K75a3. Groom. .15.-.17.27.-.33.

Having appeared incognito to a powerful character, the hero works for him as a groom.

Italians (Ticino, Tuscany, Abruzzo), Corsicans, Bretons, French (Upper Brittany), Germans (Austria), Palestinians, Kashmiris, Sinhalese, Croats, Slovaks, Belarusians, Ukrainians (Kharkov), Russians (Arkhangelsk - Pomors, Vologda, Kursk, Voronezh), Abazins, Armenians, Uzbeks, Estonians, Danes, Komi, Udmurts, Mari, Chuvash, Uighurs.

Southern Europe. Italians (Ticino) [a prince knocked on someone's door and asked for a drink; the owner responded by asking him to be his son's godson; the prince called him Valoroso ("brave") and left a note: when the boy turns 14, he should come into his service; the young man was embarrassed and asked to pass the note on to someone else, who pretended to be the godson and received the position (the prince had become king by that time); V. got a job cleaning the stables ; the imaginary V. decided to get rid of him and told the king that the young groom could get a golden bird; the king ordered him to get it or he would execute him; an old woman ordered him to ask the king for a golden cage and thread; the bird flew into the cage, V. pulled the thread and slammed the door; the imaginary V. persuades V. to send for the Moorish queen from the green country; the old woman: ask for a ship with musicians, dancers and a supply of food; three giants carried him across the seas, V. fed them meat and bread, they were grateful, let Schächtelein summon them; ants appeared, V. fed them, they also let Schächtelein summon them; the same with birds, the eagle gave a feather; the queen of the Moors demands the fulfillment of three tasks: 1) to separate rice, millet and corn mixed in a bucket (the ants fulfill it); 2) to cultivate a huge field (the giants fulfill it); 3) to bring water from the springs of living and dead water before sunrise (the thrushes bring it); the king has a feast; the imaginary V. stabbed the real one with a dagger; the queen of the Moors cut the body into pieces, revived it with living water, V. became a handsome man; the imaginary V. wanted the same, the queen poured dead water on him; she married V., he became king]: Keller 1981: 214-219; Italians (Tuscany: Pisa) [Prince Fioravante is in love with a weaver's daughter, Sandrina; to distract him from thoughts of marrying an unequal woman, the king sends him to his brother in Paris; on the way, F. went into a house where a robber lived, he forced him to exchange clothes and call himself a servant, and he himself took F.'s place; in Paris, the local king assigned F. to serve in the stables ; the deceiver tells the king that the servant boasted of bringing horses that no one can tame; F. is riding to the pasture, a mare comes up and tells him to mount her; F. brings the horses; the deceiver persuades him to send F. to return Princess Isolina, who disappeared when she was 14; the king considers her dead; F. is on a ship with the mare, the mare tells him to catch a fish and put it in a crystal goblet; when they sailed to India, the mare tells him to catch a bird and put it in a golden cage; in the monastery F. asked to show him S.'s grave; he dug it up - I. is incorruptible in gold and diamonds; but it is impossible to separate her from the slab on which she lies without finding the lace that was on her head; abbess: the lace fell into the sea; mare: throw the fish into the sea, she will bring the lace in exchange for freedom; the bird took the string from two dolphins and brought it; F. pulled I. out, but her soul was on a high mountain; the released bird brought a phial with I.'s soul, I. came to life; the king is happy; the mare orders to accept the king's invitation to the feast on the condition that she, the mare, will also come; F. is silent at the feast, and the mare tells everything; advises to tie the robber to her tail; she galloped off, the robber died; F. marries the princess, the mare says that he has forgotten her; asks to cut off her head; he did it, F.'s first love came out of the mare's body - S.; F. regrets that he is already married, gives S. a rich dowry and marries him to a merchant]: Calvino 1980, No. 79: 288-293; Italians (Abruzzo) [contrary to the rule, the girl does not kill her elderly father, but hides him in a barrel; disguised as a young man, he hires himself out to the king as a stable boy; the other grooms are jealous; they tell the king that his favorite boasted of bringing a chained dragon; the king orders this to be done; {the text is not further retold}]: Del Monte Tammaro 1971, no. [300-e: 14; Corsicans[the king does not allow his daughter to leave the house; one day she went out into the garden, a flower fell from the sky, she smelled it and disappeared; they search for her everywhere; one of the horse trainers, Ghjuanigula (Ghjuanigula, "Jean-Nicolas") takes two companions with him, goes off in search; in the hut they cook in turns; each dwarf comes, beats the cook, eats everything; when G. is left, he beats the dwarf, follows him to the stone, under which there is a hole; G. goes down, the companions remain above; G. finds herself in another world, there are many young men and women, among them a princess; she says that the dwarf is wounded and sleeping, first you need to break the glass in which his soul is; G. does so, sends everyone up; then he sends a heavy stone; the companions think that it is G., cut the rope; G. finds an old lamp, rubs it, the spirit from the lamp, who fulfills wishes, carries him to earth; disguised as a scoundrel, G. remains to work in the royal stable; he easily calmed his horse, which no one could approach; the king will give his daughter to the one who can jump over a wide ditch on horseback; G. asks the lamp three times for metal armor for himself and his horse - first bronze, then silver, then gold; the king prepares his daughter's wedding; G. tells the lamp to make shit appear on the plates instead of food; he volunteers to be the cook himself, the food is magnificent, he appears to the guests in bronze clothing; then in silver, gold; the princess recognizes him; the king gives G. his daughter and the crown; the companions who betrayed G. were smeared with resin and burned]: Massignon 1984, no. 7: 14-18.

Western Europe. Bretons [the son of the French king got lost while hunting, spent the night with a charcoal burner, whose wife had just given birth; left a letter that the boy Louis (Petit-Louis), when he grows up, must bring him - he will be accepted into the palace; sending his son away, the father tells him not to have anything to do with the hunchback, the lame, the leper; L. left the first two; against the advice of the horse, picked up a shining feather; when he bent down to the spring, the leper pushed him off, took the horse and the letter, was accepted into the palace; L. got hired there as a groom , found his horse; the leper notices the light spreading from the feather; tells the king that L. boasted that he could get a princess with golden hair; along the way, various animals join L.; with their help he carries out the princess's tasks; she, having arrived to the king, demands that her silver castle be delivered to her; the keys to it threw into the sea; the king of fishes gets them; the princess demands that the groom become young, for this she needs living and dead water; the horse teaches L. how to make the raven bring them; the princess sprinkled the king with dead water and married L.; (further break, living water does not appear)]: Luzel in Cosquin 1887: 294-295; Bretons [a father and three sons live in a castle; the brothers only hunt; the eldest decides to leave; receives a horse, a dog and 5 sous from their father; hired as a groom to the king; the princess fell in love with him; wedding; from the bedroom the young prince sees smoke in the forest; wife: a terrible witch is there; the prince arrives there; the old woman orders them to tie the horse and dog, to go in; in the castle there are unimaginable treasures; in the far room there are corpses and a sabre hanging from a hair; she cuts the prince in half; At home the young man's flower withered; the second brother follows in his footsteps; the eldest's wife takes him for her husband; the same thing happens to him; the youngest is not deceived, he howls his dog, which tears apart the witch's dogs; one of them manages to touch the flask of living water and comes back to life; the young man kills her again, revives his brothers, kills the witch; the younger ones begin to live in her castle, having taken possession of the treasure; the eldest returns to his wife]: Postic 1998: 193-200; French (Upper Brittany) [Jean's mother is ill; a big man (the devil) tells his father to give his wife broth made from the flesh of a seven-year-old child; Jean runs to his godmother; she takes him back to his parents, he sees his little sister in the cauldron; he runs into the forest, meets a giant (the devil again) who has a horse the size of a dog and a doe; he takes Jean to his underground castle; orders to watch the fire under the cauldron; sinners are in the cauldron, including Jean's godmother, she orders not to heat it while the devil is away; the horse tells Jean that he himself will turn into the same horse; the horse, following the doe, carries Jean away, the devil pursues; they throw the currycomb (river), the comb (grate), reach the holy land; in the forest, Jean, despite the horse's prohibition, picks up something shining ; the horse orders to hire himself out to work in the castle as a groom, promises to appear on demand; the feather illuminates the stable , the servants tell the king that Jean can bring the bird itself; he rides to the spring on horseback with a doe, orders his head to be cut off and thrown into the water, the bird flies in to peck at the carrion, Jean snatches it, the horse is revived; the servants persuade the king to order Jean to bring the princess; he takes her on a ship, she throws a ring into the sea; she will marry only if the ring is returned; the horse orders his head to be cut off and thrown into the sea, the fish swim up, he gets the one who swallowed the ring, is revived; the princess orders the king to kill Jean, revives his feather; now she orders Jean to kill the king, does not revive him, marries Jean; the horse and the doe turn into a prince and princess, get married; (ending)]: Sébillot 1894, no. 32: 275-277; Germans (Austria) [a merchant's son lost his money, swapped a horse with a stranger's mare; mare: do not pick up a golden horseshoe, feather, and lock of hair on the road; the youth picks them up; gets hired as a groom; in this city it is forbidden to light a light after dark; the youth lights the room with a horseshoe, feather, and lock of hair; the king sees the light, selects the objects, orders to bring the horse whose horseshoe it is, a bird, a girl; the mare leads to the castle, orders to take an old horse, a half-dead bird, an ugly thing; they turn into a mighty horse, a beautiful bird, a beauty; the king offers the youth to choose the type of death; mare: let her prepare a huge basin of boiling milk; the youth jumps into the milk on the mare, comes out a handsome man; the king jumped, was boiled; the beauty married the youth]: Zerf 1992: 205-210.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the king has a tree with three branches: red, green and blue; every night someone strips one of the branches; the king to the vizier: find out in 14 days, otherwise I will execute him; the vizier's daughter advises him to ask three princes to keep watch; the two eldest fall asleep; the youngest, Hasan, grabs a red horse; the following nights, a green one; a blue one; the last one says that they are three brothers; they got this tree from the spirits and planted it here; each has his own branch, the color of which he dresses; the king transfers power to H., the brothers are jealous, but he refuses power and all three of them go to another city; the brothers take H. as a groom; the youngest, Almaza, is unmarried, she will marry the one who grabs her necklace displayed in the window; the brothers leave H.'s house; he calls a green horse, in the form of a green knight, gallops high and carries off the necklace; the next day the second necklace, on a red horse; the third on a blue one; at home he pulled a cattle stomach over his head, as if he were bald, hired himself out to the king as a gardener, but A. saw it; asks his father to gather all the men, she will throw an apple at her chosen one; no one is chosen; only the gardener and his bald assistant are missing; A. threw an apple at H., the king settled them in the stable; he fell ill, gazelle meat will cure him; H. called a red horse, asked him for a castle with servants; any animals, including gazelles, are there; the eldest sons-in-law came; he gave them gazelles, but kept the lungs, heart and liver for himself, and put a seal on the sons-in-law; the food prepared from the meat of gazelles turned out to be inedible, and the food from the offal, which the youngest daughter brought, was unusually tasty and the king recovered; the neighboring king demands tribute for 7 years, a war began; H. on a red horse defeats everyone; his wife and her mother see how he changes his clothes; the king comes to ask him to come to him; he refuses: I myself am the prince, and the husbands of your two other daughters are slaves; they have to show the brands on their bodies; the king cut off their heads; their wives Kh. gave to his brothers; a new wedding feast for 40 days; the king handed over the throne to Kh.]: Littmann 1984: 183-204.

South Asia. Kashmiris [an akhun (religious teacher) asks four sons what they would like to do; three want to follow in their father's footsteps, the fourth wants to be a thief; he sneaks into the palace, where the vizier and the princess are preparing to escape; the vizier sends the princess with the thief, but must stay behind himself; in the morning the princess sees that the vizier is not with her, and becomes the youth's wife; he is hired as a groom by the king ; a jeweler brings two rubies, the youth says that one has a wormhole, and turns out to be right; he is appointed caretaker of gems; the vizier wants to take possession of the youth's wife, persuades the king's daughter to ask for a second ruby ​​like the one brought by the jeweler (not a defective one, but an expensive one), and to send the youth for it; a month later the wife gives the youth a ruby ​​she picked up in the river, and he brings it to the king; the vizier suggests demanding the ruby ​​necklace; The wife tells the young man to hide by the river, six celestial fairies will arrive, and then the seventh; her clothes must be hidden; the fairy Lalmal is forced to go with the young man, when she speaks, rubies fall from her lips; he brings the rubies to the king; the barber informs the vizier that the young man has a second wife; let the vizier take one, and he, the barber, the second; the vizier suggests sending the young man for a bracelet; L. sends her husband with a letter to the spring where he met her; the young man takes the bracelet, tearing off the hand that extended it; vizier: second bracelet; L. sends her husband with a ring, it opens the entrance to the lower world; the girl to whom the young man addresses is the daughter of the woman whose hand he tore off; in order to save him, the girl turned him into a pebble, took an oath from his mother; the mother sent the young man with a letter to her sons with the order to kill him; the daughter substituted an order to come to her wedding; gave edible peas, he only needs to pretend that he is eating inedible ones; gave iron claws - the brothers will ask him to scratch their backs; he did everything, the demons said that Solomon was calling them, they did not come; the young man takes the demoness's daughter as a wife, asks for a flying skin (i.e. a flying carpet) as a gift; brings a bracelet; a barber: he has a third wife, the king must receive her; the king orders the young man to bring news from his deceased king-father and a paradise fruit; the young man orders a fire to be made, flies away from it on a flying carpet; the fairy wife makes a fruit from seven metals, writes a letter on behalf of the deceased king: come with the vizier and the barber; they burned; the first vizier came, the young man gave him his bride, sent the fairy to her world, he himself remained with his third wife; the vizier became king, the youth became vizier]: Stein, Grierson 1923, No. 12: 85-105; Sinhalese [with great difficulty the king captured the man-eating Yaka, locked him in an iron house; while the king was at war, his five-year-old son released the yak; it promised to help him; when the king returned {after several years?}, he was going to execute his son; the mother gave him rice, money, a horse and told him to run away; on the way the prince met a man whom he asked to watch over the horse while he himself would bathe; on the other bank of the river three princesses were bathing, they noticed the young man; the man put on the prince's clothes and galloped away; the youngest princess saw all this; the deceiver called himself Manikka Settiyare, and called the prince his groom; the king offered MS to appraise his precious stone (manikka); he said that his servant could appraise it; the imaginary servant, i.e. the prince, realized that there was sand inside the stone and it was worthless; the king ordered MS to give the servant a sword, he cut the stone - there was sand inside; the youngest princess asked the stable boy MC to start grazing her sheep, and the shepherd would become the servant of MC; after the prince started grazing the sheep, they multiplied incredibly; Yaka (another, not a friend of the prince) captured the king and released him for a promise to give him his three daughters; the king promises them to the one who can defeat Yaka; at this time, Yaka-friend of the prince carried off the sheep and hid in a snake hole; the prince went down there; Yaka gave a sword and taught how to cut down another Yaka who would come out to take the princess; the prince killed Yaka, cut out and hid his tongue; MC attributed the victory to himself; the same with two other princesses (two more Yakas); the king promises the daughters in marriage to MC; a friendly Yaka gives the prince a horse and a luxurious outfit; MC cannot explain the lack of languages ​​​​in the heads of Yakas; the youngest princess tells everything; [MC beheaded, prince receives three princesses and the throne]: Parker 1910, no. 15: 137-145.

Balkans. Croats [7 brothers went to look for wives, so that they would be 7 sisters; the youngest took a thin horse, but this horse was magical; the old woman said that she had 7 daughters; the horse warned the youngest brother that she was a witch, that she was hiding the eighth daughter with golden hair; at night the youngest does not sleep, changed the hats of the brothers and daughters of the old woman, put the bridles of the horses to the old woman's mares; at night the old woman mistakenly cut off the heads of her daughters and mares; the youngest tells the brothers to run; returning, he shouted to the old woman that she had killed her daughters; the old woman turned the poker into a horse, rushed in pursuit, did not catch up; at the crossroads the youngest parted from the elders, who disliked him; the horse of the youngest tells him not to pay attention to what he sees or hears; but the youngest saw and picked up 3 golden hairs, three golden feathers, a golden horseshoe; the young man hired himself out as a groom to the king , works better than anyone else; the other grooms became envious, noticed the golden things, told the king; he ordered to bring the girl who has golden hair; this is the daughter of that witch; the horse taught: he will pretend to get stuck in a swamp, the witch will come running, at that time it is necessary to take the girl; the young man brought her to the king; he wants to give her in marriage to his son; girl: first get three ducks, whose feathers are golden; the king sent the young man for the ducks; they spent the night again at the witch's, stole the ducks; the witch chases, the horse orders to throw down the currycomb, a dense forest arose; now the girl demands to get the horse, whose golden horseshoe; the horse orders to put 8 buffalo skins on him; the sea stallion tore them off, but got tired, blue flame came out of his mouth, and red flame came from the young man’s horse; the sea mares followed the horse; the girl ordered them to be milked, the milk boiled, they filled a vat with it; let the groom bathe; the horse cooled the milk, the young man became a handsome man; the prince also threw himself into the milk, but it boiled, he died; the king adopted the young man in place of the dead man, gave him the golden-haired girl in marriage]: Schütz 1960, No. 16: 126-133.

Central Europe. The Slovaks [a peasant has 12 sons, 11 of whom despise the youngest, Janko; they hire themselves out to the king, a year later each receives an ox; the next time, a cow; then a horse; J. is afraid to choose a strong horse; a thin horse advises him to choose it; the brothers gallop away; the horse: shall we gallop like the sun or like the wind? J.: so as not to get hurt; a copper horse and a copper rider, J. arrives at the inn before his brothers, they say that they saw a copper horseman; the next time - silver; gold; the brothers ask their father to marry them; he sees an old witch who plows with 6 horses; she says that she has 12 daughters; he beats the horses with a whip, they turn into all 12 girls; before the wedding, the horse teaches J.: not to sit in the middle, to say that he is the youngest, he must keep an eye on the horses; do not drink wine, do not eat soup, roast, pour out unnoticed; wine will become a piece of glass, soup - a brush, roast - a comb, hide them under clothes; let the brothers lie down at night in place of the witch's daughters, and they in place of the brothers; at night the witch cut off the heads of her daughters, thinking that she was killing the young men; the little horse orders to gallop away, not to pick up anything along the way; the witch throws a golden horseshoe, I. asks whether to pick it up; little horse: if you pick it up, it will be bad, if you don't pick it up, even worse; I. picked it up; the little horse orders to throw away the comb (a mountain covered with dense forest); then the same: the witch throws a golden feather, I. - a brush (thorny thickets); golden hair - glass (the sea, the witch stops the chase); made peace with the brothers, the little horse orders to hire himself out to serve the king; The other grooms (in some versions these are Ya.'s brothers) are burning candles, but Ya. is not; the grooms spied Ya. lighting the stable with the witch's golden horseshoe; the king demands the horse whose horseshoe it is; they galloped up to the witch and while she was sleeping, Ya. stole the keys from under her pillow, took the horse, hid the sword; he shouted about this to the witch, she chased, but could not cross the sea; the grooms reported that it was light in Ya.'s stable again, the light from a feather ; the king demands the bird; Ya. took the keys from the sleeping witch's belt, broke her sword, carried off the cage with the duck laying golden eggs; the third time - a golden hair, the king demands the girl; the sleeping witch holds the keys in her teeth, Ya. carefully took them out, broke the witch's sword, unlocked the third room, took the golden girl; he shouted to the witch from across the sea that he would not return to her anymore; she turned into resin out of anger; the girl only wants I., the king is going to execute him; the horse orders a cauldron of milk to be boiled, absorbed the heat, I. bathed, became golden; the king also decided to bathe, the horse returned the heat, the king was boiled; I. became king]: Dobšinský 1970, No. 8: 36-46; Belarusians (Mogilevskaya, Rechitsa uyezd, Rudnya village) [a poor peasant has three sons; the wheat crop grew well; the tsar bought the field; someone is destroying it; the peasant's eldest son goes to guard the field, but does not notice anything; the tsar cut off his head; the middle one did the same; the youngest, Ivanushka the Fool, mowed down some of the wheat, crawled under it; Chuda-Yuda climbed up to eat it, I. grabbed her, brought her to the tsar; he put Chuda-Yuda in prison, sent for guests to look at her; the prince shot an arrow, it hit the prison window; Chuda-Yuda will give it back if the prince steals the key from his mother and unlocks the door; leaving the prince, Chuda-Yuda orders to call her if trouble occurs; the tsar gave the prince a letter that he is the king's son, gave him a servant and sent him to another kingdom; the prince asks the servant to hold his legs so that he can lower him into the well so that he can drink; servant: give me the letter, or I will drown you; they came to another king; he accepted the deceiver, and sent the prince to the stable; the princess fell in love with him; the king elevated them; the deceiver mixed them with a sleeping potion, they were put to bed; the king ordered both to be placed in a barrel and thrown into the sea; the prince called ChYu; he delivered them to the king, told everything, the king gave his daughter in marriage to the prince, and the servant was shot and thrown into the sea; “I was there, I drank honey and wine, it ran down my mustache and beard, but did not get into my mouth, but took everything by the ear and my mouth was dry; looked back, an army of soldiers came, they grabbed me, loaded a cannon, fired it to the side from where I came, I remained unharmed, sat on the bridge and told this tale"]: Shein 1893, No. 24: 52-55; Ukrainians (Kharkov) [Three daughters take turns volunteering to serve in their father's place, the eldest go out into the field where everything rumbles, and return. The youngest does not return, ends up in the forest where the snake and frost are fighting, she responds to the latter's request for help, together they cut off three snake heads, put the ashes in their pockets. Frost asks the hero's name, picks the "burkunets" grass, and calls him Roman. Roman goes on alone. He finds a feather of the Firebird on the road, the horse warns him not to take the feather, but Roman does not listen. The grooms notice the beauty of the horse (cleaned with a feather) and report it to the king. The grooms order the iconostasis to be taken from the sea. Roman grieves, asks the frost for help, it freezes the sea and takes out the iconostasis "on the dry days of the sea". While the horse was taking out the iconostasis - scattering the necklace, the grooms demand to get it, the frost helps Roman again, freezes the sea. The grooms demand to take 9 mares and a tenth stallion from the sea. The horse asks to wrap him in four skins and coat him with resin, and goes to the sea himself. After the sea water turns red, then blue, the horse comes out of the sea, where he defeated the stallion, whose skin is beaten, the horse was protected by resin and skins, leads the mares "the earth trembles". The grooms order them to be milked, while the horse neighs, they stand rooted to the spot, Roman milks them. The grooms order Roman to be boiled in milk, the horse blows on him, and he comes out of the vat as a beauty, the commander repeats the same, boiled]: Ivanov 1894, No. 1: 139-141; Ukrainians (Kharkiv, Lebedinsky District, ca. 1878) [Parents with their son come to plow a field, an eagle carries the boy away to its nest. Three brothers living in the forest find the child, name him Trem-son-Boris. The boy grows up, asks for a small horse and sets off on a journey. In the forest he finds a shiny feather of the firebird, the horse asks to leave it, but the boy takes it. In a foreign kingdom he is hired as a groom by the tsar, he is put to watch over the common horses, he combs them with a feather and the horses are put in the tsar's carriage . The grooms question him and spy on him, report to the tsar that TB boasts that he can catch the firebird, the tsar orders this to be done. The horse asks to dig a hole, pour vodka and peas into it, the bird flies in, drinks and eats, lies down, turns over with its feet up - it is caught and brought to the tsar. He rewards Boris. The grooms tell the tsar that TB boasts that he can catch a beautiful maiden in the sea, the tsar orders to do this. The horse asks for nets, mirrors and dresses. Nastasya comes out of the sea, tries on all the outfits, she is caught in the nets and brought to the tsar. She demands that 12 necklaces, which she tore and threw into the sea, be brought for her. Beef is laid out by the sea, crayfish crawl up, the boy takes a white crayfish and demands that the whole necklace be brought to him, after which he promises to release the crayfish. The crayfish find the pike in which the necklace was kept, the white crayfish is released. The princess asks why the sun is red in the morning when it rises, and then white. Boris rides a horse towards the sun, the garden watchmen ask him to find out why the garden used to feed the whole world, but now it cannot feed the watchmen; soldiers: how long should they stand chained; a husband and wife on an oak tree: how long will they have to catch pigeons; a tavern owner: how long will she have to pour water from one well to another; a whale fish: how long will people travel on it. TB goes into the hut of the old mother of the sun and asks questions. She hides him, and in the morning she retells his questions to the Sun, each time as if she were telling him her dream. Sun: the garden will bear fruit when the robbers' money is dug up in it; the soldiers will be freed when this money is given to the poor; people will catch pigeons while the sun shines, because in their youth they killed their children; the woman will pour water while the sun shines - in her youth she sometimes over-poured, sometimes under-poured; the whale fish will be freed when she spits out the swallowed ship. The sun was red - embarrassed when his girl came out of the sea, now she is gone - the sun is white, rises and sets late. Boris returns, passes on the answers along the way. The Tsar gives him half the kingdom, treats him like a brother]: Chubinsky 1878, No. 76: 285-290; Russian (Arkhangelsk, Pomors) [an old man found 9 eggs in the forest, collected them in a mitten to take on the way back, but there were no more eggs; the old woman was angry; the same 19 eggs; when 33, he carried them home, but they fell and broke, 33 young men appeared; the father had nothing to mow, they went to mow the royal protected meadows; the king took them for himself, giving the old man a lot of bread; someone is stealing hay; only Ivan is not sleeping; a golden-maned mare with 33 foals came out of the sea, I. saddled one foal; he teaches him to catch its mother (roll over it when the mare runs up to him and grab her); the night is bright from the golden mane; the king lets the brothers marry, each to one of those horses; one grandmother has 9 daughters, the second 19, the third 33; Ivan's mare teaches him to go with the youngest, to whip her until she gives him a flint, a whip and a magic kerchief; mare: the old woman will put you to bed with the brides, put white hats on them, and black ones on you; you have to switch; a sword will roll up and chop off the heads under the black hats; after that you have to run; the old woman is chasing in a fiery chariot; Ivan waved his kerchief - a bridge; when the old woman is on the bridge, he waved again, the bridge disappeared, the old woman fell into the sea and drowned; the brothers think that Ivan killed their brides out of envy, they rushed at him, but the mare drove them away; Ivan became a groom for the tsar, the other grooms are jealous; they tell the tsar that Ivan ran to get him the princess; the mare brings her to the garden, throws in an apple tree, the princess comes up, Ivan grabs her, they gallop to the tsar; the princess demands that he first get the wedding dress; when the princess went missing, her father took the dress to the cathedral for the funeral service; the mare lured the people out of the cathedral, Ivan grabbed the dress and galloped away; the princess: to rejuvenate, you have to jump into a cauldron of milk, then boiling water, then cold water; the tsar: let Ivan be first; the mare cooled the boiling water for Ivan, and the tsar got boiled; the princess married Ivan]: Razumova, Senkina 1987: 183-193; Russians (Vologda, Veliky Ustyug u.) [someone steals the golden apples; they caught him, it was Divy's husband, they put him in prison; Ivan Tsarevich shot at a bird, the arrow hit D.; he asks to let him out - he will be useful later; the tsar gathered the boyars, they sentenced I. to exile; he was walking and thought about D.; D. immediately appeared, took him to his place; his wife poured from the horn twice and gave him an apple to eat; after the second time I. was able to lift a damask club; D. sent him to hire himself out as a groom to another king, where he would kill a dragon; one groom named Devkin's son took a dislike to I.; D. brought I. a drink and an apple again; tomorrow the princess would be given to the snake to eat; I. killed the dragon, the princess bandaged the wound with her handkerchief; Devkin's son took credit for everything; D. gave I. a magic wheel (it built a golden palace) and a gusli to play magic songs; the princess recognized him, there was a wedding; Devkin's son was beheaded]: Burtsev 1895, No. 8: 44-50; Russian(Vologda) [Ivan Tsarevich was walking in the garden, saw an old man behind bars, himself a yard tall, his beard wrapped around his body; he began to ask for water; he drank and flew out, promising to help; the king banished his son; he hired himself out as a groom to the Kashmir king; the army of the Kampian king approached, who demanded a daughter from the Kashmir sovereign in marriage; the old man appeared and brought I. to him, ordered him to drink a quarter of a bucket of wine, given by his youngest daughter; after this I. was able to throw a stone weighing 500 poods; then the middle daughter (half a bucket, a stone weighing 1000 poods), the eldest (a bucket, 1500); I. returned to the stable, the headman began to scold him for his absence, I. hit him with his fist, his head flew off; the king looked into the matter, forgave; the enemies were driven away, but an old man with a copper head and iron hands appeared; let him send his daughter, otherwise a three-headed serpent will come out of the sea and devour the people; one man volunteered to fight the serpent, but when he saw it, he ran away; I. cut off the serpent's head, but the imaginary savior took the victory for himself; the same with the 6-headed serpent; with the 9-headed; the princess called I. the savior; wedding; the deceiver was expelled]: Burtsev 1897: 307-323; Russian(Kursk, Timsky district) [The tsar has three sons – Vasily Tsarevich, Dmitry Tsarevich, Ivan Tsarevich. Every night someone mows the grass. The tsar and his elder brothers keep watch, but they can’t catch anyone. I. catches a peasant – he’s as small as a fingernail, with a beard as long as an elbow – and brings him to his father, who puts him in prison. The next day I. plays, shoots an arrow, and it hits the prison. The peasant asks to be released, promising to come in handy. I., while his mother searches in his head, steals the keys. The tsar, wanting to show the prisoner to the guests, discovers the loss and orders I. to be hanged. The princes suggest banishing him. Ivan Tsarevich is given Uncle Ivan. They go, want to get a drink, and find a well in the forest. The uncle, threatening to drown I., forces him to recognize him as the prince, to exchange clothes and horses, signing an agreement in blood. They come to the prince. The false prince goes to the palace, I. is sent to the poultry yard. The prince's sheep are sick. The uncle says that I. will cure them. He drives them into the forest, sits on a stump, complains about the peasant, because of whom he suffers hardships. The peasant appears, blows on the sheep, heals them. He takes I. to his place, in the icehouse gives him a bucket of home brew, from which I. becomes strong. The peasant's mother gives him a self-assembled tablecloth and a stone that will glow brighter than 20 candles. I. is made the senior groom. With the help of the tablecloth, he treats the other grooms. The next day, the prince orders the cows to be cured. The same, the peasant gives two buckets of home-brew to drink, and his mother gives him a cane that can summon 12 musicians and 5 thousand soldiers. I. walks and has fun. The next day he is ordered to cure sick horses. The same, three buckets. I.: if there were a pole, with one end in the ground and the other in the sky, it would move the whole world. The peasant gives half a bucket of home-brew of impotence. He gives three horses: "Hey, sivka-burka, eternal kaurka! Stand before me, like a leaf before the grass!" They served him for 33 years, I. orders them to serve him in the same way, says goodbye. The prince gives I. a glass of vodka as a reward, I. drinks it, goes to bed. When he wakes up, the windows of the chambers are curtained with black linen. The old woman and the old man from the kitchen explain that a mighty army, 3 spans in the forehead and 3 arshins in the shoulders, is rising against the prince. I. calls a horse, defeats the army. Calls the hero a broad-browed pig. The enemy hero shouts that he has never had an opponent in the world, demands: "Raise my eyebrows!" 15 people do so, I. chops off his head. He sleeps for 6 days and 6 nights. When he wakes up, he knocks down a barn with his spirit. The old man reports that a mighty army, 6 spans in the forehead and 6 arshins in the shoulders, is rising against the prince. I. mounts a second horse, defeats the army. He sleeps for 9 days and 9 nights. The windows are again curtained in black. Old man: a mighty army, 9 spans in the forehead and 9 arshins in the shoulders, is rising against the prince. I. mounts his "heroic horse." Calls the hero a broad-browed bull. The hero orders him to raise his eyebrows. 50 men raise their eyebrows at him. They come together, miss each other, both swords break in half. I.: "My father is riding on your father to get water." The hero turns around, I. cuts off his head. Returns, marries the prince's daughter, throws his uncle away]: Belkin 1853,No. 10: 533-536;Russian (Voronezh) [An old man kills a bird with 21 eggs while hunting. An old woman orders him to hatch them. After 21 weeks, 20 sons hatch, and a week later the last son, Ivan the Chatterbox, appears. The old man grows rich, notices that someone is stealing from the stacks, sends his sons to guard at night, the older brothers fall asleep and do not see the thief, and on the last night it is Ivan's turn. He prepares a hammer and an iron bit. Ivan does not sleep and catches a mare and her 21 foals (hits them between the ears with the hammer). The father praises Ivan, takes the mare, the brothers sort out the foals, and Ivan gets the weakest. The father and his sons go hunting. Four times Ivan lets the foal out into the field to gain strength (it bends first under his hand, then under his foot, under a sitting rider). Ivan catches up with his brothers, on the third day he sees fire, finds a golden feather, despite the horse's warnings, takes it with him. The father orders all the horses to be cleaned, Ivan waves the feather - his horse becomes golden . The father praises Ivan, shames the other brothers. The brothers are jealous and tell their father that Ivan boasts of catching a playful cat, a dancing goose and a cymbal-playing fox, the father sends his youngest son to get the animals. With the help of the horse, he does everything. The brothers tell their father that Ivan can get a self-playing gusli. Ivan ends up with Baba Yaga, she gives him a ball of yarn, he leads her to Yaga's middle sister, the mother of the Serpent Gorynych, who keeps the gusli. The mother feeds her son, sits him down to play cards with Ivan, the players agree that the winner will eat the loser. Ivan wins in two days, asks to give him the gusli, the Serpent gives it, rejoices that he remains alive, not eaten. The father again, on the slander of the elder sons, orders Ivan to get Marya the princess. He sails on a ship, lures the princess to him by playing the gusli (never heard of it), and brings her to the father. The father then gives all the orders to his son at the request of the bride, demands to bring her casket. Ivan distracts the palace guards, releasing his golden horse, gets the casket and brings it. He gets 12 mares on the orders of his father: he wraps his horse in twine and pours resin on it - it drives the horses out of the sea, its protection is torn by the horses' teeth. On the orders of his father, he milks the mares, boils their milk and jumps into it after the agreed signal from the horse. Ivan becomes a handsome man. Marya demands that her father also bathe, but he dies in the boiling milk. Ivan marries Marya]: Baryshnikova 2007, No. 17: 97-105.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abaza [disguised as a beggar, the padishah spends the night in a poor house; that night a son is born there; when leaving, the padishah leaves gold and a letter with which the young man, when he grows up, must come to the padishah if he wants to marry; when the young man sets out on a journey, his father warns him not to take a beardless man as a companion; the beardless man asks to be his companion, agrees to go along a nearby road where there is no water; he lowers him into a well for water and lifts him up after the young man has given the padishah's letter; the beardless man pretends to be a young man, and the latter a groom ; wants to marry an overseas beauty, asks the padishah to send a fake groom for her; along the way, the horse orders an eagle to be fed, bees to be fed, and a fish to be thrown into the water; the fish lay on the water, the horse crossed the sea on it; the girl's father wants a cure for death for his daughter (the eagle brings it); to recognize the bride among other girls (a bee is circling above her); to get a discarded ring from the bottom of the sea (a fish got it); before leaving, the daughter stole a bottle with the medicine of immortality, which her father hid; the girl told the beardless man to ask the padishah to kill the young groom, then revived him; he told the padishah everything - death and resurrection freed him from the word given to the beardless man; the beardless man was torn apart by horses]: Tugov 1985, No. 46: 125-131; Armenians [the miller has a wise goat, three brothers have a wise horse; the eldest brother and the miller make a bet, putting a horse against a goat: who will hide three times; the eldest brother called the guests and showed them the goat; he stabbed himself, skinned him, roasted him, prepared three kinds of food, served it to the guests, and when they ate, he turned out to be alive, running and bleating; but when the elder brother's wife invited her lovers (the priest and the headman) to visit and demanded the same from the goat, he turned his back to her; she hit the goat with a stick, stuck, followed by the priest and many others; finally, the elder brother let them go; not wanting to stay in such a house, the brothers left; they came to the fire, there was an old woman with three daughters; the youngest senses danger, orders to change places and headdresses with the girls; at night the old woman came to strangle the brothers, and strangled her daughters; the brothers flee; the youngest hired himself out to the king as a groom , the eldest and middle are jealous; they tell the king that the youngest can bring that old woman's racehorse; the queen teaches what to do (lure the horse with raisins, throw a sack over his head); bring a miracle tree from the old woman; the queen: take a self-playing saz, the old woman will go sharpen her teeth and will think that you are on the ceiling; he will tear the sack, from there salt and pepper will fall into your eyes; at this time, chop down the tree with a diamond axe; bring the old woman herself; ring the bells, the old woman will decide that the angel of death has come for her, then put her in a basket, hammer her with nails and tie her with ropes; the guy brought the basket to the king; ran away, hid in a cave behind a millstone; the old woman (who also took the form of the lion Azrael) stuck her head in the millstone, the guy knocked it over, and she was crushed]: Ioannisian 1968: 110-123.

Iran – Central Asia. Uzbeks [a princess fell ill, the shah promises her to the one who will cure her; a young groom opened a window into the garden, the princess began to count birds and recovered; the vizier advised to drive the groom away, for he was only a servant; he was abandoned in the desert; three doves flew in, turned into peri; they say that the wheat does not sprout because silver is buried in the field; that the cauldron into which garbage is thrown is golden; that dead fish on the bank of the river have pearls; a young man comes to live with an old woman, sends her to woo the shah's daughter; the shah demands that a palace be built; the young man brings silver, a golden cauldron, pearls; with this money he builds a palace, receives a princess, and then the throne]: Rogov 1980: 212-215.

Baltoscandia. Estonians (Juri) [in the forest the king saw a mushroom, and under it a dwarf with a big beard; he brought it to himself, put it in the cellar, called other kings to look at the curiosity; the boy prince was playing with a ball, it flew into the cellar; the dwarf promised to give the ball back if the boy steals the key from his mother; let him cry, the mother will take him on her lap, you have to take the key out of your pocket, and then return it the same way; the prince grew up and then told his father about everything; he drove him away, giving him a horse and a servant; when the prince went down into the well to draw water, the servant made him swear that they would change roles, otherwise he would not pull him out of the well; another king had a deceiver become his chief adviser, and the real prince got to look after the horses ; he laments his fate; that dwarf came out from under the stone, led him underground; the eldest daughter gave a magic tablecloth and a copper whistle; if you whistle, a copper horse and robe will appear, with them no enemy is scary; the same thing next time (silver, gold horse and robe); a three-headed serpent coming out of the lake demands the king's daughter, otherwise he will ruin everything; the prince in a copper outfit kills him, returns the daughter to the king; the same with the 6-headed (silver horse) and 12-headed (golden horse) dragons; the youngest princess bandaged the savior's wound; the deceiver bribed the warriors to say that he is the savior; the king wants to give him his youngest daughter; she caught the fake groom playing the pipe; he appeared to the king in a gold robe and brought the heads and tongues of the serpents; but the deceiver cannot; the prince is made son-in-law and heir, the deceiver is thrown into the well]: Mälk et al. 1967, No. 71: 204-213; Danes [=1879: 1-21; a son is born to poor people, they cannot find a godfather; a beggar agrees to be their godfather, gives the boy the name Willy Faith; leaves a rusty key; when the young man is 14, a house appears, he opens it with the key, there is a talking horse; W. rides away on it; the horse does not tell him to pick up the glowing feathers , W. picks them up; he is hired as a groom by the king; he forbids lighting a light at night; the feathers glow like fire , V. draws a portrait of a beauty; the groom brings it to the king; the king: this is the daughter of the king whom I killed and who ran away; orders to get her; the horse: she turned into a bird, these were her feathers; orders the king to give him a ship; along the way they throw worms to the fish, barrels to the whales to play with, meat to the wolves and bears on the other bank, and bread to the giants; in the castle the bird turns into a girl; the dog helps to find her among the fabrics and straw; on the way back she throws away the keys, but the fish find them and give them to V.; the girl demands that the king deliver her castle to her; the king orders V. to do the same (the giants bring them); the girl: the keys are needed; V.: I have them; the girl demands the water of life and the water of death; the horse gallops into the forest with V., orders to kill the chick, the raven brings the water of life to revive him, V. takes the bottle; the horse orders to let a viper into the nest; the raven brings the water of death to kill her, the young man takes it; the girl sprinkles V. with the water of death, and then with the water of life, he becomes handsome; the king wants the same, she does it; he wants it again; but the water of life runs out; V. becomes king, marries the girl; the horse orders his head to be cut off, turns into a prince – the brother of V.’s wife; all is well]: Grundtvig 1920: 9-26.

Volga - Perm. Komi [a peasant's wife gave birth first to an eldest son, Vasily, then to 39 more sons; a mare gave birth to 40 foals; the brothers prepared provisions for their parents and went on a journey; in the forest, Vasily climbs an oak tree and sees a fire; they come to a witch; she offers them to sleep with her 40 daughters; V. lies down separately, sees how the witch tied white scarves on her daughters, sharpens a sabre; imperceptibly reties the scarves, the witch kills her own daughters; the brothers come to the fire king, hire themselves out as grooms ; the king makes V. the eldest, the others are envious; they ask the witch for advice; she orders them to persuade the king; orders V. to get him the daughter of the Sun Woman from the bottom of the sea; the horse orders V. to take gold from the king; they come to the seashore; there a woman promises to help; whistles into a silver whistle, the fish swim up, but they do not know where the daughter of the sun is; then into a golden one, a frog swims up, she knows; she is given a ruff and a perch as assistants; the three of them bring the daughter of the sun; she tells the king that he is black in body - let him first bathe in boiling resin, and then in boiling milk; the king orders V. to do this; the horse dips his body into the resin, then into the milk; V. is unharmed, becomes a handsome man; the king is boiled in resin; V. marries the daughter of the sun, reigns, kills his brothers]: Uotila 2006, No. 17: 75-83; Udmurts [when her husband died, the widow and her son went to look for work; the son picked up a glowing feather; the mother ordered not to do this, but the son did not listen; they came to the king; The mother settled in the kitchen, and the son in the stable; the king ordered him to look after an unsightly foal, the tail in the manure; he touched the foal with a feather, and the foal became fat, although there was little food; other grooms spied; the king orders to get a bird that has such feathers; on the advice of his mother, the young man asks for food, ropes and chains; he lured the king of birds with food, tied them with a rope, he broke them, but did not break the chains; the king of birds asks to get a mare with 7 foals, which gives 7 buckets of milk (ditto); get a golden box from the bottom of the sea; the foal: if a star comes out of the sea, then everything is fine, and if not, then I am lost; got the box; the king orders to find out why the sun is not visible for 3 years, 3 months, 3 days and 3 hours; the young man came to the copper house where the girl is spinning with copper tools; this is the sister of the sun; she hides the young man; when her brother comes, he asks why he has not been seen for 3 years, etc.; the sun does not answer and quickly leaves; the sister of the sun sends the young man to the silver house (ditto); in - to the golden one; the sun answers this third sister that, passing over the sea, he saw a boy in a golden boat with a golden oar, and he shot at him; therefore the sun had to heal the wound on the seabed for 3 years, etc.; the mistress of the bird {=the king of the birds, who was caught?} boiled 7 buckets of milk, dived and came out a beauty; and the king was boiled; the beauty married the young man and he began to reign]: Vasiljev 1902: 9-11; Mari (meadow) [a father asks his three sons to find out who is eating wheat in the field; the eldest and middle sons go to their mistresses, the youngest Ivan catches two horses in turn, then the little humpbacked horse, and puts them in a stall; the brothers stole two horses to sell at the market; Ivan caught up with the little humpbacked horse, and on the way picked up a feather from the firebird; the little humpbacked horse orders that the horses be sold to his tsar; they do not let the grooms near, and the tsar has to take Ivan as a groom; the other grooms, seeing the feather, persuade the tsar to send Ivan for the firebird; the little horse takes her to the apple tree where the firebird is, and Ivan brings it; to bring the princess as a wife to the tsar; the little humpbacked horse helps to seize her and bring her; the bride demands that the tsar get the wedding crown from her father's church; he brings it; the princess demands that he bring the ring she threw into the lake; The hunchback orders the lake to be beaten with chains, the king of fish sends for a ruff, who brings a ring; the princess promises to marry the king if he becomes handsome; one must jump into boiling water, then into boiling milk, then into cold water; the hunchback brings grass to cool the boiling water, I. comes out a handsome man; the king is boiled; I. married the princess, became the king]: Chetkarev 1941, No. 10: 169-173; Chuvash [someone tramples wheat, the father orders his sons to guard; the eldest, middle one fall asleep, the youngest Ivan catches a horse; sells it to the king for 3 carts of gold; picks up a golden feather; is hired by the king as a groom; cleans the horse with a golden feather, it becomes prettier ; another groom to the king: I. boasts of getting the golden bird itself; the horse advises to put some wheat and a barrel of wine under the bird, she gets drunk, I. brings her; the groom: I. boasts about getting the daughter of the water man; the horse orders to make a ship that can move on water and on land; the daughter of the water man goes on the ship, it carries her away; the daughter of the water man refuses to leave without a dowry; I. returns to the water man, he turns into a bull, I. defeats him, brings him, and his whole herd follows him; the daughter of the water man orders to bathe in boiling milk; I. takes 3 hairs from the horse's tail, is unharmed; the king is boiled; I. became king, married the daughter of the water man]: Chuvash Tales 1937: 280-283; Kazan Tatars [the stepmother pampers her own son, the stupid and lazy Tuktar, hates her stepson Timur; the horse bequeathed by his mother warns him that his stepmother has put poison in the pie, Timur gave the pie to the dog, it died; the horse saves Timur from several attempts by his stepmother to kill him; she pretended to be ill, demanded the horse's heart; the horse told Timur to ask his father for permission to ride one last time; neighs three times, T. manages to run from the madrasah, they gallop away; despite the horse's warning, T. picks up the golden wing ; they arrive in the White Kingdom, T. is hired as a groom for the padishah, if you touch the horse with the wing, it immediately gets fat ; the vizier spied, the padishah demands the bird to which the wing belongs; the horse teaches him to cover himself with a white cloth, to grab the fiery eagle by the legs, which will descend; seeing that T. would not let him go, the eagle released a golden bird from under its wing, T. brought it to the padishah; the padishah demands the mermaid; the horse teaches him to leave a jug of wine on the shore; the maiden came out and got drunk, T. grabbed her; the maiden sets a condition for marriage: to drive a herd of her sea horses; the horse teaches him to lasso and tame a mare, the herd follows her; the maiden orders to milk the horses: the horse: each one must be hit with a whip, they will milk themselves; the maiden orders to get her ring from the cauldron of boiling milk; the horse: rub yourself with dewy grass under a birch tree; T. took out the ring, the padishah also dived and was boiled, T. married the maiden]: Yarmukhametov 1957: 3-9.

Turkestan. Uighurs [a girl is kidnapped by a bear, she gives birth to a son, a hero, he kills the bear, returns with his mother to people; his name is Tughluk-batur; the khan is afraid of his strength, the vizier offers to give him difficult tasks; 1) to kill a dragon; T. throws himself with a sword into the dragon's mouth, cuts it open from the inside; 2) to kill a diva; along the way, T. successively defeats and takes as companions heroes named Er (earth), Chol (desert), Su (water), Tag (mountain), Ashlyanpu (cold noodles), Muz (ice), (Uighur name not given) (millstone), Tomir (iron)-batur; not recognizing T., A. boasts that he will easily outrun him, he himself is defeated; the diva remains in the house to guard while the others hunt; the diva ties him up with a hair-snake, sucks his blood; next time T. remains on guard, wounds the diva, follows the bloody trail to the well, descends on his belt; frees the diva's two daughters, whom he was ready to kill for pitying his victims; they explain where their father's soul is (kill two roosters with green beans; go down to the basement, there is a fish swimming in the chest, in it an egg, in it a box); T. burns the box, the diva dies; T. sends up the treasure, the diva's daughters, four more women; A. cuts off his belt, T. falls, the divas heal him; T. kills a snake that was devouring the chicks of the Simurgh bird; it carries him to the surface, T. cuts off the last piece of meat for the Simurgh from her leg; the diva's daughters turned the four women into cats, they scratched A.; T. married the diva's daughters], 268-286 [the shepherd's pregnant wife dies; a new shepherd notices that one goat goes to the cemetery every day; he watches it, it bleats, a child crawls out of the grave, sucks milk; the old man advises to leave a ram's grandmother and a doll at the grave; the child grabs the grandmother; next time the shepherd and the old man throw a rug over him; when the young man grows up, he does any work in one night; when asked whether he did it himself, he answers, I don't know ; a seven-headed dragon demands the eldest of the khan's three daughters; the old man gives the young man a horse, he kills the dragon; the khan's military leader takes credit for the feat, marries; the same with the other dragon and the middle daughter, she marries his herald; the khan promises the youngest and the throne to the one who cures him of an illness; two sons-in-law come to the magic garden for grass, receive it from the young man, not knowing that this is the one who lives with the old man; the young man gives it, putting his seal on the thigh of both; the khan recovers; the eight-headed dragon is given his youngest daughter; the young man kills the dragon, sends the girl home; several years later she sees her ring on the finger of the young man, who is sleeping in the stable; demands that all the suitors pass before her, chooses a poor groom; they are settled in the stable, they have a son; at the feast the young man shows the three rings that the khan's three daughters gave him after killing the dragons, shows his seals on his sons-in-law, puts on appropriate clothing; the khan passes the throne to him]: Kabirov 1963: 125-153 (=Kabirov, Shakhmatov 1951: 133-152).