A wandering pilgrim comes back from Jerusalem with grim news: Idolishche the gluttonous giant has seized Tsar-grad, and no one dares stand against him — so the old Cossack Ilya Muromets trades his hero's dress for the pilgrim's bast shoes and staff, walks straight into the giant's palace, and answers the giant's boasting about how much he can eat with a story about a cow.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Ilya Muromets and Idolishche Poganoye (Илья Муромец и Идолище Поганое) — a bylina of old Rus', recorded by A. F. Gilferding in 1871, in a new English translation made for this show, read aloud over a gentle instrumental bed.
Byliny.
Intermission: "Tampa Across the Water 2" — instrumental.
KacheliTV — Russian classics, read aloud.
