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How a Boy Told How He Found Queen Bees for His Grandfather

Как мальчик рассказывал о том, как он дедушке нашел пчелиных маток

byLeo Tolstoy

Story. Part of the Azbuka cycle (1872–1875), the primers Tolstoy wrote for peasant children, included in the First Russian Reader (1875). A boy tells how, at his grandfather's apiary, he learned to move among the bees and helped him find the queens.