translation help

[Katz, Michael R.]

Colleagues:

Happy new year to one and all.

I am working on a translation of a story by Lev Lvovich Tolstoy and came across the following phrase:

"Конечно, и голод, и жажда пройдут, если замуравить себя в землю, как в Термовских хуторах."

"Konechno, i golod, i zhazhda proidut, esli zamuravit' sebya zhiv'em v zemlyu, kak v Termovskikh khutorakh."

I cannot identify the reference.

Any ideas?

With thanks.

Michael Katz
Middlebury College

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