A hero boasts at the prince's feast that he will carry twelve years of tribute to a foreign tsar — and comes home with the tribute flowing the other way; and a young boyar's son rides to Kiev in armour worth a king's ransom, and finds the prince's white rolls wanting beside his mother's glazed ovens.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Dobrynya Nikitich and Vasily Kazimirovich (Добрыня Никитич и Василий Казимирович), a bylina of the Onega tradition recorded in P. N. Rybnikov's «Песни» (from the Kizhi storyteller T. G. Ryabinin) and in A. F. Gilferding's «Онежские былины», and Dyuk Stepanovich (Дюк Степанович), recorded in the Kirsha Danilov collection «Древние российские стихотворения» as its No. 3 — in new English translations made for this show, read aloud over a gentle instrumental bed.
Byliny.
Intermission: "Calm After the Current 2" — instrumental.
KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.
