Аннотация: The Short Story about the special book shelf
The Short Story about the special book shelf
Near the professional place of the librarian visitors of the Gorky Café-Library have crowded. Having finished reading one books, readers handed over them and received new.
- I have read the book. In her about Heinrich Shliemann it is much written, - one of the readers have reported. - It seems that Shliemann is an unfair businessman. He delivered substandard goods during the Crimean War ...
- There is information in works of the academician Tarle about an economic crimes of the Crimean war, - other reader has noticed. - Maxim Gorky has the work about the writer Leskov. An economic crimes during the Crimean war are mentioned. I about Shliemann in these works met nothing. However, there were many suppliers. The people they were, for certain, - not saints. However, after the Crimean War the German Embassy in Russia gethered the data about Shliemann: The German Emperor planned him to award. And so, the Embassy hasn't found any official compromising information about Shliemann. The Embassy reported these results to Berlin.
- And I have read the fresh book about the so-called "Смутное (- vague) время (- time)" (Time of Troubles)... Oh...
-What means - "vague"? In a sense - "not a clear "? Many periods of history are not clear...
After the third section of the Rech Pospolita (Rzeczpospolita) (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) and its disappearance as independent State, big territories with the population became a part of the Russian Empire.
The Russian Emperor Alexander I as the person educated has decided to act, with the usage of "soft power". He have lodged near himself the competent historian and have conferred a title on him "official historiographer" and appointed good salary. The Emperor was regularly interested in work of the historiographer, got acquainted with the prepared parts of the text. The historiographer has written the great historical work. As a result, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania not that disappeared from the Russian history, but became kind of transparent, almost non-visible. But so-called "poles " were very much "put in the forefront". And the first tsar from Romanov' dynasty began to be perceived as the personality slightly legendary: he from "poles " has escaped, was saved. Though the closest relative of dear Tsar was the member of that government, "Semiboyarshchina", who has invited those "poles" to the Moscow.
A different events in the Russian history were. I won't go into detail. Descendants of inhabitants of Grand Duchy of Lithuania - integral "part " of dynasties.
-What turns out? What are the books these?!!
- Dear Readers! - Gorky has smiled. - It isn't necessary so to worry... You see: We are working. I mean - the library works. How many books in her? And if to count books, written since the time of Pliny the Younger? To take into account the books by Heinrich Shliemann? And the extensive state archives of Grand Duchy of Lithuania to add? Excess problems aren't necessary to us: you understand... And we on a special shelf will put these books...
There was a small pause. From the functioning radio receiver words were heard: "Program about history and historical places of Russia".
- They are researching ..., - Gorky has added.
Readers have cheerfully rustled and have switched to other subjects.
July 14, 2018 10:18
Translation from Russian into English: July 14, 2018 10:26.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Рассказ об особой книжной полочке'.