The shoemaker went home unhappily.
Ivan was waiting for the shoemaker and did not understand why the shoemaker was so sad. “What happened?”
The shoemaker told Ivan all that Yelena the Beautiful had asked him to do.
Ivan convinced the shoemaker to go to the inn and frolic and not think about the next day.
The shoemaker got drunk and after that Ivan summoned Lame and Crooked with his whistle.
When Lame and Crooked appeared, Ivan gave his order. “Make a dress for Yelena as beautiful as she wore in Whirlwind’s castle.”
Lame and Crooked started working.
When Ivan woke up the next morning, his entire chamber was shining from the dress lying next to him.
Just like the previous day, Ivan gave the dress to the shoemaker and this time too Ivan convinced the shoemaker that the two of them had together cut and sewed the robe the previous night.
Once Yelena the Beautiful saw the dress, she realized the truth.
She turned her attention to the shoemaker. “Let the Golden Kingdom appear in seven versts from the shore of the kingdom. There should be a golden bridge from this palace to the Golden Kingdom which should be draped in velvet. There should be trees and birds singing on the trees.”
The shoemaker was stumped and then unhappily went back to his home.
Adapted from Russian Folktales
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