Episode Details

An old hero at a crossroads stone reads three fates — to be slain, to be married, to be rich — and rides out to meet every one of them; and a giant who can find no match for his strength meets a wayfarer whose little bag he cannot lift from the earth.

Three Journeys of Ilya Muromets (Три поездки Ильи Муромца), recorded by A. F. Gilferding in the Onega byliny of 1871, No. 171, and Svyatogor (Святогор), the short recorded bylina of Svyatogor and the pull of the earth — two byliny of old Rus', in new English translations made for this show, read aloud over a gentle instrumental bed.

Byliny.

Intermission: "upload-15" — instrumental.

KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.