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Scheherazade and Sultan Shahriyar from the tales of 1001 nights.

Scheherazade and Sultan Shahriyar from the tales of 1001 nights.

Scheherazade is the eldest daughter of the royal vizier, a girl of rare beauty and remarkable intelligence, who volunteered to free the people from the consequences of Shahriyar's unsuccessful marriage: having survived his wife's betrayal, the king became convinced of the depravity of women; but since Shahriyar needed women, he took possession of an innocent girl every night, and executed her the next morning.

Having invited herself into the royal bedchamber as another victim, Scheherazade used all her eloquence, telling the king fairy tales every night until morning. At the same time, sunrise interrupted the narration at the most interesting place, and Shahriyar gave Scheherazade a reprieve until the next night, wanting to hear the end of the tale. However, the cunning Scheherazade, having finished one fairy tale, immediately began the next one, which she did not have time to tell again before sunrise. In this way she told stories for a thousand and one nights, until finally her supply of fairy tales ran out. However, by that time Shakhriyar had fallen in love with Scheherazade and married her, ending the mass extermination of women.
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