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Byliny — Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin

At Prince Vladimir's feast a monster is carried in on a board of red gold and swallows a whole swan at a gulp — and the youngest hero at the table, the priest's son from Rostov, answers him with a joke, a wager of his own head, and a prayer for rain to soak a pair of paper wings.

Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin (Алёша Попович и Тугарин Змеевич) — a bylina of old Rus', recorded from the storyteller Terenty Ievlev in 1871, in a new English translation made for this show, read aloud over a gentle instrumental bed.

Byliny.

Intermission: "The River's Dying Vision 2" — instrumental.

KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.