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"Pojti za hlebom do rynku, a kupit’ volynku"

original: Пойти за хлебом до рынку, а купить волынку

"To go to the market for bread, and [but] buy a bagpipe": [implying?].


Sources

Morgenstern, Ullrich: "Nothing but a bagpipe" [Subtitle in [table of] Contents: "- a study of the Russian volynka"]. In: SIMP, new series, I (Münster, 2009), p.211 (»Dal’).