This "children's fairy tale" contains a deep morality. A.S. Pushkin was able to set out the basic rules of life in a simple and accessible way: not to become an egoist, to remember the help you have been given, not to put beauty and wealth above true moral values. The plot teaches us to carefully analyze our own actions. Let us get acquainted with a brief retelling of the tale of the Golden Cockerel, King Dadon and the Queen of Shamahan.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin from the very first lines of the tale in poetic form tells about the glorious Tsar Dadon, who lived "... in the far-away kingdom, in the far-off state ...".
In his youth, he was a formidable ruler, but in his old age he only wanted to find peace for himself and his state. But as luck would have it, neighboring countries began to attack from all sides: either from the south or from the east. Desperate, King Dadon turned for help to the sage, astrologer and eunuch. A wise man who came to him brought him a golden cock. According to him, the cockerel will serve him as a good watchman: as soon as he sees enemies, he will immediately start up and scream. Dadon thanked him and promised that he would fulfill any desire. And the cockerel, indeed, guarded its borders. So the neighbors calmed down.
2 years pass without war, when suddenly one morning the cockerel again felt a threat from the east, and the king immediately sent his troops there, led by his eldest son. For 8 days there was no news from him. He sends the youngest son, but again there is no news for more than a week. Then the ruler himself goes with the third army, and Dadon does not know what to think. The king sees among the mountains a silk tent, and beside him a broken army and two dead sons. The father howled with grief, and at that moment the tent swung open, and the Shamakhan queen came out of it. Seeing her, the king forgot about his misfortune, and he stayed with her for a whole week to feast, as if bewitched. It is time to return home. Everyone meets King Dadon with the Queen of Shamahan. The same sage appears here, and recalls the desire that the ruler promised. He asks to give him the Queen of Shamahan, but Dadon indignantly sends him away. The king struck the sage with the rod of the sage on the forehead, and he died. The queen only grinned, when suddenly a golden cockerel, fluttering from the knitting needle, sat on Dadon's crown and how it would peck. And the king, falling from the chariot, dies.
