My sweet children... The fairy tale I will tell you, it wasn't today, it wasn't yesterday. It was in the old... Very old times, when God's world was filled with wizards and elves, animals with human speech, and rivers that instead of water, flowed with sweet and delicious pure white milk.

So then, in a kingdom that belonged to an empire, far beyond the blue seas and far behind the high mountains, lived a Tsar named Yeremey. This Tsar even had a nickname. They called him: "Yeremey with the long beard," as he had a long, very long beard.

So Yeremey lived with his Tsarina, Larisa, in a beautiful palace. Their life flowed calmly but boringly, as they had no children to bring them joy and interest. One day... while the King was walking with two of his trusted boyars and his jester…