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Let's begin with my speciality - a long and unneccessary explanation that no one will read...
The girls depicted here are humanized characters who were originally horses in the movie I got them from. It is an old animated movie titled "The humpbacked horse", made in the Soviet Union ages ago, and as far as I know, it's based on a fairytale written by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershow. Wish I could have read that as a book at some point; my grandma and mom are both grown up in GDR, former Soviet crew zone, and hence both are grown up with a certain Soviet influence and handed a bunch of Russian fairytale books over to me, but this one I only knew as a movie.

In the movie, the young Ivan is ordered by his older brothers to guard the field because it seems to be trampled down every now and again. At night, a shining white horse comes down from the sky, with a mane like star light (depicted by the girl on the far right), and races over the fields. Ivan manages to catch it and befriends it. The white horse says: "You are very courageous, young friend, for which you shall be rewarded. Let me go, and I will give you two of the most beautiful horses, strong and fast and beautiful as no one has ever seen." These two horses are black with golden manes (depicted by the two girls in the middle; I made them look like dancers because the horses in the movie move so gracefully, like they are dancing with each step).
"Also, Ivan, I shall give you a magic horse, small it is and with long ears. It does not stand up to the others in beauty, but it has a fur like silk. Treasure it, never give it away. The other two sell, if you wish, but not the magic one." (This little magic horse I depicted as the girl on the far left. She's not humpbacked as the horse in the movie is, but she pretty much wears the right colours.)
The white horse leaves, and Ivan finds a best friend in the magic horse that speaks and is often a wise councellor. The other two horses are bought by the Tsar; however, he takes Ivan as his equerry to the court, so Ivan is still around them. Being still a young boy far away from home, he feels lonely and often seeks the company of his horses, caring well for them and sometimes singing to them in the evening. That's where I got the title from; Ivan sings: "My friends, beautiful and proud, you race faster than the wind - but the most I love you", here he turns to the little horse, "you are closer to my heart."
Ivan has to face some adventures, the former equerry that is jealous of Ivan's position and denounces him towards the Tsar, catching and befriending a firebird, having a talk with a whale who is to bring Ivan a ring from the depths of the ocean, finding the daughter of the sun who is a beautiful princess that the Tsar wishes to wed. However, in the end, the Tsar, who had constantly listened to the bad council of the old equerry and went gradually cruel towards Ivan, is punished for his deeds, and it is Ivan whom the princess chooses as her groom. And quite a bit of his happiness, Ivan got thanks to his loyal friend, the little humpbacked horse.
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