Memory of Russia

My and Google translation of the book of Vasily Belov “The Harmony”
An anthology of short stories on the national esthetics of Northern Russia
litresp.ru: ЛАД Белов Василий Иванович
old-ru.ru: Василий Белов Лад

Saturday, 16 November 2019

A COMPANION OF WOMEN’S DESTINY - FLAX

Field crops and livestock were everybody's occupation according to their abilities: men and women, children and the elderly. However, al...

Sunday, 10 November 2019

LAYING OF THE ROPES

The men in the North sometimes spun yarn, but it was pretty different. If women's yarn had a thickness of the hair, men's thread was...

FISHING NETS MAKING

"The thieves came, took the hosts, and left the house through the windows." A riddle No one knows from which antiquity rolled ...

INVISIBLE STREAMS

The image of a river in folk poetry is powerful. Like poetry, this image is beyond analysis, deduction or explanation. However, analyze i...

SEWING

In the thirties, the prewar years in some Northern villages spread a girlish custom long before the wedding to give her boyfriend scarves. E...

ETERNAL MOMENTS

Who of us, especially in childhood or adolescence, was not terrified and not despairing at the sight of a woefully immense pile of wood that...

Friday, 8 November 2019

BLACKENING ON SILVER

Like the city of Novgorod, the City of Ustug the Great was the center of Russian culture, commerce and industry for a few centuries. Ustyug ...

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