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Название книги: Twelve
Автор(ы): Jasper Kent
Жанр: Мистика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Twelve-164380.html
© 2008
For S.L.P.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
DistancesA verst is a Russian unit of distance, slightly greater than a kilometre.DatesDuring the nineteenth century, Russians based their dates on the old Julian Calendar, which in 1812 was twelve days behind the Gregorian Calendar used in Western Europe. All dates in the text are given in the Russian form and so, for example, the Battle of Borodino is placed on 26 August, where Western history books have it on 7 September.
Prologue – A Russian Folk Tale
Some people place this story in the town of Atkarsk, others in Volgsk, but in most versions it's Uryupin and so that is where we will keep it. All versions agree that the events occurred sometime in the early years of the reign of the great Tsar Pyetr and all agree that the town in question was infested by a plague of rats.Rats always came to Uryupin in the summer, taking grain and bringing disease, but the people of the town, like those of any town, had learned to survive the summer months, comfortable in the knowledge that the cold of winter woul
Название книги: Twelve
Автор(ы): Jasper Kent
Жанр: Мистика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Twelve-164380.html
© 2008
For S.L.P.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
DistancesA verst is a Russian unit of distance, slightly greater than a kilometre.DatesDuring the nineteenth century, Russians based their dates on the old Julian Calendar, which in 1812 was twelve days behind the Gregorian Calendar used in Western Europe. All dates in the text are given in the Russian form and so, for example, the Battle of Borodino is placed on 26 August, where Western history books have it on 7 September.
Prologue – A Russian Folk Tale
Some people place this story in the town of Atkarsk, others in Volgsk, but in most versions it's Uryupin and so that is where we will keep it. All versions agree that the events occurred sometime in the early years of the reign of the great Tsar Pyetr and all agree that the town in question was infested by a plague of rats.Rats always came to Uryupin in the summer, taking grain and bringing disease, but the people of the town, like those of any town, had learned to survive the summer months, comfortable in the knowledge that the cold of winter woul
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