There lived somehow on the bank of Silent Don the kind Cossack, and there was at it favourite daughter Груня. The girl and горбата was ugly the person. Still the small it has fallen from a porch, has hit a back about a step, since then and dews at it a hump on a back. But heart at Груни was - for hundred years search across all Don, you will not find the such!.

Very long time ago it was... A lot of water has flowed away since then from Silent Don in the sea Azov. But also now still it is possible to see sometimes how in the heart of the river suddenly something will begin to shine, will begin to sparkle, will light up gold sparks. It, likely, goes the athlete Silent Don, goes, a sharp-sighted sight looks, a sensitive ear listens: whether it is visible where enemy hordes, whether it is audible footfall enemy? There is it on the possession, protects rest of edge free, fields wide, meadows and woods green...

For a long time-for a long time it was... High mountains since then steel barrows, and there where the rivers rustled, waves rolled, cities stand now yes gardens blossom. Where bog and a bog terrible were, now groves rustle green, and in groves of a bird sing the cheerful. Only the rock high costs still at Silent Don, мохом as a beard, has acquired, costs, at the mighty river looks, as if listens to something...

It is a lot of flights crane has flown by since then over Silent Don, it is a lot of songs cheerful it is sung since then in villages green. Winds violent over waves high were carried by, floated clouds storm over fields wide, and time and again a month clear in the light river looked, as if in a mirror...

It is a lot of years ago army Cossack it is cunningly far from Don to give острастку to hordes enemy, that incessantly villages attacked. And here during that time because of the sea, because of ocean the Miracle-monster, terrible, strong, with twenty hands, with ten feet, with seven heads has come to Silent Don. The fish tail in length about verst, and eyes, as fires: burn, sparks from them smoke also fly...