Аннотация: The Short Story of how Vanya Zhukov studied diplomacy
The Short Story of how Vanya Zhukov studied diplomacy
Vanya Zhukov after a moving from the village earned a living by work on errands.
One day he stayed in one of the rooms for a minute. And an important, respectable man is passing by.
Vanya recognized him immediately. He in some a magazine saw photo of him.
Vanya took up a courage and said:
- Comrade! Comrade diplomat! Teach me to diplomacy! I first wanted to go into the cultural sphere. But - the risk is enormous.
Important person responds:
- Get off me, the boy!
Vanya begs:
- Please! I beg you! Teach me diplomacy!
Meanwhile, they went into the office-room.
The important person quickly looked at Vanya:
- Do you have a money?
Vanya laid out on the table coins earned for a month of a running on errands.
An important person deftly took out a beautiful casket, and from the beautiful casket four thimbles (with engraved letters on each: "K s and S of A", "K I", "S" and "V") and a little gold ball.
- It is a coin such. Is called a "digitalo", - he explained, having shown on a little gold ball.
Then the important person lightly pushed the little gold ball. That swept on a table. The important person was deftly covering the the little gold ball with thimbles and moved thimbles on the table surface.
Finally, the movements of his hands stopped, and he asked a question:
- Under what thimble the digitalo is located?
Vanya pointed to one of the thimbles.
The important man raised the thimble. No a gold digitalo there was under it.
- You lost!
The important person deftly brushed the coins away into the desk drawer.
- You is free!
- And training? And diplomacy?
- Run and think. This is a good school for you!
Vanya ran on errands: "Deftly it is he!" "A cool man!"
January 28, 2019 20:27
Translation from Russian into English: January 28, 2019 20:45.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Рассказ как Ваня Жуков обучался дипломатии'.