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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Hasten, my dear nurses, and you, swift maidens, find out what kind of strangers are these coming to our royal palace." All of the nurses, all of the maidens, ran out with questions ready. The seventh Simeon answered them thus: "We are merchant guests, peaceful people. Our native land is the country of the Tsar Archidei Aggeivitch, a great Tsar indeed.
There he blew the bellows and heated the iron. The noise from his hammers was great and the result of his peasant work was a self-shooting gun. The Tsar Archidei Aggeivitch went to the wild fields and perceived high above him, very high under the sky, an eagle flying. "Now!" exclaimed the Tsar, "there is an eagle forgetting himself with watching the sun; shoot it.
The third Simeon looked around, bowed to the Tsar, and said: "Tsar Archidei Aggeivitch, forgive my simple words. How to reach the island of Buzan there is no need to worry about. Sit down on my ship; she is simply built, and equipped without any wise tricks. Where others require a year she takes but a day, and where other ships take ten years mine will take, let us say, a week.
I will have thee chained and thrown into my subterranean prison with nothing but bread and water for food until thou forget thy trade!" "Great and merciful Tsar Archidei Aggeivitch, postpone thy orders. Listen to my peasant talk," prayed the seventh Simeon.
The falconers appeared, cheerful notes from the golden trumpets resounded, and falcons and hawks were soon slumbering under their velvet caps as they sat quietly on the fingers of the hunters. The Tsar Archidei Aggeivitch came with his men to a wide, wide field.
He went straight to the column, climbed it, looked around, came down, and this was his report: "Tsar Archidei Aggeivitch, I have accomplished thy sovereign wish. I looked far beyond the sea and have seen the island Buzan. Mighty is the king there, and he is proud and merciless.
"No, Tsar Archidei Aggeivitch! Give me, first of all, thy royal word not to kill me for my inborn talent, but to have mercy upon me. Then only will I be willing to disclose my secret." "Thy wish is granted. I give thee my royal word, true and not to be broken, that whatever thou shalt disclose to me, I will have mercy upon thee."
Hast thou also a trade?" "My trade, Tsar Archidei Aggeivitch, is not a fair one, for I am a blacksmith. If thou wouldst order a shop built for me, I at once would forge a self-shooting gun, and no eagle far above in the sky or wild beast in the wood would be safe from that gun." "Not bad either," answered the Tsar Archidei, well pleased. "Thy turn now, sixth Simeon."
My bridegroom, the Tsar Archidei Aggeivitch, sends his counselors to thee, begging thee to come to our wedding." At the very moment when the merchant ship was to land at the island of Buzan, crowds of people had gathered to witness the execution of the unfortunate guards and brave warriors whose ill-luck it was to have allowed the princess to disappear. "Stop!"
My desire is to ask you about something, and you must give a straightforward answer without any deceit or evasion." "So be it, mighty Tsar Archidei Aggeivitch," answered the merchant guests, bowing.
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