privy council.dokia , recalls: when emperor peter ii died, then prince dimitri galitson and the field marshal, prince dolgoruky, called me and had a discussion about who to choose for the throne, at first they talked about tsarina evdokia feodorovna, but she was already old, then they decided to choose empress anna john. this, however, is another story: evodokia died as a girl lupukhin in 1731 . before her death, her last words were: god made me know the price of the greatness of earthly happiness, in the sense that it has a small price. and now another short story. in 2005, i went abroad for the first time to paris. i don’t know if you can imagine what it’s like for me to be a soviet boy, born and raised in the soviet union. meant to light up, it was a huge, incomprehensible alien world, where i, yesterday’s squad leader amon, suddenly ended up, because i wrote my first book, and it was translated into french, and my publishers invited me to visit paris. i got off the plane and was greeted in the a