Vseslavievich was noted by significant phenomena in nature: "the month brightened in the sky <...> the earth shook cheese <...> the blue sea crumbled". But this is not all - at the time of the baby’s appearance, the fish went into the deep sea, the birds flew up behind the clouds, hares, foxes, tours, deer and other inhabitants of the forest lurked in the mountains and thickets. Finally, the “Indian Kingdom” was shaken - as if in anticipation of a disaster threatening him.
Already an hour and a half after the birth of the Volkh, he delivered his first speech, in which he addressed his mother with the following order: “Ah and goy, madam mother ... / And do not swaddle in wormcloth, / And do not blot out silk for poets, - / Swaddle me, mother, in strong armor armor, / And put your head on the riot with gold, / By the right hand is the club, / And the lead club is heavy. / And the weight of that club is three hundred pounds. "
This strong man grew rapidly. At the age of seven, he mastered literacy and various sciences. At the age of ten, he learned magical wisdom - he could turn around either with a clear falcon, then with a gray wolf, or with a bay golden-horned tour. At the age of twelve, Volkh began to pick up a squad from his peers. By the age of fifteen, he had an army of strong men of the same age numbering seven thousand. The fame of the squad reached Kiev itself.
It was at this time that the Indian king announced that he intended to capture Kiev city and ruin churches and monasteries there. Volkh decided to get ahead of the unclean enemy and went with his squad to meet him, going up to the kingdom of the Indian. In this campaign Volkh did not know sleep and rest, taking care of the warriors. At night, turning into a gray wolf, he ran through the woods and got game for food, he also managed to shoe and dress his comrades. "They wore sable fur coats, / Variable fur coats are leopard ones." The dishes were also excellent. It is time to go on reconnaissance deep into the enemy kingdom itself. Apart from the Volkh, there was no one who possessed his dexterity and art. Having turned into a bay tour, the hero dashed off: “He jumped the first lap for a mile and a half, / And they could not find another lap.”
He reached the kingdom, the Volkh turned into a clear falcon. He took off and sat on the window of the white-stone royal chambers - at the very moment when there was a conversation between Tsar Saltyk Stavrulevich and Tsarina Elena Alexandrovna. In this conversation, the perspicacious queen warned her husband that there is a mighty hero in Kiev - "to you, king, adversary." Magus, without hesitation, turns into an ermine. A nimble little hichtsnik runs through warehouses and cellars with weapons, gnaws a bowstring, takes off the arrowheads, pulls out the ramrods at the guns and buries it all in the ground. Then, again in the guise of a falcon, flies to his squad. After awakening the warriors, the Volkh gives the order for the siege of the kingdom of the Indian.
Seeing the powerful fortifications through which “goose bumps” cannot be passed, the well-trained combatants twisted. They grumbled that they would lose their heads here in vain and still wouldn’t get through strong walls and iron gates. However, the savvy Volkh comes to the rescue again. “Himself turned into goosebumps / And all the good fellows goosebumps, / They passed the white stone wall, / And the fellows became already on the other side ...”
Here, stunned by the population by surprise, the squad showed all its daring. By order of the Volkh, they cut down both the old and the small, sparing only seven thousand red girls - at the choice of the soldiers.
Volkh himself easily entered the royal chambers. He entered there in his own guise, revealing a powerful force: he struck the iron doors with a blow to his legs, pulled damask bolts and hooks. Then he took Saltyk Stavrulevich’s hands for white and, noting that such foreign kings were “not beaten, not executed”, he hit the enemy against the “brick floor”, breaking him into crumbs ...
After that, Volkh himself became king, marrying Elena Alexandrovna. His warriors play seven thousand weddings, getting married on Native American girls. They became posad people. And when the Volkh rolled out the captured prey, gold-silver, herds of cows and horses, and divided it equally into all, it turned out that there were one hundred thousand for every brother war.
