- [first lines]
- Narrator: All life in Kievan Rus is wonderful. Everyone does what they do best. Famers are farming, artisans are making things... the prince of Kiev is busy, too, especially today. He is hosting a foreign envoy.
- [Basileus, the Emperor of Constantinople, is about to force Zabava, who is bound and gagged, to marry his son]
- Basileus: I, Lord of the East, by the powers given to me, now pronounce you... .
- [a turbaned figure kicks in the door to the king's chambers]
- Yelisey: Wait a minute!
- Zabava: [spitting out her gag] Alladin?
- Yelisey: She already has a husband before God and the people!
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