Русское воскрешение Мэрилин Монро. На 2 языках - стр. 56
“Okay, I’ll talk to him,” simply said the old man and tiredly closed the eyes. “It’s for him to decide. Please, leave me now.”
“And one last thing, excuse me. Please, allow us to move you out of this impoverished refuge to our cottage? We feel ashamed you live in such a hole.”
“Never! And don’t ever mention it to me.”
Fomin left the room, then waited for his women in the corridor and said to them, “He is very tired, no need to disturb him with farewells, let's go.”
Down in the lobby Fomin met the nurse that looked after the old man, and said to her, “We’ve just visited him, he looks worse. Here, take it for expenses, and feel free with this money.”
When their car reached a smoother road, Fomin turned to Marilyn and said softly, “Your elder brother arrives the day after tomorrow.”
Having heard these words, Myacheva, who sat by Marilyn, uttered a constrained shriek and grasped her breasts with both hands.
7. Предсмертное поручение / The Mission Assigned from Death-bed
Оставшийся в полунищенском Доме престарелых старик, носивший теперь чужую фамилию Седов, был на самом деле легендарным академиком, светилом советской науки, орденоносцем, и даже членом Центрального Комитета компартии Советского Союза. Но было это тридцать лет тому назад.
The old man, who was left at the impoverished home for the aged, and who was known by false name Sedov, was actually the legendary academician, a star of the Soviet science, a proud recipient of the numerous government rewards, and also a former member Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. That was a career-zenith anyone could dream of in this country, but that was thirty years ago.
Как ученый он занимался тогда загадкой органической жизни, но как член ЦК компартии курировал все области биологии и даже химии в десятках академических институтов. В начале восьмидесятых институт под его непосредственным руководством вышел на эпохальное открытие, которое он не только не решился нигде опубликовать, он даже не обмолвился словом об этом с коллегами за стенами его лаборатории. И правильно сделал.
As a scientist Sedov was occupied then by the mysteries of organic life, but as the member of Ts-Ka of his Party he administered all fields of biology and its researches in dozens of laboratories and institutions. In the early eighties the famous laboratory under his direct leadership was on the verge of epochal discovery, which could bring results worthy of Nobel Prize. Although, Sedov refused to publish anything; he and his colleagues never uttered a word about the matter of their research outside their laboratory. That was very right thing to do, as it would have had revealed later.