My city 3: records Emmanuel

Emmanuel did not understand humour.

– What do you mean?

– And even I mean – Luda blurted out with hatred. – The Russian militia wallowed in corruption. – then she blurted out. – They stop cars to earn additionally. – then she explained. – To take from us money for which violations we did not make.

Emmanuel was terrified:

– This crime! Where does the police look?

– At you the Police and laws which observe at us the law are a green piece of paper, that its advantages are higher, it is better for those. – then she threw. – And the law for fools.

Emmanuel puzzly questioned:

– And where watches the government?

Luda grinned, she carelessly threw:

– Government? Хм? To them to deal with the power, and it could not care less of corruption. – it having made a pause, added. – Yeltsin took the country in hand, and now to him to hold the power. Whether joke, first president of free Russia. – then she added. – All want to be fed from its bucket, all want the power.

– Are sure?

– Absolutely. – unambiguously Luda said, and with not neglect threw. – How many parties divorced, yes will not put too much salt in salt-salt. All in the power climb, a coma laziness. – then she took an interest. – Tell Emmanuel, in Europe also?

Emmanuel shrugged shoulders, having told at the same time:

– The power is identical everywhere, and its achievements are various.

– There can be you and are right. – Luda agreed. – Power and money, interdependent from each other. – Luda having put itself more or less in order, having turned a key ignition, having pressed the accelerator pedal went further. It went without knowing that it will be with it. Now she should have calmed down and to bring Emmanuel to the nearest hotel. It having looked at Emmanuel, carefully took an interest. – Will not you object if I come to myself home? – then she assured Emmanuel. – I from you will not take money.

Emmanuel as the woman understood Luda. She could not drive the car in such state. Their harmless conversation led to unexpected consequences. Luda was in a hysterics. It could not conduct a car. But nevertheless she drove the car. Sitting in a driver's seat, she could not entrust a wheel of this car to whom was.

– Well. – Emmanuel agreed. Then she asked. – And where do you live?

– Nearby. – Luda answered. – In one quarter.

– Well. – told Emmanuel. Then it kind of encouraging her added. – Life for you only begins. Forget all sorrows and adversities, and live. Lead life, and rejoice it.

– You are right. – Luda agreed. – It is necessary to live it is happy. – she made a sad pause, and with grief on heart added as if approving the correctness. – Only in this country. – then she suggested. – Perhaps here it will be ever possible to live – it having made a heavy pause, and added. – But not now.

Emmanuel told nothing. She looked out of the car window, and thought of something. Perhaps she thought of that why it here? In this country. It perhaps will never find the truth here. Buried under a paper heap, it was handed over in archive, and hardly she will see the light sometime. The governments of all countries are able to keep the secrets and to share them or nobody is going to disclose them.

However, perhaps Emmanuel thought of Luda. Its attitude towards Russia. It was obvious that she did not want to leave this country, but in it it hardly became happy. Happiness for all the. It for each person individual, and hardly someone will share it with somebody.

So they approached one of houses. The car stopped near one of entrances to the address, Yablokov D. № 18 Street. Luda killed the car engine, and having addressed Emmanuel, told:

– Here we also arrived.

Chapter-4

Invitation on a visit

Emmanuel went out of the car-TAXI, behind her there was Luda. Luda told:

– Here I live. – then she added. – You have probably other houses.

Emmanuel having looked at the house and having examined the house, told:

– Houses are similar at each other, people different everywhere.

– You are absolutely right Emmanuel. – Luda agreed. – People everywhere different – then she added Voland's word from the work by M.A. Bulgakov "Master and Margarita". – The housing problem spoiled them.

Emmanuel having approached Luda to help to reach an entrance, admitted:

– I read Bulgakova too.

Luda having looked at Emmanuel, asked:

– Did you read only one his work?

– What you? – was surprised Emmanuel, and hurried to add. – Of course not. – then she added. – I read Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov much. – then she added. – Whether you know, my relatives from Imperial Russia. They fled Russia in the seventeenth year.

Luda having knowingly looked at Emmanuel, with understanding assumed:

– Did you probably always want to return to Russia?

Emmanuel quietly answered:

– To that Russia which was at the CPSU – no.

– And in present?

– I always wanted to live freely as I want to live. – then she added. – I cannot recognize present Russia as the free country. – it having made a pause, added. – I cannot answer you this question unambiguously. Russia is Russia, it has to spread the wings from the Soviet mode now – its dictatorships. And then who knows? Maybe Russia will be the great country? Who knows?

They reached an entrance, and having opened a door entered an entrance. Women approached the elevator, and having pressed the elevator call button, Luda told:

– I am fast.

– You do not hurry. – answered Emmanuel. – I do not hurry.

The elevator opened the doors, and women having entered inside, and Luda pressed the button of the third floor. Doors of the elevator were closed, and the elevator having risen on the third the floor of an apartment house opened the doors. Women went out of the elevator, and having turned to the right, women approached to the leader's door in a corridor of apartments, and having got keys from a jacket pocket, opened a door, and having entered a corridor Luda locked for herself a door. Then they approached to the first door from an entrance on the left side, and Luda having opened a door a key, women entered the apartment, and Luda closed a door and locked it. Having taken off footwear, and having put on slippers Emmanuel asked:

– Where do you have a bathroom?

Luda showed the door on the left side from an entrance.

Emmanuel entered her, and Luda passed in a doorway which conducted to the room. Having entered the room Luda, saw the grandfather Grigory Ivanovich sleeping on the sofa. About it it was possible to write much and all the same you will not write what could be written about it. Let he will tell about himself. But not now. Now he slept on the sofa, and had a dream. It is unlikely I can write what dreamed the seventy-year-old person this day? Let it will remain a secret. But nevertheless one can be told about it now. It had a light sleep and when Luda entered the room Grigory Ivanovich asked: