misfortune that grill,
it's low spirits that kill!
How can I help it?
I have to give up my own child!
Just don't give it.
I can't retract the czar's word!
Don't retract it,
just overtrick it.
How can I cheat
Chudo Yudo the Lawless?
The way you cheated others.
- No one around?
- No one!
I just had a great idea...
A little trick
that just occurred to me.
You'll hide your son
in the home of strangers
and pass another boy off
as your son, the Czarevich!
- How come?
- Just like that!
The other boy will live
in your palace until claimed.
And when he is claimed,
he'll be given to Chudo Yudo
and your son'll be brought back.
Smart.
Do it!
Lullaby, lullaby,
let the slumber come you by,
Lullaby, lullaby,
go to sleep, you must try.
Slumber, come to us, amen.
Put to sleep all fishermen.
Lullaby, lullaby,
go to sleep, you must try.
All the fishes went to sleep,
Hiding underwater deep...
Our greetings to the new mama,
and our best wishes.
- What did you call your child?
- Andrey is his name.
Andriushenka!
Lovely name.
- And his father's name?
- Yelesey.
What a coincidence! Andrey
Yeleseyevich, Andrey Yeremeyevich.
- What?
- Nothing. Perfect name!
- Your husband's not in?
- He's a fisherman.
A great blessing has just
descended upon your home.
Go to your husband at once
and tell him that the Czar asks
for fresh fish.
Who's going to take care of my son?
My wife will.
Praskovya, come in!
Take good care of the baby.
And you hurry up!
Get your husband.
Do it at once!
Oh God, what shall I do?
So far, so good.
This is a great sin!
- Did you manage alright?
- Don't be angry, Aphonia!
Keep quiet, silly woman!
How can we take a child
from his own mother?
We can, if we're careful.
Take the Czar's son. Gently!
What's the matter with you?
Take the Czarevich out!
- I just wanted...
- Do as you're told!
Well, Andrey Eleseyevich...
Come here, into the basket.
And Andrey Yeremeyevich goes
into your crib.
Now everything is perfect.
Those women!
They can't get anything done!
Come on, little fellow,
let's go to the palace.
Don't just stand there! Come on!
Look at what's going on:
Dawn is just about to dawn.
The Czarina's sound asleep,
but her baby's not in his crib.
Nurses ordered to be nigh,
to keep on him a watchful eye.
Why then all the nurses sleep,
giving snores, hearty and deep?
Because Aphonia had a notion
to give'm all a sleeping potion.
- Is she still asleep?
- Sound asleep.
- How did it go with you?
- Everything's under control.
Our trick was a success.
Suppose she guesses?
It's unlikely.
After all, a baby is a baby.
There's a resemblance.
All babies look alike.
And what about
a mother's intuition?
Rubbish. There is no such thing
as a mother's intuition.
The women invented it
to look more important.
Don't you worry.
Scat!
The heir has been kidnapped!
Bye, Baby Bunting,
Daddy's gone a-hunting,
to get a little rabbit skin
to wrap his little baby in.
Your mama was so frightened!
You weren't in the crib.
And it was our father Czar
missing his little Czarevich!
Our future Czar!
What is that birthmark?
Now her mother's heart
is going to tell her.
It's just a fish scale.
Come to mama, darling.
- It didn't tell her.
- It didn't.
Our little future Czar!
Time flies like lightning,
we know it well.
You may believe it or you may not,
But since our Czar had that drink
from the well
there have passed 18 years,
no less, no more.
You're really good at it, Andrey!
It's biting! Pull it in!
Blast! Got away again!
You'll never be a fisherman,
father Czar.
- Who am I?
- Chudo Yudo the Lawless!
The mud-green grand-duke
of all the lake bottoms.
- And what else?
- Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...
You should've started
with et cetera.
- We apologize.
- And who are you?
We're the Czar's pirates, pirates,
pirates.
We're bold bandits, bandits, ho-ho!
We're all bullies, bullies, bullies,
We're fierce as bulldogs,