A Simples Life_ The Life and Times of Aleksandr Orlov - Aleksandr Orlov [5]
CHAPTER The 6
A Hero
IT was a giant-size victory for the Meerkovo Home Guard, but it had been hard won and there was lots of bloods. At camp, cheers of success was mix with groanings from the wounded. Vitaly agreed to seek treatment for his scratch at a soldier hospital in the woods. He allowed his loyal Sergeant to drag him there on a homemade sledge.
At the hospital, Vitaly was nursed by a very beautifuls nurse called Valentina. Day after day she bathed his wound with aphid oil and told him how brave she thought he was. They became intimateness.
One day a messenger arrived from the court of the Czar. As reward for his fearlessness, Czar Alexei the First (he was the ruler of all the Russias and very powerful) wished to present Vitaly with the Order of the Purple Claw, the most prestigious prize in Russia. He would also receive a great mansion-palace, built for him specials in his hometown.
Suddenly Vitaly felt much better.
He and Valentina and Sergeant Serge took the next convoy back to Meerkovo. There they discovered that the streets were full of cheering meerkats. They were overjoyousness at Vitaly’s victory, and that the stinky mongooses had been routed and generally beaten about. Vitaly and his fiancée Valentina sat on their sledge, making waves to the crowds as Serge hauled them up the road to the mansion palace. (Many times I like to re-enact this scene with Sergei pulling sledge along very long drive at Orlov family mansion. Is tiring for Sergei, but I tell him he like to be part of history.)
It was a day of magnificence and much feasting was done.
It was a day of magnificence and much feasting was done. Somewhere far away, Mongis Khan vowed to take revenge on the name Orlov.
THIS is detail from famous Order of the Purple Claw. Now it sits on my desk for inspire my Great Granddaddy’s great-grandson Aleksandr, me.
PART The 3
THE STREETS OF AMBITIOUSNESS
A hero image from the third and final film in the history trilogy. My Papa used to say his hat contain all his dreams, but really it contain snacks.
HERE is my Great Granddaddy looking most handsomeness on his wedding day. The family resemblance is much commented upon. This was taken on one of the first ever picture-majigs.
CHAPTER The 7
Hard Times
VITALY and Valentina’s wedding was the talk of Meerkovo. A famous chef from Moscow created a delectable feast of three thousand roast scorpion à l’orange, four thousand millipede thermidor, two thousand ladybird soufflé and five thousand termite tarts. This was all wash down with eight hundred bottles of pricey Shiraz Scarab Beetle Juice Liqueurs. The guests make a lot of noise and dance through the night.
Afterwards, Vitaly and Valentina moved into new Orlov family mansion. It was very big and quickly became very full of fine furnitures (Valentina is no longer a nursekat, instead she is shoppingkat). For his walls, Vitaly commissioned many paintings of Orlov meerkats through the ages. These paintings become known as The Orlov Collection and are now famousness.
Before long, Valentina heard the clitter clatter of little paws. She and Vitaly were delight when she give birth to twin boy meerpups. They are call Ivan and Grigory and they have as joyfulsome puphood as any pup could wish for – how could they not with all the Orlov family mansion as their playground?
MY granddaddy Grigory and great uncle Ivan with their mama Valentina. This is last known photograph of Ivan before his is disappear in disgrace.
Grigory was full of gratefulness and worked hard at school to make his parents proud.
Ivan was different story. He did not share his brother’s sensibleness and would sneak out from school to visit the gambling dens of downtown Moscow. There he met seedy muskrats and played at cards with them. One day, after losing all his monies and both his boots, he bet the family mansion on his last claw of cards. He lost. (This is where the expression