/Sid 85/ Valentine Pikul From a series « THE PETERSBURG PLOTS » Short story /Sid 87/ Eternal "pocket" glory We laugh loudly above jokes, at all not asking who has invented them. We include Tape recorders to hear to the new bard, but its verses it is not visible in a press. So happened and in Olden time when poets were consoled podpolnoju in glory which named then "pocket". In Similar cases circulations depend not on a whim of publishers, and only from popularity in To the public, not regretted blackened also papers for the sake of encouragement of an anonymous muse. « Pocket glory,? Denis Davidov wrote, - as well as pocket hours, can be put in circulation, having passed Severity state dosmotrshchikov. The forbidden goods is similar to the forbidden fruit: its price It is doubled in process of severity of prohibition... » And what here to be surprised? We in fact every day eat bread, but I never heard, That hungry has told: - I shall not begin to eat, yet I do not learn, who this bread has sown? You, my darling, and will be bent with famine, never having learned the author of a crop. After such The introduction rather far from heroics, it is better to beat off at once date-1790 year... ....................................................... And what here to be surprised? We in fact every day eat bread, but I never - Ohti to me, poor! Even to have a sleep do not give the person... Yes, then were not lazy. To serve began in most wound, and woke up with the first Cocks. Beggars hurried up to zautrene to take a place on a church porch, appealing about favour, and Statesmen dressed uniforms to not be late to execution service Duty. In five o'clock in the morning when Petersburg examined last dreams, Ekaterina II Deduced on a court yard sobachek, made coffee more strong, and in its reception regal pokoev Already not slept dignitaries ready to reports on affairs of the state yawned. But The first the ruddy boy from a frost in the fine form preobrazhentsa entered to empress and Duty. In five o'clock in the morning when Petersburg examined last dreams, handed over to the crowned woman business "raportichku" about a condition in armies of garrison for The last night. - The mother, - it spoke, - fights and fires were not, and especial drunkenness in a barracks It is not noticed... Itself unfortunate in the motherhood, avoided the children, Ekaterina was careful to Another's - especially to orphans. Duty. In five o'clock in the morning when Petersburg examined last dreams, handed over коронованнои to the woman business «рапортичку» about a condition in — Has frozen, Сережа? — it spoke. — well, sit down to a fireplace, погрейся. Only not мешаи To me to people to talk. Разморясь in heat, under a dialect of lecturers which were listened by Ekaterina, the boy Sometimes fell asleep in his armchairs, drowsily learning the market prices for fire wood, a cod or hay, that Austria or of what think in England plans. If who from dignitaries asked about the child, Empress explained: - Let sleeps. There will be the officer regiment of Life Guards Preobrazhenskiy... In regiment to it Better, rather than at the stepmother: It at me in library Bualo and Voltera already savours. - Itself from what will be? - Voronezh. From Marina's noblemen? h... Marinas were got in Russia from Italian architect Mari?, arrived to Moscow With the well-known architect Alberti Fioravanti, nicknamed by Russian "Aristotelem". In Marina's deep prescription was served by Russia as a sword, cast bells and guns, at Ivan Terrible there were they "rozmyslami" - engineers. Sergey Nikiforovich Mari? n (our hero) Was born in Voronezh where has ended national school. The father, zhenivshis again, has handed over the son in Military service, hoping that under banners of guards will not be gone. It is the truth: having carried "raportichku" to empress, the adolescent all the day long remained is free, being given favourite Literature and reading of French klassikov. Sending the son in capital, the father has given it Serf hairdresser Ignashku who not only twisted bukli to the barin's son, but also pochastu vanished in taverns of capital. Serezha Marinas not time got out the lackey from Taverns, shamed it: - Also it is not ashamed for you to spend on drink my money? Ignashka trudged after it, being justified: