petrovna from malkova, after studying abroad, prishvin returned to russia, and for some time he actually worked as an agronomist in the klin district of the moscow region, and there he met a simple woman, a peasant who left her husband with a small child, left unable to withstand the beatings, she and preshvin got along, began to live together, she became his common-law wife , and preshen was subsequently... very grateful to efrasinya pavlovna, that was her name, frossya efrasinya, because she, being completely illiterate, could not read and write, she she spoke such a beautiful russian language, she knew so many songs, fairy tales, she felt the russian soul, the russian element so well, that in fact it was she who discovered the root russia, this is the discovery of russia, root, national, folk. meant extremely much to prishvin, he was already well over 30, having realized that he did not want to engage in agronomy, did not want to engage in agriculture, prishvin tried to become a writer, poet, journalist, but it’s easy to say, he tried to become, because those were the years silver age