Byliny — The Healing of Ilya Muromets
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
For thirty years a peasant's son has sat without moving in a hut in Karacharovo — until two wandering pilgrims stop beneath his window and bid him rise, and a little cup of honeyed drink kindles a great strength in him.
The Healing of Ilya Muromets (Исцеление Ильи Муромца) — a bylina of old Rus', recorded from the storyteller Leonty Bogdanov in the Kizhi parish and published in P. N. Rybnikov's collection of 1861, in a new English translation made for this show, read aloud over a gentle instrumental bed.
Byliny.
Intermission: "Napoli in Fiamme 2" — instrumental.
KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.
