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Byliny — Ilya Muromets and Svyatogor

A giant rides asleep across the holy mountains, so great that Mother Damp Earth barely bears him — and the old Cossack Ilya Muromets, who cannot wake him with three blows of his club, is lifted by his yellow curls and carried away in the giant's pocket, horse and all.

Ilya Muromets and Svyatogor (Илья Муромец и Святогор) — a bylina of old Rus', recorded from the storyteller P. L. Kalinin in 1871, in a new English translation made for this show, read aloud over a gentle instrumental bed.

Byliny.

Intermission: "Three Pairs of Yellow Eyes 2" — instrumental.

KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.