Ilya Zimin

The escaped prisoner Kolya comes to a lonely hut lost in the forest where grandfather Nikitich whiles away his days. The grandfather hospitably receives the guy, feeds him. The owner and the guest are imbued with sympathy for each other. Kolya tells Nikitich about how he escaped from prison, and the grandfather tells about his sin committed in his youth. In the morning, while Nikitich is sleeping, Kolya leaves the hut, taking his grandfather’s gun.

Once upon a time, two fine young men, Vladimir and Anatoly, met on the Moscow highway. They decided to veer off their path to behold the beauties of Russian countryside. There, they encountered two lovely maidens with a white dove in their hands. The girls invited them into their chamber, a wooden manor standing at the forest's edge in a deserted village called Pustoshka, where that very house was the only one left. They set the table and began to wine and dine their gallant guests. But before the young men could even brush off the road dust or take a sip of the magical nectar from their cups, there showed up a grandpa, the master of that house. And he asked the brave fellows to go and help him find a stone…