popadya

Updated: May 4, 2025

She can talk of them by the hour to any one who will listen to her, and has related to the Popadya a hundred times every trivial incident of their lives. Though they have never given her much cause for anxiety, and they are now men of middle age, she lives in constant fear that some evil may befall them. What she most fears is that they may be sent on a campaign or may fall in love with actresses.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia

Then some little delicacies are served such as fruit and wild berries, or cucumbers with honey, or something else of the kind, and the family again disperses. There is not much scandal in the district, but what little there is the Popadya carefully collects, and distributes among her acquaintances with undiscriminating generosity.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia