A journey through parallel worlds. Chapter 4. Last test
Part 1. Who is count Dracula?
Continuation.
Having finished with tea, the warm company moved to Valentina Petrovna's desktop where sheets with the put, already familiar to Vika pattern were already spread out.
– In General, listen to me closely. I will not repeat it a second time, we simply do not have time for this.
– This ornament belonged to the count, familiar with the mysterious Dracula, which is said to be a vampire who killed an incredible number of people, drinking all their blood.
– Oh, isn't that so? - impatiently interrupting his teacher, asked Vika.
– Nu you same educated people, - reproachfully shook a head old, - did you believe in all these stories and tall tales, which invent the frightened, narrow-minded people? Yes, something in the stories about count Dracula, his gloomy castle and orgies arranged by him, it could give rise to all these inventions.
– These rumors appeared, grew and multiplied not from scratch. In fact, in the fifteenth century a small state Wallachia (Romania) ruled a Vlad Tepes, who was a member of the order of the Dragon, which included several European rulers. The purpose of the order was to fight the Ottoman Empire and the conquest of the cross.
– And where does Dracula, if the name of the king of the Tepes? - again I could not stand the girl.
– Don't interrupt me, listen carefully. Maybe you can use some of the information I'm trying to give you right now.
Valentina Petrovna seemed a little angry with her restless pupil. The working day was coming to an end, and she hadn't told the boys a hundredth of what she had planned.
– Just a dragon, translated into Romanian sounds like Dracula. And tsepesh oftentimes the, signing letters and decrees, pose signature - Vlad Dracula. Well, he liked that name.
– In addition, according to eyewitnesses, the Impaler was a cruel and bloodthirsty man. It cost him nothing for the slightest offense to execute the person, the most brutal way - to put him on a stake. For those six years that he was in power, was executed forty thousand people. It is in a small across size and population of the Principality!
– This fiend liked to have feasts with the people he executed, so those who called him a vampire were not so wrong. He seems to be enjoying the sight and smell of blood, taking in this sinister force.
– In General, you can to imagine, as hated his surrounding. Fear and hatred spawned a lot of rumors, some of them become legends, enveloped as the name Dracula, and the castle where he did his vile deeds.
– Subsequently, the attitude of others was transferred to the offspring of the Prince.
– However, despite this, there were people who supported one of the descendants of Dracula is good, one might even say, friendships.
– This man was the owner of the mysterious coat of arms?" - asked Anton. "The one whose descendant disappeared without a trace in the eighteenth century?"
– The same one... This is an illegitimate descendant of the ancient princely family of Geek, whose residence is located in the castle of the Romanian city of comenesti, presumably the son of Gregory IV, named Peter.
– But surely, somewhere, was someone from the sort of Geek who could shed light on how and where he could disappear Peter, isn't it?
– Unfortunately, the last representative of this kind Nikos Gikas - Greek artist and art critic, died in 1994. Yes and it is doubtful, that he could open this mystery of. But the members of the Council of our Academy I think that Marina, I'm sorry, Vika, I'm a little slip of the tongue, can help with its solution.
To be continued...
The beginning of history read [here]:
1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42.