Что (кто) такое Cinderella - определение
![Cinderella]]'' (1914) poster](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cinderella 1914 poster.jpg?width=200 "Cinderella]]'' (1914) poster")
![Cinderella prays to the tree and the little birds provide her a beautiful dress. Art by [[Elenore Abbott]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cinderella by Elenore Abbott.jpg?width=200 "Cinderella prays to the tree and the little birds provide her a beautiful dress. Art by [[Elenore Abbott]].")
![''Cinderella'' by [[Edward Burne-Jones]], 1863, [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward Burne-Jones Cinderella.jpg?width=200 "''Cinderella'' by [[Edward Burne-Jones]], 1863, [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]]")
![Pair of ancient [[sandals]] from [[Egypt]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Egyptian sandals, vegetable fiber - Bata Shoe Museum - DSC00009.JPG?width=200 "Pair of ancient [[sandals]] from [[Egypt]]")
![Italian author [[Giambattista Basile]] wrote the first literary version of the story.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Giambattista Basile by Nicolaus Perrey.jpg?width=200 "Italian author [[Giambattista Basile]] wrote the first literary version of the story.")
.png?width=200 "The slipper left behind, illustration in ''The fairy tales of Charles Perrault'' by Harry Clarke, 1922")
![Massenet]]'s opera Cendrillon](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Émile Bertrand - Jules Massenet - Cendrillon poster.jpg?width=200 "Massenet]]'s opera Cendrillon")
Википедия
"Cinderella", or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world. The protagonist is a young woman living in forsaken circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune, with her ascension to the throne via marriage. The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between 7 BC and AD 23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story.
The first literary European version of the story was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone in 1634; the version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking world was published in French by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697. Another version was later published as Aschenputtel by the Brothers Grimm in their folk tale collection Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1812.
Although the story's title and main character's name change in different languages, in English-language folklore Cinderella is an archetypal name. The word Cinderella has, by analogy, come to mean someone whose attributes are unrecognized, or someone unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period of obscurity and neglect. The still-popular story of Cinderella continues to influence popular culture internationally, lending plot elements, allusions, and tropes to a wide variety of media.
