Here is Old Rus’—vast and boundless! The very one that is sung about in the songs of wandering guslars. Long ago, the brave folk were no longer afraid of the immortal Kashchei and the Snake Gorynych. Small, scattered principalities live on peacefully and don’t know grief. Everything seems to be going right—yet… those appanage princes absolutely refuse to agree with one another. They don’t want the speedy unification of the Rus’ lands, and the motley enemies are stirring them up. A distant America weaves treacherous intrigues. It incites the people to great upheaval—an elusive Pashka Rastsebaev… Where is the hero who will rid Mother Rus’ of the cursed troubles? Is he sleeping on the stove and doesn’t know anything? And is he truly a hero at all? Oh, what great changes are coming to Old Rus’!