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Byliny — Dobrynya and the Dragon · Dobrynya and Marinka

A twelve-year-old rides out to bathe against his mother's warning — and meets the Dragon in the river; and a hero who serves nine years at the prince's table is bewitched by Marinka, and walks the field for half a year as a golden-horned aurochs.

Dobrynya and the Dragon (Добрыня и Змей), recorded in the Kirsha Danilov collection as "Dobrynya Was Bathing — the Dragon Carried Him Off", and Dobrynya and Marinka (Добрыня и Маринка), recorded in the same collection as "Three Years Dobrynyushka Served as Stolnik" — two byliny of old Rus', in new English translations made for this show, read aloud over a gentle instrumental bed.

Byliny.

Intermission: "Cypress in the Soil 2" — instrumental.

KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.