Vorona i lisitsa, kukushka i petukh Page #3

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Don't. It's easy.

Don't worry!

I'll cook them.

The sergeant in my battalion

cooked them wonderfully!

Gerlost's eating mushrooms

to commune with the spirits.

Maybe he's a shaman or a wizard?

Let him rest. He's still weak

after the concussion.

I'll do it myself.

I think you're better at other things.

I wouldn't mind if you threw me

down on a deerskin, lad.

I've already forgotten

what it's like.

Don't kid around. I haven't

seen a woman in two months.

Now even a hunchback

looks like a princess to me.

You've got tender hands.

You're not used to men's work.

You probably only know

how to kill.

That's not work.

It's just big children thinking

that taking a life...

...lengthens their own.

Put the barrel back afterwards.

Ma'am, I need salt.

I'm not mad enough

to eat mushrooms!

I see. In the house.

Scum!

The water brought a letter.

The political officer informed on me!

Snot-nosed kid!

Hadn't served a week

at the front, and he informs!

I was like a father to the boy.

He writes, "I inform you that

I do not share the views..."

The water washed out the words.

The water in the stream's good.

If you put laundry in it,

the next day it's clean.

Not much flour left. I added

some wood, and it's delicious.

He says my poems are rubbish!

Jealousy, maybe?

Did he write anything in his life

except to inform on people?

Sergei Yesenin himself

told me to write.

My dad was a taxi driver.

He was driving Yesenin one day

from the train station to the hotel.

I was a boy. I was sitting on the front

seat reading out my poems.

He said, "You need to write."

He even signed his photograph.

Your wife? She's beautiful.

The soldier men took

my husband four years ago.

See, it's Yesenin himself!

I wrote poems about the beauty

of nature, to stay sane at the front.

God knows what he saw in them.

Don't worry, you're still alive,

and your wife's very beautiful.

Just don't eat mushrooms,

or you'll go loony.

The mushrooms will be ready soon.

We can eat. But we need some salt.

Yes. Mushrooms are bad.

They can be poisonous.

Here I am chatting away.

Words won't feed the deer!

You've ruined the iron.

I brought that barrel

from over the hill!

It's a bit rough, but we can wash.

It's already hot.

Gerlost, come and wash!

You get sick because you

scratch your skin off.

My husband washed

in a sauna in the city.

I barely cured him, and he

never got sick before that.

Even taking your rifle

to the sauna?

Get in.

Not bad, although the draft

takes the heat out fast.

I don't like saunas.

I like Turkish baths.

You understand?

Oh, come on,

she's not bad as a woman.

Her kind is good at housework,

and they keep you awake in bed.

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