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The heroes lived happily ever after, but then, as always, disaster struck unexpectedly – ​​a huge cloud, appearing out of nowhere, threatens to blot out the entire world and turn day into night. Abandoning all family matters, the heroes rush to meet the danger. And the cunning merchant Kolyvan seemed to have been expecting this: Having recruited villains from among Baba Yaga's henchmen, he attacked the principality and caused much mischief. But… not all is Shrovetide for the cat. The heroes come to the aid of the Prince, the city, and their faithful Horse, Julius. It all ends with the heroes nursing their children in strollers – all ends well.

Geese-swans have kidnapped the children right from under the noses of their brave fathers: Ilya, Dobrynya, and Alyosha. There's nothing to be done; it's time to set out on a quest along rivers of milk and jelly, and along the way, fend off various fairytale villains not with hands and feet, but more with your head. Ingenuity is paramount in the fight against geese, swans, and more important birds, like Koschei and Baba Yaga.

Season 1. Three heroes have a feat on their plate every day. They'll have to investigate the theft of a prince's crown, rescue friends from a magical dream world, or engage in an epic battle of wits between Julius the horse and Alyosha. There are no small adventures, and our heroes are no small ones.

Season 2. The three heroes are heroes for a reason: they are ready for new, fabulous feats every day. The mighty trio is capable of everything: welcoming the foreign king in the highest rank, exposing the fraudulent impostors, restoring the horse Julius's ability to speak, and transforming the prince back from a mosquito into a man. And they do it, as always, cheerfully, together, and with ingenuity.

Season 3. The three heroes can only dream of peace, and they have no time to sleep, with so much work to do. First, they need to return the Prince's magic wish-granting spruce, remove Baba Yaga's love spell from Yuliy's horse, and put in his place a conceited stump who's aiming to become the Prince's favorite. And so, day and night, without rest or sleep, they carry an entire city and all its inhabitants on their shoulders. Literally, that is. The main thing is not to drop them.

The dragon Gorynych remembers that he can breathe fire and with its help he scares the pteranodons, and a few minutes later he meets Ilya. Alyosha tries to climb higher and saddles the pteranodon. Meanwhile, Alyonushka and Nastasya talk about the disappearance of Dobrynya and Ilya and decide to run to Lyubava. On the way there, they see the dinosaur's mother, who accidentally breaks everything in her path. Alyosha meets Gorynych and Ilya and continues on his way with them. Dobrynya, the prince, and Julius find themselves at a dead end, and there the horse again sees the Navel of the Universe in the form of Moses. Ilya and Alyosha fly on Gorynych and see their friends. Granny comes to Lyubava and sees that her granddaughter is very sad, and Nastasya and Alyonushka talk about the dinosaur's mother and run with them. Look at her. Julius, the prince, and Dobrynya meet with their friends. Frosya meets the dinosaur's mother and realizes that she needs help, telling everything to the heroes' wives and granny. Meanwhile, the heroes stop the meteorite's fall, and the Navel of the Universe appears before the heroes, but a giant toad grabs Julius with its tongue, and the heroes go to save it. The prince, despite the influence of the Navel of the Universe (already in the guise of the Elector), also runs to save Julius. Frosya learns from Antipas where her adoptive father and Julius are. The heroes go towards the Navel of the Universe. Alyosha saves Julius, but he is eaten by a toad, and the heroes teleport home without him. Gorynych also goes home with the heroes. Everyone begins to rejoice at the return of the heroes, as well as the return of the dinosaur's mother home, but Lyubava begins to cry that Alyosha did not appear, but a few seconds later he He appears before his wife and friends. They begin to rejoice. As it turns out, the Navel of the Universe helped Alyosha escape from the frog's jaws. The dinosaur meets his mother. The friends throw a party and later reveal that they are one. It all ends with the dinosaur eating grass with the horse.

The old man also gives this stick to the prince. Dobrynya and Ilya come to Baba Yaga, and she tells them about the Navel of the Universe. It turns out that to travel to the past, you need to curse it. The heroes and Gorynych set off there. Meanwhile, the evil leader takes revenge for his humiliation and breaks the shaman's stick. The prince and Yuli are forced to climb a tree. The heroes, along with the Serpent Gorynych and the dinosaur, fly to the Navel of the Universe. The heroes decide to practice cursing others on themselves, but they fail. Meanwhile, the leader has captured the prince's ancestor and begins to beat the tree the heroes are sitting on. Meanwhile, the Serpent Gorynych is angry that Dobrynya and Ilya can't curse each other and decides to anger the Navel of the Universe himself. This leads to the heroes traveling to the past, and the Navel of the Universe also sends them back to their time. The dinosaur's mother. She heads towards the city. Meanwhile, Dobrynya arrives at the place where the leader is trying to throw the prince and Yuliy out of the tree. He defeats him and ties him up, and the prince gives his ancestor the horseshoes, which makes him happy. Meanwhile, Gorynych returns the dinosaur to the forest. Meanwhile, the prince, Dobrynya, and Yuliy are walking through the forest looking for Alyosha. Ilya meets a certain deer. He leads him to a dry stream. He lifts a tree from it, and the primitive animals begin to drink the water. And Dobrynya, the prince, and Yuliy meet little dinosaurs. Ilya meets the Navel of the Universe, who has taken the form of Tikhon. Gorynych has to run away from the pteranodons, and then hides from them in a cave. Meanwhile, the Navel of the Universe tells Ilya about the test, and after the conversation, he finds himself in the place where he was earlier. Dobrynya, the prince, and Julius decides to rest in a cave. There, the Navel of the Universe appears in the guise of Moses. He communicates with the horse and says that the heroes are one. He also mentions the test the heroes must pass. Later, Julius tells everything to Dobrynya and the prince. Alyosha remembers Dobrynya and his prudence. The imaginary hero also hints that the heroes must pass the test.

It all begins when the Serpent Gorynych finds a baby dinosaur and decides to fly to Tikhon for milk. Seeing Gorynych, Yuliy decides to keep an eye on him, just in case. From Tikhon, the heroes learn about the existence of the Navel of the Universe. Yuliy tells Gorynych that they need to return the dinosaur. Meanwhile, a competition is being held in which the heroes participate, but Yuliy leaves with Alyosha. Upon learning of this, the prince goes to Dobrynya and Ilya, and they have to lift the stone themselves, but they fail. Antip tells the prince where Alyosha is, and he and the heroes go there. They arrive when Alyosha is digging a hole. The heroes are angry that Alyosha naively believed Yuliy. During the conversation, Alyosha curses the Navel and teleports to the past. Yuliy is very happy about this. Alyosha, meanwhile, encounters the leader, who begins a battle with A hero. His friends help him in it. The heroes want to open the Navel of the Universe, but the prince tells them to stop. This leads to him and Yuli also being teleported to the past. Alyosha is tied to a pole by primitive people. A few seconds later, a Tyrannosaurus rex arrives on the scene, and Alyosha defeats it. Dobrynya and Ilya try to figure out how to save their friends from the past. The heroes are also afraid of how Lyubava and Frosya will react to this event. The prince and Yuli have to fight the evil leader and his servants, but the heroes are saved thanks to the fact that primitive people are afraid of fire. Dobrynya and Ilya cannot sleep all night because their friend is in trouble. They decide to find out how to save Alyosha and go to Baba Yaga. Meanwhile, Alyosha defeats the leader in arm wrestling, and he realizes that he cannot win. Alyosha won't be able to. A Tyrannosaurus also escapes from them. The prince meets his ancestor. Meanwhile, Dobrynya and Ilya tell Antip everything, and he, so as not to frighten Frosya, says that the prince and Yuliy are simply busy. Meanwhile, the prince decides to build a kremlin with the ancient people. The chieftain is angry that his servants listen to the prince, but the shaman hits him with a stick and says the prince is smarter.

They try to dispel the spell with a flower exchange, but Julius notices he's lost it. Having lost all hope of regaining his form, the Prince wants to leave Kyiv with Frosya wherever his eyes lead, but at the last moment, Julius notices the magic flower on Frosya's head, and before the eyes of all the inhabitants of Kyiv, the Prince and Julius switch bodies back. Yaga leaves Kyiv and promises to find herself a new groom, as the Elector has decided to marry a girl with split ends. At the end of the story, the Prince throws a feast for the whole world and declares Frosya his adopted daughter.

Yuliy tells the old woman that the prince is in a hut near Chernigov. Yaga promises to destroy Yuliy if she finds out he deceived her. Then the old woman summons an army of stumps and orders three of them to find the prince in the body of a horse.

The Prince, in the body of Julius, awakens in the stable, completely stressed, and then meets Frosya. The girl tells the horse-Prince that he must work, and if he refuses, he will be made into sausage. The poor Prince worked all day in the horse's body and then got tired. The grooms immediately noticed this and told Frosya that they would use him for meat. The Prince, hearing this, spoke out of fear, thereby shocking both grooms. They tried to kill him, but Frosya prevents the peasants by dropping birdseed on them, after which geese attack them. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Frosya, jumping on the Prince, runs away with him into the forest. There, the ruler learns that Frosya is an orphan and has been in the service of these evil grooms for seven years. Meanwhile, the heroes notice the very hut in which the hundred-headed hydra is located, although In fact, there are three stumps from Yaga's army there. A battle ensues between the heroes and the stumps, but upon learning that there was no Hydra at all, they leave the stumps alone. Yaga, who has followed these events, learns that Julius has deceived her and flies on a broom to Kyiv to take revenge, but she fails, as arrows from the prince's archers fly at Yaga. Then she recruits the Elector to gather his army and go to take Kiev. Meanwhile, Frosya and the Prince have reached Kiev. Seeing his hometown, the Prince temporarily forgets about Frosya and runs there as quickly as possible. The girl, in response, is offended and goes into the forest, but remembers the Prince and runs after him. He also remembered Frosya, but still decided to flee to Kiev. Frosya notices someone climbing on the roofs of houses. Julia, in the body of the Prince, drops the exchange flower (he's had it all along). The girl takes it and puts it on her head. And the Prince, in the body of Julia, helps the squad defeat the German army. Soon the girl and the horse are reunited. Then Julius arrives in the body of the Prince, and the old friends rejoice at each other.

It all begins with the Prince and Julius walking through the forest. The horse tells the monarch about the reforms he would institute. The Prince is also guarded by a retinue. Then they meet the Elector, who wants to seize the Prince's lands. The monarch deceives the Elector, showing him a different route. Later, the German's carriage breaks down and ends up in a mud puddle. Meanwhile, a certain girl comes to Baba Yaga for help; her hair is splitting, and this problem is preventing her from finding a groom. The old woman promises to help the girl, but then she notices the Elector in his broken carriage and falls in love with him. Then the girl helps pull the Elector's carriage out of the mud, for which he is grateful and wants to marry the girl. However, Yaga is against this idea, and so she decides to resort to trickery: planting an exchange flower between three oak trees in order to use it to exchange her body for the girl's and marry. on the Elector. But the old woman's plans were not destined to come true: the Prince and Julius find her magic flower, sniff it out of curiosity, and switch bodies, after which they become very frightened and run in different directions. Julius, in the Prince's body, is found by his retinue and taken to Kyiv by carriage, thinking that the sovereign has fallen ill. And the Prince, in Julius's body, runs into a dark forest, realizes what happened to him, and cries bitterly, after which he falls on a log from a cliff into the water. Meanwhile, Julius, realizing that he is in the Prince's body, decides to take advantage of this and feel like the ruler of Kiev. The heroes and their retinue tried to find the missing Prince in Julius's body, but nothing came of it. Then, two peasants from Semyonovka find the exhausted Prince-horse and take him home. A local girl, Frosya, is filled with pity for The knights then approach Prince Julius and say they saw the horse near Semyonovka, and then ask what happened to it. The false prince claims they were attacked by a hundred-headed hydra and orders the knights to find and kill it, while he and the boyars decide to rebuild Kyiv in their own image. But then Baba Yaga comes to the false prince and asks him where the horse is.

The prince and Julius have to flee from Rashid's guards, but they escape and then arrive at Arkhan's house. There, Maga takes the prince, and just then the heroes appear, engaging in combat with Maga. Meanwhile, Arkhan and the prince are chatting. As it turns out, Rashid took the mare from Arkhan and separated her from Handsome Sadig, and now they are back together. The heroes defeat Maga, and then they enter the house with Julius and Moses and learn that the prince is fine, and Arkhan shows Julius the Star. When the horse saw that she already had a lover, he became angry, leading the Star to strike him hard. When the friends arrived home, the prince learned about the creditors from Antipas. Then Julius came to, forgot about his plans to marry, and sat down with his friends to drink tea.

The heroes ride along the border with Julius, who gallops carefree across the field. He then begins to argue with the narrator. The heroes then see that Sultan Rashid needs help. They subsequently meet Maga, who, to their surprise, easily defeats them. To their surprise, nothing happens to Sultan Rashid. Julius then meets his beloved Zvezda. He learns from Rashid that a prince is needed for marriage. However, he is busy: creditors have arrived. Therefore, the prince sends Antipas to them. He begins to drink tea with them. Meanwhile, Julius tries to persuade the prince to propose marriage to Zvezda, but the prince refuses.

Subsequently, Julius and Moses conspire and decide to take the prince by force. They succeed. Antip comes to the prince and sees that he is gone. He sends the heroes a carrier pigeon. Upon learning of this, the heroes set out to search for the prince, Julius, and Moses. They find them, and a chase begins. Moses is forced to use fire to set fire to the bridge. Antip then communicates with the creditors. Julius, the prince, and Moses rest in a cave, and the narrator says that Julia was tormented by her conscience. This makes the hero angry. Julius tells the prince of his love for the mare Zvezda, and the characters go to the sultan. The heroes later find Julius's trail, and he, the prince, and Moses arrive in the city where Rashid lives. The prince goes to the sultan's palace and learns of a great race and the prize for winning. He tells Julius about the great races. After some time, Julius decides to meet the Star, but this leads to him being captured by Sultan Rashid's guards. The next day, they plan to execute him, but the knights come to the aid of the horse and save him, and the prince tells Rashid that he will participate in the races. Meanwhile, Antip and the creditors set up tables in a circle and sing a song, and the prince and Julius prepare for the races. And so they begin, and the knights watch the proceedings. But Alyosha leaves, seeing Arkhan and Maga.

Meanwhile, the heroes are fighting outside, after which they enter the palace to help Yelisey. Suddenly, Nightingale the Robber appears, blowing out the fuse of the Basileus' cannon with his whistle and ruining the emperor's plans. Nightingale returns the missing gold to the emperor and demands that Yelisey be released and that their little conflict be forgotten. Due to Leonidas's fault, the fuse lights up again. The cannonball flies towards the emperor and his son. At the last moment, Yelisey saves them, earning the favor of the Basileus. Yelisey and Zabava make peace. As soon as the heroes board the ship, Julius and Alyosha let it slip about the Prince's illness. The wind is blowing against them, and it will be impossible to quickly reach Kyiv. In this situation, Nightingale the Robber again comes to the aid of the friends, wanting to return to his homeland, and the heroes quickly set off for home. Returning to the Prince, Zabava embraces him, and he begins to pierce his heart. She probes his shirt, and it turns out that the tailor forgot his needle when he sewed on the sleeve. The prince realizes that he is healthy, throwing a celebration in his joy, and Nightingale the Robber is given an official document stating that the state has no claims against him.

The Basileus keeps Julius with him to negotiate with him. The dove returns to the Prince. He thinks the foolish dove has brought them back their note and sends it back to its horse. Meanwhile, the heroes find Nightingale the Robber, who tries to defend himself with his whistle, but his strength doesn't last long. The heroes wish to return the ten sacks of gold. However, Nightingale tells the heroes that he doesn't have ten sacks, as he barely managed to steal only one. Nightingale hides under the floor, where the heroes can't reach him. From there, he overhears their conversation about Elisha and the emperor's lies, after which the robber takes pity on the boy. Meanwhile, the emperor coaxes Julius into helping him marry his son and Zabava. Elisha tries to justify himself to his wife, but she, upset, tells Leonidas that she agrees to everything, and leaves. Zabava meets Julius and tells him that she saw Elisha's eyes and doesn't believe that he could steal money from the treasury and cheat on her. Then they accidentally overhear a conversation between Vasileus and his son. The Emperor intends to change the borders of Rus' when Leonid becomes the head of state, and since Leonid knows nothing about governing the country, his father orders him to do everything under his dictation. Vasileus first wants to deal with the heroes, and then get rid of Elisha, so that nothing can interfere with his plan. Julius and Zabava give themselves away. They try to escape, but then the guards rush at them. Zabava easily deals with them, since she knows martial arts. But the cunning Vasileus manages to throw Julius into the dungeon and drive Zabava into a trap. Then Vasileus lets water into the dungeon, and the heroes begin to flood. Julius and Elisha try to get out of the cell through A hatch in the ceiling leads to a well. It is into this well that Alyosha throws a bucket to collect water and quench his thirst. The heroes pull Julius and Elisha out of the well. Vasileus conducts the wedding ceremony, but then Elisha bursts into the palace, disperses the guards, and rushes towards Zabava.

Nightingale the Robber uses Yelisha's abacus to pick the door lock and gets him out. They then try to escape the guards, and Yelisha, using his abacus, saves Nightingale the Robber's life. The heroes then stumble upon a room containing state money. Yelisha stops to retrieve his wedding ring, which he forgot there. Nightingale the Robber, taking advantage of the opportunity, steals the bag of money and escapes. Yelisha orders the guards to sound the alarm, and he remains to count the remaining funds in the treasury while the heroes arrive for a reception with the Emperor, along with Zabava. It turns out that Ilya is already acquainted with the Basileus. The Emperor lies to Zabava that her husband has run away with an Italian woman and also gives her Yelisha's wedding ring, claiming that he himself asked for it. Everyone is shocked by this. news. Zabava refuses to believe it, and then Vasileus says that his son Leonid can confirm everything. The Emperor introduces Zabava to his son and proposes marriage, but the princess wants to be alone and leaves the palace. Then a guard runs in and reports a theft. The Emperor, his son, and the heroes go down to the vault. Yelisey tries to explain that Nightingale the Robber stole one sack of gold. Vasileus declares that Yelisey is a thief and that ten sacks were stolen, after which he orders Yelisey to be taken to prison. The heroes are confused and do not know what to believe. The Emperor decides to execute Yelisey at dawn for his deeds. The heroes go looking for Nightingale in the Russian quarter to find out the whole truth. Zabava is about to return to Kyiv, but then she learns that Yelisey was caught stealing the imperial The dove returns to Julius, but he again fails to turn the page over and sends the bird back. Vasileus orders his son to court Zabava, making her fall in love with him. Then the princess herself appears at the palace. The Emperor announces that her husband will be beheaded tomorrow. Zabava asks for an axe and to be taken to Elisha, as she wants to execute him herself.

The naive Elisha tells the emperor that his wife doesn't know he wasn't accepted for military training, but she has no idea that Zabava has already found out about everything. He really wants to please her, and he himself is already quite bored with accounting. Since the emperor sees that Elisha is stubborn, he promises to arrange for him to serve in the military, but he will serve on the border, at a distant outpost. The emperor also implants in Elisha's head the idea that he should divorce Zabava, since he is not a match for her, and she could marry the prince. Elisha disagrees with the emperor's opinion: He and Zabava swore to each other that they would always be together. Realizing that he cannot come to an agreement with Elisha, Vasilevs opens the hatch under him, and Elisha falls into the dungeon. Meanwhile, the ship with the heroes approaches Constantinople. Julius sends the sovereign A letter that they have arrived. The heroes try to find a driver to get to the city faster, but instead find a cart with an ostrich. Julius can't keep up with them, but he still has all his travel expenses. Then the horse spots a gambling establishment and heads there.

The prince receives a letter from Julius, in which he adds a note that their travel allowance is running out. The prince is indignant and writes back to him, telling them to hurry, as time is running out while Julius is gambling away all his money. The prince writes a reply on the back of Julius's letter, but Julius doesn't think to turn it over and sends the dove back to the ruler for money.

The heroes come to Zabava. She tells them that Yelisey works as an accountant because he wasn't accepted into the military, but is afraid to admit it. She also has exams and doesn't want to leave before them. The heroes don't tell Zabava the truth, so as not to frighten her. Then a guard appears and announces that Zabava has been invited to the Emperor Basileus. Yelisey awakens in a dungeon. He meets his cellmate, Nightingale the Robber. Yelisey naively believes he was imprisoned by mistake.

The Prince of Kiev is hosting an overseas ambassador. The Prince is worried that he does much for the people, but they do not appreciate it. He is also afraid that without him, Russia will cease to exist. Suddenly, the Prince suffers from a heart attack, and Antip urgently calls for a doctor. The Prince asks his horse, Julius, to bring the heroes to him, while Ilya, Dobrynya, and Alyosha sit and fish. Julius informs the heroes that the Tsar is ill. The heroes take their catch and set off for the city on Julius. The doctor cannot give the Prince anything definite. The heroes promise to honor the will of the Tsar, but there is one question: someone must sit on the throne. The Prince decides that his niece, Zabava, should sit on the throne, but only if they find out that the young maiden is no longer On the throne, many will want to take advantage of this to snatch a piece of Russian land for themselves. The heroes promise that they will not let anyone harm Zabava. And she has a husband, Elisha, who is currently studying military affairs at a foreign university. The Tsar orders the heroes to go to Constantinople and deliver his niece and her husband to him. He also asks that they not say anything about his illness, so as not to raise unnecessary noise, since enemies are all around. Along with the heroes, the Prince also sends Julius to help them and also to send him all the latest news by carrier pigeon. Meanwhile, the son of the Byzantine Emperor Basileus, Leonidas, is idle, which greatly displeases his father. The ruler learns that the Prince of Kiev has fallen ill, and since Zabava, the heiress to the throne, is studying science with them, he wants to marry her. Her son. Then the son tells his father that she has a husband, Yelisey, who serves as their accountant. It turns out that Yelisey is hiding from the princess that he is not a military commander at all, but a simple accountant. He is also so disorganized that he forgot his wedding ring at the duty officer's. Leaving the house, Yelisey hides his sword in a pot under a tree, and from there he takes out an abacus and goes to see the emperor.

The latter inserts the key into the keyhole at the base of the bowl's mechanism, expecting to open the door to the treasure storeroom, but instead, the balance bowl shifts toward the cold, and the key breaks. A general freeze begins. At this time, Ilya and Dobrynya defeat the gigantic guardian mummy and, together with Father Frost and Lyubava, appear in the midst of the ceremony. The heroes lift the ice floe and, reflecting the last ray of the sun, light a fire on the balance bowl and return it to its original state. The ice melts. The priest throws a celebration, and the heroes with their wives, Father Frost, Durilo, the Prince, Julius, and the Serpent Gorynych return to Kiev. Along the way, Father Frost does a favor to Durilo, giving him one day, February 29th, at his disposal. In Kyiv, a New Year's celebration is organized as compensation for the previous year's failure by Father Frost. holiday. Encouraged by Julius, the Prince wishes everyone gathered wealth and increasing salaries in the coming year.

Meanwhile, the heroes' wives are freed from captivity in the robber's hut and lead the two kidnappers to Alyosha's house, but their husbands are not home. Instead, the real Father Frost approaches the house, whom the wives initially mistake for Durilo, stun him, and lock him in the closet. However, the wizard frees himself and tells them the story of Durilo's plan: he stole his reindeer and wished to conquer winter. Father Frost creates a cloud of air on which he sends the heroes' wives to Egypt. They arrive just as the Serpent Gorynych and Dobrynya are already freeing Ilya from the ice. Lyubava runs into the tomb after Alyosha. Dobrynya and Ilya rush after her and in the first hall they fight giant scorpions while Gorynych, Alyonushka, and Nastasya wait. outside. Meanwhile, the Prince and Julius stumble upon the sarcophagus with Nefertiti and see in her hands the key, which, according to Julius, will allow them to obtain the treasure. Julius accidentally awakens the princess with his kiss. He and the Prince steal the key and run away, and when Nefertiti opens her eyes, she sees Alyosha running past. Thinking that he awakened her from sleep, she falls in love with him. Alyosha catches up with Durilo in the underground city, where the Prince and Julius enter after them, passing the dancing skeletons. Durilo tells Alyosha that in fact the wives of the heroes are not here, but with the help of the heroic strength, it is possible to arrange eternal summer throughout the world. Alyosha, under the guidance of Durilo, sets in motion a mechanism, shifting the Balance Scale towards heat. In warmer Kyiv, Santa Claus's reindeer flies to him, on which he He rushes to Egypt. In the midst of his work, Alyosha realizes that the eternal heat will lead to nothing good, as the drought will destroy the vegetable harvest and all living things will perish. He decides to restore the balance to its former state, but he is thwarted by Durilo and the mummified priest and inhabitants of the underground city who have arrived. Alyosha and Durilo are tied to a column, and Nefertiti appears, performing a wedding dance. Behind the mummies, the Prince and Julius crawl, camouflaged with bandages.

Three thousand years ago, Father Frost established a balance between heat and cold by dividing the year into twelve months. He also had an apprentice, Folly, who was given the position of reserve thirteenth month. Dissatisfied with his status, Folly steals his mentor's magic staff and sleigh with a reindeer in order to disrupt the balance of heat and cold. However, to carry out his plan, he needs the power of Russian bogatyrs. To lure them to Egypt, where the Cup of Life is located, Folly and two robbers wait for the New Year celebration and simulate the kidnapping of the bogatyrs' wives, while he himself pretends to be Father Frost and promises to help. Folly and the bogatyrs fly to Egypt on Father Frost's sleigh, and after them, on the Serpent Gorynych, rush the Prince and Julius, the latter of whom is burning with desire to get treasures in the ancient pyramid. Arriving at the place, Folly With the help of the heroes, the entrance to the pyramid opens. Ignoring the awakened Sphinx's command to swear an oath, Durilo freezes it with his staff, but Ilya and Dobrynya are also accidentally affected. The deer tries to take the staff from Durilo and bites off its base, but Durilo doesn't notice and hides in the pyramid. Alyosha runs after him, and left to his own devices, the deer flies back north. Soon, Gorynych and the Prince with Yuli fly up to the Sphinx. Mistaking the frozen heroes for mummies, they, on Yuli's initiative, decide to enter the pyramid. Gorynych, who is too large, cannot squeeze through and remains outside. Inside the pyramid, Durilo, Alyosha, the Prince, and Yuli wander without encountering each other. Wanting to get rid of an unnecessary companion, Durilo accidentally sends him into A dark room, which turns out to be an emergency exit from the pyramid. Once in the Nile, they encounter crocodiles, from which they escape using a disappearing act. Durilo again tries to get rid of Alyosha by causing a landslide and preventing him from reaching the shore, but Alyosha rushes after him again.

While in ambush, the heroes catch and extract a tooth from a dragon, who turns out to be Gorynych, who has arrived to report the flooding of Kiev. Nastasya, Alyonushka, Lyubava, and all the other women of Kiev, under the influence of the Sea King's magic, receive mermaid tails instead of legs. Wanting to sort things out, the heroes' wives swim straight to the Sea King. However, they discover a mess in the palace and begin cleaning. The touched king emerges from his hiding place, where he had been overseeing the cleaning, and, despite Nastasya's sternness, who hits him with a towel demanding that he return his legs and free Kyiv, falls in love with her at first sight. Under the influence of Julius, who gives advice in the hopes of being returned to shore, the Sea King decides to marry Nastasya. Not finding reciprocity, he decides to use a love potion. He entrusts Kikimora with obtaining it. to the heroes, who are just bringing the gold they stole from him. Julius learns the name of the bride too late, and then tries to dissuade the king from marrying her by telling him about her marriage, to which the king replies that they can make her a widow. The wives of the heroes, invited to the palace, do not even suspect about the upcoming wedding, while their husbands obtain a potion based on the grass-ant from Kikimora, leaving in exchange a new built house. Sensing something is wrong, Dobrynya returns to the Sea King earlier and bursts into the palace at the moment when the king proposes to Nastasya. The latter turns his trident against him, but his wife, seeing such cruelty, instantly forgives Dobrynya. The heroes arrive in time to bring him to his senses, and their battle with the sea creatures begins. At the climax, Brunhilda confesses her love to the king, and Julius pours water on him. They obtained the love potion. The battle ends, and in the end, everyone celebrates at the lavish wedding of the Sea King and Brunhilda.

About six months have passed since the three heroes' last feat. Lacking enemies, they have become complacent and are consumed by their daily routine. Wanting to escape his responsibilities, Dobrynya Nikitich begins playing with crayfish, arranging fights between them all day long. Seeing this, Nastasya declares that she will leave her husband, as he does not value her and sees her only as a servant. Upset, Dobrynya, trying to mend his ways, goes to the market to buy vegetables. There, he meets Ilya Muromets and Alyosha Popovich, the latter of whom is distracted by the sight of his friends and loses an arm wrestling match to a bear. Disappointed, the heroes admit that their strength has diminished. On the advice of their faithful friend, the Serpent Gorynych, they decide to travel to China for the tooth of his distant relative, who supposedly can restore their former strength. Meanwhile, The Prince receives a book from Julius about the Sea King's treasures and, with the boyar Antipas, sets off on a voyage for gold. But the enormous octopus Brunhilda, having learned of the abduction, drags Julius to the bottom. The horse, delivered to the Sea King, tells of the city of Kyiv, where he can find a bride of his choice, to save himself. The King, preoccupied with the need for marriage, floods the city. Brunhilda turns out to be the ruler's closest aide, secretly in love with him, but she strictly observes an unknown oath she made long ago to his mother. The crew of the ship on which the Prince set out for gold turns out to be pirates and mutinies. To avert the threat, the ruler declares himself their captain and invites the crew to loot more gold. But the pirates still throw the Prince and Antipas into a boat for the fact that, through their fault, the crew lost all the gold they had mined during a storm. Having sailed to Antarctic Prince and Antip find penguins who help them reach the former site of Kiev. In China, the heroes set up an ambush to capture a mythical dragon, while simultaneously helping merchants traveling along the Great Silk Road reach their destination more quickly by raising the Great Wall of China and creating a passage.

The court horse Julius overhears the boyars' conversation and begins to suspect them of plotting against the Prince. There is no one to protect him: the knights are capturing the pirate Potanya, the dragon Gorynych is on vacation in Tibet, and there are no troops nearby. The Prince and Julius escape from the palace and plan to send a carrier pigeon with a letter for the knights, but this requires money, which neither of them has. Then Julius takes the camel Vasya to the talking Oak Tree, so that he can earn money. Vasya wants to play a super game, but Julius knows it's a trick and runs to save the camel from the Oak Tree's cruel guards. The Oak Tree catches Julius and, having learned what is happening in Kyiv, goes to the palace, where the Prince loses Kiev to the tree. Expelled from Kyiv, they spend the night with Julius in They found a hut in the forest. In the morning, they see a shepherd of flying Pegasus horses and meet the heroes who captured Potanya. The Prince and Julius brief the heroes on the situation. They refuse to take Kyiv back, as they think the Prince and the Oak played fair. The heroes decide to win back their losses, but the treacherous Oak wins all their property. While the heroes and their wives live with Ilya's mother, the Prince comes up with the idea of ​​building a new Kiev. During construction, the heroes, with the help of Tikhon, realize that the Prince was tricked, as the Oak did not reveal which box the acorn was in. Alyosha also assumes that all the boxes were empty. Together, the friends go to the palace. Meanwhile, the boyars are on their way to Kyiv, but the Oak's guards do not allow them in. The boyars flee and meet the heroes. It turns out that there was no conspiracy; in fact, they were giving a gift. For the Prince's anniversary. Arriving at the Oak, Tikhon employs a military ruse: He gambles with the tree, wagering the Prince's gift—a huge golden statue depicting the ruler on horseback (similar to the Bronze Horseman). Then, the heroes unexpectedly emerge from under the horse and defeat the Oak's guards, and then the tree itself. It all ends with the people congratulating the Prince and singing his favorite song, "Antoshka."

The Prince appears on the city streets and calls on the townspeople to rise up against the occupiers, while the wives of the heroes, accompanied by the Serpent Gorynych, sneak into the palace and deal with Kolyvan and Baba Yaga. The latter flee into the dungeon and again summon the hares from the chest. The people scatter, and the Prince and his friends are captured by giant hares. False heroes attempt to rescue them, but they are unsuccessful: they lack the strength of heroes. Then the real heroes return with the Papuans and defeat the hares, while Baba Yaga and Kolyvan escape. At the end of the film, the clones of the heroes sail away on a raft with the Papuans and become their great kings.

Kolyvan arrives from abroad to visit Baba Yaga. Wearing a wig as a disguise (fearing that the Prince already knows of his past machinations), he plans to open a shop selling Chinese souvenirs. His horse, Julius, finds him at the market, mistakes him for a German, and takes him to the ruler of Kyiv, where he tells him about foreign customs. The trusting Prince decides to introduce Western traditions to Rus', and his inaction allows Kolyvan to win over the boyars. But the next day, the bogatyrs are due to arrive, and the Prince removes the foreign merchant from power. Then Kolyvan and Baba Yaga hatch a plot: in exchange for actual rule of Kiev, Baba Yaga, disguised as a peaceful old woman, lures the bogatyrs into a huge barrel, which the hut on chicken legs throws into the ocean. She then materializes the bogatyrs from the painting and goes with Kolyvan to the palace. There The newly appointed maid of honor (Baba Yaga) summons two giant hares from a chest, which stun the guards and force the Prince, riding on Julia, to break the wall and jump to the top of the tower. Kolyvan and the boyars come out to the lined-up squad and say that the Prince of Kiev has gone mad, but before his madness appointed him the main ruler. Since the squad does not believe him, as proof, the merchant calls clones of the heroes, who confirm his words, and the squad disperses. At this time, the real heroes, abandoned on an exotic island, come to the Papuans. They appoint them great kings and ask them to save them from the great gorilla Gomuma. The heroes defeat Gomuma, and he promises not to offend the islanders from now on. In Kyiv, Kolyvan takes jewelry from the townspeople, and Baba Yaga organizes a ball. The wives of the heroes learn that their husbands Substituted: False heroes do not cast shadows and are not reflected in mirrors. Julius, the Prince, Granny, and Tikhon organize a partisan movement. Giant hares find them in a cowshed, but a cow in love with Julius, the talking horse, saves the partisans.

To prevent the latter from being bewitched, the girls blindfold them. Meanwhile, the queen's troops arrive in the field, and a battle begins. Removing the blindfolds, the heroes defeat the monsters. Meanwhile, the jug of women's tears fills, and the queen runs away with it, but her carriage is caught by granny and Tikhon. Having imprisoned the queen, the Kievans begin to feast, but the Shamakhan ruler manages to escape from prison and arrive at the temple. Having watered a tree with tears, she begins to eat the ripe fruits. Carried away by this activity, although the raven warns her not to eat so much, she turns into a baby. The bird, in turn, carries her to Kyiv directly to the Prince. With the little queen, the raven flies to the bored ruler. Even without knowing who this baby is, the Prince and Antip rejoice at this to the ringing laughter of the child, gradually turning into into the ringing laughter of the Shamakhan girl...

Unable to see themselves in the darkness, Ilya and Dobrynya immediately begin to beat Julius and each other, believing they are fighting enemy foes. But everything becomes clear when Alyosha lights a torch. Having destroyed the tower, the heroes rush in pursuit of the queen, but she is already halfway to Kiev. Learning of the heroes' escape, she orders a raven to destroy them. Having created monsters, the raven forces Dobrynya to lag behind the others and head towards the swamp, where the hero falls into an abyss also created by the raven. After this, he, having changed the road signs, sends Alyosha into the swamp, and Ilya, along with Burushka, falls into another of the bird's traps. Waking up on the island, Dobrynya stumbles upon an ancient Chinese temple, where he is attacked by karate defenders of the monastery. The hero defeats them and Sensei, but the Serpent Gorynych comes out to fight Dobrynya: The opponents recognize each other, and the battle is canceled. With Gorynych's help, Dobrynya flies away from China, while Alyosha, meanwhile, escapes the swamp, where he falls into a pit, and Yuli, meanwhile, is kidnapped by a monster. Having found the latter's house, the hero defeats him and leaves with Moses and Yuli. Soon, the Serpent Gorynych finds and picks them up, while Vasya, Dobrynya's camel, and Burushka, with their combined efforts, pull Ilya out of the pit. The Serpent flies past and picks up Ilya, however, realizing the unbearable nature of his own burden, he lowers Yuli and Moses to the ground. Meanwhile, the prince and queen have already arrived in Kyiv, the latter of whom, after the wedding, begins to gather the beauties and, with the help of her mirror, makes them cry. At this moment, the wives arrive at the palace. The bogatyrs: Having knocked out the guards, they enter the chambers. The queen again calls the guards, who pounce on the girls. Having lost the fight, Lyubava rips off the queen's niqab, under which the ruler hides her face, which, as it turns out, is very old and, what's more, bald. She orders the guards to take Alyonushka, Nastasya, Lyubava, and the Prince to prison, but Tikhon helps them escape. Having reached the field, Tikhon, the grandmother, and the Prince, as well as Alyonushka, Nastasya, and Lyubava, meet the bogatyrs.

The Shamakhan queen, in order to regain her beauty, begins to search for the fountain of eternal youth. As it turns out, this requires the tears of a thousand beauties, whom the queen does not love, and therefore has long since exhausted everyone in her kingdom. The queen's servant, a raven, suggests visiting Kiev and marrying the Prince of Kiev. The latter soon finds himself enchanted by a photograph and therefore decides to travel to the Shamakhan kingdom, taking his horse Julius with him as a guide. The prince's nobleman, Antip, who remains in charge, summons the heroes so that the best of them in Rus' can assist him in his reign. But each hero thinks that he is the best. After an argument, the heroes leave, and the Prince, meanwhile, arrives in the Shamakhan kingdom, where he personally meets the queen. Julius, in turn, falls in love with the queen's horse, and after a conversation with his beloved, finds himself on A tree where he overhears a conversation between a raven and the queen. The bird asks the ruler to give him Julius's skin after the wedding, to which the woman agrees. Having fallen from the tree, Julius, in order to postpone the wedding, explains to the queen that they (that is, the Russians) have certain wedding customs that must be observed. Before carrying out the mission, Julius writes a letter to Alyosha Popovich asking him to come to the kingdom and save him. Having learned of this, the hero mounts Moses and sets off on his journey. Along the way, his conscience torments him, and he decides to call the other heroes, and so they all find themselves assembled. Having reached the kingdom, the heroes see that the gates are already closed. Deciding to enter in the morning, Dobrynya and Ilya go to rest. Meanwhile, after the test, as a result of which the Prince and Julius find themselves in a cactus thicket, the ruler decides to propose to the queen. At this moment, Alyosha through the roof He bursts into the palace, where the queen bewitches him and orders him to get rid of the remaining heroes. After striking Ilya and Dobrynya with a club, the hero carries them to prison and then throws them into a pit, after which, at the queen's command, he himself jumps in. Following Alyosha, Julius also falls into the pit where the heroes are languishing.

Ilya, remembering that he has not touched his native land for a long time, weakens, as a result of which he is thrown into a pit by robbers. The prince flees to the palace of the Basileus, but encounters resistance from the guards who do not let him in, and when he tries to resist, he is imprisoned by them. Ilya is pulled out of the pit by an elephant, after which the hero, having found Burushka's horseshoe, regains his strength and, freeing the elephant from its shackles, leaves. He reaches the palace and tries to find out where the prince is. However, the guards, recognizing in him the one who tried to catch the imperial horse, try to seize the hero, in which they are unsuccessful. Ilya, having learned of the ruler's location, rides on an elephant, storms the prison and rescues the prince, after which he returns to the palace, where at this time the Basileus picks up the gold with which Burushka defecates. Soon the gold runs out, and the emperor, having learned that the Russians destroyed his prison, gathers an army for a march on Kyiv, but Ilya and the prince, riding an elephant, appear before the palace and defeat all the imperial troops. Alyonushka immediately escapes from the palace on Burushka, but Vasilevs does not give up and asks for help from the arrested Nightingale, who is given a gold tooth to replace the one knocked out. The robber begins to whistle at Ilya with all his might, but at that moment the same grandmother appears again with a cane, who again knocks out Nightingale's tooth. Only after this Vasilevs joyfully greets the prince and returns his treasury to him. Together with the money, Burushka and the elephant, Ilya, the prince and Alyonushka return to Kyiv, where they are joyfully greeted, and Ilya and Alyonushka fall in love. The cartoon ends with the prince listening chronicle written by Alyonushka, and tells the scribe to replace all references to Ilya Muromets in this story with him.

During the interrogation of one of the bandits, the friends learn that Nightingale has set off for Constantinople with the stolen treasury and horse. Ilya, hearing about the treasury, realizes that the prince only wanted to use him for personal gain, so he leaves alone. The prince and Alyonushka, having reached the port and boarded a ship, make their way to Constantinople, where the ruler intends to ask for help from his brother "by blood of the sovereign," the Emperor Basileus of Byzantium. Meanwhile, Nightingale, approaching Constantinople, sells Burushka to a merchant, but the horse, having eaten all the money from the treasury and jumped into the sea, swims away from the robber, and Nightingale can only pursue it. Ilya, having reached Constantinople, is also looking for Burushka, who, having run to the cry of her master, runs through the garden of the Emperor Basileus, who, in turn, seeing the horse in excrement gold and, mistaking the animal for a magic horse, orders it to be caught. The emperor's soldiers catch Burushka, but then the Nightingale appears, who begins to mock the soldiers with his whistle, throwing them into the air. At this moment, a superstitious grandmother approaches him, who, hearing the loud whistle of the robber and remembering the proverb "Don't whistle - there will be no money", knocks out the Nightingale's tooth with her stick, because of which he loses the ability to whistle and is arrested by the emperor's soldiers. Meanwhile, the Prince and Alyonushka, having reached Constantinople and heading to the palace of the Vasileus, see a pack elephant, on which the ruler, having succumbed to the persuasion of the driver, decides to ride. However, Alyonushka, realizing the deception, is left alone, but soon she is picked up by a local businessman, who promises to take Alyonushka to Ilya, but takes her to the Vasileus as Concubines. Meanwhile, the Prince, riding an elephant, realizes that the driver has deceived him and the ride is not free. Therefore, the ruler steals the elephant and accidentally stumbles upon Ilya, who rescues the Prince and then drives away the cruel driver, who soon finds the hero with his gang.

A bandit named Nightingale the Robber appears in Rus'. He has a very loud whistle, which can knock people off their feet. Together with his gang, he plunders peaceful villages. During another attack on one of the villages, Nightingale is captured and imprisoned by the hero Ilya Muromets. However, the greedy Prince of Kiev releases the robber for a hundred coins. As a result, Ilya, outraged by this, resigns, at the ruler's request, leaving his beloved horse Burushka with the promise of his speedy return and the ransom of the animal. However, Nightingale the Robber soon returns and steals the prince's treasury, as well as Burushka. Shocked by the theft of his wealth, the Prince wants to send Ilya to search for him, but remembers that he is angry with him. Then, on the advice of his boyar advisor, Antipas, he decides to tell Ilya only about the loss. Burushki, hoping that the hero, upset by the loss of his beloved horse, would set out on a journey to find him, returning the ruler's money along the way. And indeed: Upon learning of Burushki's disappearance, Ilya decides to immediately set out in search of Nightingale. The prince persuades Ilya to take him with him, and the young chronicler Alyonushka, who wants to write a story about Ilya, also wants to go on the expedition with them. Despite the fact that the hero refuses to take the young girl with him, she nevertheless follows Ilya and the prince into the forest, where she is captured by Nightingale's bandits. In this same forest, the hero and the prince spend the night, the latter of whom is captured by Nightingale's bandits by morning and tied to a tree. Ilya appears to help the ruler, having, as it turns out, deliberately decided to ambush the bandits. During the battle, the hero neutralizes all the robbers and saves the prince and the found Alyonushka.

The hero, deeply disappointed by his friend's deception, sets out with a messenger to find the merchant. Meanwhile, the prince, having learned of Dobrynya's departure, writes a letter to Kolyvan, who, in turn, asks Baba Yaga to destroy the hero, but none of her spells can break Dobrynya's strong spirit. The merchant then orders Khan Beket, also one of his debtors, to deal with the hero. He takes Yelisey prisoner, but the hero rescues him and learns from the khan that Kolyvan is hiding on Kudykina Mountain. Zabava and the Serpent Gorynych escape from the hut, but Gorynych, unable to fly, begins to drown in the swamp, but is soon saved by Dobrynya and Yelisey, who arrive in time. Then Baba Yaga, summoning a dark army, attacks the heroes, but Dobrynya defeats her in a protracted battle. Kolyvan attempts to escape but is also captured by the hero, who challenges his friends to decide what to do with him. Despite this, the merchant manages to escape during their meeting. Dobrynya, Gorynych, Yelisey, and Zabava set off for home. Along the way, the Serpent, having learned to fly again, leaves his comrades, while the hero, the messenger, and the princess return to Kiev. The prince, overjoyed at the long-awaited meeting with his niece, still opposes her marriage to Yelisey. However, Dobrynya persuades the ruler to change his mind, and Yelisey and Zabava arrange a lavish wedding.

The Prince of Kiev accidentally discovers that his niece Zabava has fallen in love with a simple messenger, Yelisey, and intends to elope with him. Dissatisfied with this, the prince decides to send Yelisey on a mission and marry Zabava off. The ruler orders the messenger to deliver to the hero Dobrynya Nikitich an order to collect tribute from the Crimean Khan Beket and, much to the hero's displeasure, to take Yelisey as his assistant. Meanwhile, the prince tries to marry Zabava off, but she doesn't like any of the candidates. Meanwhile, Dobrynya fights to collect tribute from the khan and rescues Yelisey, whom he had previously captured. Some time later, the merchant Kolyvan, a master gambler, comes to the prince and offers to marry Zabava off, promising to forgive a large debt in exchange. The prince reluctantly agrees, after which the merchant, having enlisted the help of Another of his debtors, the Serpent Gorynych, arranges for Zabava to be kidnapped and hidden in his village. Dobrynya and Yelisey, returning to Kiev, find the prince and his boyars mourning the missing princess. The hero is shocked to learn that the kidnapper is the Serpent Gorynych, his old friend. Despite Dobrynya's desire to go on a search, the prince sends the hero on leave, which, however, does not bring results: Dobrynya and Yelisey, disobeying the order, set off to see the Serpent on a camel they found. Meanwhile, Kolyvan, in his village, declares himself Zabava's savior and decides to marry her, but she rejects him. Then the merchant takes the prince's niece to Kudykina Mountain, to another of his debtors, Baba Yaga, demanding that the latter She cast a love spell on Zabava. Dobrynya and Yelisey arrive at Gorynych, who assures his old friend that he was not involved in the princess's abduction. However, that same night, feeling guilty about his deception towards the hero, the Serpent decides to return Zabava and sets out to find Kolyvan, leaving an explanatory note. However, in the battle, Kolyvan, with the help of Baba Yaga's hut, defeats Gorynych and hides him with the prince's niece in a closet. The next morning, Yelisey finds the note and tells Dobrynya about it.

Everyone then sets off for Kyiv, where Alyosha leaves the bound Tugarin as a gift to the prince. The monarch returns only a small golden ball, saying he took the rest as payment for his safekeeping. An enraged Alyosha begins to cut the ropes binding Tugarin, and the frightened ruler returns the rest. Having retrieved his gold, Alyosha and his friends return to Rostov. The ball, like the stone at the beginning, falls from the mountain, but this time past the houses, leaving marks from the blows. Landing on the church, it shatters back into the objects from which it was made. The residents of Rostov believe that all the gold has been returned to them by God's providence, and they greet the hero with the words, "The wayward one has returned!" Towards the end of the episode, it is revealed that the chronicle at the beginning of the film was written by Moses, and he turns out to have golden horseshoes and gold teeth. He blows out the candle, and that's the end of it.

However, Lyubava, who wants to get married, quarrels with him and, together with her grandmother, leaves to the right, while Julius, who wants to get rich, leaves to the left. Some time later, Julius finds a talking oak tree, which invites him to play a game of guessing numbers. Julius bets horseshoes, and when there is nothing left to bet, the oak offers him his 40 winnings and his skin. Julius loses, and the tree orders its flayer guards to skin Julius, but he escapes. Meanwhile, Alyosha and Lyubava realize that they love each other and are reunited. Soon Julius finds them, and the comrades set off together again in search of Tugarin the Serpent to complete their mission. Soon the heroes find the infidels' camp. At night, while everyone is sleeping, they infiltrate it, sneak into Tugarin's yurt, and carry off the gold, discovering that the Horde They melted it into a large golden ball. Alyosha can't stand the way they behave like thieves. He wakes up the entire camp and challenges the enemies to a fair fight. He manages to defeat the entire enemy army, albeit with great difficulty, but Tugarin the Serpent kidnaps Lyubava and orders Alyosha to bring him gold to the old oak tree in exchange for the girl. Alyosha, having asked Tikhon and Granny to return the gold to Rostov, rides on Yuli to rescue Lyubava, but the old men decide to leave the gold in the custody of the prince in Kyiv, and they themselves go to the aid of the hero. Meanwhile, Alyosha and Yuli find Tugarin the Serpent. While he and the tree's guards, who have arrived, argue over who should own Yuli, Alyosha saves Lyubava and then challenges Tugarin and the sadists to a fight with the phrase: "I, the hero of Rostov, Alyosha Popovich, have come my word." "Hold on." Everyone fought for themselves. The butchers were defeated. Tugarin still defeats Alyosha with a powerful tornado blow, but Tikhon, Granny, and Moses save the day. They turn the cart into a kind of catapult, and a powerful blow to the head incapacitates Tugarin.

Arriving at a deep river canyon, they consider how to get to the other bank. While Yuliy is performing physical calculations, Alyosha cuts down a tree, and everyone except Tikhon crosses it. Tikhon admits that he is afraid of heights, and they advise him to walk with his eyes closed. While crossing, he slips, falls, and ends up hanging on a branch with a rope with a cross. Soon, the branch breaks off, and Tikhon falls into the river. Everyone immediately rushes to save him and jumps down. After some time, they reach a house on the mountain, and Yuliy, arguing about who should go there first, comes to the conclusion that he, Alyosha, and Lyubava cannot die because they are the main characters, and Moses, because he likes him, so either Tikhon or Granny should go. To resolve the dispute, Alyosha goes into the house on his own accord and discovers that no one is there. At night, the house The former hero Svyatogor arrives and tells the guests that he recently saw Tugarin's army with gold, and also tells them a shortcut to the cave and gives Alyosha his sword. The travelers set off again. Approaching the cave, everyone holds hands so as not to get lost during the hike, but suddenly fall somewhere down. Alyosha lights a torch. There are many skeletons in the cave, and because of this, Julius begins to get nervous. The cave narrows. Everyone squeezes through, and Julius gets stuck at the very end, a very small helmet falls on his head (which he later gives to Alyosha) and his horse jumps out in panic. Leaving the cave, the comrades see Rostov, and the cave turns out to be the same one in which Alyosha and Tikhon hid the gold. They realize that this is where Svyatogor saw the Tugars when they left with the gold. Upset, Alyosha blocks the exit from the cave with what he found. There's a stone nearby, but suddenly grandma notices that it's a signpost stone. It says: "Whoever goes left will be rich," "Whoever goes right will be married," and "Whoever goes straight ahead will meet his death." Alyosha, returning the stone to the crossroads where he found it, decides to go straight ahead.

In the ancient Russian city of Rostov, a priest had a son, named Alyosha, or Popovich after his father. As he grew older, he began getting into trouble while playing: he would kill everyone during a fistfight and get caught, he would throw his sword and accidentally chop off a cow's tail, and while shooting at an apple on the head of his beloved, he accidentally hit his grandmother, who rushed to save her. For this, he was nicknamed "good-for-nothing." One day, an enemy horde of Tugars, led by Tugarin the Serpent, approaches Rostov and demands that the city's inhabitants pay tribute in gold. Alyosha Popovich begins to talk about liberation from the invaders and, with his uncle Tikhon, proposes a plan: hide the gold in a cave located in Bayun Mountain, wait for the infidels to enter, and then block the exit with a huge stone, wait until they weaken from hunger, and take the gold back. The residents approve of it. The plan fails: the thrown stone rolls away from the cave and destroys all of Rostov, leaving only the temple intact. The nomads leave unhindered with the gold, and Alyosha and Tikhon get it for it. The hero does not intend to put up with this and decides to go alone in search of gold, but Tikhon goes after him. Also following in Alyosha's footsteps are Lyubava, her donkey Moses, and granny. Along the way, Tikhon meets gypsies who leave him in his underwear, slipping him a not very attractive horse with a gag. Soon Tikhon finds Alyosha, and together they take out the gag. The animal turns out to be talking. His name is Gaius Julius Caesar (he named himself so "in honor of the great Roman commander and emperor"), for his friends simply Julius. There they meet Lyubava, Moses and granny, and all together they set off in search of gold.