The life story of Lyubov Morekhodova, an 80-year-old Russian Babushka ("grandmother" in Russian) is like something straight out of a fairy tale. Her first name, Lyubov, means "Love," and her family name, Morekhodova, means "The One Who Walks on Sea."
Like her name, she spends her days effortlessly gliding on frozen Lake Baikal on skates made by her father not long after World War II, when she was just 8 years old.
It would be difficult to condense Morekhodova's life into a series of pictures, but we have compiled the most mesmerizing ones below.
Morekhodova lives in central Siberia with four dogs, three cats, some hens and eleven cows. In winter, when the cows leave home in search of pasture, Morekhodova watches after them with her skates and binoculars.
She loves ice skating, but her life is so much more than that!
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Image and video source: Boris Slepnyov/The Siberian Times