The last tsarevich. In a frosty afternoon of 16 Desember 1614 in Moscow occured an execution of a state culprit. The felon, sentenced to death, was under four. Nonetheless the hangman looped the small head and hang the poor thing up. But the loop and the gallows were for adults, not fitted kids. As a result, the poor kid had been dying for more than 3 hours, suffocating, crying and calling for his mom. The executed was Ivan Vorionock, sentenced to death for his "evil deeds''. The 3 yo boy was a son of Wrong-Dmitry second and Marina Mnisheck. In the eyes of their suppoters, their little son was the tsarevich Ivan Dmitrievich, legal heir of Russian throne. In a fact, the boy didn't have any rights for the power. But the suppoters of the new tsar Mikhail Romanov thought that the little "tsarevich" could be the sign for opponents of the new dinasty. "There mustn't be any signs for them'', - the followers of the Romanovs decided and sent the child to the gallow. Nobody even thought there that three centuries later the Romanovs' dinasty would end up the same way - with murder of innocent kids. The Nicolai 2 mounted the throne in 1894 when he was 26. His wife was pregnant regularly and it were always daughters - Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia... And with each new girl the mood in the palace was more and more pessimistic. But on the 10th year of Nicolas's rule, on 30 July, 1904, Alexandra Fiodorovna gave her husband the heir. The long-waited son was named Alexey. It became obvious in Alexey's infancy that his destiny would be difficult. He was under 2 month when bleeding from his belly button stared and was stopped with much difficalties. Doctors diagnosed hemophilia. Any scratch and any blow were dangerous for Alexey's life. The inside bleeding caused much pain to him. If not to count the severe illness, Alexey was a simple boy. Handsome, kind, he adored his sisters and parents, resilient, everybody liked him. Even the guards of Ipatiev's house, ehere he spent his last days. Alexey and his sisters were not guilty of anything but they bacame the hostages of their descent, as well as Ivan Vorionok. Alexey didn't live up to his 14 just a month. When the members of Uralsovet decided his destiny, they clearly understood that exhausted by his illness boy and his sisters had nothing to do with the history drama, that covered Russia. But... "There mustn't be any signs...'' Alexey and his sisters and parents were shot to death. The circle had closed.

A European treatment in old times. A syrian prince Usama ibn Munkiz left a papers of instructions, in which he wrote about Europinian medicine in details. It was not a serious problem, a count Tripolitansky asked the Siryan to find a doctor. One of the knights suffered from purulent abscess and a court lady suffered from tabes. A doctor described the knight poultices and a diet to the lady. The both were feeling better when a doctor from Europe came. He announced that nobody mustn't be treated by muslims. He sent the Syrian doctor away. Then he put the knight's leg on a log and ordered to hit it by axe. After the second blow his bone succambed, the bone marrow flew out and the patient died. As to the woman, he said that a devil got into her head, so, he ordered to shave her head and made a cross with a knife on it, tore her skin out and ordered to put salt into the wound. The woman died at once. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Сирийский принц Усама ибн Мункыз оставил книгу наставлений, где подробно описал европейскую медицину. Дело было будничное и нестрашное - граф Триполитанский попросил сирийца найти врача. Один из рыцарей страдал гнойным нарывом на ноге, а придворная дама графа болела сухоткой. Врач прибыл, прописал рыцарю припарки, а даме – диету. Оба пошли на поправку, но тут из Европы явилось медицинское светило, которое заявило, что не следует отдавать лечение в руки мусульман. Он прогнал сирийского врача. Потом положил ногу рыцаря на бревно и велел ударить по ней топором. Со второго раза кость поддалась, мозг из нее вытек и больной умер. О женщине же он сказал, что в голову к ней вселился дьявол, а потому велел ее обрить, сделал на голове крестообразный надрез, сорвал кожу, обнажив черепные кости, и сказал втирать в рану соль.

A letter to Marina Poroshenko from a mum whose daughter and granddaughter were killed. Natalia was sitting in the Kiev railway station. There is a deep pain in the eyes of beautiful and in former times happy woman. She wrote a letter on a copybook sheet to Marina Poroshenko, a wife of the new Ukrainian president. She immersed in the painful memories: - " On that tragic day July, 27 I was at home. Our suitcases had already been ready but we were not able to leave Gorlovka (Donetsk region, Donbass). I was already about to run out of home to the road to catch any car so that to talk a driver into carrying us from here to any other place. Suddenly a man, who carried people out of Gorlovka, rang me up. He told me that he would take us in the next morning. Our appartment is situated on the 8 storey in the center of the city. I went up to the open window overlooking a park, and at once called Cristina to share the good news. She and my granddaughter were out at that time. - 'Cristina, tomorrow at 9 am we are leaving!' - I shouted in the cell. She answered me joyly: 'Hurray! Kira, we are leaving tomorrow!' 'Cristina, where are you?'- I asked her. 'In the park.' - she answered. 'Stay there.' - I said. As soon as I said that the army started to shell the park. Explosion after explosion, fire and smoke... The world was blur in my eyes. I ran out shouting: 'Cristina! Kira! Cristina! Kira!' When I got there there was already silence in the park. I hadn't found my kids. Stumbling over craters from explosions I was searching the grass with my arms looking for toys, but as I didn't find them I thought that everything was ok.' - said Natalia. Natalia told that she hoped that Cristina and Kira were in a bomb shelter and she ran there. 'Running in the dark I touched the heads of every person, groped them. I shouted:'Kira! Cristina!' - but nobody answered.' - Natalia recalls. Than she were looking for her kids in hospital but found them in the... morgue. Cristina and Kira were buried on 29 of July. 'After that my life stopped' - Natalia tells. - 'Only empty life. After funeral I slept on their grave the whole night. There were no difference to me, they were bombing everywhere!' ---------------------------------------------------------------- The letter of the mother to Marina Poroshenk in my next post. http://vesti.ua/donbass/65026-kto-otdal-prikaz-ubit-moih-detej

The poor crocodile. (Please, correct my mistakes). Do you think an actor's life is easy and carefree? Not at all! It's full of danger even if you're a dangerous predator. There was a 2 metre crocodile Fedya in the circus troupe that came to Murmansk for a tour. On the 20th May morning he was carried to Severomorsk on tour, but it's citizens didn't see Fedya. The minibus, in which rested the predator, got into a hole on the road. The car jumped and the bookkeeper of the circus... fell on the peacefully sleeping crocodile. The woman without a seatbelt was on the front part of the car. That's why she flew out of the chair. All would be nothing but the woman weighs 120 kilogrammes and they landed on Fedya. Needless to say that the actor was shocked. - "We took him at once to a vet in a private clinic where the crocodile was examinated. The poor thing had been vomiting for 3 hours or so. We even thought that he might have had his internal organs ruptured or have had fracture. But, luckely, all went well. Up to the weekend he's going to be recovered and do perfomance to the delight of spectators", said the chief administrator of the circus Vasilyi Kolos. As to the bookkeeper, this incident finished for her with bruises, cuts and reprimand. And, in addition, she was advised to lose some weight and observe safety.

Terry ( a story from a newspaper) Not all dogs are lucky with their owners. More than a month ago near a brick plant we found by chance that one who was totally unlucky with its master. A little black cur , that looked like a terrier in a way, was tied with a women's belt to a tree. All in all, they left the dog to die off the bieaten track. And they needn't to pay for putting the dog down. It's unknown how much the poor thing was there. But when we came to save it , it neither barked, nor growled and nor resisted - it was frozen up that much. It wouldn't live up to the morning for sure. We brought it to our home, warmed it up and decided not to give it to anyone. Now Terry (that how we've named it) live with us. It is clever, sociable and gentle. And it's already more than a month that we can't understand who and for what left her that way. ------------------------------------------------------------------- - Не всем собакам везет с хозяевами. Больше месяца назад возле Кирпичного завода мы случайно нашли ту, которой как раз не повезло. Маленькую черную дворнягу, чем-то похожую на терьера, привязали к дереву женским поясом. В общем, оставили на верную смерть там, где люди обычно не ходят. Ну а что - за усыпление-то платить надо.Сколько она так простояла, неизвестно. Но когда мы пришли ее спасать, уже даже не лаяла, не рычала и не сопротивлялась - так сильно замерзла. До утра не дожила бы наверняка. Привезли домой, отогрели - и решили, что никому не отдадим.Теперь Тэрри (так мы ее назвали) живет у нас. Умная, общительная и ласковая. И вот уже больше месяца мы понять не можем: кто и ЗА ЧТО мог вот так ее оставить.

The defference between Santa Clause and Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost in Russian). 1. The hat. Ded Moroz wears a hat brimmed with a fur around it. Santa Claus - a nightcap with a bubo. 2. The beard. Ded Moroz has a long beard, that reach his belt. Santa Claus has a short one. 3. The top cloth. Ded Moroz wears a warm long coat. Santa - a short one. 4. The colour of the cout. Ded Moroz wears both a red or a blue coat. Santa wears only red one. 5. The stick. Ded Moroz holds a crook and a sack with presents. Santa has only a sack. 6. The belt. Ded Moroz wears a white belt. Santa has a strap with buckle. 7.The shoes. Ded Moroz wears valenki. Santa - the black boots. 8. The glasses. Santa claus has a weak eyesight, so he wears glasses. Ded Moroz sees well, so he doesn't have any glasses. 9. The vehicle. The classical ded Moroz goes on foot. The modern one - goes in sledge harnessed with the three hoarses. Santa rides a cart harnessed with deer. 10. The volunteers. Ded Moroz is helped by his granddaughter. Santa works with elves.

A faithful dog. A dog named Druzhock from the village Vladimirovcka, Amursck region, has become famous in the whole Russia. Thousands of Runet users discuss the faithful dog's story, who guarded a drowned house the whole night with water reaching his neck. The three photos are spreading on the social network. In the first snap Druzhock is waiting for its owners on the house porch, sticking its face out of water, a boat is floating to help it. The second picture - the dog, having noticed its owner, is swimming towards him. In the third photo - the happy meeting: the wet, shaggy Druzhock is sitting in the boat, cuddling up to the man. As the dog's owners, the Andreyevs, told - the water came to their house at 4 a.m. Having quickly grabbed some things, they went to their relatives in Blagoveshensck. They didn't take the dog with them, it was left with the neighbours who weren't flooded yet. But the dog waited for them 3 days and ran away. Having learned that Druzhock was lost, the Andreyevs came to look for him. It didn't take long to find him: the faithful dog was sitting on the porch as if nothing had happened, not paying attention on the rising water. "The dog was sitting on the top step of the porch the whole night, even rescuers couldn't take him, he was waiting for us!" says the dog's owner. The family has reunioned.