What do Prophetic Oleg and Serpent Gorynych have in common? Who owns the laurels of the first Russian poet? What is the pedigree of the heroic trinity - Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich? What truth does Captain Lebyadkin profess in Dostoevsky's novel Demons? Where do Green's scarlet sails sail? Does it make sense in the nonsense of Alexander Vvedensky?