Sergei Witte and Peter Durnovo on the walking boat along the Sochi coast float.
Suddenly see: it seems, near the former dacha of Goremykin some phantom. The boat swims up closer, approaching seashore. Witte and Durnovo go ashore and see: Goremykin's phantom with the poster: "To find and punish murderers!"
Witte is interested, addressing phantom of Goremykin:
- Ivan Logginovich! You're famous person. You repeatedly were the Chairman of the board of Ministers - at the Emperor. Both mass media, and public opinion sympathize with you. Your death during a predatory attack on Your the Sochi country house after the revolution at all people arouses a regret and indignation. But the historical fate of Russia - very sated with different catastrophic events. Not so far from Sochi there is a territory of the former Don Host Oblast ... Here tell: by what principle to select the historical events deserving memorial collective actions, and an events, also sad, but such memorial collective actions not deserving?
Goremykin's phantom is silent.
Durnovo is interested too:
- You, Ivan Logginovich, created a social environment that contributed to the Emperor's wrong decisions. Talented, capable people were rejected, replaced with people having insufficient abilities, weak-willed. Political reforms either weren't carried out, or carried out indecisively, or, after their carrying out, - the carrying out thanks to mind, will and persistence of Sergei Yulyevich Witte, - were partially cancelled. Maybe you should go to Church and repent. Visit places related to the memory of the Emperor, to pray?
Perhaps, at reforms and at the Emperor we wouldn't see many sad events? Maybe we would live relatively calmly in a constitutional monarchy? Maybe we would be a universally recognized loyal part of modern Europe?
And it isn't obligatory to pray collectively. Repentance, awareness of realities of historical process by people is a process not only collective. But more - individual ... I don't deny also the importance of collective actions - historical events different in Russia there was much. We will remember, for example, the former Don Host Oblast ...
Goremykin's phantom continues to be silent.
Witte and Durnovo see that Goremykin's phantom keeps silence. They have come back to the boat. The boat has departed from the coast.
Suddenly Witte gives the sign. The boat has again approached the coast.
Witte approaches Goremykin's phantom again and is interested:
- Ivan Logginovich! In the Internet an information sliped, that unusually magnificent moustaches similar to yours were seen on viewing of the movie "Matilda". I refer to the Internet, because I personally did not go to watch this film. I decided to clarify: is it true that it was your unusually curvy mustache at the screening of the film?
Goremykin's phantom has had a fit of coughing. Witte has decided to wait for the answer. But cough has turned out long. Doesn't come to an end in any way. Witte waited-waited, but also the boat waits, and Peter Durnovo on the boat waits.
Witte patted Goremykin on the back:
- I wish you a good health, Ivan Logginovich! Be adjusted on a healthy harmony!
Witte returned to the boat, and the boat continued a sea walking along the Sochi coast.
October 30, 2018 11:16
Translation from Russian into English: October 30, 2018 12:11.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Сказка о встрече с Горемыкиным'.