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SOYUZMULTFILM
Puppetfilm association

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1763 Polzunov's steam engine

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1776 Kulibina's wooden one-arched bridge

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1801 Artamonov's bicycle

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1833 Cherepanov's locomotive

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1878 AF Mozhaisky's flying machine

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1881 Kibalchich's aeronautic device

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This film is dedicated to the wonderful Russian
craftsmen of the past, present and future.

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THE LEFT-HANDER
after the story of N. S. Leskov

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The tale of how Tula craftsmen put
horse-shoes on the English steel flea.

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Scenario and Direction IVAN IVANOV-VANO

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Director Vladimir Danilevich
Composer Alexander Alexandrov

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Art directors: Marina Sokolova,
Arcady Turin, Anatoly Kuritsyn

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Camera Joseph Colomb
Sound Boris Filchikov

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Animators: Youry Norstein, Galina Zolotovskaya,
Lev Zhdanov, Kirill Malyantovich, Michael Botov

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Background artists: G. Zuikova, G. Nevzorova,
Alexander Gorbachev, Vladimir Sobolev,
Vladimir Alisov, V. Rodgero, A. Volkov

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puppets and decor V. Cherkinskaya, Liliana Lutinskaya,
Svetlana Znamenskaya, Oleg Massainov, N. Budylova,
Yu. Benkevich, M. Spasskaya, Vladimir Abbakumov

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script editor Natalia Abramova
cutter N. Mayorova

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State Cinematographic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor G. Gamburg
Narrator D. ZHURAVLYOV

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Executive Producer Nathan Bitman

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Paris castle 1815

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When the
Emperor Alexander Palych

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ended the military war campaign in 1812,

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he got the idea of
travelling about Europe,

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to see what the different
countries had to show him.

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He went to many countries,

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was very friendly and had

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heart-to-heart talks with all sorts of people

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and everyone surprised him with something,

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they all had something to impress
and win him over with,

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but he had with him a
Don Cossack, Platov by name,

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who did not like all these goings on;

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And a little if Platov noticed,

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that the sovereign is interested
in something foreign,

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he would go up to him and say,

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"Ours at home are just as good."

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So the English invited the tsar

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to their warehouses,

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arsenals and soapworks and everywhere else

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to show that they were so much
better at everything.

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Thus they could boast about it.

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They arrived at a huge building

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with an indescribable entrance,

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corridors without end,

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rooms one after another,

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- A-ah-ah-ah...

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The tsar was very pleased with all this
"Ah - ah - ah!

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Ah - ah - ah!"

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But Platov strode along
with his eyes fixed on the floor

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as though he wasn't looking
at anything at all.

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They came to the main hall.

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The English immediately started
showing them all kinds of marvels

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and explaining what things they had adapted

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for use in wartime.

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The tsar was very pleased with all this:
"Ah - ah - ah!",

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everything seemed so good to him:
"Ah - ah - ah!",

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but Platov was still waiting,

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nothing of this meant anything to him.

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The sovereign said:
"How can you be like that?"

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"Why don't you say something?"

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"Isn't there anything here that impresses you?"

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And Platov replied:

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"There's only one thing that impresses me:

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my Cossack maidens and lads
fought without any of this

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and drove twelve nations out of our country."

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The tsar said:
"That's all prejudice."

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But the Englishmen,
noticing the dissension between them,

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took them straight to the statue of Apollo Belvedere.

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"This pistol", the Englishman said,
"is of unknown, incomparable make",

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of unknown inimitable
craftsmanship.

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One of our admirals snatched it
from the belt of a pirate captain at Calabria.

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"Ah, ah, ah,"he gasped in amazement.
"It is...

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how can anyone possibly do such wonderful work!"

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"If I had just one such craftsman in Russia,

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I would be very happy and proud

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and I would make that craftsman
a lord on the spot."

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The English told him:
"It can't be disassembled!

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"Nonsense,"
wimpled Platov the remark aside.

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[Made by Ivan Moskvin, Tula]

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But the tsar said sadly to Platov:
"Ah, ah, ah!"

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"Why did you have to upset them;
I'm sorry for them now."

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"Oh, we'll offer him something else"

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And they say to the sovereign:

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"Now we will present you
a true technical marvel".

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The Emperor asks:
"What does this mean?"

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"Can you, please", said the
English workman," see that speck?"

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"What do I want a speck of dust for?"
asked the Emperor.

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"But this," answers the English master
"is not a speck,

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but a flea. "

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"Is it alive?"
the sovereign then asked.

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"Oh no," answered the
English master, "it's not alive."

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"It's made out of pure English steel."

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"We forged it in the form of a flea

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and inside there's clockwork with a spring.

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Be kind enough to turn the key

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and it'll do a dance."

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"Ah - ah - ah!"
the Tsar said curiously.

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"Kindly look in the microscope."

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- Ah - ah - ah!

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- Ah - ah!

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The tsar immediately ordered Platov

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that a million be given to the Englishmen

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in any money they liked.

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The Englishmen asked for silver

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as they had a poor opinion of banknotes.

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The British whispered

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and showed another cunning trick of theirs:

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they gave the tsar the flea

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but there wasn't any box to put it in

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because the case was
said to be state-owned.

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They had a strict
government policy about it

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that could not be sacrificed
even for the czar.

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Platov got all worked up over this.

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"What's all the swindling about?"

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"You made the tsar a present and got a million
for it and that's still not enough for you!

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You always get a box with everything you buy."

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But the tsar said:
"Don't you go upsetting my politics.
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it's not your business.
They have their own customs,"

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and he asked,

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"How much does the nut cost,
to put the flea in?"

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The English asked another five thousand for it.

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The Tsar ordered Platov to pay,

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and said to the English:
""You are the first craftsmen in the world

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and my people can do

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nothing to beat you."

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There was nothing Platov could say. He only
slipped the microscope into his pocket,

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for, he thought, it
should go with the other things

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and, besides, they had
paid out enough money as it was.

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The remarkable flea of English blue steel

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remained in Alexander Pavlovich's whalebone casket

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while the sovereign became melancholic
from the military campaign

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until he died in Taganrog.

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Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich did not at first

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pay any attention to the flea

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because of the disturbances
when he ascended the throne.*
[* The Decembrist Uprising in 1825.]

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- Brave Russians and Russian soldiers.

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Bravo, bravo!
It's time to work, work!

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We are Zanevsky-Nevsky soldiers.

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The Tsar is kind enough to note.

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He will call us courageous
He will call us, his chidren,

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How we should be this
How we should be fine young men!

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Who here is from the highest rank?
Who will fit that standard?

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Who will manage such excellence?
Who will manage such stardom?

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"What rubbish is this

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and why did my brother
take such care of it?"

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Now find out from where it has come
and what it means?"

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They hurried to look through records and registers

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but did not find any mention of it.

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They began asking one person after another,
but nobody knew anything about it.

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Fortunately the Don Cossack Platov was still alive;

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he was even then lying sulking on
his couch and smoking his pipe.

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As soon as he heard that there
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he rose up from his couch,
threw away his pipe

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and appeared before the tsar
wearing all his medals.

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"I was there," he says, "when it happened!

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And this is how I could see it
with my own eyes in England."

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"Bravo, bravo!"

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"This is," said Platov,
"Your Majesty,

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a delicate and interesting piece of work

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but we mustn't let our admiration
get the better of us;

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we should see we Russians
can do better and see if our

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craftsmen at Tula can't trump the English.

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"Bravo, bravo!

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"That was well said, my brave old man,

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said the Emperor.

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and I will trust you to prove it".

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- So here is our Plakhov General!

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Here and on the battlefields

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he became a master.

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Aye, yes, by the battlefields

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he unfolded it.

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The tsar became aware of craftsmanship

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he hadn't been aware of!

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Chief master City of Tula
Ivan Moskvin

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Left-hander Weapon

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"This casket," said Platov, "contains

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a masterfully made English steel flea of
fine work.

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The sovereign ordered
you to do your best

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to outclass the English masters!"

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"Are we not of the true Orthodox faith?"

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The gunsmiths responded:

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The  English aren't fools, either.
They are quite clever, in fact,

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and their art has a lot of sense to it."

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"To beat them, we have to think."

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"Leave us the flea,

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go home to your quiet Don and
have a good rest so the wounds

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you received for your country may heal,

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and when you go back through Tula
stop here and send for us:

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by that time, God willing,
we shall have thought of something."

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"Alright, lads!"

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In the smithy!
In the smithy!

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In the smithy young blacksmiths,
In the smithy young blacksmiths,

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They are forging - are forging!
They are forging - are forging!

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They are forging, and keep saying!
They are forging and keep saying!

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Come on, Dunya, let's go!
Come on, Dunya, let's go!

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Let's go, Dunya, to the grove, to the grove!
Let's go, Dunya, to the grove, to the grove!

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The Cossacks got the roof off but
were knocked off their feet themselves

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by the foul air that burst out, for the gunsmiths

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had been working continuously in the little

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closed room and the atmosphere had

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become so thick that a man

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used to fresh air couldn't
stand a single whiff of it.

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"We're just knocking in the last nail and

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and when it's done we'll bring our work."

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"Let me have it!"
Platov cried.

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"What's the meaning of this?" asked Platov. 
"Where's your work?!"

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"And where is your work? "

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"Our work's there as well,"
the gunsmiths answered.

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"What sort of work have you done?"

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"Why explain it?"

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"It's all there in front of your eyes.
You have a good look at it."

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"You scoundrels haven't done anything,"

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"and you've probably spoilt the whole thing!

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I'll have your heads for this!"

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"There's no need to insult us like that."

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"You're lying, you scoundrels,

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but I'm not letting you go like that."

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"You can sit there like a poodle
all the way to St. Petersburg,"

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You shouldn't take him away like that
without a paper*
*(Traveling-permit for people with a serf status)

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because he wouldn't be able to get back!

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"There's a paper for you!"

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"Off you go, lads."

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"Oh! He was such a good master."

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"And what did my Tula craftsmen do

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that's better than the English flea?"

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asked the Emperor.

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"How dare you deceive the Emperor?"

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"Wanted to surpass the English masters!"

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"What's the matter, young man,

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we looked at the flea this way and that

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and couldn't find anything worth
talking about." the sovereign asked.

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"That way, Your Majesty,
you won't see anything,

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because our work,
for a thing of that size,"

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is too fine." - answers Lefty.

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"Please look."

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Take a look, if you please, why, the rogues

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have shod the English flea's feet!"

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"Is your name there, too?" asked the tsar.

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"Oh, no," said Lefty, "mine's
the only one that isn't there."

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"Why?" asked the Emperor.

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"Because", said the left-hander,

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"my work was smaller than those shoes:

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I made the nails the shoes are put on with.

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That's something
you can't see in any microscope."

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"Where is your microscope," asked the tsar,

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"the one you used
to produce such a marvel?"

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"We are poor people
and can't afford such things

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but our eyes are trained to the work."

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"Please look. "

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The sovereign ordered that
the shod flea be packed up

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and sent back to England as a sort of gift

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so that the people there
would know that it didn't impress us.

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The tsar ordered a
special messenger to take the flea,

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and ordered Lefty to go with him.

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[Don't drink too little
or too much
but just average.]

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Along the river
Along the way to Kazanka,

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The gray drake swims.

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Ai, luli, luli, C'est tres joli.

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The gray drake swims.

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Along the banks and
along the broad coast

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The good fellow goes!

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Ai, luli, luli, C'est tres joli.

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The good fellow goes!

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He had curls,
He had fair hair

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Time to wail.

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Ai, luli, luli, C'est tres joli.

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Time to wail

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"Good work," said the
English masters,  

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- subtly done, with meaning."

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The Englishmen patted Lefty
on the shoulder and shook

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hands with him as an equal,

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"Kamerad," they said, "Kamerad, 
fine craftsman".

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"Let's have a drink!"

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"Kamerad, stay here with us.
We'll give you a good education

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and you'll become a wonderful craftsman."

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The English would show him their factories

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and their skill in making things.

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Lefty wasn't so interested in the way

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they made new muskets

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as he was in the condition of the old ones.

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[Past their use.
Written off]

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Whenever he came across an old musket
he'd stick his finger in the muzzle,

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run it round the walls of the barrel and say:

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"Oh, the English do not clean
their guns with bricks."

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[Pounded bricks for cleaning weapons]

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[Past their use.
Written off]

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"That", he said, "heats ours by a long shot."

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"Comrade, Comrade!

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Stay with us.

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"You'll get used to it," they said,

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"accept our faith
and we'll find you a wife.

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If you want, we'll
arrange a rendezvous for you."

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"Why", said Lefty, "trouble the girls for nothing?"

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"A rendezvous is for gentlemen and doesn't become us."

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This can never be.

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"We are committed to our Motherland and"

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"our Russian faith is the true faith".

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"Comrade, Comrade!
Stay with us."

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"I thank you humbly for your hospitality,

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I've been very pleased with all of you,

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but now I want to get home".

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[Hard sea]

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"Where is our Russia?"
- Lefty asked.

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"If you're not a coward, let's have
a drink," said the skipper's mate.

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And then he asked:

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"What's the secret you're taking
back to Russia from our country?"

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"This is my business," answers the Left-hander.

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"If it's that way," said the mate,
"then let's make a bet, English fashion."

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"How?" asked Lefty.
"We bet never to drink alone

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but always together and the same drink;

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and whoever outdrinks the other wins the bet."

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Lefty thought to himself
"The sky's cloudy, my belly's rowdy,

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I'm bored to death, there's a long way left,

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the bet'll make me cheer up a bit,

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All right, it's a go."

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[Riga Dunamunde]

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"What's the secret you're taking
back to Russia from our country?"

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asked the skipper's mate.

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"That's my business," answered the Left-hander.

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"Cross yourself and turn away,"

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"that is the devil rising out of the deep."

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"No!
This is a red sea water-eyed. "

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"No, the Black Burin."

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"No, a red-eyed water-eyed."

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St. Petersburg.

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From here on the fate of the
Left-hander and the skipper's mate

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began to vary greatly,

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and the Englishman was taken to

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the English Embassy on the English Quay and Lefty

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was asked "Who are you and where have you come from?"

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Have you got a passport or any other document?"

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"Take him to the hospital!"
ordered the policeman.

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They took him to one hospital but
they wouldn't accept him without a document,

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so they took him to a second

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and a third and a fourth

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and so they kept on until morning,
dragging him round all the distant alleys

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until he was all beaten black and blue.

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The mariner meanwhile in the
embassy was lying in a warm bath.

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The apothecary there and then
rolled a pill and put it in his mouth.

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"Tell the tsar that the English don't
clean their musket barrels with brick-dust;

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The policeman took lefty

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to the Obukhov Free Hospital

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where people of unknown origin
were taken in to die.

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OBUHVINSKAYA FREE HOSPITAL

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"Tell the tsar that the English don't
clean their musket barrels with brick-dust;

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we shouldn't clean them that way, either,

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for if there should be a war, which God
forbid, they won't be any use for shooting.

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00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:31,710
"Tell the tsar that the English don't
clean their musket barrels with brick-dust;

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00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:52,130
"Tell the tsar that the English don't
clean their musket barrels with brick-dust;

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we shouldn't clean them that way, either,

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00:41:11,090 --> 00:41:14,300
"Tell the tsar that the English don't
clean their musket barrels with brick-dust;

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we shouldn't clean them that way, either,

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for if there should be a war, which God
forbid, they won't be any use for shooting.

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Well, who are you!—

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keep your nose out of what doesn't concern you
— there are generals in Russia for that."

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All this is now "a matter of days long past,"

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Lefty's real name,

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like those of many
of the world's greatest geniuses,

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has been lost for posterity;

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But as a myth created by the fantasy of the people

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he is remembered by us now

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with great pride and love.

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THE END - translated with help of George H.
Hanna's story translation by Eus of
Pepi' and Bornik's Russian subs

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Subtitles: 2018, bornik @ KG