| | 1 | Author: | Garshine, Mikhailovich Vsevolod, 1855-1888 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Gipsy's Bear — A Story  | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the steppe the town of Bielsk nestles on the river Rokhla. In
September of 1857 the town was in a state of unwonted excitement. The
Government's order for the killing of the bears was to be executed. The
unhappy gipsies had journeyed to Bielsk from four districts with all their
household effects, their horses and their bears. More than a hundred of
these awkward beasts, ranging from tiny cubs to huge "old men" whose
coats had become whitish-gray with age, had collected on the town
common. The gipsies had been given five years' grace from the
publication of the order prohibiting performing bears, and this period
had expired. They were now to appear at specified places and
themselves destroy their supporters. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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