The Firebird — Eastern Europe & Slavic (Well-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
The last episode of Season One. Tonight we travel to Russia, where a Tsar counts the golden apples on his tree each morning and keeps finding one gone. His youngest son sits up in the dark to watch, and at midnight the garden fills with light. Ivan comes away holding one tail feather that will not stop burning — and then rides out across three far kingdoms on the back of a grey wolf who tells him exactly what not to touch, twice, and forgives him both times.
Russian tradition. "Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Grey Wolf" was collected by AlexanderAfanasyev in *Narodnye russkie skazki*…
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