The Tsar executed the wounded man’s brother and seized his property. So, the bearded man became an enemy of the Tsar. The bearded man swore to revenge himself on the Tsar and resolved to kill him. The bearded man was hiding in the forest and waiting for the Tsar to return from the hermit’s hut so that he could attack the Tsar. When the bearded man was spotted by the royal bodyguard they wounded him badly. Somehow hemanaged to escape from their grip and reached near the hermit’s hut, There the Tsar with the help of the hermit nursed him throughout the evening. Finally, he regained consciousness, The bearded man asked for forgiveness of the Tsar for he realised that the Tsar who had saved his life is the man whom he had plotted to kill. He promised the Isar to serve him as his most faithful slave and also informed that he would bid his sons to do the same.