The Golden Slipper (1916)
Original title / transcription:
Золотая туфелька
Zolotaia tufel’ka
When Count Belskii came to his mother’s family estate after a long absence, he found everything changed beyond recognition. But most of all, he was struck by his mother’s ward Toto, who had turned from a little girl into a lovely young lady.
When Count Belskii came to his mother’s family estate after a long absence, he found everything changed beyond recognition. But most of all, he was struck by his mother’s ward Toto, who had turned from a little girl into a lovely young lady.
Toto was in charge of the castle’s rich library, and the Count who often met Toto and sat with her in this room for hours, quickly became friends with her. Once the Count was struck by a portrait of a young woman in an old costume that he found in the castle gallery.
Toto, to whom the Count confided his impression, decided to play a joke on him. She found an old dress similar to the costume of the lady in the portrait, and after changing clothes, she waited for the Count in the park during his usual walk. When the Count, fascinated by the vision, wanted to approach her, she ran away, leaving one of her golden slippers on the garden path.
Meanwhile, the old Countess hatched a plan to marry her bored son to the neighboring landowner’s daughter, Lisa. In response to her glimpses, the young Count only laughs and says that, like a prince in a fairy tale, he is in love with an enchanted princess and will only marry the one who has a slipper paired to the one he has found in the park.
The Countess and Lisa’s mother create a deceitful plan, deciding to secretly replace the slipper found by the Count with Lisa’s slipper. Toto’s poor little heart shrinks from grief; she is entrusted with the exchange of slippers, and yet she herself has fallen in love with the Countess with all her young, pure soul. But she does not dare to disobey the Countess.
In the evening, desperate, she decides to write to the Count and reveal the whole truth to him, but the old Countess finds her letter, and due to Toto’s ungratefulness, she is sent from the castle to town.
Meanwhile, the Count gets married, but he does not find happiness with Lisa.
Often, very often, he recalls the eyes of the woman in the portrait, and next to them is a gentle, quiet girl. One day he found Toto’s golden slipper and compared it to Lisa’s shoe. He realized that he had become a victim of deceit.
There was a major argument between him and his wife, and the truth was discovered.
The count breaks up with Lisa and begins to live alone in the old castle. One day he receives a letter, the same letter that Toto wrote to him the night before her departure from the castle, and a package with a small golden slipper. All this was sent to him by a famous doctor at the request of a sick girl.
The happy Count has found his real Cinderella princess at last, he has found Toto. But he arrives too late. Poor little Toto was already dead.
When Count Belskii came to his mother’s family estate after a long absence, he found everything changed beyond recognition. But most of all, he was struck by his mother’s ward Toto, who had turned from a little girl into a lovely young lady.
Toto was in charge of the castle’s rich library, and the Count who often met Toto and sat with her in this room for hours, quickly became friends with her. Once the Count was struck by a portrait of a young woman in an old costume that he found in the castle gallery.
Toto, to whom the Count confided his impression, decided to play a joke on him. She found an old dress similar to the costume of the lady in the portrait, and after changing clothes, she waited for the Count in the park during his usual walk. When the Count, fascinated by the vision, wanted to approach her, she ran away, leaving one of her golden slippers on the garden path.
Meanwhile, the old Countess hatched a plan to marry her bored son to the neighboring landowner’s daughter, Lisa. In response to her glimpses, the young Count only laughs and says that, like a prince in a fairy tale, he is in love with an enchanted princess and will only marry the one who has a slipper paired to the one he has found in the park.
The Countess and Lisa’s mother create a deceitful plan, deciding to secretly replace the slipper found by the Count with Lisa’s slipper. Toto’s poor little heart shrinks from grief; she is entrusted with the exchange of slippers, and yet she herself has fallen in love with the Countess with all her young, pure soul. But she does not dare to disobey the Countess.
In the evening, desperate, she decides to write to the Count and reveal the whole truth to him, but the old Countess finds her letter, and due to Toto’s ungratefulness, she is sent from the castle to town.
Meanwhile, the Count gets married, but he does not find happiness with Lisa.
Often, very often, he recalls the eyes of the woman in the portrait, and next to them is a gentle, quiet girl. One day he found Toto’s golden slipper and compared it to Lisa’s shoe. He realized that he had become a victim of deceit.
There was a major argument between him and his wife, and the truth was discovered.
The count breaks up with Lisa and begins to live alone in the old castle. One day he receives a letter, the same letter that Toto wrote to him the night before her departure from the castle, and a package with a small golden slipper. All this was sent to him by a famous doctor at the request of a sick girl.
The happy Count has found his real Cinderella princess at last, he has found Toto. But he arrives too late. Poor little Toto was already dead.
Источник
“Opisaniia kartin,” Proektor no 19 (1916): 20.