7 knights and dead tsarevna —
Since the stories never explained how the characters fared after the "happily ever after," Bakhtiozina decided to make up her own conclusions.
"I started to think, 'How could I write the ending for the fairy tale?'" she says.
Her interpretation of The Dead Princess and the Seven Knights, a 19th-century Russian fairy tale based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, sees the knights recast as immortals who protect the forest.