palace to speak to august persons and famous listeners. gave the twenty-year-old musician a good recommendation and kub norkevich. yodka was invited to teach musical literacy in moscow at the mariinsky seemed like a mother's dream, the son came true and became a musician, but after working at the school for only a year, norkevich clearly unexpectedly asked for dismissal on the one hand, music. on the other hand, er, natural science, and in general, he hesitated, probably, until the very end. to be a scientist or to be a musician? paris again this time the medical faculty of the famous sorbon jakub finally decided he would be a doctor. narkevich yodka was absent from paris for only a few years, but he did not recognize the city, the capital of france, was transformed. the central street was no longer illuminated by gas, but by electric lamps. in society. the latest scientific discoveries were vividly discussed, the most fashionable book of the season 20,000 leagues under the sea, julia is true, and under the water hermit captain nema and his submarine nautilus on electric power to many this book. it seemed not a fantasy, but a forecast for the near future, few people doubted that it