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Tsar Saltan, stopping to stay overnight at a village house, falls in love with the sweet, kind and simple girl Annushka. Annushka marries the tsar and bears him a son. Her sisters and stepmother, as if by a wave of a magic wand, happen to find themselves at the tsar's palace following Annushka. But the sisters and stepmother do not value their good fortune, want more, and set an intrigue in motion.