When the guys drank half a bottle of vodka, and Sasha opened another bottle of champagne for the girls, Sofia suddenly whispered to Misha in her ear: I want to go to the bushes, do you?
Yes! Misha said nervously, rising from his seat. Were not far. Said Sasha, and went after Sophia. They were gone for a long time. Lusya began to fidget restlessly on Sashas lap, and he asked: Do you want it, too?
And for a long time already and strongly!
So could not say, so they went faster. They ran the other way. They did not show for a long time, while Misha and Sophia returned, drinking champagne from a glass of Sofia. At last Sasha and Lusya appeared and immediately Lucy announced:
Sasha and I decided to sleep in one tent.
And we, how? Sophia asked in surprise.
You know, friend, you go to your sleeping bag, and Misha let him lie down in your own and in one tent you will be warm and safe together.
All right, Lucien, I persuaded Misha and I will sleep in our tent too
From drunk after the vodka of champagne, Misha immediately became drunk, so much so, that in the morning, he awoke with a terrible headache. Having looked around with a not remembering glance around, he pondered for a long time where he was, until the rolled nausea to his throat forced him to jump out into the pre-dawn dawn. The fountain poured from it yesterday, soaking up the combustible mixture, it became much easier. Hearing comrade, Sasha poked his head out from the tent:
Che, are you bad? On, holding out the bottle with the unfinished vodka at the bottom, take it, straight from the throat. Shaking the bottle, his brother said. Misha looked at the vodka, and immediately the nasty fellow fled out of his throat, like a sparrow from a birdhouse.
You, what do you want me to do? He mumbled in his heart.
Here is a fool. I want to help you. Understand, you will immediately become a man. Drink a couple of sips, as a hand removes. Youll see. Sasha jumped out into the morning cold and slipped a bottle into Mishas hand. Misha made an effort, typing the full lungs of air, took two sips, to the horror of the opposite drink now. A warm cat swept the esophagus into the stomach and spread out there, bringing all the terrible chaos of the burning body into calmness and, oh, a miracle, into a normal state. Misha, with red eyes, gave a grateful look to his brother, who with a smile was watching him from the tent already
The whole company came to Misha after dinner. Happy merry and cheerful. After a couple of hours, Misha and Sasha conducted the girls Lusya and Sofia to the train. And the girls went to Yekaterinburg. The guys returned to Misha, discussing the night and the picnic impressions
Chapter 7.
The boys returned from the station to Misha. It was already 18 hours. Their mothers were not yet at home, and Misha called the mother on the Smartphone.
Mom, where are you?
Hello, son, we are with Aunt Nastya, our classmate. Well be late. So rest, you guys are adults. Till. And my mother disconnected from the connection.
There they meet cheerfully with classmates, so that everything is OK. said Misha.
All right, Sasha replied. Lets think over that well take you to the ruins of an abandoned castle. There must be something there, even if this object is deleted from the space map.
It seems to me that with the name of Demigovs places, where he had some business, there are many secrets and mysteries. Said Misha cleverly.
Yes, its okay for you, brother, to be so abstruse. Youre not an academician of the Academy of Sciences. Until we see with our own eyes, nothing will be clear.
I am alarmed by the fact that the Moscow expedition from the Academy of Sciences did not find this entrance to the dungeon. Are they all such fuckers that they could not see such a simple detail?
Look, Misha, it seems to me that they noticed, but did not dare to continue the research, but simply froze this object, having deleted it from existence.
So its of some value. Misha has cleverly expressed.
This concludes the conversation. The guys took out the products bought on the way from the station and Misha started frying potatoes, and Sasha opened a couple of cans and went to work
Cooking salad. Two bottles of beer appeared on the table. And the guys began to supper, discussing tomorrows sally into the abandoned ruins.
The collection of the necessary inventory for the study of the ruins took a fair amount of time. And having collected in backpacks all that could be needed there, the guys at exactly 23 hours went to bed, in advance they did not forget to make an alarm clock. Their spree mothers were not yet. Alarm clock thundered exactly at six zero-zero. Misha jumped first as the alarm clock stood on the bedside table next to his bed.
Che, is it time? Sasha asked sleepily.
Yes, sleep again; Im first in the bathroom, then you. With these words, Misha went out into the corridor and saw on the hung clothes that their mothers were asleep at home.
After the bath, the guys quietly made their way to the kitchen brewed their coffee more tightly and after a light breakfast with sandwiches, quietly slipped out of the house.
Praise God, we did not have to report to our parents about where we were going, and what we had there for such matters. Wrote Misha.
You, Misha, so worried, here is my stepfather, by the way, he from the first days, as he married his mother, forbade him to call him, there is a father or father, but only, to use his name as an equal to himself.
Wow, as an equal? Surprised Misha, And, the fact that he is Russias champion in kick-side-sung, the famous Sergei Avramenko, is this how?
He has been a businessman for a long time and does not appear. Now on business I went to Sochi to my winery. It is necessary to check how there is a vineyard, and how to farm, and so on. And in August we all go to Spain with our whole family, and well come to the tenth, in short, Ill start going to college on the eleventh of September.
What do you do in your Consul on Saturday?
Its Sophie telling you how our colleges called, huh? Well, from Monday, of course.
And, whats hard to guess? She still said that you are such a bore, and that does not understand how in such a turkey all the girls in your class are in love? Misha said with a laugh.
Well, shell get me for a bore. Ill come, Ill sort it out.
The girls have to forgive, the atoms, which of us will grow, what any kind of all the same you are a man.
Yes, Mishka. Thats for sure, let them weave on them and tongues without bones.
One thing is good, about our secret affairs, state, we can say, secrets, we almost blurted it out. With a smile, said Misha.
Thats what it means to stop in time. Sasha added approvingly.
So after the conversations the guys did not notice how the wasteland passed, nesting on the jeans of last years rapiers. Near the dubious bridge, they stopped. They ripped from their trouser legs and began to confer.
Lets carefully examine this bridge for a hundred years, an atom and more. Look, all the beams rotted, and one support, so above this moat with water already in a hanging position. Sasha began to talk.
Yes, I still remember, this support stood in the water on a thin barrel-like trunk. Added Misha.
Yes, I still remember, this support stood in the water on a thin barrel-like trunk. Added Misha.
Do you remember, the inscription, well, a sign with the inscription that it is dangerous to walk on the bridge.
Yes, here she, lying around in the last years grass, fell off for a long time. said Misha.
Look, how everything is overgrown, soon behind these thickets and consider anything no one can. Sasha said, examining the dilapidated wall through the young foliage growing almost to the trees of bushes on the opposite side of the moat.
All the same it is necessary to pass. If I fail, consider it a communist, Im going. And Misha first bravely stepped onto the bridge. Shaky designs bent under the feet, but the guy cautiously and slowly moved forward. He ripped off his backpack in advance and held it in his hand just in case. Little by little, I crossed to the opposite side of the moat. His example was followed by Sasha. Moving, they, as if yesterday were here, confidently walked in the familiar direction to the watchtower, to what was left of it.
The boys were disappointed with the picture. The entrance to the dungeon was littered with the ruined dome-shaped ceiling of the watchtower, which from time to time collapsed and closed the entrance with a dense layer of debris from the ceiling, the burnt clay masonry
Authors note:
Even in the distant 1979, the scientists of the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute, according to the instructions of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, modern geophysical methods investigated these ruins, but there was no dungeon with melting furnaces, but an underground passage was found that led to the basement of the Demidov Tower and the plant.
Chapter 8.
In 1697, on a hot August day, Peter I arrived in Amsterdam to study shipbuilding at the East India Shipyard. Its main goal was to learn how to build ships to create a navy fleet. At the same time, his goal was also to find craftsmen and masters for the smelting of metal ores for military purposes. But with the second task, the problem was not the desire, neither the Dutch nor the British to send their masters to raise the iron-ore industry of Russia and at the same time create this and the military power of Russia. And with the first problem, not everything was smooth, since the Dutch shipbuilders built their ships on a whim without drawings, which prevented Peter from building his fleet in Russia.
In the evenings sitting in his apartment in Amsterdam, he wrote in his heart: It was very disgusting for him that he perceived such a long way for this, but did not reach the desired end. He ordered an order to Moscow to subordinate the Dutch masters at the Voronezh shipyard to the Venetian and Danish masters. Further from Moscow came a letter from a merchant and breeder, of Dutch origin, Andrei Denisovich Vinius:
It is better than that ore to be not possible and in the whole world, there is so rich that out of a hundred pounds of ore comes forty pounds of cast iron. Please, please, undermine the ambassadors to find iron masters of good, able to do steel Vinius also reported that a magnetic The ore in the Urals was discovered by blacksmiths master Nikita Demidovich Demidov.
Demidov Nikita became known to Peter I in that he repaired the German pistol to the vice chancellor of Petros associate Peter Baron Pyotr Pavlovich Shafirovs, who was on the Tsars affairs at the arms factory in Tula. And not only repaired, but made an exact copy of such weapons of improved design. On the recommendation of Shafirovs, Peter I made an order in 1696 to Demidov Nikita to make 200 rifles on a German model, which was completed in a month. Peter, before making this order, arrived in Tula and at a meeting with the master, said Nikita:
Youll make two hundred guns in a months time; Ill allocate a subsidy from the treasury for the construction of an arms factory. (Russian archive, 1878 Book 2-No.5-P.119124 // Traditions about Demidov and Demidov factories).
Demidov carried out the order and in a month gave the tsar instead of the ordered 200, 300 guns, and exact copies from the foreign model provided by Peter I. The tsar lent from the Treasury Nikita Demidov the construction of an arms factory, which was built on a site designated for this construction. Thus, Nikita Demidov became the main supplier of weapons for the tsarist army of Peters times.
Failures with the hiring of iron making masters abroad pushed Peter I to the necessity of training his Russian masters of metallurgy. And Shafirovs gun, and a shotgun pattern on which Demidov made 300 rifles, were produced in the arms factories of Saxony. In 1698, Tsar Peter I. visited Saxony and also got acquainted with the organization of mining in Freiberg. Here the son of Demidov Nikita, Akinfiy Nikitich Demidov, was sent to Saxony with other children. Before leaving Akinfiya abroad, the son had a long conversation with his father:
Write it all down, as I told you. There, silver is melted from the ore, as it is done you must know. And remember that with the copper smelting enriched by smelting; the still not purified red copper comes out. There can be contained in a hundred pounds of red copper to five pounds of gold and silver. Remember that your main task is not to give out why you are recovering there. In addition, that you will learn copper smelting; learn in great detail, from red copper, how to get silver and gold. Saxons have poor copper ore and do not contain enough of these compounds. But the methods should be described in their textbooks. Try to buy these books, well, find out how its done, sort of for the general development. I spoke instructively to my 19-year-old son Nikita.
Yes, I understood, my father understood. I will be more attentive than ever. The tone that Akinfiy answered, not really liked Nikita. My son studied with his father and, it seems, was what. His metallurgy was very interested. He himself aspired to what Demidov the Elder had told him, and if they say the same thing several times in a row, he did not like Akinfiy. But the trip abroad attracted an inquisitive young man and also the learning process. But Nikita hoped that his son, at least, would learn something about the process of extracting precious metals from the ores, as a side effect in the process of smelting the base metal. On this, they decided that Demidov the Younger would write down in detail the processes that contribute to the basic melting. Demidov the Younger answered his father:
There, in the books, everything is described in detail. Trying to distract my father from the conversation, said Akinfius.
In books, then in books, but everywhere there are secrets, which the masters are not in a hurry to share with anyone. And I myself know that what comes by skill and skill is not recorded, but is passed from father to son and stored under seven locks inside the family. Therefore, share a sincere acquaintance with the master, that owns the art of mining precious metal and take over the experience, remember everything, maybe without writing down, so that no one knows that we will be smelting here
Peter I was still at the shipyards of Amsterdam, when Andrei Denisovich went to Germany with ten young men to train them from foreign craftsmen of the arts. Vinius wrote to Peter in detail about his request to send young men to study in Saxony, including the 19-year-old Akinfiya, the son of the weapons business of Master Nikita Demidov. In total, 50 children from families of boyars, wealthy merchants and industrialists were selected to study crafts abroad