Рыбак встретил женщину-кобылу на берегу реки

My grandfather told me this story, and he said his grandfather told him. He lived during the old regime, when our area had no proper roads, no electricity, and no doctors nearby. The river was wider then, the bank was lower, and the people were rougher and more patient. I won't change the name of the village for you, because we had many such villages. Let's call it Lugovaya. It stood by the river, beyond which the meadows began, and beyond that, the dry steppe, where the grass would burn to the roots in the summer.