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The stranger arrives from the gulag to a forgotten rural Russian village. He
asks about lodgings, and winds up boarding with a poor kind old lady with a tragic past. Matryona lives in a house once alive, now being dismembered by remote family in a place where lumber, even recycled lumber, is gold. An old addition is dismantled to be removed in service of a relative's dream of a new homestead. Instead the lumber and its stewards are destroyed on the way, Matryona included.
> We had all lived side by side with her and never understood that she was the righteous one without whom, as the proverb says, no village can stand.
> Nor any city.
> Nor our whole land.
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