-       The same as you? And you are not alone? Your apartment long ago was turned into museum, and people, whom didn’t look at you are the visitors of museum.

     Gray-headed man took at his iPhone, a light-click sounded, and the faces of siting people were illuminated by a brief flash.

-       Was a strange thing looked like this?

-       Yes, and what is it doing?

Gray-headed man turned the display to Pushkin and showed him a photo of poet.

-       These animators made-up like you and create photo sessions with museum visitors – in such way they earn money for life. Excuse me that I took a photo without your permission, although … no matter nobody will believe me.

-       And who are these animators?

-       They are mummers. They are selected by psychologists, made-up, dressed according that time, and recommended to the owners of tourist agencies for attracting tourists. Indeed, for many people will be interesting to demonstrate the photo with most famous Russian poet. Mainly, this deal like to do the tourists from the West. Walk to the Palace square, visit Pavlovsk or Peterhof – there are plenty such mummers – as men and women. And here in your former apartment there are particularly many tourists from the west countries. They still can’t understand why Pushkin is so popular in Russia.

-       And am I indeed popular in Russia?

-       Extra than you think. You are – our everything. For some people it is true, and for others is ineptness. Almost in every city there is a monument devoted for you. And, also, in the world there are monuments in many countries. Even in Africa.

     Gray-headed man spoke and at that time attentively followed for the eyes of neighbor sitting at the table. He had long time learned that the eyes are the mirror of a soul: a man can lie with tongue, but can’t lie with eyes. This guest exactly did not lie. Although, while listening his questions, he checked: how the animator playing his role of Pushkin would have react to this information? He noticed with regret, that he can’t definitely determine who is in front of him: mummer or Pushkin himself.

-       If it is a game, - he thought, - then I must play in such way that no doubts will leave finally. And how? Of course, there is an art to find a truth by setting leading questions. This art demonstrated Socrates to his students, this had cost him his life. My contemporaries (even not all of them) know about this from encyclopedias, for example – Big Soviet Encyclopedia. And what about real Pushkin? Did he know about dialectics? In contrast of us, he was proficient in Ancient Greek and read ancient Greeks in original. But it turns out, that main complicated trick in this art is to formulate a question which would be adequate to the situation.

-       And who is called in Russia “Your Majesty” now? Are the Romanov’s continuing to be “Your Majesty”? – have asked the guest from the past.

- “Your Majesty” almost hundred years is sitting not in Petersburg, but in Moscow. And last Romanov hundred years ago either had abdicate the title “Your Majesty” by himself, or he was forced to do this by his relatives and friends. However, you know, that in our Russia the czars were always overthrown by their court ranks, and civilians were dragged into their conflicts. In the same way in 1917 year was overthrown the last czar. One year later he with his family were shot.

-       And who did this, new Decembrists? Even in December 1825 they were going to cut-out all Romanov’s. But, at that time, Nikolay Pavlovich didn’t make a misstep and he took them down a peg. Despite of his young ages, he was a strong Czar. His idol was Petr I.

-       We may say that your words are also correct. In the beginning of XX century Russia was engaged into the great world war, and the role of “Your Majesty” at that time played the great-grandson of Nikolay Pavlovich – Nikolay II. He took under his own responsibility the suprem command of the army, but the “new Decembrists” did not like him, and they insisted on his renunciation of a throne. After that the power in Empire was seized by interim Government, which imprisoned the czar. After the fall of monarchy, the war endured. In the beginning the army started to collapse and then Russia. And the fate of Empire had decided by bolsheviks in October of the same year.

-       And who are these?

-       Those who always represented the interests of majority of working population in Empire.

-       That is in Russia began revolt like Pugachev’s one? And who was in the role of Pugachev?

-       Lenin. He arrived from Swiss through Germany, which was the main adversary together with Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empires against Russia at that war.

-       And what about allies? Was it France really ally?

-       France and Britain, later the United States enjoined to them.

-       With such allies Russia does not need enemies.

-       In anyway, Alexander Sergeevich, the allies after revolution fought on the side of interim Government against bolsheviks. And tried on the quite of civil war expropriate from Russia Far East and North.

-       The civil war after revolution was like in France? And who did fight there?

-       The country at the beginning of XX century was peasant one, but in the cities an industry was developed and part of peasants left to the cities to work in the factories and in the plants.

-       And did peasants become free?

-       Yes, in 1861 under the govern of son of Nikolay Pavlovich – Alexander II abolished the serfdom, but the peasants were obliged to buy a land from landlords. Thus, they got the land but equipment, horses for soil processing, were not enough for everybody. The peasants began to stratify into rich and poor. In the cities appeared the owners of manufactures and plants – bourgeoises. And finally, the workers in the cities, and then the peasants in the villages, the soldiers coming from war supported the revolution against their former owners – nobility, bourgeoises, rich peasants. And who does give the power easily? That why the civil war began. From one side were Whites (officers and dedicated to them troops), who wanted to return back czar and bourgeoises, and from the other side were Reds (workers, peasants and joined to them soldiers, who fought for a new power. The Reds had created their own army and won the Whites in the civil war. Part of Whites had run away to the West, in Europe. And another part left to help build new Russia, which got the name - Soviet (advise).

-       Where does this name originate? Who and what did there advise?

-       Workers, peasants, soldiers combined in the cities and villages in communities, with help of which they ruled in the country after revolution. These communities had got the name Soviets. Revolution was done by Bolsheviks and Mensheviks together. And those (Mensheviks) had their own Pugachev– Trotsky. This is a nickname, and his real surname was Bronstein. He like Lenin came from abroad. Lenin came from Europe, and Trotsky from USA.