ABSTRACT
Alright, very well, this is how we’ll tell it. So then, in a certain tsardom, in a certain country, and in fact in that very one in which we are living, there lived a tsarevna. And she was cursed. And finally the time came for her to go free, only someone had to rescue her, but no one knew about her or how to rescue her. There was this one village lad who loved to sleep all the time in the threshing bam where they thresh. He was constant—he’d have dinner and then go there, and when he’d lie down to sleep, she’d appear to him and say, “Rescue me and I will be your wife. And when you rescue me, we’ll have everything. We will live well.”
