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Afanasyev — A Cure for Story-Telling · A Story of a Dead Man · A Tale of Olden Days · Alyosha Popovich
Season 3 Episode 11
Four works from the collection in one sitting. A wife who will take in no lodger who cannot tell tales is cured of her passion by a frozen traveller …
4 days, 3 hours ago
Afanasyev — The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa
Season 3 Episode 10
An archer finds a golden feather of the firebird glowing like fire in the forest, and though his heroic horse warns him — "Do not take the golden fea…
4 days, 4 hours ago
Afanasyev — Sivko-Burko
Season 3 Episode 9
A dying father bids his three sons sleep in turn at his grave, and only Ivan the Fool keeps the watch — three nights running, for his lazy brothers a…
4 days, 4 hours ago
Byliny — Dobrynya and the Dragon · Dobrynya and Marinka
Season 4 Episode 6
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 th…
4 days, 7 hours ago
Byliny — Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin
Season 4 Episode 5
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 — …
4 days, 8 hours ago
Byliny — Sadko · Volga and Mikula
Season 4 Episode 4
Byliny — Sadko · Volga and Mikula
A Novgorod gusli-player whose catch turns to gold descends to play before the Sea Tsar beneath the waves — and a you…
4 days, 8 hours ago
Byliny — The Healing of Ilya Muromets
Season 4 Episode 3
Byliny — The Healing of Ilya Muromets
For thirty years a peasant's son has sat without moving in a hut in Karacharovo — until two wandering pilgrims s…
4 days, 8 hours ago
Byliny — Ilya Muromets and Svyatogor
Season 4 Episode 2
Byliny — Ilya Muromets and Svyatogor
A giant rides asleep across the holy mountains, so great that Mother Damp Earth barely bears him — and the old Co…
4 days, 8 hours ago
Afanasyev — The Feather of Finist, Part Two
Season 3 Episode 8
Afanasyev — The Feather of Finist, Part Two
Part Two picks up the Vologda telling where Part One left it: the father rides home with the little scarle…
4 days, 8 hours ago
Afanasyev — Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf, Part One
Season 3 Episode 5
Afanasyev — Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf, Part One
A Firebird with feathers of gold and eyes like eastern crystal comes night after …
4 days, 9 hours ago