After the famous impressionist description of the Dnieper (one of the most celebrated passages in Russian literature), a miracle happens: both the Crimea and the Carpathians become visible from Kiev. As clouds clear off towering Mount Kriváň, the sorcerer sees a hulking knight with a boy on a horse riding down its slopes and grows increasingly agitated as the bogatyr gets ever closer. He pleads with a starets at the Kiev Monastery of the Caves to help him, but he will not, for the sorcerer is already damned, so the sorcerer kills the starets.