Scheherazade at The VORTEX

Sultan Shahriyar, believing in the cunning women, every day he took a wife, young girl, and the next day executed her. This continued for three years, and in no more girls. And the vizier was the daughter of Scheherazade, which "read books, chronicles, lives of ancient kings, legends of great of past peoples and, say, gathered thousand of Chronicle Books related to ancient peoples, Kings and poets". And Scheherazade became the wife of the Sultan. Every night she told him tales and stories of one other fun and stopped barely came out of the morning. The tale always broke on the very interesting place and Shahriyar, wanting to hear the sequel postponed the execution of his wife. So has exactly one thousand and one nights-almost three years. And Shahriar pardoned his wife.

At the beginning of the 18th century in France for the first time appeared widely known in the East is a collection of stories and tales "thousand and one night". French fairy tales were soon translated into many other languages and ever since has awakened the imagination of artists of different fields of art.