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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

Addendum to Preface

As we grow, mature and get older, our life is filled with plenty of recollections,
which are dear to our heart, but sometimes absolutely unnecessary. They overload our
memory, which already is so tired, leaving in it only fragments of the events which
happened a long time ago and vague faces of people who you met also a long time
ago.

Present ousts the past bit by bit, encumbering our brain, which has been already
strongly over-loaded with today’s important events, and our lovely childhood and
youth, so dear to our hearts, gradually recede into the background, being blurred by
the stream of the important today...
No matter how bright a life we have lived and how brilliant our memory, nobody
is able to reconstruct events which happened forty (or more) years ago with total
exactness.
For reasons of which we are unaware, sometimes a person or a fact leaves an
indelible impression and is literally "imprinted" in our memory forever, and
sometimes something very important disappears in the ever-flowing stream of time
and only an accidental conversation with an old acquaintance unexpectedly snatches
out some exceptionally important event from the nooks of our memory and the
thought that we could have forgotten such a thing amazes us to the bottom of our
heart!

Before I started writing this book, I tried to refresh some events in my memory
which I considered important for me and interesting enough for telling to others, but
to my huge disappointment I understood that even my excellent memory would be
unable to restore many details, and especially dialogues, which happened such a long
time ago, with appropriate accuracy.
Therefore I decided to use the most reliable and well proven method – time travel
– in order to rebuild any event and any detail of the past with absolute exactness, re-
living exactly that day (or days) when the event I choose to tell about took place. It
was the only way to get the result I aimed for, because the usual "normal" method
cannot, with exactitude, reproduce past events.

Perfectly understanding that such detailed precision, down to the minutest
details of the dialogues, mine and other protagonists, and the very events, may leave
my readers perplexed and even in doubt (and give the opportunity to my "ill-wishers",
if any, to call all of it a "fantasy"), I therefore wrote this addendum, considering my
moral imperative to try to explain somehow what will be going on here.
In case of my being unsuccessful in that, I just would like to invite all those
interested to slightly lift the veil of time with me for a short while and to live together
my strange and sometimes even slightly mad, but very unusual and colourful, life…

The beginning

From a bird's-eye view of the past years of our life, our dear childhood looks
more like some kind of very beautiful fairy-tale which we heard a very long time ago.
Warm mother’s hands carefully covering you with a blanket before sleep, long and

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