An Innocent Girl with a Bag of Gold

10 hrs. 3 min.

Language Russian

Author Mikhail Uspensky

Narrator Vladimir Knyazev

Description

In a certain very strange kingdom, the newly crowned and extremely inexperienced king, while drunk, ended up making a bet with a foreign rival—so that the morality and law-abidingness of his subjects reached such unprecedented heights that even an innocent girl with a sack of gold could, without harming either of the two treasures mentioned, travel safely to Rome—where, as everyone knows, all roads lead.
And it wouldn’t be so bad if, fool that he is, he had been arguing over money— but no, it’s all of the kingdom wholesale: together with independence, self-determination, and the people’s sense of identity. Now he has to somehow wriggle out. Collect gold, set the innocent girl on her way under the unblinking eyes of international observers… Miracles, monsters, wise and very life-tested observations, the kingdom of the Antichrist, journeys and adventures—and “everything else you could possibly want”—are included.