Basilio (aka "Vasily", "Vaska", but only onItalian style) - of course, one of the brightest and most original characters in Tolstoy’s fairy tale “Buratino”. In Russia of that time, almost a good half of the cats were called Vaska, so this name is quite common, implying not only cunning, a propensity for fraud, stupidity (everyone knows “Vaska listens and eats”), but also simplicity, forcing us often to be moved by this hero .

Meet Buratino
The cat Basilio, Carabas, Duremar, Alice, undoubtedlypersonify the so-called "evil forces" in this tale. And Tolstoy continues to make fun of them throughout his fairy tale. We laugh at how annoyed Karabas, having put his beard in his pocket, sneezes without stopping. And over how the “blind” cat Basilio fights over Buratino’s money with his “partner” fox Alice, and how these characters sometimes look ridiculous.
But actions in a fairy tale develop so much.fast, that sometimes you do not even know which of the heroes should be considered a villain, and who should sympathize. Even negative characters, such as the rogue Basilio, sometimes cause us sympathy and touch for the living. After all, trying to deceive Pinocchio, Basilio the cat often gets into a mess, causing pity and sympathy from the reader. This is because the story of Tolstoy "Buratino" was originally good. It is read fun and easy, so to speak, “in one breath”.

Cat Basilio and Alice Fox meet on the wayPinocchio is almost at the very beginning of the work and they accompany the main character almost to the very end, one way or another participating in the events unfolding in front of us. They are like secondary heroes, but at the same time this “sweet couple” by the brightness of their characters makes us pay attention to ourselves. Pinocchio sees two beggars who wander along the dusty road. These are our characters: cat Basilio, fox Alice. The boy wants to pass by, but Alice calls him sweetly, calling him “the good Buratino”.

Country of Fools and Five Gold
Когда мошенники (кот Базилио, лиса Алиса) узнают about gold coins, they offer a wooden boy to make a trip to the imaginary Country of Fools. There on the Field of Miracles and you will need to bury Buratino money. And in the morning, the Money Tree will surely grow from these denezhek, and there will be gold on it! Pinocchio agrees. But halfway into the Land of Fools, the boy loses his companions, and at night in the forest, dressed as robbers, surprisingly similar to a cat and a fox, attack him!
Pinocchio puts the coins in his mouth, and to getgold, robbers hang a wooden boy on a tree upside down and go. Here it finds and Malvina, who, along with Artemon fled from Carabas. The girl will try to rehabilitate the boy, but in vain. After all, the stubborn Buratino is difficult to any education! And the wooden boy landed in a dark closet, from where a bat rescued him. Here, meeting again with the fox and the cat, Pinocchio finally arrives at the Field of Miracles ... In general, the plot is exciting! I advise you to read a fairy tale!
It only remains to add that the role of Basilio in the film “The Adventures of Buratino” was brilliantly played by the famous actor Rolan Bykov.