Vanka

Vanka is the story of nine-year-old Vanka Zhukov, a boy who secretly writes a desperate letter on Christmas Eve from a Moscow shoemaker's workshop where he suffers daily beatings, near-starvation, and sleepless nights. As he writes to his grandfather Konstantin Makaritch, begging to be rescued, his mind fills with vivid memories of winter forests, Christmas trees, and the old man's warm mischief. The letter he seals with such trembling hope carries an address no postman could ever deliver.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.