Extra Reading Notes: Dnieper, Volga, and Dvina

-the Dnieper, Volga, and Dvina rivers used to be people: a boy and his sisters respectively
-they were orphans who never had anything to eat
-life was a burden for them as they had to toil in the nude just to get the day's subsistence
-one day they sorrowed over their little morsel of bread and thought of ways to provide more
-they decided to turn into great rivers
-they decided their paths and went to sleep to start flowing the next morning
-the sisters however chose the best paths while their brother Dnieper was asleep
-in pursuit of his sisters, Dnieper flowed fiercely through steep banks
-that is why the Dnieper is swifter and has more rapids than the Volga and the Dvina

Dnieper Rapids. Source: Wikimedia Commons

"The Metamorphosis of the Dnieper, the Volga, and the Dvina" form Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston (1887).