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VANKA ZHUKOV, who had been for three months
apprenticed to Alyahin the shoemaker,

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was sitting up on Christmas Eve.

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Dear grandfather, Konstantin Makaritch!

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I am writing you a letter.

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I wish you a happy Christmas, 
and all blessings from God Almighty.

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I have neither father nor mother, 
you are the only one left me.

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And yesterday I had a wigging.

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Vanka!

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Vanka!

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Come on!

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Hurry it up, you moocher,
or you'll get it!

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Vanka!

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Vanka!

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And she took the herring 
and thrust its head in my face.

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Vanka! Vanka! Vanka! Vanka!

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Take me away from here or I shall die.

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I wanted to run away to the village, but
I have no boots, and I am afraid of the frost.

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Dear grandfather, it is more than
I can bear, it's simply no life at all.

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Moscow is a big town.

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It's all gentlemen's houses,

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and there are lots of horses, 
but there are no sheep, 

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and the dogs are not spiteful.

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Once I saw fish-hooks for sale, fitted 
ready with the line for any fish you like,

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and I have seen shops where there are
guns just like the master has at home,

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and I shouldn't wonder if
they cost a hundred rubles each...

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And don't let anyone have
my button accordion.

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I remain, your grandson, Ivan Zhukov.

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Dear grandfather, do come.

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Have pity on an unhappy orphan like me;
here everyone knocks me about,
and I am always hungry.

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And the other day the master hit me
on the head with a last, so that I fell
down, and only just returned to life.

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My life is wretched,
worse than any dog's...

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Do come...

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[To grandfather in the village]

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screenwriter N. Len
director Leonid Zarubin
art director N. Sapozhnikov

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camera A. Menshikov
composer L. Markelov
sound Igor Pogon

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animators Eleonora Lisitskaya, Zhan Taran,
A. Trifonov, voice artist Klara Rumyanova

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script editor Svetlana Kutsenko
production director O. Dragayev-Boychuk

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The End
Kievnauchfilm 1981

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Subs by Eus & Niffiwan (2015/2023)
based on Ivy Litvinov's translation