A short story about the Belgorod jelly
This happened in those early times when steppe peoples often attacked Kievan Rus. Some of them, Pechenegs, once came to Belgorod, but they could not seize the attack. They then surrounded the city and took a siege. The state of siege continued for a long time. There was a famine. Weakened people came to such despair that they were about to surrender to the Pechenegs. They assembled the veche (people’s congregation in ancient Russia) and said: “Is it better for us to die like that?” – we will surrender to the Pechenegs – who will be allowed to live and who will be killed, but we are dying from hunger anyway. ” Then one old man got up and gave an intelligent advice. He offered not to surrender to enemies, but try to outwit them. The old man gave a task from every yard to collect at least one handful of oats, wheat or bran. When all this was collected, the women made a talker, dug a well, put in it kad (a large tub) and poured a chat. The next day, several
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