- And for me your face is familiar, - suddenly begin to talk the animator. Exactly we have already met each other somewhere.
- Unlikely, may be the face is simply usual. And you are very look like original. Although, I have seen it only on the portraits.
- I understand, you can’t believe that in front of you is real Pushkin. Yes, to be honest, I don’t believe what I see by myself. It was the end of January 1837, duel with Dantes, the bullet struck me exactly in the belly, and as then Vladimir Ivanovich said, - it lodged in the backbone. I clear remember, that I shot to this Bonvivant and hit him exactly into the heart, but he for some reason fell to the back, and did not lie prone like me. Almost two days of terrible sufferings and waiting for death. And then, the pain suddenly had gone, and I woke up on Summer in 2015. I went out from cabinet, some unfamiliar people walking in my apartment, and one person among them who is dressed like me and made-up as me – looks very similar. He is surrounded by men, women, children, and opposite to this group a person with strange thing which is lightning by brief flashes. I went out to the courtyard through the back door, nobody paid attention to me. I see a monument – which is handmade and on the pedestal – again me and now in bronze. I saw a cafeteria and entered in.
- The same as you? And you are not alone? Your apartment long ago was turned into museum, and people, whom didn’t look at you are the visitors of museum.
Gray-headed man took at his iPhone, a light-click sounded, and the faces of siting people were illuminated by a brief flash.
- Was a strange thing looked like this?
- Yes, and what is it doing?
Gray-headed man turned the display to Pushkin and showed him a photo of poet.
- These animators made-up like you and create photo sessions with museum visitors – in such way they earn money for life. Excuse me that I took a photo without your permission, although … no matter nobody will believe me.
- And who are these animators?
- They are mummers. They are selected by psychologists, made-up, dressed according that time, and recommended to the owners of tourist agencies for attracting tourists. Indeed, for many people will be interesting to demonstrate the photo with most famous Russian poet. Mainly, this deal like to do the tourists from the West. Walk to the Palace square, visit Pavlovsk or Peterhof – there are plenty such mummers – as men and women. And here in your former apartment there are particularly many tourists from the west countries. They still can’t understand why Pushkin is so popular in Russia.
- And am I indeed popular in Russia?
- Extra than you think. You are – our everything. For some people it is true, and for others is ineptness. Almost in every city there is a monument devoted for you. And, also, in the world there are monuments in many countries. Even in Africa.
Gray-headed man spoke and at that time attentively followed for the eyes of neighbor sitting at the table. He had long time learned that the eyes are the mirror of a souclass="underline" a man can lie with tongue, but can’t lie with eyes. This guest exactly did not lie. Although, while listening his questions, he checked: how the animator playing his role of Pushkin would have react to this information? He noticed with regret, that he can’t definitely determine who is in front of him: mummer or Pushkin himself.
- If it is a game, - he thought, - then I must play in such way that no doubts will leave finally. And how? Of course, there is an art to find a truth by setting leading questions. This art demonstrated Socrates to his students, this had cost him his life. My contemporaries (even not all of them) know about this from encyclopedias, for example – Big Soviet Encyclopedia. And what about real Pushkin? Did he know about dialectics? In contrast of us, he was proficient in Ancient Greek and read ancient Greeks in original. But it turns out, that main complicated trick in this art is to formulate a question which would be adequate to the situation.
- And who is called in Russia “Your Majesty” now? Are the Romanov’s continuing to be “Your Majesty”? – have asked the guest from the past.
- “Your Majesty” almost hundred years is sitting not in Petersburg, but in Moscow. And last Romanov hundred years ago either had abdicate the title “Your Majesty” by himself, or he was forced to do this by his relatives and friends. However, you know, that in our Russia the czars were always overthrown by their court ranks, and civilians were dragged into their conflicts. In the same way in 1917 year was overthrown the last czar. One year later he with his family were shot.
- And who did this, new Decembrists? Even in December 1825 they were going to cut-out all Romanov’s. But, at that time, Nikolay Pavlovich didn’t make a misstep and he took them down a peg. Despite of his young ages, he was a strong Czar. His idol was Petr I.
- We may say that your words are also correct. In the beginning of XX century Russia was engaged into the great world war, and the role of “Your Majesty” at that time played the great-grandson of Nikolay Pavlovich – Nikolay II. He took under his own responsibility the suprem command of the army, but the “new Decembrists” did not like him, and they insisted on his renunciation of a throne. After that the power in Empire was seized by interim Government, which imprisoned the czar. After the fall of monarchy, the war endured. In the beginning the army started to collapse and then Russia. And the fate of Empire had decided by bolsheviks in October of the same year.
- And who are these?
- Those who always represented the interests of majority of working population in Empire.
- That is in Russia began revolt like Pugachev’s one? And who was in the role of Pugachev?
- Lenin. He arrived from Swiss through Germany, which was the main adversary together with Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empires against Russia at that war.
- And what about allies? Was it France really ally?
- France and Britain, later the United States enjoined to them.
- With such allies Russia does not need enemies.
- In anyway, Alexander Sergeevich, the allies after revolution fought on the side of interim Government against bolsheviks. And tried on the quite of civil war expropriate from Russia Far East and North.