Russian Magic Tales From Pushkin To Platonov (Penguin Classics) - Plot & Excerpts
He married a beautiful woman, and in less than a year his wife gave birth to a son. The midwife took the tsar’s son to the bathhouse, brought him back again and said to the tsar, ‘Your son is strong and he will be agile, but there is one misfortune. It is inscribed on his head that he will kill his father.’ This saddened the tsar, but he pitied the child. While he was still little, the tsar decided, he could live together with them. Then they would see what kind of man he was turning out to be. The son began to grow up, and the tsar assigned a man to keep a sharp eye on him. And he and the tsaritsa kept an eye on him too. One day the boy was out in the garden with his tutor when all of a sudden he caught sight of a man with a bronze brow and a tin belly sitting beneath a bush. The tsarevich rushed to his father and told him: out there in the garden was a man with a bronze brow and a tin belly! The tsar ordered his soldiers to surround the garden and catch whoever they found there.
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