Japanese crossword «The case of Evsei»

I'd love to know the story behind this one! I tried to Google it, but nothing came up that seemed relevant. A small child clinging to a large fish, surrounded by...confetti? Seaweed?

A summary of the tale "The Case of Evseika"
(According to the tale of Russian writer Maxim Gorky)
Very nice man, the boy Evseika once fished.
It was very hot and he fell into the water.
Got Evseika to the bottom and looked so unusual and beautiful it was around.
Some big fish got to talking with him and Evseika told her about my dad, who does not eat fish, flies that are on the top.
Fish thought that the boy drowned, and Evseika really could not stand up.
The boy feared. Around him scurried in different directions fish, many looked at him and laughed and even teased.
Finally, not to cry, Evseika offers a big fish to play.
This idea meets the full understanding of the big fish.
The boy offers her to rise to the top.
When the fish swam, he clings to her gills and despite the objections of the fish, does not let them go.
So Evseika and emerged. And it turned out that he was sitting on the same stone as before and also completely dry.

thank u for the story!

I googled this and found the story in English. Evseika goes fishing. Very interesting,

Thank you for the story that goes with this image! So unique, as yours always are.

PolNOvik, well done! Beautiful picture and unique.
Spasibo!

thanks to Lesley_Anne for the clue to Maxim Gorky. Very interesting all the stories.

Thank you for your pics and your stories

I don't know what I expected but it wasn't this. XD

love the picture! love!love!love! also i'm impressed with the auto-translation

I enjoyed solving the puzzle :)

Beautiful puzzle!

I love it all, the picture, the story and really loved doing the puzzle.
Thank you so much PolNOvik!