A matchmaker rides to the Golden Horde to win a bride for Prince Vladimir — and comes home with a bride of his own: Nastasya, the warrior-maiden who can outshoot every hero in Kiev, until pride sets the golden ring upon her head and Dunai takes up his bow.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Dunai Ivanovich (Дунай Иванович) — a bylina of old Rus', recorded in Kirsha Danilov's collection (18th century) under the title "On the Marriage of Prince Vladimir", in a new English translation made for this show, read aloud over a gentle instrumental bed.
Byliny.
Intermission: "upload-11" — instrumental.
KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.
