Prostokvaschino

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Prostokvaschino is a fictional rural village in central Russia (Простоквашино, from Russian Простоквашa, buttermilk). It serves as the setting of a very popular series of Russian books by Eduard Uspenskiy (Эдуард Успенский) about a lad nicknamed Sir Fyodor who runs away from home to Prostrokvaschino. The story mainly focuses on his life there with a cat and dog.