She spent 700 years in captivity at the bottom of the lake, filled with hatred and thirst for revenge. The Varangian princess Elmede did not even know that salvation would come to her in the person of an undergraduate student at the Belarusian State University named Yana, who came to visit the lake with her friends one late Spring. This piece is based on the legends about the Sviciaz lake near Navaghudak, Belarus.