Чем люди живы
What Men Live By
A poor shoemaker brings home a naked stranger he finds by a chapel, and the stranger works for him six years until he has learned three things. A folk tale told in plain words.
The opening
Жил сапожник с женой и детьми у мужика на квартире.
A shoemaker was lodging with his wife and children at the house of a peasant.
Ни дома своего, ни земли у него не было, и кормился он с семьею сапожной работой.
He had no house, no land of his own, and supported his family by his shoemaker's trade.
Translation
- Leo Wiener, Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales (The Complete Works of Count Tolstóy, vol. XII), Boston, 1904Dana Estes & CompanyA very literal translation that follows Tolstoy's wording closely.Public Domain
5852 words, about 45 minutes of reading.
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