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1. How very interesting to learn of such a wonderful storyteller, one of the few to keep the old tradition alive.

2. Hi, Rudy and family!
   It is most gratifying that you have read, understood and appreciated the column in “Reading and Discussion Club” about the peasant poet Trofim Ryabinin, for many he is obscure and unknown, always overshadowed by the classical poets and writers of Russian literature. In spite of all this he speaks of life in Russia of the common man, his sufferings, joys, spirituality and the unbroken tediousness and monotony of provincial rural Russian life. By his poems he opened a window on this world, so that the readers get a glimpse of the real Russia, not nobility, not royalty as it may be interesting for some but just for simple people as we all are.
   Sincerely yours,
   Valentina

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