Episode Details

For twelve years a wonder-ship has sailed the blue sea without ever anchoring — prow and stern in the manner of a beast, jacinths for eyes, churches and monasteries on her deck, and Ilya Muromets himself for master — until the great Saltan spies her white sails from the shore and orders his men to take her.

Ilya Muromets on the Falcon Ship (Илья Муромец на Соколе-корабле) — a bylina of old Rus', from a recorded variant taken down in Vologda province at the very beginning of the 19th century, in a new English translation made for this show, read aloud over a gentle instrumental bed.

Byliny.

Intermission: "2-22" — instrumental.

KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.