19 January 2010. Sound of rain all through the night, waves wash up against the house, intermittent drips on all the sills...
The old cyrillic--Cyril and Methodious, those wandering Byzantines--two brothers, Apostles to the Slavs. The glagolitic text, Old Church Slavonic, with slashes and angles as appropriate to the the east. (Some say.) Pannonia and Upper Moravia, the names refigured in each generation. Town of Brno, with its dark arches--and a hilltop near Austerlitz. Bronze plate at the top, announcing a great battle--vista of all the surrounding lands. Napoleon, 1812...
Tatiana and Sergey--Kharkov--an inheritance...
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