A Feast Fit for a Mountain

2 hrs. 8 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak

Narrator Svetlana Tretyakova

On Lake Uvek, spring evening was sinking. The sketes stretched along the right, steep bank, hiding in the half-dark of an old grove where long shadows crawled over the ground. In the lowlands and along the ravines, the loose darkened snow still lingered, and in sunny spots the black earth was already showing through, with last year’s dry faded grass sticking up. A broken, blackened road led from a larger settlement down on the low bank of the lake—about five versts away. The settlement was called the same as the lake itself—Uvek…

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