Han Ong

Many people admired his drawings.

His first real success depicted the statue, Worker and a Kolkhoz Woman, made out of Bologna.

Thanks to his friend Ilya, this Bologna made it to West Germany and was published in Stern.

after that boris grew indifferent to filling his large orders preferring to spend time sketching in denilovy gorky muratov lost all interest in drawing bologna there was none in the village and no one missed it

The quiet sketches of gentle nature that Nikolai Mikhailovich's entire clan, young and old, loved to make were similarly unappealing to Boris Ivanovich.

He ended up not drawing anything all summer long.

September was coming and people started preparing to return to the city.

They filled pillowcases with mushrooms and put raspberries and wild strawberries in the oven to dry.

That year, they didn't make jam.

There wasn't enough sugar and besides, jars were tough to transport.

They stashed pickles and mushrooms in the cellar and buried the early potatoes.

When their departure was imminent, Nikolai Mikhailovich finally asked,

"'So you're set on spending the winter here, Boris Ivanovich?'

"'I'm scared, Nikolai Mikhailovich.

Not of the police.

I'm scared of your stove, your house.

These are the kinds of things you have to have known about since childhood.

It seems like it's too late for me to learn them.'

Nikolai Mikhailovich scratched his meager beard, fell silent for a moment, and then made a proposal.

Baba Noora's vacationers have left, and she's gotten rather feeble in the past year.