The state inhabitant (rus)

The elderly person liked transport on a level with co-operative societies and prospect of the future building. In the morning he had a snack a yesterday's trifle and left to observe and enjoy. At first he visited station, mainly commodity platforms of arrival of cargoes, and there was glad to accumulation of the goods. The steam locomotive, snuffling grounds of the peace forces, slowly rebuffed the cars full of public substances: large bottles with sulfuric acid, hillocks of cords, uchrezhdenskoj luggage and unmarked bags with something useful. The elderly person, by name of Peter Evseevich Veretennikov, was happy, that their city is supplied, and went on a departure platform to look, whether trains in the Republic distance where people work leave therefrom and expect cargoes. Trains left with the compressed springs, - they so much carried necessary weight. It too satisfied Peter Evseevicha, - local people whom the goods were appointed, will be provided. Not far from station the settlement of dwellings was under construction. Peter Evseevich daily watched growth of constructions because in warmth of their shelter thousand workers of families will be sheltered and in the world after their settlement becomes more fair and happier. Peter Evseevich already touched person - from a work and material kind left building. All this prepared good by means of diligence of companionable work soon will address in a strong cosiness from harm of autumn and winter weather that the maintenance of the state, in the form of its population, was whole and pokojno. On Peter Evseevicha's further way there was the small wood already used by the rural public only occasionally enriched front, though and decaying pines. In mezhevoj to a ditch of that small wood the land surveyor slept; it was yet old, but got rid, probably, the person who has weakened from land management. Its mouth was opened in exhaustion of a dream, and vital disturbing air of a pitch pine entered into depth of a body of the land surveyor and improved it there that the body was capable again to land management of plowmen of bread. The person had a rest and was filled with happiness of passing rest; its tools - a theodolite and a measured tape - laid in a grass, they were surveyed hastily by ants and the dry spider living from avarice always individually. Peter Evseevich has dug grasses among it kanavnogo assemblages, has issued that grass in a certain pulp and has enclosed it under a sleeping head zemleustroitelja, cautiously having disturbed it that convenience has turned out. The land surveyor has not woken up, - it has only moaned something as the plaintive orphan, and again has fallen to a dream. But to have a rest on a soft grass to it already it was better. It will more deeply have a sleep and will more precisely measure the earth, - with this feeling of the useful participation Peter Evseevich has gone to following affairs. Wood quickly stopped, and the earth from under trees passed in ovrazhnye damages and in even not imposed strip farming of rye plots. And behind a rye there lived simple villages, and over them - air from terrible space, Peter Evseevich considered also air as the blessing, - breath on all area of the state therefrom was delivered. However windless days disturbed him: peasants have nothing to grind grain, and over a city infected air stands, worsening a sanitary condition. But Peter Evseevich suffered the trouble not as suffering, and as the careful need occupying with the sense all soul and doing therefore imperceptible own weight of a life. Now Peter Evseevich worried for a steam locomotive, which with sharp choking otsechkoj pair, reaching Peter Evseevicha's intense feelings, vzvolakival any rough cargoes on lifting a little. Peter Evseevich has stopped and with sympathy of the help has imagined torture of the car oppressing forward and on mountain stagnancy osadistogo of weight.
-- If only that has not burst on stsepkah, - Peter Evseevich has whispered, compressing a teeth between itching desen. - And if only to fire has sufficed, - after all it there burns down water! Let will suffer, now nearby remains... The Steam locomotive with a gnash of bandages revolved lifting, but did not surrender to structure adhering to rails. Suddenly a steam locomotive it is disturbing and often has hooted, asking through pass: obviously, the semaphore has been closed; the machinist was afraid, that, having stopped, it then does not take a train in a lifting emphasis. "And what is it becomes, My God my God!" - Peter Evseevich has sadly hung and has vigorously gone on station - to consider incident. The steam locomotive has given three whistles that means a stop, and at station Peter Evseevich has found full calmness. It has sat down in a hall of the third class and has started to suffer: "Where here the state? - Peter Evseevich. thought - Where here there is an automatic order?"
-- SHCHepotko! - the agent of movement on duty to the composer poezdov. has shouted - Pass fifty first on the eighth. Make to the mechanic and the main thing a mark, that in us transit have hammered. You have taken away there tanks?
-- So it is exact! - has answered SHCHepotko. - More while accept nothing, - I to put have. It is necessary to work fifty first. " Now all is quite clear, - Peter Evseevich. has calmed down - the State here is, because here care. Only it is necessary to the population to tell, that it existed more silently, differently cars will burst from its requirements ". With the satisfied affliction Peter Evseevich has left a railway junction to visit near village, under name Kozma. In that Kozme lived twenty four court yard. Court yard have settled down on slopes of an operating ravine and seventy years suffered such condition. Except a ravine, the village was tormented by thirst, and from thirst people ate badly and did not breed as follows. In Kozme there was no fresh and satisfying water, - there was a small pond among village, in the bottom of a ravine, but at this pond the dam was nasypana from manure, and water arrived from under habitation and from domestic economic places. All manure and the dead rests of a human life were washed off in a hollow of a pond and there were defended in yellowy-brown viscous soup which could not serve as satisfying moisture. In time obshchegrazhdanskih diseases, namely a cholera, a typhus or a crop of rare bread because in local soil there was not enough a corpulent good, - people in Kozme laid down on warm furnaces and there came to an end, looking after flies and cockroaches. In olden time, speak, in Kozme was to hundred court yard, but now there are no traces of last density of the population. Vegetative kushchi have covered the rendered habitable places vymorochennyh manors, and under those kushchami is not present ashes, pleshin from a brick or to exhaust. Peter Evseevich already rummaged there, - he did not believe, that the state could decrease, he felt breeding force of an order and a sociality, he everywhere observed automatic growth of the state happiness. The peasants living in Kozme, respected Peter Evseevicha for giving of hope by it and correctly believed, that their need in drink all Republic, and Peter Evseevich in that should know them supported:
-- Drink to you will give, - promised on. - At us the state. Justice occurs automatically, especially drink! What is it - nakozhnaja illness, whether that? This internal business, - to each citizen water is necessary on a level with reason!
-- Well, still! - confirmed in Kozme. - We at the Soviet power on water business on the first note stand. The turn will reach
-- Also we will get drunk! Al we did not drink srodu? As to a city you will go, and you drink.
-- Quite right, - Peter Evseevich. defined - Moreover and that should dobavochno be estimated, that at thirst the life goes more chilly and skupee, it from languor feel more.
-- From it without water to get to there is no place, - agreed krestjane. - you Live - as if a brand from a fire has swallowed.
-- It so is only hypochondriac seems, - Peter Evseevich. has explained - Much will seem, when to the person there is a desire to drink. The sun too sees to you and us a heat and force, and its ferry from a samovar it is possible zazastit and to extinguish - at once on a cloth a cold will come. It only to you and us so is imagined in the middle of mind... Peter Evseevich of and the state always named on "you", and the population on "you", not understanding in what here calculation as the population constantly exists at the state and is provided with it a necessary life. Usually in Kozme Peter Evseevichu suggested to eat something - not from kindness and an abundance, and from safety. But Peter Evseevich never ate another's food: after all bread grows on a sincere plot, and only on one soul, instead of on two, - so is to Peter Evseichu there was nothing. The sun - it too burns avariciously and socially: more than on one worker of the eater it does not heat up some bread, so, tasting visitors in the state should not be. Among summer the village Kozma, as well as all countryside, was ill with a diarrhoeia because berries in bushes and garden greens kept up. These fruits lead up stomachs to nervousness that was promoted by a water thick from a pond. In the prevention of this public suffering kozminskie members of the Komsomol annually started to dig wells, but were exhausted by power of impassable sand and laid down on the earth in melancholy of vain work.
-- How it all of you do without coordination? - Itself it was depressed also members of the Komsomol Peter Evseevich. - After all here reproached a ground state, the state and kolodez will give to you - wait automatically for now drink rains! Your business - a soil ploughed land in plot borders. Kozmu Peter Evseevich with some grief that is not present at citizens of water, but also with happiness of expectation left, that, so, the state forces here should move and he will see them on a way. Besides, Peter Evseevich liked for test to weaken the peace of mind by means of and the organisations of small doubt. This small doubt in the state Peter Evseevich took out with itself from Kozmy owing to bezvodija villages. Houses Peter Evseevich took out an old map of Austro-Hungary and long time considered it in quiet contemplation; to it the road was not Austro-Hungary, and the live state outlined by borders, the certain fenced and protected sense of a civil life. Under a picture of the Sevastopol battle which decorated Peter Evseevicha's warm, steady dwelling, the popular map of uniform Soviet Union hung. Here Peter Evseevich observed already more ozabochenno: he was disturbed by firmness of a line of borders. But what such border? It is the stood front of a live and correct army, for spinoju which peacefully sighs sogbennyj work. In work there is a humility of a wasted life, but this istrachennaja the life skopljaetsja in the form of the state - and it should be liked unseparable love because the life of the living and lost people is inviolably stored in the state. Buildings, gardens and railways - what is it other, how the short-term labour life not embodied for a long time? Therefore Peter Evseevich correctly believed what to sympathise it is necessary not to passing citizens, but their business which has hardened in image of the state. It was especially necessary to protect any work which has addressed in the general body of the state. " Whether there are no birds on millet? - With excitement Peter Evseevich. recollected - Will peck young kernels than then to be fed to the population? "Peter Evseevich hasty left on prosjanoe a field and, really, found there eating birds." Also what it becomes, My God my God you mine? What here it will be whole, time to any good of rest is not present? Have tortured me these elements
-- That rains, thirst, sparrows trains stop! How the state lives against it? And people still take offence at the country: unless they citizens? They descendants of a horde! "Having driven birds from millet, Peter Evseevich noticed underfoot weakened worm, not managed to leave after a moisture in depth of the earth." This still too exists - soil glozhet! - Peter Evseevich. became angry - Without it after all in any way in the state will not manage! " - And Peter Evseevich pressed a worm to death: let he lives now in eternity, instead of in mankind history, here and so closely. In the beginning of night Peter Evseevich came back to the apartment. Sparrows too have calmed down now and to guzzle on millet will not come; and for a night kernels in ears more will ripen and will get stronger - tomorrow vyklevat it will be already more difficult than them. With this soothing reflexion Peter Evseevich ate up crumbs of breakfast and bent a head to a dream, but to fall asleep could not in any way: it started something to seem and be represented to it; he listened - and heard movement of mice in co-operative societies, and watchmen sit in tea and watch radio action, not trusting it for pleasure; somewhere in seldom visited steppe fists now pursue for selkorom, and the lonely state person falls without forces from blows of thick force just as from an unbalanced storm zamertvo life bread lays down on fields. But memory is merciful - Peter Evseevich has recollected, that near Urals Mountains or in Siberia - he read in the newspaper - there is begun by erection powerful factory of difficult threshers, and on these memoirs Peter Evseevich has lost consciousness. And in the morning by its windows there passed on job old men-roofers, bore a material on a shoulder the glazier, and the co-operative cart carried beef; Peter Evseevich sat, as though having become sad, but itself enjoyed silence of the state and manners of workers of people. Has gone to a consumer bakery quiet, silent starichishka termorezov; he daily buys to itself(himself) for a breakfast a roll, and then leaves to work in shed Kopromsojuza where cords from hemp for needs of peasantry are produced. Razutaja the girl pulled for a cord of a goat - to be grazed on back court yard: the person of a goat, with a small beard and yellow eyes, resembled a devil, however it supposed is a grass in territory, means, the goat too was important. " Start up also a goat will be, - Peter Evseevich. thought - it is possible to count It as the younger bull-calfe ". The door in dwelling was opened, and the familiar peasant - Leonid from Kozmy was.
-- Hi, Peter Evseevich, - would tell Leonid.---Yesterday to you at us to wait, and you have hastened on apartment... Peter Evseevich was puzzled and has felt a fright.
-- And what such left? And? The Village is whole, on a place? I saw, how one poor stub threw, whether it has burnt property?.
-- From a stub the village was quite saved... And - just you left - from other end two carts go, and behind crew, and in him the old man. The old man speaks: "Citizens, instead of whether deep water is necessary to you?" We speak: "It is necessary, only to get it at us urine is not present". And the old man informs: "it is fine, I am a professor from the state and to you I will get water from a parent layer". The old man ponocheval also has left, and two technicians with the tool remained and have started soil to feel inside. Now we, Peter Evseevich, consider, we will be with drink. For it I to you korchazhku milk have delivered: if not you, we or dug in vain, or not pivshi sat, and you went and spoke: wait for state movement, it expects all. And left. Drink, Peter Evseevich, for this our milk... Peter Evseevich sat in disappointment, it has again passed by itself(himself) the live state and has not noticed its pure initial action.
-- Here, - he has told Leonidu. - Here it has arrived and has left. From a dry place water to you will extract, here that it means!
-- Who this such? - Leonid has silently asked.
-- Who! - otvlechenno Peter Evseevich. has said - I do not know who, I only adore it in the pomyshlenii, because I and you - only the population. Now I all see, Leonid, and I will stand in hope. Start up birds peck millet, start up the watchman in co-operative society on radio look, and mice eat good, - the state will suddenly burst and there, and we should live and suffer.
-- It is correct, Peter Evseevich, always to good doterpishsja when you touch nothing.
-- That's it, Leonid! - Peter Evseevich. has agreed - Without the state you from a cow would not drink a milk.
-- And where it would get to? - Leonid has attended.
-- Who knows it where! Perhaps and the grass would not grow.
-- And what would be?
-- Soil, Leonid, the main business - soil! And the soil after all also is the state territory, and the territory then and was not available! Where to your grass to keep up was? It does not grow in an unknown place - the territory and land management is required to it. In the African Sahara there is no state, and at ocean Ledovitom is not present, from it there and does not grow anything: sand, a heat yes dead ices!
-- Shame to such places! - Leonid has firmly answered and at once has ceased, and has then added an ordinary human voice: - Come to us, Peter Evseevich, without you does not suffice someone us.
-- There would be you strict citizens then all would suffice you, - Peter Evseevich has told. Leonid has recollected, that water in Kozme still is not present, and has got drunk from Peter Evseevicha's bucket in a stomach stock. After departure of peasant Peter Evseevich has tried the presented milk and has gone to go among a city. It felt on the move a brick of houses, ironed fences, and that is unattainable to sensation, is grateful beheld. Perhaps, people that these bricks and fences created, have already died of an old age and from a work exhaustion, but from their body there were bricks and boards - subjects which make the sum and substance of the state. Peter Evseevich has opened for a long time for the pleasure, that the state - useful business lost, and also living, but the worker of the population; without product of the state the population would die senselessly. In the end of a way Peter Evseevich has unintentionally come on station, - he not especially trusted the railway, hearing therefrom disturbing hooters of steam locomotives. And at once Peter Evseevich was indignant: In a hall of the third class one boy heated an oven state fire wood, despite summer.
-- You that, a reptile, fuel zhgesh? - Peter Evseevich has asked. The boy has not taken offence, he has got used to the life.
-- To me ordered, - has told on. - I for it at station spend the night. Peter Evseevich could not think, in what here business, paternal is required heating of furnaces in the summer. Here the boy has helped Peter Evseevichu to dissipate from misunderstanding: at station there were deposits of rotten cross ties. That them not to take out, veleno was to burn in ovens of premises, and warmly to let out at doors.
-- Give to me, djad, copecks two! - the boy has asked after the story. He asked with shame, but without respect for Peter Evseevichu. For Peter Evseevicha has put was not in two copecks, and in a place which was occupied with this boy in the state: whether it is necessary? Such thought already started to torment Peter Evseevicha. The boy has reluctantly informed it, that in village at it live mother and sisters-maids, and eat one potato. Mother to it has told: "poezzhaj somewhere, maybe, you to yourself somewhere will find a life. That you with us will suffer, - I after all like you". It has given to the son a piece of bread with which has occupied on farms, and should be, says lies - went to beg. The boy took bread, left on travel and has climbed in the empty car. Since then it also goes: was in Leningrad, in Tver, in Moscow and Torzhok, and now - here. Anywhere to it do not give job, speaking: in him it is not enough force and without it many orphans.
-- What will you do now? - Its Peter Evseevich. asked - You should live and expect, while the state on you will look back.
-- To wait it is impossible, - has answered malchik. - Soon the winter will come, I am afraid then to die. In the summer and that die. I in Lihoslavle saw, - one in a box with rubbish has laid down to sleep and there has died.
-- And to mother you do not wish to go?
-- No. There is there is nothing, it is a lot of sisters, - they speckled, their muzhiks in marriage do not take.
-- What it in due time a smallpox have not imparted? After all the medical assistant on a state bill it impart?
-- I do not know, - the boy indifferently has told.
-- You here do not know, - is angry Peter Evseevich has declared, - and here now of you care! In all your family is guilty: the state after all free of charge imparts a smallpox. Would impart to its your sisters when it was necessary, and sisters married for a long time were, and to you the house place would be! And time you do not wish to live on the state - here and go on railways. You in all are guilty - so go mothers and tell! What I to you two copecks after that ladies? Never I will give! It is necessary, the citizen, to impart in time a smallpox then not to be unsteady on ways and not to go free of charge in trains! The boy was silent. Peter Evseevich has left its one, not regretting there is more than guilty. Houses it has found the summons: to be tomorrow on labour exchange for the next re-registration, - there Peter Evseevich consisted the unemployed on the union sovtorgsluzhashchih and liked there to be, feeling serving to the state in this establishment.