Based on traditional English ballads, the story by Mikhail Gershenzon tells about the time when the English king Richard freed the Holy Sepulchre, and in the green forests of old England, a cheerful outlaw, Robin Hood, roamed with his brave archers. He shot the king’s deer when he was hungry and the king’s servants when they pressed too hard upon the poor people. Robin could generously reward a poor knight riding through the forest, but at the same time he would strip even a greedy monk bare—cleanly robbing the peasants of a neighboring village.