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Once upon a time there lived a girl named Katya 

that lived with her Babushka. She loved her 

babushka very much. One day Katya's Babushka 

called her over.

"This is a magic nesting doll." said Babushka. "It 

will protect you in great times of need. But be 

careful my child for you can only open it three 

times."

Katya took the doll and thanked her grandmother. 

The next day Katya's grandmother died peacefully 

in her sleep. With nothing left for her at home, 

Katya took her few possessions and set off for the 

great unknown. 

She passed over snowy mountains until she came 

to a   small village.

Katya found an inn and asked for a room. The innkeeper 

opened the doorknob and gave her Room #4.

"Please nice innkeeper, tell me why this land lives without 

spring?"

"It is because our beloved Tsarevitch has been turned into 

living stone be the Grand Vizier. None can save him from 

his eternal sleep. When the spell was cast upon him, one 

was also cast upon the land."

Katya thought long and hard about the frozen Tsarevitch. 

Was that what her Nesting Doll was for?

In the morning Katya walked to the Tsarevithch's castle. 

She wanted to see the sleeping prince. She found a sturdy 

ladder and propped it next to his window. She climbed in 

and saw the prince. He was as handsome as she had 

imagined him. He was very pale and his lips were blue.

Suddenly the Grand Vizier walked in the Tsarevitch's room. 

The Grand Vizier had an evil scowl upon his face.

"You!" he yelled at Katya, "What are you doing in here?"

Poor Katya could hardly make a reply before two big 

guards came and took her away. They took her to a small 

cave, opened the mouth of it, and shut the door.

Katya began to cry. How will she ever get out of 

this dungeon? Suddenly Katya remembered her 

matryoshka. She gets a flat rock and pried the first 

doll open. A giant bear comes out of the 

matryoshka. He rolls the huge rock away, freeing 

Katya.

Katya runs back to the castle to try and see the 

Tsarevitch again. She climbs up a tree and enters 

the Tsarevitch's room, pushing the blinds aside. 

She touches his face and something miraculous 

happens. He gets warmer! Snow starts melting in 

the village. The Grand Vizier, knowing his spell is 

being lifted runs into the prince's room and sends 

Katya to a ravine.

While in the ravine Katya opened her second 

matryoshka. Out came a beautiful Siberian Wolf. he 

carried her on his back out of the ravine and to the 

palace. 

At the castle Katya tries to climb up the tree 

into the Tsarevitch's room, but finds that it had 

been cut down! She decides to make herself a 

catapult and fly into his room. She finds a flat 

plank and props on a big rock. She then gets a 

bowling ball and drops it on the other end of 

the catapult.

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