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Everyone heard about the theory of the existence of parallel worlds. Some are skeptical about her. But there are people whose confidence in the existence of a parallel universe does not shake because once, when two worlds intersected, they were in the very center crossroads. One of them was the writer Evgeny Petrov. The contact with the parallel world shocked him.
Interesting hobby
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Yevgeny Petrov, the famous co-author of The Twelve Chairs, and The Golden Calf was a very unusual hobby: he collected envelopes, visited abroad. In order to replenish his collection, he did not I ran around institutions and acquaintances who had contacts with foreign countries. At it was a simple and very effective method of getting a letter from any state of any part of the world. Owned by foreign in languages Petrov sent a letter to the selected country, previously having invented the city, address and name of the recipient. Composing text, writer gave full vent to his imagination and beat the possible life situation.
After 2-3 months, the letter came back, decorated numerous postmarks and stamps foreign states with the unchanged mark “address is incorrect.” But with by writing to New Zealand a strange story happened.
Letter to nowhere
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In April 1939, inventing the city as usual (Hydeberdville), address (7 Rytbich St.) and addressee (Merill Odzhin Weasley), Petrov sent a letter of the following content:
“Dear Merill! The news of Uncle Pete’s death shocked me. I feel sorry for your grief. Hold on, old man. I hope Ingrid has it all well. Kiss my daughter from me, she must have grown a lot. Your friend Eugene. ”
Answer out of nowhere
In August, Petrov took out a letter from the mailbox with blue New Zealand postal service stamp. Instead of the expected the same message he held in his hands an envelope addressed directly his. The sender was Merill Ojin Weasley, Reithbeach, 7, Hydebirdville, New Zealand.
And what do you think was in the letter? “Dear Eugene, my wife their name is not Ingrid, we don’t have children, and in general, I have no idea who are you and what kind of uncle Peeta are you writing about? And here not!
Message from a parallel world
“Dear Eugene! You are right, the death of Uncle Pete has become for our family terrible shock. Therefore you forgive me for the delay response letter. Ingrid is doing well. Those two days that you spent with us, we remember with her how some of the best days of our life. The bear that you brought from Russia and presented to Gloria, now her favorite toy. This fall, Gloria will go in the second class. Sincerely yours Merill Weasley. ”
Stunned, Petrov first decided that he was unfamiliar the New Zealander, having received a strange letter, also decided to joke. But following the letter from the envelope, he took out the photograph on which he was filmed by himself, standing in an embrace with a stranger. On the back there was a date 10/09/1938.
In two places at the same time?
Petrov perfectly remembered this day last year. Then he having bathed in the sea, seized the most severe pneumonia and fell into the hospital. The doctor warned relatives that chances to get out the patient has very little. No New Zealand that day could be out of the question.
Shocked Petrov sent a second letter to Hydebirdville to find out what it is: a coincidence? Mystic? raffle? But the Second World War began, and the writer was not up to the odd stories with a letter.
Caution Merilla Weasley
July 2, 1942 the plane on which the front-line correspondent “Truth” Evgeny Petrov was returning from Sevastopol to Moscow, was shot down in the Rostov region. After the death to the Moscow address writer came another letter from New Zealand Hydebirdville.
“Dear Eugene! You must have mixed up something. That day you really bathed, but not in the Black Sea, but in the lake. Water was cold, and I was very worried about you. But you said not to me New Zealander, to teach you, Russian, to be afraid of the cold. And he added that you are destined to die not from the cold, but in a plane crash. therefore I earnestly ask you: fly as rarely as possible. Your friend merill Weasley. ”
In 2012, based on this story, directed by Alexei Nuzhny The 17-minute film Envelope was shot. Starred American actor Kevin Spacey.
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