Аннотация: The Sketch about "Talents" and " Korean fairy tales"
The Sketch about "Talents" and " Korean fairy tales"
The Empress Catherine II has come to good mood. "Yes! We have a talents!" "Our education prepares new, talented people!" "They are able to play Draughts!" "The writer Gogol will appear soon. And he will write: "Long ago I didn't take a Draughts in my hands!""
Vorontsova-Dashkova has come.
- And what, Yekaterina, you will tell about the Korean hieroglyphs? - the Empress has showed an interest.
- Yes - and-and ... There are in the Main library "The Korean fairy tales", which Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky recorded and wrote during his expedition to Korea and his world tour.
- This, Yekaterina, very important theme. I want to know all about the Korean fairy tales. Head to the Main library and read them carefully. Then you come to me and tell me everything.
- I very much want to get acquainted with "The Korean fairy tales"!
A beautiful carriage drove up and Dashkova headed to the library.
She arrived to the library. Have brought her the necessary books, and she began to read.
A lot of a pages were found out. "He, this Garin-Mikhailovsky, built the Great Siberian railway. Moreover and such an amount of the Korean fairy tales wrote?" "How did he manage that?"
Has gradually darkened. Visitors of library have dispersed. But the task of the Empress has to be performed! "The Korean fairy tales" need to be read. Night. Dashkova in library sits, reads.
Suddenly a noise. The cheerful company flies up to the library. People are energetic, joyful. They arranged on a reading tables banks with red caviar, champagne bottles, glasses.
One woman from the company climbed on a reading table and began to sing: "My themes - my coursers!"
Offered a glass with champagne and to Dashkova. She drank and began to sing along.
Evening has come to the end cheerfully.
"I will tell such fairy tales to the Empress, - in Korean!, - that o-ho-ho will be...", - Dashkova thought, falling asleep. - "... People at us - talented ..."
September 21, 2018 14:59
Translation from Russian into English: September 21, 2018 22:32.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Скетч о 'талантах' и 'Корейских сказках''.