Vasilisa the Beautiful
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
A merchant's daughter, tormented by a jealous stepmother, is sent through the dark forest to beg fire from Baba Yaga — and survives the witch's impossible tasks with the help of a tiny doll carrying her dead mother's blessing. But the fire she brings home, in a skull with burning eyes, has a judgment of its own.
Vasilisa the Beautiful (Василиса Прекрасная, No. 104) — from the collection of Alexander Afanasyev, in a new English translation made for this show, read aloud over a gentle instrumental bed.
Afanasyev.
Intermission: "Luminous Springs" — instrumental.
KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.
