The Sea King's Daughter: A Russian Legend (15th Anniversary Edition) - Hardcoverby Aaron Shepard (Author), Gennady Spirin (Illustrator) Sadko the musician loved his city of Novgorod, the richest and most free in all Russia. With its great feasts, its white stone churches, its merchant visitors from many lands, Sadko felt there was no better place to be. Yet he was lonely too, for the rich young ladies who danced to his music would never favor anyone so poor. One night he takes his twelve string gusli and goes alone to play by the