Red Square in the winter
Chapter 9
In Moscow. From the residence of our psychics the gear wall of the Kremlin is visible.
Shurik Here in the capital it is good, the fees high. Only rest doesnt give me Kolchaks gold. In newspapers often write, look for it. Here the summer will come that we will do. To the south we will go, to sunbathe To Maldives. Yes that we didnt see there. Lets go the Monk to Siberia to rest and we will try the luck, in search of a treasure. We will stop by in Krasnoyarsk and we will organize expedition to the Irkutsk region. We will have a rest. Change of work is the best rest, and in case of success we will fantastically grow rich!
Enok And how you imagine all this?
Shurik To Employ navvies, not a problem. For money to work everyone will agree. But that bandits didnt kill us or the authorities didnt arrest, we will think up cover operation. For example test of geophysical sensors. You after all will become a professor soon. We develop thought further: by geophysical methods look for minerals. Generally I all organizational issues, as always assume. And you read literature about Kolchak, especially about the last year of its activity. That is start studying history smoothly
Сhapter 10
Nizhneudinsk
Psychics arrived to Nizhneudinsk. Summer. There was a heat.
Came into the local museum. Here they listened to lecture:
Nizhneudinsk is a provincial town with the population about 40000 inhabitants. Here locomotive and carriage depot, oil pumping station. At the Soviet power worked: mica factory, creamery, confectionery, brewery. Someone from old residents remembers those times when beer of local production in glass container on free sale never was. There was it quality and where that it was sent. Here on flood in cafe please.
Here Gleb Krzhizhanovsky famous as the developer of the plan of GOELRO (the state electrification of all Russia) lived in exile. Dmitry Kashik was marked out here. Long time the club of Kashik worked.
But the greatest interest for us is represented by Alexander Kolchak. Supreme governor of Russia, and her Supreme Commander. Here he was detained by allies. Here he dismissed the protection in number of 500 people. I suggested in the evening the subordinates to go together with it on an old path, to the south to China through Mongolia. But for the morning at it remained faithful 10 people. The baron refused fight, it isnt clear for what reason. Whether forces werent equal, could give battle. Whether I trusted in the general without honor Zhanet who handed over it to Mensheviks. Or the admiral was tired to be at war. Now nearly hundred years later it is hard to say about motives of his behavior. It is authentically known that he stayed under secret arrest two weeks here.
As for gold which was in its echelon, there is a lot of versions. The truth is shrouded in mystery. They say that protection of an echelon went ungifted away not. Hearings go that part of precious metal is dug in these regions, namely near Nizhneudinsk.
Chapter 11
Shurik Today we will be registered, as representatives of geophysical laboratory. We rent the car. It is necessary to visit local geologists. To find the foreman of navvies, to pitch tent, etc. It everything for me. You should communicate to the local shaman, he lives in Tofalariya in Alygdzhere from here nearby of 250 km by plane. If it is correct to talk to it, will help to find a treasure.
Chapter 12
Foreman.
Near cafe there is a young guy, a strong constitution, in a t-shirt without sleeves, with beefy bicepses, with a tattoo on a forearm. «Belomor» smokes a cigarette
Enok That the brother you miss?
Valery Yes it is boring!
Enok What happened? Problems? We will go on a glass of beer we will drink and life will more cheerfully go.
Valery And you who such? It is visible not local.
Enok Geologists, is more faithful than geophysics. We are engaged in search of minerals. Here we will carry out works.
Valery And what salary at you? And that I have financial problems, transferred to work in depot as the mechanic of the second category
Enok Shurik Should listen to his sad story and when reaches standard, to ask on Kolchaks gold.
Shurik You give Valery drink beer. Takes a bottle of vodka out of a briefcase and adds to beer.
Valery History my sad, suffered for humour, for a joke.
And business was so. I worked as the driver of an electric locomotive. We with the assistant conduct structure, we drive up to small station, I speak to the assistant «Idi Vasili in a compartment, whether check everything as it should be»
When it leaves, I contact on a handheld transceiver the station-master and I speak to it- Hello Ivan Ivanovich. I have a problem. The assistant went crazy, goes on an electric locomotive with a sledge hammer, to himself talks. Cause team of psychiatrists.
All right Valery, will be enough to tell nonsenses. I know your jokes. You dont annoy me, and here I will report that on instance. Will put a reprimand that didnt litter air with any nonsense.
At station stopped. I speak to the assistant «Go Vasili to the station-master, asks, the help. Take a sledge hammer. The old friend, it is impossible to refuse».
Vasily took a sledge hammer, jumped off from an electric locomotive and went to the wooden two-storeyed building. I walked upstairs on the second floor. Opens a door. Holds a sledge hammer on a shoulder. At a table the elderly gray-haired man in a black railway form that that writes
What here you have a father?
At Ivan Ivanovich points slowly rise by a forehead, hair bristled.
Guard!
Ivan Ivanovich runs about the room, tries to open windows, anything it is impossible. I took three detours. At last that one frame opens, he jumps out in a window.
Told well tell Thanks that didnt prosecute. Sent to depot the second category mechanic with a salary 70 rubles a month. Shame. Houses scandal.
Shurik We will establish you a salary of 300 rubles a month, plus a dry ration. I agree?
Valery (shouts) Yes, children, of course!
Chapter 13
Treasure-hunters go outside.
Enok And what here sights, Valery?
Valery Ukovsky falls, downstream the Uda River of 18 kilometers, Powerful caves in 70 kilometers to the east, in them is a grotto where temperature constant always 0 degrees Celsius water doesnt freeze, ice doesnt thaw. In 17 km the dark-coniferous taiga in spurs of East Sayan Mountains which in the books «On Chunsky Thresholds» and «Ridges Sayansk» were described by the writer Sergey Sartakov to the south begins. There are places very beautiful, on similarity of your Columns Krasnoyarsk. It is no far from the city on Zastryank Canal there is a town, Chernyaev call meadows.
Shurik From where such poetic name?
Valery in the Fall all black is black from a bird cherry
Enok Valera, you 2 the category to work not as the mechanic in depot, and the guide.
Valery It is just necessary to like the native country. So on what stopped?
Enok In caves it is cold wont go, in a taiga still of berry mushrooms didnt keep up, a bird cherry too still green. I vote for falls!