The Bogatyr of September

12 hrs. 14 min.

Language Russian

Author Elizaveta Dvoretskaya

Narrator Natalya Belyaeva

Description

“And give me a hero by the end of September,” the young Tsar Saltan asked the fiancée he had suddenly met on a dark winter evening.

Prince Guidon was born as a result of breaking three important forbidding taboos on festive days: spinning, getting married, and having children. But the cause wasn’t carelessness from the young parents—it was the influence of forces they didn’t even know about.

The day after his first real meeting with his father, Prince Guidon woke up on an empty island: no city where he ruled, no wife, the beautiful Kiknida.

Soon the time will come to keep the promise she once made: to go even “to the ends of the earth” to return the city and the Tsarevna Swan… but will she want to return? And a certain red-haired person—who hates songs and nuts, but often leaves a trail in the form of golden shell pieces—will serve as their guide to the place where love and power will be fought for.

In this book you’ll find:

— an explanation of the riddles in Pushkin’s plot “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”;
— a continuation of the story of Saltan and Guidon exactly from the point where Pushkin stopped;
— unnamed heroes will receive names;
— characters will be revealed from an unknown side;
— a dynamic plot and an easy style when describing the oldest fairy-tale and mythological motifs;
— the queen’s sisters will finally get married…