Pokrovska, a Place for Changing Horses

Pokrovska was a stop on the road between tumin and tobulsk. Anyone going that way, whether in search of prosperity or to some darker was likely to make a stop. Many families still found their living in the shipping trades. Men like yafim and his son, grigory. They had done fairly well in their work too. On his land were the dozen cows and 18 horses that he had pulled together over the years. He started as a laborer among laborers, cutting hay and loading the boats that passed by on the river. But when he became a coachman himself, hired by the state to make the trips between tumen and tobolsk