weren’t translated.
Having finished sewing, I thrust a needle in an air mattress. Exclamation – Well oh, damn sounded, again the mattress made a hole. Second puncture this year.
When passions settled. The fellow traveler by a quiet voice started talking. About gold children. We go now in those places where in 1919 the admiral Kolchak drove a gold echelon. And as he was arrested near Nizhneudinsk, gold at it and didn’t appear.
Enok – And where put?
Fellow traveler – Goodness knows, still guess. Here you as if arrived if understood what not to break to Vladivostok?
Enok – In a taiga would dig till the best times…
Fellow traveler – Here Supreme where – that in these parts also hid him. Those who a ditch were dug, shot that were silent. And the most Supreme later in Irkutsk was slapped some months. So the treasure lies in the earth and waits when it is dug out…
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 doesn’t give me Kolchak’s 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 didn’t see there. Let’s 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 didn’t kill us or the authorities didn’t 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 isn’t clear for what reason. Whether forces weren’t 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 Kolchak’s 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 don’t annoy me, and here I will report that on instance. Will put a reprimand that didn’t 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?
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