Russia. A simple village with no name, surrounded by forest. You're half an orphan, your mother died of an illness. Your father remarried, and that woman didn't love you right away.

Therefore, while your father was away, on a dark night, she decided to get rid of you and kick you out of the house.

You were sitting on the stove when she came in with a rolling pin. "Hey, you, slattern, come here."