the Ringing cedars of Russia
Vladimir Megre English translation by John Woodsworth

Unravelling the mystery

 

Standing in the kitchen of my small Moscow apartment, standing next to the table with the frankfurters getting cold and Lyosha Novichkov’s head resting on the pages containing the text of Anastasia, I made a promise to myself: to find a way of regaining my capital and getting back my ship with a view to taking it on the same journey as last year when I first met Anastasia. But not on a trade mission, as before. I wanted to go there during the ‘white nights’ of summer, so that Lyosha, Anton and Artem — as well as all those who had worked like dogs, in spite of all the setbacks and often to the neglect of their own material well-being, to organise a fellowship of purer-minded entrepreneurs — could enjoy a decent holiday aboard my ship in the most luxurious quarters.

 

And what was this grand idea all about, in any case? What kind of hold did it have on people? Why was I, too, drawn into it so closely? What kind of mystery did it conceal? I just had to figure this out, in concrete detail, and unravel its mystery and purpose. And why are people so turned on by this dream of a taiga recluse? What lies hidden there? How can I unravel the mystery?

 

Moskovskaya Pravda correspondent Katya Golovina tried unravelling it by asking the students to explain what moti-vated them, what their personal stake was in all this. But they couldn’t give a definitive answer, saying only that it was something worth doing. In other words, they were working on intuition. But what was behind this intuition?

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Ringing cedars of Russia, a series Ringing cedars of Russia, Vladimir Megre. The book 2 (1997)

Translator’s Preface

1. Alien or Man?

2. A money-making machine

3. Healing for hell

4. A confidential conversation

5. Where are you, my guardian angel?

6. The cherry tree

7. Who’s to blame?

8. The answer

9. Dachnik Day and an All-Earth holiday!

10. The ringing sword of the bard

11. A sharp about-turn

12. Who sets the course?

13. Money from scratch

14. A destructive force

15. ‘Herbalife’ entrepreneurs

16. Free holidays in Hawaii

17. The beginning of perestroika

18. Fellowship of Russian entrepreneurs

19. Suicide?

20. The Ringing Cedars of Russia

21. Untitled

22. Unravelling the mystery

23. Untitled

24. Father Feodorit

25. The Space of Love

26. Anastasia’s grandfather

27. The anomaly

28. Illusory people

29. Why nobody can see God

30. Dawn in Russia

31. How to produce healing cedar oil

32. Title!

33. Your sacred sites, О Russia!

In Anastasia’s Ray. Editor’s Afterword

About the Ringing Cedars Series