Морбакка

Esli detstvo - "bankovskiĭ schet pisateli͡a", to devochke Selʹme iz usadʹby Morbakka dostalsi͡a solidnyĭ kapital. Vremi͡a, provedennoe zdesʹ, istorii, uslyshannye ot teti i babushki, stali dli͡a nee istochnikom vpechatleniĭ na vsi͡u zhiznʹ. A zhiznʹ Selʹmy Lagerlëf - bolʹshoe prikli͡uchenie: v neĭ byli chudesnoe ist͡selenie ot paralicha, borʹba za izbiratelʹnye prava dli͡a zhenshchin, porit͡saemai͡a obshchestvom li͡ubovʹ i Nobelevskai͡a premii͡a po literature. Ee knigi do sikh por izdai͡utsi͡a vo vsem mire, v ee chestʹ nazvan krater na Venere, a ee portret dolgoe vremi͡a ukrashal kupi͡uru v 20 kron. Vzroslye uzhasno perepoloshilisʹ, uvidev rebenka, kotoryĭ ne mozhet khoditʹ. "- Kak zhe ona, bedni͡azhka, zhitʹ-to budet? - govorili oni. - Nichego na svete ne uvidit, budet sidnem sidetʹ na odnom meste. Zamuzh ne vyĭdet, pozabotitʹsi͡a o sebe ne smozhet. Pravo slovo, ti͡azhko eĭ pridetsi͡a. Vse otnosilisʹ k bolʹnoĭ devchushke laskovo i sochuvstvenno, i protiv ėtogo I͡Ukhan s Annoĭ niskolʹko ne vozrazhali. No nelʹzi͡a zhe naprochʹ zabyvatʹ, chto estʹ i drugie deti".

If childhood is a "writer's bank account," then the girl Selma from the Morbakka estate got a solid capital. The time she spent here, and the stories she heard from her aunt and grandmother, became a source of lifelong impressions for her. And Selma Lagerlef's life is a great adventure: she had a miraculous healing from paralysis, a struggle for women's suffrage, a socially reprehensible love and a Nobel Prize in Literature. Her books are still published all over the world, a crater on Venus is named after her, and her portrait has long adorned a 20-kronor bill. The adults were terribly alarmed when they saw a child who could not walk. "How is she going to live, poor thing? — They said. — He won't see anything in the world, he'll just sit in one place. She won't get married, she won't be able to take care of herself. Really, it's going to be hard for her. Everyone treated the sick little girl kindly and sympathetically, and Johan and Anna did not object to this at all. But we must not completely forget that there are other children."