... Early still, not that still age that with a head to sink in memoirs, has told to itself(himself) V.F.Nado to operate.
It is easy to tell - to operate. It was necessary to return to the validity - has returned and impregnating it through, as bitter sea
water - a sponge, a nightmare. What happens with Gosha?
Century F descended in kladovku, has found an old portfolio of the son. Has estimated approximately - all dangerous papers
should be located, and the portfolio will not look too chubby. Has started to stack - a leaf behind a leaf... Whatever one may
do, and all hope now was on Feodor Ignatevicha. Its movements were slowed down.
So when all was defined definitively?
Century F seemed - during a trip to the Inner Mongolia in 1949. It was, somewhat, the highest point of their strange friendship.
Mao Zedong yet has not proclaimed the Chinese National Republic on the Peking area of Tjananmen, but anything could
not stop its armies any more.
Feodor Ignatevich has already become by then the lieutenant colonel, but yet has not lost romantic charm of military years.
Still - "villis" with the driver, a holster with German "automatic pistol", Simonov's small volume in a pocket. Simonov, the truth
to tell, now has replaced Kipling in English. As the fighter of "invisible front", the Russian officer presumed to study language
of the enemy even during an epoch of struggle against cosmopolitism. During a trip of Century F for the first time has heard
expression "the big game" - "Great Game". For it it was the present opening - it appears, Russia and Britain struggled already
when "Maugli" has been written.
Certainly, all of them were in civil clothes and represented geologists. For "villisom" followed "studebeker". They slept usually
in a capacious body "studebekera", tightened by a canvas.
Probably, by then Feodor Ignatevich has already resolved that Century F does not approach for any operative work. But the
good photographer was necessary to it - yes operative work almost and it was not required, or, anyway, it was carried out
behind a shot, is imperceptible for Century F.
In "cleared regions" to it basically the Chinese companions were engaged. And that became besides the Chinese
companions, concerned more likely area of gathering of data - including, of course, and about companions, above very
much worried, the Yugoslavian variant as though has not repeated.
Later, when Century F the good card of those places has come into the hands, it has traced on it their route of that time. He
accurately avoided those places where operative work was much. To the northeast lay KVZHD and Manchzhurija with
emigrant Harbin. On plague sand the shade of the future Korean events laid down. The independent East Turkestani
Republic in the west was the way out.