ABSTRACT
This cook lived with a gentleman and his wife. And they had a daughter, the maiden Katenka. The unfaithful wife took up with the coachman and they began tormenting Katenka. They went around saying that she was disobedient. They flogged her and flogged her until she was in pain. They blamed her for everything—whatever they did was her fault. They decided to take her away into the forest, into a dense thicket. And she was about twelve years old, was this girl.
