bukan

Updated: July 9, 2025

Then timidly he glanced at the blue shadow of the ravine, and extended to me his leaf, over the veins of which there was crawling a ladybird. "A bukan," he observed. "It is so. And whither are you going to take it?" "We shall all of us die. I was going to take and bury it." "But it is alive; and one does not bury things before they are dead." Nilushka closed and opened his eyes once or twice.

Maksim Gorky - Through Russia