The Snakes and the Ivans: A Skazka

Skazka (Russian, noun): a tale; a fairy-tale In the Land, where heroes and monsters grapple over the world’s fate, a principality falls under the tyranny of a Snake. Covetous of all things, it fills its treasury with the goods of the people. Just as its greed reaches new heights and the cries for a rescuer spread throughout the country, a young boy rises from the ashes by the stove and goes into the world…