Rarely did anyone read Epics in their time, no matter how promising their titles attracted us. Either poems or songs, the words are distorted, the names are distorted and the endings are incomprehensible: either they defeated everyone, or not so much. Well, put them in the school literature program for junior grades! Let them study! Fairy tales are a different matter. Read in one go. Adventures and exploits, truth and falsehood, humor and fear, love and hate - everything is there. And for the most important of them, there is not enough spirit to translate this spirit, so to speak. It has been written, they say, for a couple of thousand years. Maybe a little more, maybe less. To be continued and to be continued. And the name of this tale is History. The author is, of course, the people. Not the one that dominates the country, but the one that helps the state in fulfilling its mysterious goals. This is the first book based on Epics, in which Ilya Muromets, and the goblin, and Perm Vasilyevich, and Alyosha Popovich, and the mysterious guslar-kantelist live Sadko.