The queen of the dark river

New secrets and riddles set forth by the magnificent storyteller Alexander Bushkov.
In March of the 45th, when our troops liberated Hungary, events took place that even today it is impossible to give at least some reasonable explanation that cannot be understood, although this is pure truth, everything was so ...
The company of the soldier was stationed in the old castle of the count that escaped to the west. Since it was supposed to open a museum here, the company commander Kirill Kondrashin was strictly ordered to preserve all the cultural values ​​of the castle, and in particular two old paintings: a solar landscape with a hunting house and a portrait of an amazingly beautiful young woman.
Closer to midnight, when the company was already preparing to bed in a cozy count bedroom, where those very particularly valuable canvases hung, and something inexplicable began to happen.
Probably, the whole thing was in silver crucifixes and a medallion fixed on the frames of paintings. They restrained unknown forces, ready to splash out of the paintings out. And as soon as they removed them, the invisible line that separates the centuries ...
The author of the book, when he was still a child, often listened to the stories of his father, Alexander Bushkov Sr., a participant in the Great Patriotic War, and fantasy carried the boy into strange, unknown worlds, filled with miracles, sorcerers and all kinds of devilry, and much of the fact that What he heard, what delighted him and surprised to extreme, then easily the basis of his books from the series "Unknown".
Unusual accuracy in details, neither a gram of falsehood or incompetence allow you to completely plunge into other eras, to other countries with absolute confidence that this is how it was actually in reality