39. Repeaters.
40. Is that you, Alice?
41. This movie.
42. Napoleon's treasure.
43. Monster at the spring.
44. Around the world in three hours.
45. This is not an apple compote!
46. Alice in Guslar.
47. Freaks and handsome.
48. Ancient secrets.
49. Pasha-troglodyte.
50. Bluebeard's closet.
51. Dragonosaurus
52. Princes in the tower.

• The Mystery of the Third Planet is the full-length animated film based on the story of Kira Bulychev “ Alice's Journey ” (“Alice and the Three Captains”, “Girl from the Earth”) from the cycle of Alice's Adventures.
• Guest from the Future - Soviet children's five-part television feature film, filmed at the Studio. Gorky in 1983-1984 , film director Pavel Arsenov based on the fantastic story of Kir Bulychev “ One Hundred Years Ahead ” ( 1977 ).
• The Purple Ball is a Soviet children's feature film, shot in 1987 by director Pavel Arsenov based on the story “The Purple Ball ” by Cyrus Bulychev from the series “Alice's Adventures”. The second film by Pavel Arsenov (after “The Guest from the Future ”) with Natasha Guseva in the lead role.
• The Island of Rusty General is a fantastic children's feature film, a film adaptation of the story by Kira Bulychev “ Rusty Field Marshal ” from the series “Alice's Adventures” 1988 . The first of the unfulfilled series of film adaptation of films about Alice, appearing in the first credits.
• Prisoners "Yamagiri-Maru" - a puppet animated film directed by Alexei Solovyov based on the story of Kir Bulychev " Prisoners of" Yamagiri-Maru " " 1988 .
• Alice's Birthday is a Russian full-length animated film released by Master-Film Studio based on the story by the same name by Kir Bulychev about Alice Selezneva . The work on the film was completed on December 19, 2008, the premiere took place on February 12, 2009 , at the box office on February 19, 2009, was released on DVD / Blu-Ray on March 12, 2009.
• Computer animated series “ Alice knows what to do! »(2014)

Since 2009, Alice’s Adventures. Prisoners of the three planets ” ^[3] , a fantastic film based on the works of Cyrus Bulychev from the series of children's books“ Alice's Adventures ” ^[4] . The film should be directed by Oleg Ryaskov , who had previously produced the television series Alexander Garden and the film The Servant of the Emperor ^[5] . The role of Alice Selezneva should be performed by actress Daria Melnikova , known from the television series " Daddy's Daughter " ^[6] . The budget of the film was approximately 10 million dollars ^[4] . Responsible for creating computer effects was Pavel Donatov , who had previously worked on special effects for the films " 9th Company " and " Inhabited Island " ^[4] . Filming of several scenes took place in July 2008, of which a teaser was mounted ^[4] . The beginning of the main shooting period was scheduled for February 2009 ^[7] . In January 2009, work on the film was frozen indefinitely.

Abroad, several Alice films were also made:

• Bulgaria

“The girl with whom nothing will happen”, “Brontya”, “Our Man in the past.” Short films in the program "Good night, children" , shot in the years 1980-1981. Each lasts about 10 min.

• Poland

“A girl with whom nothing will happen” (Dziewczynka, której nigdy nie zdarzy się nic złego) ^[8] . The color TV play, created on the same cycle of stories in 1994. Duration 34 min. The script was written by Kir Bułyczow, translation and adaptation by Irena Lewandowska. Directed by: Agnieszka Glinska . Operator: Grzegorz Kucherishka (Grzegorz Kuczeriszka). Scenographer: Anna Seitz-Wichłacz. Composer: Marek Nedzelko (Marek Niedzielko). Sound engineer: Andrzej Bogdanovich (Andrzej Bohdanowicz). The roles are performed by: Alice - Yagoda Stach (Jagoda Stach), Professor Seleznev - Krzysztof Stroiński, the presenter - Dorota Landowska, Tutex - Krystyna Sienkiewicz and Jan Kotzkyk (Krystyna Sienkiewicz) (Krystyk Sienkiewicz) (Creant). Bracek (Jacek Braciak), Brontya - Janusz Marcinowicz, Martian - Henrik Bista , Scientist - Tomasz Taraskevich (Tomasz Taraszkiewicz).

• Slovakia

"The Mystery of the Three Captains" (Záhada trí kapitánu), based on the story "Alice's Journey" in 1990. Color film-performance in three parts, duration 76 min. Script writers: Kir Bulychev (Kir Bulychyov), Anna Jurásková. Directed by: Jan Bonaventura (Jan Bonaventura). The roles are performed by: Alice - Klara Jandova (Klára Jandová), Professor Seleznev - Oldrich Vizner (Oldrich Vízner), in other roles: Radka Stupkova (Radka Stupkova), Peter Koska (Petr Kostka), Petr Lepsa (Petr Lepsa), Vit Pezina ( Vit Pesina), Michal Tálovský, Milan Kobera, Ilona Jirotkova.

• Alley named Alice Selezneva

• Sources - books about Alice Selezneva
• Somewhat different chronology
• Cabin-company Pegasus
• The planet named Alice - fan portal
• The official website of the series "Guest from the Future"
• Fan club "Guests from the Future" - an interview with Natasha Murashkevich and other actors
• Alice's words in the movie “Guest from the Future”
• "Star named Alice." TV story. TV studio Roscosmos .
• Download in one file
• Filmstrips on the works of Alice. A girl from the XXI century and Alice's new adventures from the XXI century (inaccessible link)
• Dziewczynka, której nigdy nie zdarzy się nic złego