ABSTRACT
In a kingdom, in a far-away land, there lived, there were a tsar and his tsaritsa. They had a son, Tsarevich Ivan, who was mute from birth. One day when he was about twelve years old, he went to the stables to see his favorite stable hand. That stable hand always told him stories, and this time Ivan came to hear stories too, but that is not what he heard. “Tsarevich Ivan!” said the stable hand.
