- 30
- Episodes
- 11
- Transcribed
- 72
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About In A Certain Land
You know The Brothers Grimm, but do you know the weird and whimsical fairy tales of Russia? Nicholas Kotar brings you Russia’s most beloved fairy tales as you would have heard them from a grandparent sitting near the hearth on a cozy winter evening, the wind howling outside and the courage of these heroic stories lighting a flame in your heart. Enter the world of Baba Yaga, the mysterious hag who can be both friend and foe, and follow Ivan the Idiot as he faces off against a cunning dragon with six heads. These are not stuffy, academic translations, but vividly enacted retellings from Nicholas Kotar’s 3-volume fairy tale collection, accompanied by the original music of composer Natalie Wilson. Don’t be fooled: these are not just tales for children. As Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin reminds us, the spiritual meaning of the fairy tale is “like refined and sweet-smelling honey. If you drip it on your tongue, you’ll taste all the ineffable essence of Russia’s nature–the smell of the earth, the heat of the sun, the fragrance of flowers, and something else that is subtle and rich, something eternally youthful and yet eternally ancient… Only he who worships at the altar of facts and has lost the ability to contemplate a state of being ignores fairy tales. Only the one who wants to see with his physical eyes alone, plucking out his spiritual eyes in the process, considers the fairy tale to be dead.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Nicholas Kotar
- Category
- arts · fiction · kids & family
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 May 2025
- Latest episode
- 24 Sept 2026
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The Tale of the Wooden Eagle
Published 24 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] As soon as she was born, they locked her up in that tower with her nanny, so that no one could ever see her. The Tsar and Saritza are afraid that the princess will fall in love with someone unworthy, and then they will have to give her away in marriage. They do not want to part with her. She is their only child, so she lives there in the tower, as if in a dungeon. Is it true? Is it true that the princess is that beautiful? The prince asked. I don't know, my son. Never seen her myself. But people say that such beauty cannot be found in the whole world. And just like that, the prince decided that he would get into that forbidden tower. […]
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