At the beginning of the Tale, the author extols the king of India, Abner, extolling his wealth, strength, military prowess; Abner is stately in body, handsome in face, but, unfortunately, a pagan. Abner has no children (nothing has been reported about his wife), and this saddens him. But finally, a son is born to the king - Joasaph. About ...

The legend of the city of Kitezh is a chronicle - a certificate of genuine events. Until now, the people are telling about Kitezh with the seriousness and rigor of a genuine faith, and the “Kitezh chronicler” is revered as a book about the saint. In the literal sense, this is a book about the saint: the founder and martyr of Kitezh, ...

The work, which is based on the Byzantine heroic epic, begins with a story about how the Arabian king Amir abducts the beautiful girl of the royal family from the "Greek Land" as his wife. Upon learning of the abduction, her brothers rush in pursuit of Amir to the Saracen land, intending to kill him....

The biblical king Solomon, who was building the Holy of Holies (the famous Jerusalem temple), needed the advice of Kitovras (Kitovras is a mythical creature, most likely a Centaur). Solomon sends his “first boyar,” supplying him with a cunning plan, to capture Kitovras, who lives “in a distant desert”, thanks to ...