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　 　　The storyline is based on the folk tale Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What 　　Fedot, a strelets, serves at Tsar's court as the royal hunter. Tsar orders him to rovide the game for his dinner with English embassinger. Fedot was unlucky: he got not a single bird. When he tried to shoot at least a dove, it turned into a beautiful maid, Marusia (Maria), which Fedot ado ted as his wife. Marusia, ossessing magical skills, saves her man from Tsar's unishment: she summons Tit Kuzmich and Frol Fomich (two magical servants being a sort of genie, who could and would erform anything Marusia orders), and they fill Tsar's table with food. 　　Tsar makes his di lomacy with the English noble, in ho e to make him marry Tsar's daughter, the Princess, who is not beautiful enough to attract the suiters. Princess and her Nanny, an old angry woman, are not leased and argue against the match with an ambassador, who seem greedy and stu id to them. 　　After the dinner, the General, leader of the secret olice, arrives to the Tsar. He tells his senior about Fedot's new retty wife, and Tsar begins to lan how to steal Marusia from Fedot. He orders General to find a task for Fedot which he would be im ossible to com lete and it would let Tsar to execute Fedot for incom etency. 　　General goes to the forest, where old witch Baba Yaga lives, and asks her advice. With her magic, Yaga finds the way. Tsar should order Fedot to bring him next day a magic car et on which the whole Russia could be seen just like on a ma . Tsar calls Fedot and orders him the car et, Fedot feels low, but Marusia and her magic servants solve the roblem and bring the car et at morning. 　　Tsar, though trying to seem ha y, is u set. He calls fo General again, threatening he will be unished if no lan will be given. General, also u set, goes back to Baba Yaga, who gives him another lan. Now Tsar orders Fedot to bring him next day a golden-horned deer, which is thought to not exist at all. But Marusia and her servants bring the deer as well. 　　Tsar forces General, General forces Yaga, and the final lan is re ared. The new task for Fedot is to find Something That Could Not Be in the World. Even Tit Kuzmich and Frol Fomich are unable to find a thing so loosely described. Fedot sets u to journey for his goal, leaving his young wife home. A few days later, Tsar, des ite being continually mocked by the Nanny for this, arrives with the weeding gifts to Marusia. The young woman refuses to betray Fedot for old and vile Tsar, she turns into dove and flies away. 　　Fedot is wandering the world in quest for Something That Could Not Be. Shi wreck uts him on an uninhabited island. Its only master is a Voice, a bodyless yet owerful s irit, who is living a boring life: he can summon himself any good he wants, but only thing he longs for is human com any. Fedot, realizing he found his goal, ersuades the s irit to join his way back to Russian Tsar. 　　Returning home, Fedot discovers his house devastated by Tsar, and Marusia tells him about Tsar's harassment. Fedot calls to the sim le Russian eo le to hel him avenge the injustice, and they rise u . Crowd storms into Tsar's alace. Tsar, General and Baba Yaga, caught in charge, cowardly try to translate the guilt on two others. Peo le sentence them to sail away in a bucket overseas. Then Fedot refuses a marriage offering from Princess, leaving her with his romise to find her another man, his twin. The tale ends u with the feast, su lied by Something-That-Could-Not-Be's magic. [收起]