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King Stakh's Wild Hunt (Belarusian: Дзікае паляванне караля Стаха) is a novel by author Uladzimir Karatkievich published in 1964.
A 1979 film is based on the novel.
Plot
The story is told on behalf of the main character, Andrei Belaretski, who is 96 years old at the moment of his narration. The story itself occurred during his youth, in the fall of 1888 somewhere in a remote swampy Belarusian area, when he, a young folklorist, lost his way during a rainstorm and found himself at a family castle of Yanovskys (Janowski).
References
King Stakh's Wild Hunt Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA