Tolstoy would grieve.

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Do not ruin pretty earth more than it already is with nasty wars. Ok, we have two different writers born in Russia, Leo is the very famous one, helping humans wherever possible and writing the most extensive works like WAR AND PEACE. But then there was this younger one, Alexej Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy. I followed his train ride to a village in the east for cultural reasons.
Leo Tolstoy never supported war. 
See now, this is like I know Leo Tolstoy and this is how I cherish Russia. Something must have been changed there. It is not more the enthusiasm of workers unity, it is no social behaviour to destroy the abilities and craft of human work. Something went wrong, horrible wrong. It must not be a question of guilt or revenge. The THIRD REICH was wrong, making большевизм (bolshevism) as enemy - them fascias using same attitudes to feed imperial capitalism, now same propaganda changes terms into a we and a they, now calling it the evil. Evil for whom? For a industry selling tanks? I can't stand governments making people crazy, no matter from where. 
A very fruitful family Leo Tolstoy set into this world, and one of the grandsons named Alexej Nikolajewitsch made it into the Sowjet writers association. Having big houses, many privileged possibilities he was humbly serving the system. Years before, in 1915, not everyone in Russia had the impression that a war was going on in the west.
So one fine day Alexej Nikolajewitsch was travelling the country to visit historic churches, painting pictures and took photos. He saw eve looking at him from a church painting. A sunbeam crossed the church and this painting struck him with fascination. It was 1915, three years ahead of the Red October Revolution and the czars army on frontlines, poor, but not drafted by force. It was the 17th of June, when Alexej Nikolajewitsch went by Train to the rural village of Vyatskoe. I think in his novel he changed the name. The old merchant village of Vyatskoe is situated in Nekrasovsky district - one of the most environmentally friendly and historically significant areas of Yaroslavl region, 30 kilometres away from Yaroslavl city by Lyubimskaya Road, and 300 kilometres away from Moscow. By train it can take a day, less than my train ride from Bucharest to Sofia, little more than from Hamburg to Berlin. That can take three hours. Since1903 it was trendy to travel with the transsib railway from Moscow to Vladivostok, 9000 Kilometres or 33 days. My Chinese Professor Kuan want us students to travel this route, while he went ahead by plane. Too funny, this professor. So Alexej Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy must have went off in Vyatskoe. This location is first mentioned in the official records in 1502. In the 18th century two Russian Orthodox churches were constructed in the village – the Church of the Resurrection and the Church of the Assumption. I tried to find out what church he has visited, the short story did not explain anything, but another very interesting thing came up. Village people knew he came from Moscow and asking him, what does Moscow always want from them. That grieves Alexej Nikolajewitsch, and he had no answer for that. But he heritages a golden key, and so he named one of his novel. 
My historical research gets more complicated when I discovered that Kim Jong Il was born in Vyatskoe. In Russia, selective memorials of Kim Jong Il’s true birthplace beheld 
some memories, but little official recognition, of Kim Jong Il in his birthplace. NK News February 15, 2016 wrote, that
Personal recollections of North Korea’s founding dynasty are fading in Kim Jong Il’s Russian birthplace of Vyatskoe. But even as memories of the Kims dim, construction of a large Chinese-backed memorial complex in the village will likely keep conversations alive concerning a controversial chapter in North Korea’s pre-history. The reason was, during the series of mid-20th century conflicts which wracked Northeast Asia, Vyatskoe was home to another kind of “base.” This was the training camp for the Red Army’s 88th International Brigade, a key component of the then-USSR’s strategy for the region. Vyatskoe’s role as a camp came about because, under increasing Japanese pressure in their own lands in the early 1940s, Chinese and Korean liberation fighters retreated here to regroup and receive Soviet training. Liberation lost its progressive sound, remember that the Anglo- American air raids named some of their bombers LIBERATOR. They just copied this Hitler speech of ERASING the CITIES, after architects demand that cities must been rebuilt modern and comfortable. There is no sign about this and local architecture has similar images where ever you went. These Bombers had more machines, to demonstrate they can do worst than the others. Vyatskoe is now a UNESCO historical heritage, because of its ancient buildings. It needs more than hundred years to set, and you can't build up what you bombed away. Don't excuse behaviours with war, Leo Tolstoy would grieve. ©W.O.T. zipOz 欧-gang, the art whispering.