Good People

10 hrs. 50 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Pavel Krenev

Narrator Maria Abalkina

Description

The book includes stories and novellas whose plots are drawn mainly from the life of Pomors—people who have lived along the shores of the cold White Sea since ancient times. And the author of the book is himself a native Pomor: he was born on this land. His roots go back to old Novgorod settlers and ушкуйники who, a few centuries ago, came to these wild shores. The customs of the ancient Novgorodians, their centuries-old cultural traditions, firmly rooted across the White Sea expanses, on the sea’s open spaces amid the wonderfully beautiful northern nature, and the captivating seascapes of the sea—everything created not only a new type of strong people, the Pomors, but also a new kind of Russian culture: the culture of the White Sea Pomor region. It lives in the songs and dances of the Northern folk choir, in the tales of Maria Krivopolёnova and Marfa Kрюкова, in the fairy tales of Pisakhov and Shërgin. Pavel Krеnev continues this tradition. His works reflect Pomor everyday life and customs, characters and fates of people; they are filled with an astonishing local color and the musicality of the local dialect—“Pomor speech.” Bright colors of the White Sea nature, precise descriptions of the habits of birds and animals, magnificent seascapes—the reader does not lose the sense of being present in this salty sea air, saturated with the aromas of seaweed, the sharpness of resin-soaked карбас boats, and the smells of fishermen’s gear hanging on wooden racks in the wind that blows across the “coast”...

Open the book, and you’ll feel it for yourself.

Contents:

Punashki, vorotcha and gоśba
Bespalyy
A sailor with the “Stremitel’ny”
The First Ball of Pestrukha. Forest tale
Radio Genius Mitya Avtonomov
Mitya loves physics and radio work
A big thing
Grandfather Pavin
Mіtrokhins’s name day
How I wanted to become famous
A man’s deed
Good people, or How I studied at Suvorov’s училище
Svan’ka
Calm down
Shelonik
Uncle Vasya
Mine
For trout
Bel’yaki Spotty Speck