The Girl Lucy and Grandpa Krylov
Девочка Люся и дедушка Крылов
Devochka Lyusya i dedushka Krylov (ru)
La nica Lucha y el abuelo Krylov (es)
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Девочка Люся и дедушка Крылов
Devochka Lyusya i dedushka Krylov (ru)
La nica Lucha y el abuelo Krylov (es)
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| Year | 2003 |
| Director(s) | Muat Mariya |
| Studio(s) | Animos |
| Language(s) | Russian |
| Genre(s) | Folklore & myth (non-Rus./USSR) Literature (Rus./East Slavic) Surrealism/dream-logic |
| Animation Type(s) | Cutout Puppet |
| Length | 00:13:00 |
| Wordiness | 6.68 |
| Animator.ru profile | Ru, En |
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⭳ Devochka Lyusya i dedushka Krylov.2003.en.1.25fps.1786689514.srt
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⭳ Devochka Lyusya i dedushka Krylov.2003.es.1.25fps.1361919550.srt
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⭳ Devochka Lyusya i dedushka Krylov.2003.ru.1.25fps.1786689006.srt
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⭳ Devochka Lyusya i dedushka Krylov.2003.en.1.25fps.1786689514.srt
Date: August 14 2026 06:38:34
Language: English
Quality: good
Upload notes: 608 characters long (view)
Creator(s): Niffiwan, ?₂, Peter Solovioff₂, Yuri Menis₂
⭳ Devochka Lyusya i dedushka Krylov.2003.es.1.25fps.1361919550.srt
Date: February 26 2013 22:59:10
Language: Spanish
Quality: unknown
Upload notes: 131 characters long (view)
Creator(s): Yefren
⭳ Devochka Lyusya i dedushka Krylov.2003.ru.1.25fps.1786689006.srt
Date: August 14 2026 06:30:06
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This film is part of the Russian Classics for Children series.
Description:
A little emigrant Russian girl living in 1920s Paris meets Ivan Krylov, the 19th century fable writer and her favourite author. Based on the story by Sasha Chorny.
Chorny's original story can be read here (in Russian). Ivan Krylov's "The Dragonfly and the Ant" makes a prominent appearance. It is an adaptation of the Aesop fable The Ant and the Grasshopper (at the time Krylov wrote it, the Russian word "strekoza" meant "grasshopper" rather than "dragonfly" as it does today).
A few lines from Mikhail Lermontov's "Borodino" also make an appearance (read original and English translation here), as well as Alexander Pushkin's "Devils" (read original and a variety of translations here).
DISCUSSION
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Certainly one of the best entries in Animos studio's "Russian Classics for Children" series. This film is so rich, and everything (acting, art direction, screenplay, music) seems to be in top form here. Nor does it simplify the material or seem to speak down to its audience, like some of the other films in the series. The source material is curious - a story written by a writer who left Russia because of the Revolution. Not something that could have been adapted during Soviet times, I think. Eus, who originally submitted this (and may have made the first version of the English subtitles, 13 years ago) wrote "Personally this animation made me understand the Russian obsession with/enchantment by an even more famous Russian Poet & Writer: Aleksandr Pushkin".
I will say, though, if showing this to children, it probably helps if they are familiar with the Krylov fable in question (though that is very likely to already be the case, if they are Russian).
There is no great English translation of the original Krylov fable that I've found online, by the way. Perhaps the one by Lydia Razran Stone in the book "The Frogs Who Begged For A Tsar (And 61 Other Russian Fables)" is good (because some of the others in the book sample seem nice enough), but it can't be found online.