Софья Фисенко Два сольди
SNOW WHITE (RUSSIAN CONTEXT) Once upon a time there was a peasant named Ivan; his wife s name was Marie: they were already old and had no children. It saddened them a lot and they consoled each other only by looking at each other s children. What to do God no doubt wanted it so; things in the world do not go according to our will, but to the will of God. Once it was winter we had snow all the way up to the knee. Children were playing in the street and the two old men were watching them, sitting at the window. The children began to make a good woman in snow; Ivan and Mary looked at them pensively. Suddenly Ivan smiled and said: Woman, if we made a good woman in snow Marie was in a good mood. Why no she says; we can have a little fun. But what good is it to make a good woman Let us rather make a child of snow, since God has not given us any living. You are right, said Ivan. And he took his cap and went to the garden with the old woman. And, indeed, they began to make a doll of snow:
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