Leo of the biography of Platov

Illustration of V. Britin is a very summary of the year. The Russian sovereign traveled to Europe, accompanied by a faithful Don Cossack. The English masters showed him a clock flea made of steel, which was able to dance. The sovereign was amazed and bought a flea for a lot of money. The Cossack believed that our masters could make no worse. Soon the sovereign returned to Russia and died.

He also believed that Russian masters could surpass the British, so he instructed the faithful Cossack to take the flea to the Tula craftsmen. Advertising Tula craftsmen, among whom was a master of Levsha, managed to pinch the English flea. The delighted emperor sent a flea to England, and with her, left -handed, so that the British could see what Russian masters are. The British persuaded Levsha to stay in England, but he refused.

Returning on a ship to Russia, Levsha concluded with an assistant skipper bet: who would drink anyone. The assistant skipper was taken to be treated to the English embassy. The unproparpical leftist got to the police, and from there to the hospital, where he died. Before his death, an assistant skipper found him. Levsha asked him to transfer the secret to the emperor in England: the British did not clean the muzzle of rifles with bricks, so their weapons served for a long time.

The words of the left-handed to the emperor did not convey, which is why Russia lost the Crimean war. Time passed, and the leftist became a folk hero. A detailed retelling of chapters 1. The emperor was surprised by the products of European craftsmen, and they used it, "in order to captivate his foreign land and distract from the Russians." Advertising in all travels of Alexander I accompanied Platov.

Platov missed the house and persuaded the emperor to return to Russia. Noticing that Alexander I was interested in something too much, Platov said that "there is no worse at home." Chapter 2. The English craftsmen were sure that he would see real miracles in the English arms Kunstsk.

There, ”says,“ the nature of perfection that you look, you will no longer argue that we, Russians, are not good with our meaning. The British showed Alexander I their best products, including a pistol. The emperor went around, and Platov dismantled the gun and found the Russian inscription: "Ivan Moskvin in the city of Tula." The emperor regretted the confusing the British, and Platov became annoying from this.

He drank a glass of vodka and fell asleep with a strong Cossack dream, and the British "they set up such a new surprise that Platov was taken away from Platov’s whole imagination." Chapter 3. Mechanical Steel Bloch in the morning Alexander I carried a tray that seemed empty. In fact, on it lay a steel mechanical flea smashed by English craftsmen. Advertising Alexander I bought a flea for a million together with the case of "from the whole diamond nut", and the offended Plates also grabbed the "small -switch".

On the way to Russia, Platov and the Emperor were hardly talked due to disagreement: the sovereign believed that the British had no equal, and the Cossack believed that ours could do everything, only “useful teachings” were not enough for them. Then the sovereign went to Taganrog to confess with the priest there. And the Cossack returned home, lay down "on an annoying bit" and began to smoke without ceasing to smoke.

Chapter 4. Bloch is sent to Tula Alexander I in Taganrog died. The case with the flea eventually came to Nicholas I. Platov told Nicholas I about the flea and suggested showing it to the Russian masters, who can be able to surpass with the ease of the British. Nicholas I did not like to give in to foreigners. He sent Platov with an instruction to the Don, and on the way he ordered to call in Tula.

Chapter 5. Plates are lucky to fly to the Tula craftsmen Plates showed the Tulyaks Flea and asked what they would do. The masters did not open his plan to him: they were afraid that the Cossack would not believe them, and asked Platov to call on the flea on the way back. Chapter 6. Tula master-lusk, the three most skilled masters gathered their knapsacks with food and left the city.

Among them was a left -handed person. Chapter 7. Tula craftsmen begin the work of Tula, “knowledgeable in metal business”, have always been very religious. The masters went to serve the prayer service of the ancient icon of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of trade and military affairs. Advertising returning to Tula, they locked themselves in the house of the left -handed house, the windows were closed and set to work.

People tried to lure them, but artists did not succumb to provocations. Chapter 8. Platov returned to Tula in Tula Platov returned two weeks later in a big hurry, because the emperor was waiting for his report. All the way he drove the horses without stopping, so fast that he flew past the postal stations. In Tula, the Cossack sent for the masters of everyone who came to his arm, "so that not a single minute for Russian utility disappears." Chapter 9.

Tula craftsmen finish the work of the messengers burst into the hut to the masters, demolished the roof, but they went to Platov only when the last clove was scored. The left -hander carried the case with the English flea, they had nothing more in their hands. The head of the left -handed person enters Petersburg Platov opened the case and saw that the flea was, and it remained.

He began to scold the masters.Those were offended and did not tell their secret, they ordered the flea to the emperor to be taken-he will understand. Platov rushed to Petersburg, taking with him a left -hander, so that he answered all the masters before the emperor. Levsha had to go to Petersburg as it is, without a document. Platov reports to the emperor at Nicholas I, Platov began to tell him “what are the Cossacks on the quiet Don Interdeministered conversations.” The Cossack hoped that the emperor would not remember the Tula masters, but Nicholas I did not forget anything.

Platov had to admit that the masters could not do anything, but asked the flea to the sovereign to show. Nicholas I was sure that the masters would not deceive him. The flea no longer dances the English flea, but she did not dance. Platov thought that the masters were broken, in anger jumped out of the palace and began to beat the left -hander, who was waiting in the stroller.

He assured Platov that the flea was not spoiled, but it was necessary to look at her in the strongest “small -loking”. Biddowed flea Nicholas I looked at the flea in the “Melkikok”, did not see anything, but he did not lose weight in the masters and ordered to bring the left -hander to his place. There was something: in the expanses, one leg in the boot, the other dangles, and the ward is old, the hooks are not fastened, torn, and the scruff of the heel is torn; But nothing, will not become embarrassed.

Advertising appeared to the emperor, Levsha explained that not the whole flea, but one of its leg should be considered in the “Melchikok”. Looking, Nicholas I shone and hugged the master. It turned out that the craftsmen knocked out the flea. Leo went to England, Levsha said that the name of the master who poured it on each horseshoe that poured it. Only the name of the left -hander is nowhere: it is forged for the hills of carnations.

The emperor asked what “small -speed” the masters watched when the flea was hung. Levsha replied that they did not have a “small -spoke” in poverty, they saw everything with the naked eye. Platov asked the leftist forgiveness and gave him a hundred rubles. The emperor ordered to send the Flea to the English masters, and with her left -handed, to show what masters are in Tula.

The left -hander was washed, fed and sent to England. Levsha refuses to live in England, but it remains to stay for three days the British with a left -handed drink, then they began to ask what sciences Russian masters know. They were very surprised to learn that the Russians did not know any sciences, but do everything by eye. That is why the Tulas could not calculate that the flea of ​​the horseshoes would hurt to dance.

Advertising The British suggested that Levsha stay in England, marry, and the sciences of study. Levsha refused: he remained old parents at home, he did not like the English women, and he did not want to accept Vera English. But the master remained to stay. Left returns home Levsha looked at all English production. He liked that the workers are full, dressed and trained in the "Dolbits of Multiplication" there.

Levsha paid especially close attention to how the British contain old guns. Soon Levsha asked home. The British persuaded him to wait, because the “bummer” predicted the storm, but Levsha refused to wait. He was awarded with money and gold hours and put on a ship that went to Russia. In the cabin, Levsha was shy to swim, and when a terrible storm began, he did not leave the deck.