Валентин Пикуль "Двое из одной деревни" | Историческая миниатюра

Historical miniature In a wretched village, lost along a highway, live two young men—the nobleman Mitya Lukin and his serf Ilya Baikov. Despite their difference in social status, they live like brothers: they sleep on the same sleeping platform, eat from the same bowl, and share everything they own. Their only livelihood is to feed travelers by pulling carriages and buggies stuck in a gigantic, centuries-old puddle; for this Herculean task, travelers give them a ten-kopeck coin, sometimes a kopeck. Mitya and Ilya pray to God for only one thing—that the cursed puddle never dry up and that engineers never attempt to repair the road, otherwise they will be left without a crust of bread. One day, news from Uncle Mitya interrupts their measured life: his nephew must come to St. Petersburg and enroll in the Naval Corps—his uncle has decided to get rid of him out of sight... #Valentin #Pikul #two #from #one #village #history #miniature #audiobooks #listentoaudiobooks #voiceovers #books #freeaudiobooks #readbooks #voiceovers #listenfree