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Lyudmila is beautiful and brave, as befits the daughter of a great prince. Ruslan is her kind and resourceful beloved. But on the eve of their wedding, Lyudmila is captured by the sorcerer Chernomor, who has already amassed quite a collection of fairy-tale princesses. "Blackmug" is clearly not to Lyudmila's taste, and she won't let herself be pushed around. But who's going to rescue her — Pushkin?! Even without him, though, Ruslan has rivals for her hand, and half the kingdom to boot. Now a chase through magical lands awaits him, along with an encounter with the last talking bear, a clash with a giant and other fairy-tale wonders, not to mention a battle with Chernomor himself on land and in the sky.