Episode Details

Fresh from freeing the prince's niece, Dobrynya rides the hoof-track across the open field and strikes a rider in a woman's dress three times with all his strength — and she does not even turn her head, until she takes him by his yellow curls, tucks him into her leather bag, and names her terms: the great pledge, the golden crown, or the oatcake.

Dobrynya and Nastasya (Добрыня и Настасья) — 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: "Glacial Forest 3" — instrumental.

KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.