So the story of Prince Ivan and the Grey Wolf is one of the most famous Russian fairy tales around.

And just recently, actually, just yesterday, Deacon Nicholas Kotar, who many of you have seen on my channel, he's the author of the Raven Sun series.

He's also been a pretty enthusiastic participant in the Symbolic World blog.

Actually, his articles have gotten more views than my article.

And so, hmm.

So, Deacon Nicholas has just started a new podcast called In a Certain Kingdom.

And his podcast is going to be looking at different Russian fairy tales,

giving a retelling of the fairy tales, and then giving some analysis as well. His retellings are

very beautiful and succinct. They keep the flavor of the Russian fairy tales with the certain

literary tropes that are used that are almost

like liturgical in the way that they're used. So I'm pretty excited about it. His first episode

was a retelling of Ivan and the Grey Wolf. So myself, I thought it would be a good opportunity

to celebrate this new podcast to give my own interpretation

of that fairy tale, which of course is one that I loved for a very long time.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. So in order to give you my interpretation, I'm of course going to give you a summary of the

fairy tale, kind of give you the basic elements. Of course, my retelling is going to be just bare bones

and has nothing to do with the retelling that Deacon Nicholas gives in his podcast.

His retelling is beautiful. There's also some compositions that were written, and so there's

music in the background. It's very, very well done, very professional. I once again

suggest you check it out. So here are the basic elements of Prince Ivan and the Grey Wolf.

And so the king has a tree which produces golden apples. And then the king realizes that there's

something which is stealing his golden apples at night. There are different versions. Sometimes

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