Preface to the English Edition
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First printing edition 2025 (in Russian).
This is the English translation of my third book, it was prepared in the fall of 2025.
Published in electronic form on the Litres digital platform and in paper by Ridero in December 2025, ISBN 978-5-0068-7861-7.
I do the translation by myself, since I know English and French to some extent, I studied them at school and university.
Initially, a machine translation source from Yandex-AI was used, which was read twice and all found errors were corrected. The English translation of the book contains 437,102 characters (76,684 words).
The original book (in Russian) was published on September 2, 2025 in electronic form on Litres platform; in paper in October 2025 by Ridero, ISBN 978-5-0068-2032-6.
Link to the Russian edition of the book in electronic form:
https://www.litres.ru/book/vasily-lasovsky/mnv-72450709/
Link to the author's page, where you can download the original Russian versions of my books and their translations:
https://vasilylasovsky.livejournal.com
Author's email:
vasilylasovsky@yandex.ru
91tenet19@gmail.com
Best wishes to my occasional rare readers ;-),
Vasily Lasovsky.
“Night, street, lantern, pharmacy,
Meaningless and dim light.
Live another quarter of a century —
It will be like this. There is no exit.
Would you die, you'll start all over again
And everything will repeat as aforetime:
Night, icy ripples of the canal,
Pharmacy, street, lantern”.
– an excerpt from the poetry cycle “Dances of Death”
(Alexander Blok, 1915)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT77q3_Wrp4
On December 4, 2023, at 4:30 pm, I got the idea that a plot for a new book was emerging. On December 16, 2023, at 3:58 pm, I got an idea for a title for the book.
1st stage of writing: December 16, 2023 5:04 pm – March 12, 2024 10:30 pm, 185,744 characters.
As a preparation for the 2nd stage, in May – July 2024, the book grew by 40%, as of July 9, 2024 it was 248,853 characters long. My previous books were 355,820 and 344,955 characters long.
2nd stage of writing: February – May 2025 – 397,501 characters.
