Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. A Tale about the Wood Dwellers.

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Commentary to the poem “I pass dames neither silently nor easy...”

T h e O l d V i x e n, in the original text, is Baba Yaga. In Russian folklore, it is a witch — a ferocious-looking old woman, who flies around in a mortar and lives deep in the for­est in a hut.

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