Traffic lights at deserted crossroads blinked. Somewhere here, in a rain core, lonely and restless, mysterious Nostradamus
and its severe eyes as if a X-ray, penetrated a city wandered.
I think of doctor Gertvige, - I have told.
Ivin osharashenno has turned.
Who such why I do not know? - Doctor Gertvig has died in the seventeenth year.
When?! - in January of one thousand nine hundred seventeenth, shortly before February revolution.
Paradiagnostics? - Yes.
Immersing in history? - Yes.
Well you give, - after expressive silence Ivin has told.
2. DOCTOR GERTVIG And the STUDENT the Moon was bright and big, simply impossible there was a moon. Sharp
common people it doused a cobble-stone on a bridge, beaten skull of a lantern, dark blue foliage of a garden.
As a dead pangolin, oshchetinjas shafts, the torn to pieces barricade lay across street. Opposite to it, at a building of the
market, gaping stone mnogoglaziem as if pasted, there were Koshchej and the Pumpkin. Koshchej guffawed and long
spitted out, and the Pumpkin tightened up the foolish soaped moustaches. It took directly malicious: whether for a long time
ran, as partridges, - now guffaw.
The person invisible in a low gate, has moved also a moonlight has fallen to a peak-cap what are carried by students. Well -
thank God, have got under way, have gone to the area, to a cathedral gloom. A pumpkin rolled over, and Koshchej held a
draught.
Speak, it it has killed Sapsana, has cut in a site court yard, in June.
Sadanut on them from a revolver - it is impossible, there is no revolver, is buried at home, in a shed, under a woodpile. Not
such now time to walk about with a revolver.
Having shipped fists in jacket pockets, having hidden the person in the lifted collar, the person has quickly crossed street
and has clung to a pig-iron fencing. Undertook iron rods and, easily having broken in air, has waved direct feet on that party.
Immediately, zakolachivaja in the earth the cobble-stone, from the Curve lane has turned out horse group and has floated in
pale light - illusive horses, illusive people.