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the year 1241, when the had spread her magic mantle of fresh verdure over the hills and broad-backed, gently sloping mountain ranges of the Tukholian region in the  section of ancient Rus (Ukraine).

One glorious day of this spring the woodland slopes of Mt. Zelemenya echoed with shouts and bellowing blasts of the huntsmen’s horns.

Tuhar Wolf, the new of Tukhlia, had organized a big game hunt to celebrate the beginning of his rule in the region for just recently king  of the principality of  had granted him full tenure over this section of luxuriantly grassy downs and mountain woodlands.

As soon as he had chosen a site and built himself a house, he arranged a hunting expedition as a way of self-introduction to the boyars of surrounding communities.