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And it was published in a total circulation of more than 81 million copies. "The Da Vinci Code" tops the New York Times bestseller list, many consider it a novel best book decades. The novel, written in the genre of an intellectual detective thriller, was able to awaken widespread interest in the legend of the Holy Grail and the place of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity.

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According to the plot of the book main character, Dr. Robert Langdon, professor of religious symbolism at Harvard University, must unravel the murder of Jacques Saunière, curator of the Louvre. Saunière's body was found inside the Louvre, naked and positioned in the same manner as in famous drawing Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man", with an encrypted inscription on his torso. This inscription indicates that the key to the murder mystery must be found within. famous works Leonardo da Vinci. Analysis of Leonardo's works such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper greatly helps in solving this riddle. At the same time, Robert meets the granddaughter of Jacques Saunière - Sophie Neveu. Her family (mother, father, brother) died in a car accident. Now Sophie and Robert have to unravel many secrets and mysteries. But TsUSP captain Bezu Fache believes that it was Langdon who killed Jacques Saunière. Robert and Sophie have to refute this.
The main character of the novel has to solve two main mysteries:
- What secret was Saunière protecting, and why was he killed?
- Who killed Saunière and who planned this murder?
Using the inscriptions Jacques Saunière left on his body and on the Mona Lisa, Sophie and Robert find the key that Sophie saw as a child in her grandfather's box. Sophie decides to take Langdon to the American embassy. But the police block their way. Sophie manages to break away from them on her smart phone. They abandon her car and hail a taxi. In the taxi they see the address on the key: 24 RYU AKSO . The pair travel there and discover the Zurich depository bank. Langdon and Sophie use the key and access code (it turned out to be the Fibonacci Series) to open the safe. In it they find a box. Meanwhile, the guard on duty recognized Langdon and Sophie as Interpol's wanted list. Bank President Andre Vernet, having learned that Sophie is the granddaughter of Jacques Saunière, takes them to the forest in a bank car. In the car, Langdon opens the box and sees a cryptex, by opening which he hopes to obtain the cornerstone - a map to the Holy Grail. But Vernet finds out that, besides Saunière, 3 more people were killed, and Sophie and Robert are also accused of the deaths of these people, and stops believing in their innocence; threatening with a pistol, he demands to give up the box. Langdon uses cunning to disarm his opponent. The professor and Sophie leave the forest in an armored car and go to Chateau-Villette, where Sir Lew Teabing lives, who is an expert on the Grail and the Priory of Sion. Teabing, along with Langdon, tells Sophie the story of the Grail. Meanwhile, Remy, Teabing's butler, sees photos of Sophie and Langdon marked "wanted" on TV. He tells Teabing about this. Lew wants to kick them out, but Sophie says they have a cornerstone. Teabing is interested. Suddenly, Langdon is attacked by Silas, a monk from Opus Dei who killed Jacques Saunière. The monk stuns Langdon and demands the keystone from Sophie and Teabing. Teabing pretends to give it, but hits Silas with his crutch in the leg, and he loses consciousness, because he wears metal garters that pacify the call of the flesh by digging into the body and causing severe pain. Teabing and Sophie revive Langdon. Meanwhile, Collet and his agents learn that Langdon and Sophie are at Teabing's. They arrive at Chateau Villette. Collet is ready to begin the assault, but then Fache calls him and orders him not to begin the assault on the mansion before his arrival. But Colle hears a shot fired by Silos. The lieutenant, at his own peril and risk, decides to launch an assault against Fache's orders. But Teabing, Sophie, Langdon, Remy escape with the tied Silas in the Range Rover. They are going to Le Bourget airport to fly to the UK. On the plane, Langdon opens the box and finds a secret hole, through which they determine that the rose design on the box is a locket. Teabing says that you need a mirror because... the entry is written upside down. The result was a riddle verse. It contained another encrypted poem, which said that you need to find the grave of a knight buried by the Pope. With this riddle you can open the cryptex. Meanwhile in France, Fache orders the Kent Police to be called to surround Biggin Hill Airport. Robert, Sophie and the monk manage to hide in the car by the time the police arrive. The police do not detect the presence of strangers on the plane and release Teabing. In the car, Teabing says he knows where the knight's grave is. She's at Temple. But it turns out that in the church there are only the tombstones of the knights, and not their graves. Suddenly Silas bursts in. He was untied by Remy, who turned out to be at the same time with him. The monk demanded the cryptex, but Langdon refused to give it to him. Then Remy gets involved. He takes Teabing hostage. Langdon gives the cryptex to Silas, but Remy and Silas do not let Teabing go. They take him away with them. After this, Remy introduces himself as a mysterious Teacher, for whom Silas and his bishop work. The teacher kills him as an unnecessary witness. At this time, Langdon and Sophie arrive at King's College. They are looking for information about the knight buried by the Pope. It turns out that this is Isaac Newton, but he was buried not by the Pope, but by Alexander Pop, just in English language Papa and Pop are spelled the same. Langdon and Sophie go to his tomb in Westminster Abbey, where they discover an inscription indicating that Teabing is with his kidnappers and is waiting for them in the garden. Langdon and Sophie go there, but Teabing stops them on the way. He is the Teacher. It was he who organized the murders of Saunière and other people. Teabing, threatening with a revolver, demands that Langdon open the cryptex. Langdon says he knows the answer, but wants Sophie to be released first. Teabing realizes that Langdon has not cracked the code. Then Langdon throws the cryptex. Teabing rushes after the cryptex, but does not have time to catch it. In fact, Langdon cracked the code. Keyword turned out to be the word Apple. Teabing is arrested by Bezu Fache.
The novel has several parallel storylines involving various characters. At the end of the book everything storylines gather together in the Rosslyn Chapel and are resolved.
Unraveling the mystery requires solving a series of puzzles. The secret lies in the location of the Holy Grail, in secret society, the so-called Priory of Sion, and in the Order of the Templars. The Catholic organization Opus Dei also plays important role in the plot.

Heroes of the book

A senior researcher at the Hermitage, Mikhail Anikin, also expressed his protest, believing that some of the ideas were borrowed from his book “Leonardo da Vinci or Theology in Colors,” which was published in 2000.

Fruits of success

Ratings

In 2006, Archbishop Angelo Amato, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, called for a boycott of the film The Da Vinci Code; Amato called Brown's book "piercingly anti-Christian, full of slander, crimes and historical and theological errors about Jesus, the gospel and hostile to the church", attributing its success to the "extreme cultural poverty of a large number of Christian believers", Amato called on Christians to be more diligent in "rejecting the lies and cheap slander." He also said that if “such lies and slander were directed at the Koran or the Holocaust, they would rightly cause a worldwide uprising”, while “lies and slander directed against the Church and Christians remain unpunished”. Amato suggested that Catholics around the world begin organized protests against the film "The Da Vinci Code" in the same way that there were protests against the film

". The book became an international bestseller: it has been translated into 44 languages and has sold more than 60 million copies. The Da Vinci Code tops the New York Times bestseller list and is considered by many to be the best book of the decade. The novel, written in the genre of an intellectual detective thriller, was able to awaken widespread interest in the legend of the Holy Grail and the place of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity.

Plot

According to the plot of the book, its main character, Dr. Robert Langdon, professor of religious symbology at Harvard University, must unravel the murder of Jacques Saunière, curator of the Louvre. Saunière's body was found inside the Louvre, naked and positioned in the same way as in Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing "The Vitruvian Man", with a coded inscription on his torso. This inscription indicates that the key to the murder mystery must be sought within the famous works of Leonardo da Vinci. Analysis of Leonardo's works such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper greatly helps in solving this riddle. Some time later, Robert meets the granddaughter of Jacques Saunière - Sophie Neveu. Her family (mother, father, brother) died in a car accident. Now Sophie and Robert have to unravel many secrets and mysteries.

The main character of the novel has to solve two main mysteries:
- What secret was Saunière protecting, and why was he killed?
- Who killed Saunière and who planned this murder?
The novel has several parallel storylines involving various characters. At the end of the book, all the storylines come together in Rosslyn Chapel and are resolved.

Unraveling the mystery requires solving a series of puzzles. The secret lies in the location of the Holy Grail, in a secret society called the Priory of Sion, and in the Knights Templar. The Catholic organization Opus Dei also plays an important role in the plot.

Predecessors

The idea for the novel is inspired by the book Sacred Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Lee and Henry Lincoln, published in 1982. It should be noted that the name of one of the book's main characters, Leigh Teabing, is a portmanteau of the names Leigh and Baigent (an anagram of Teabing). Lee and Baigent subsequently sued Brown, claiming that The Da Vinci Code was not an independent work, but a fictional version of their own book, but in 2006 the court rejected their claim. Brown himself, without denying his familiarity with “The Sacred Blood and the Holy Grail” (which is mentioned explicitly in Chapter 60), named among the main sources of information the books of Margaret Starbird and “Revelation of the Templars” by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince.

In turn, the book “The Sacred Blood and the Holy Grail” is based on the research and hypotheses of the German historian and archaeologist Otto Rahn, set out in his book “ Crusade against the Grail” (“Kreuzzug gegen den Gral”, 1933)

Fruits of success

Religious criticism

The novel might have gone unnoticed by various Christian religious leaders if it had not been so successful, and if the first page of the book had not stated the truth of the events described. The criticism draws attention to a large number of inaccuracies in the presentation of history, interpretation historical facts and the use of various kinds of unconfirmed legends.

The most active of the critics in Russia was Fr. Andrey Kuraev, who collected many facts in a separate material on his missionary portal.

Criticism of the Russian translation

The Russian translation of the novel, published by AST publishing house in 2004, was subjected to critical analysis Russian linguist, translation theorist D.I. Ermolovich. In his article “At least screw it up”, he gave a significant number of examples of logical, lexical-phraseological and terminological inaccuracies, distortions and omissions made by the translator of the novel in such fields of knowledge as religion, history, art, geography, mathematics, computer science, etc.

Literature
- Simon Cox, Cracking the Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown's Guide to the Labyrinth of Mysteries (ACT Publishing, ISBN 5-17-028748-8)
- Darrell Bock, Unlocking the Da Vinci Code (Phoenix Publishing, ISBN 5-222-06601-0)
- Michael J. Gelb, The Da Vinci Code Deciphered. Discovering the spiritual secrets of Leonardo's Seven Principles" (Potpourri Publishing House, ISBN 985-483-375-5)
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The book became an international bestseller: it has been translated into 44 languages and has sold more than 81 million copies. The Da Vinci Code tops the New York Times bestseller list and is considered by many to be the best book of the decade. The novel, written in the genre of an intellectual detective thriller, was able to awaken widespread interest in the legend of the Holy Grail and the place of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity.

Plot

According to the plot of the book, its main character, Dr. Robert Langdon, professor of religious symbolism at Harvard University, must unravel the murder of Jacques Saunière, curator of the Louvre. Saunière's body was found inside the Louvre, naked and positioned in the same way as in Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing "The Vitruvian Man", with a coded inscription on his torso. This inscription indicates that the key to the murder mystery must be sought within the famous works of Leonardo da Vinci. Analysis of Leonardo's works such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper greatly helps in solving this riddle. At the same time, Robert meets the granddaughter of Jacques Saunière - Sophie Neveu. Her family (mother, father, brother) died in a car accident. Now Sophie and Robert have to unravel many secrets and mysteries. But TsUSP captain Bezu Fache believes that it was Langdon who killed Jacques Saunière. Robert and Sophie have to refute this.
The main character of the novel has to solve two main mysteries:
- What secret was Saunière protecting, and why was he killed?
- Who killed Saunière and who planned this murder?
Using the inscriptions Jacques Saunière left on his body and on the Mona Lisa, Sophie and Robert find the key that Sophie saw as a child in her grandfather's box. Sophie decides to take Langdon to the American embassy. But the police block their way. Sophie manages to break away from them on her smart phone. They abandon her car and hail a taxi. In the taxi they see the address on the key: 24 RYU AKSO . The pair travel there and discover the Zurich depository bank. Langdon and Sophie use the key and access code (it turned out to be the Fibonacci Series) to open the safe. In it they find a box. Meanwhile, the guard on duty recognized Langdon and Sophie as Interpol's wanted list. Bank President Andre Vernet, having learned that Sophie is the granddaughter of Jacques Saunière, takes them to the forest in a bank car. In the car, Langdon opens the box and sees a cryptex, by opening which he hopes to obtain the cornerstone - a map to the Holy Grail. But Vernet finds out that, besides Saunière, 3 more people were killed, and Sophie and Robert are also accused of the deaths of these people, and stops believing in their innocence; threatening with a pistol, he demands to give up the box. Langdon uses cunning to disarm his opponent. The professor and Sophie leave the forest in an armored car and go to Chateau-Villette, where Sir Lew Teabing lives, who is an expert on the Grail and the Priory of Sion. Teabing, along with Langdon, tells Sophie the story of the Grail. Meanwhile, Remy, Teabing's butler, sees photos of Sophie and Langdon marked "wanted" on TV. He tells Teabing about this. Lew wants to kick them out, but Sophie says they have a cornerstone. Teabing is interested. Suddenly, Langdon is attacked by Silas, a monk from Opus Dei who killed Jacques Saunière. The monk stuns Langdon and demands the keystone from Sophie and Teabing. Teabing pretends to give it, but hits Silas with his crutch in the leg, and he loses consciousness, because he wears metal garters that pacify the call of the flesh by digging into the body and causing severe pain. Teabing and Sophie revive Langdon. Meanwhile, Collet and his agents learn that Langdon and Sophie are at Teabing's. They arrive at Chateau Villette. Collet is ready to begin the assault, but then Fache calls him and orders him not to begin the assault on the mansion before his arrival. But Colle hears a shot fired by Silos. The lieutenant, at his own peril and risk, decides to launch an assault against Fache's orders. But Teabing, Sophie, Langdon, Remy escape with the tied Silas in the Range Rover. They are going to Le Bourget airport to fly to the UK. On the plane, Langdon opens the box and finds a secret hole, through which they determine that the rose design on the box is a locket. Teabing says that you need a mirror because... the entry is written upside down. The result was a riddle verse. It contained another encrypted poem, which said that you need to find the grave of a knight buried by the Pope. With this riddle you can open the cryptex. Meanwhile in France, Fache orders the Kent Police to be called so they surround Biggin Hill Airport. Robert, Sophie and the monk manage to hide in the car by the time the police arrive. The police do not detect the presence of strangers on the plane and release Teabing. In the car, Teabing says he knows where the knight's grave is. She's at Temple. But it turns out that in the church there are only the tombstones of the knights, and not their graves. Suddenly Silas bursts in. He was untied by Remy, who turned out to be at the same time with him. The monk demanded the cryptex, but Langdon refused to give it to him. Then Remy gets involved. He takes Teabing hostage. Langdon gives the cryptex to Silas, but Remy and Silas do not let Teabing go. They take him away with them. After this, Remy introduces himself as a mysterious Teacher, for whom Silas and his bishop work. The teacher kills him as an unnecessary witness. At this time, Langdon and Sophie arrive at King's College. They are looking for information about the knight buried by the Pope. It turns out that this is Isaac Newton, but he was buried not by the Pope, but by Alexander Pop, it’s just that in English Pope and Pop are written the same way. Langdon and Sophie travel to his grave in Westminster Abbey, where they discover an inscription indicating that Teabing is with his kidnappers and is waiting for them in the garden. Langdon and Sophie go there, but Teabing stops them on the way. He is the Teacher. It was he who organized the murders of Saunière and other people. Teabing, threatening with a revolver, demands that Langdon open the cryptex. Langdon says he knows the answer, but wants Sophie to be released first. Teabing realizes that Langdon has not cracked the code. Then Langdon throws the cryptex. Teabing rushes after the cryptex, but does not have time to catch it. In fact, Langdon cracked the code. The key word turned out to be the word Apple. Teabing is arrested by Bezu Fache.
The novel has several parallel storylines involving various characters. At the end of the book, all the storylines come together in Rosslyn Chapel and are resolved.
Unraveling the mystery requires solving a series of puzzles. The secret lies in the location of the Holy Grail, in a secret society called the Priory of Sion, and in the Knights Templar. The Catholic organization Opus Dei also plays an important role in the plot.

Heroes of the book
- Sophie Neveu
- Sir Leigh Teabing
- Captain Bezu Fache
- Lieutenant Jerome Collet
- Silas
- Bishop Manuel Aringarosa
- sister Sandrine
- Andre Vernet
- Remy Legaludek
- Pamela Gettem
- Simon Edwards
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France
- Church of Saint-Sulpice
- Chateau Villette
- Hotel Ritz
- Depository Bank of Zurich
England
- Bigin Hill Airfield
- King's College
Scotland

Gnostic ideas
- Mary Magdalene was not only a disciple, but also the wife of Jesus Christ.
- Mary went to the south of France (then Gaul) and gave birth to a daughter there.
- The Frankish Merovingian kings were direct descendants of Jesus Christ.
- Since then, the line of Christ’s descendants has not been stopped (later, for example, the Habsburgs) and a narrow circle of initiates has always known about this fact.
- The Priory of Zion is a secret society working for the descendants of Christ.
- Opus Dei was created by the official church to fight the Priory of Zion and the descendants of Christ, since the fact of their non-existence is extremely important for the church.
Predecessors

A senior researcher at the Hermitage, Mikhail Anikin, also expressed his protest, believing that some of the ideas were borrowed from his book “Leonardo da Vinci or Theology in Colors,” which was published in 2000.

Fruits of success

Ratings

Criticism of the Russian translation

The Russian translation of the novel by N. V. Rein, published by AST publishing house in 2004, was subjected to critical analysis by the Russian linguist and translation theorist D. I. Ermolovich. In his article “At least screw it up”, he gave a significant number of examples of logical, lexical-phraseological and terminological inaccuracies, distortions and omissions made by the translator of the novel in such fields of knowledge as religion, history, art, geography, mathematics, computer science, etc.
Some phrases from this translation are used by critics of the novel as evidence of Dan Brown's ignorance, although in fact they are banal translation errors (in particular, the example “with a miter on his finger” is known).

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Literature
in Russian
- Bock D. “Unlocking the Da Vinci Code” (Phoenix Publishing, ISBN 5-222-06601-0)
- Vandenberg F. “The Fifth Gospel”
- Gelb M. J. “The Da Vinci Code Deciphered. Discovering the spiritual secrets of Leonardo's Seven Principles" (Potpourri Publishing House, ISBN 985-483-375-5)
- Gorbunova A. M./ abstract of thesis. ...candidate philological sciences: 10.02.20. - M.: Moscow. state region univ., 2010. - 18 p.
- Cox S. “Cracking the Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown's Guide to the Mystery Labyrinths" (ACT Publishing, ISBN 5-17-028748-8)
- Solodov N.// Topos. - 07/11/2006.
- Solodov N.// Topos. - 07/12/2006.
- Trubaeva E. I./ abstract of thesis. ... Candidate of Philological Sciences: 02/10/04. - Belgorod: Belgorod. state national research univ., 2011. - 22 p.
in other languages
- Abanes R. (English)Russian . - Harvest House Publishers (English)Russian, 2004. - 96 p.
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- // Reality or fiction = Is it real?: Da Vinci's Code. - National Geographic Channel, 04/24/2006.
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Excerpt describing the Da Vinci Code
- Women's talk, women's talk! - said Alpatych.
- That’s how I judge, Yakov Alpatych. I say there is an order that they won’t let him in, which means it’s true. And the men are asking for three rubles per cart - there is no cross on them!
Yakov Alpatych listened inattentively. He demanded a samovar and hay for the horses and, having drunk tea, went to bed.
All night long, troops moved past the inn on the street. The next day Alpatych put on a camisole, which he wore only in the city, and went about his business. The morning was sunny, and from eight o'clock it was already hot. An expensive day for harvesting grain, as Alpatych thought. Shots were heard outside the city from early morning.
From eight o'clock the rifle shots were joined by cannon fire. There were a lot of people on the streets, hurrying somewhere, a lot of soldiers, but just as always, cab drivers were driving, merchants were standing at the shops and services were going on in the churches. Alpatych went to the shops, to public places, to the post office and to the governor. In public places, in shops, at the post office, everyone was talking about the army, about the enemy who had already attacked the city; everyone asked each other what to do, and everyone tried to calm each other down.
At the governor's house, Alpatych found a large number of people, Cossacks and a road carriage that belonged to the governor. On the porch, Yakov Alpatych met two noblemen, one of whom he knew. A nobleman he knew, a former police officer, spoke heatedly.
“It’s not a joke,” he said. - Okay, who is alone? One head and poor - so alone, otherwise there are thirteen people in the family, and all the property... They brought everyone to disappear, what kind of authorities are they after that?.. Eh, I would have outweighed the robbers...
“Yes, well, it will be,” said another.
- What do I care, let him hear! Well, we are not dogs,” said the former police officer and, looking back, he saw Alpatych.
- And, Yakov Alpatych, why are you there?
“By order of his Excellency, to Mr. Governor,” answered Alpatych, proudly raising his head and putting his hand in his bosom, which he always did when he mentioned the prince... “They deigned to order to inquire about the state of affairs,” he said.
“Well, just find out,” shouted the landowner, “they brought it to me, no cart, no nothing!.. Here she is, do you hear? - he said, pointing to the side where the shots were heard.
- They brought everyone to perish... robbers! - he said again and walked off the porch.
Alpatych shook his head and went up the stairs. In the reception room there were merchants, women, and officials, silently exchanging glances among themselves. The office door opened, everyone stood up and moved forward. An official ran out of the door, talked something with the merchant, called behind him a fat official with a cross on his neck and disappeared again through the door, apparently avoiding all the looks and questions addressed to him. Alpatych moved forward and the next time the official exited, putting his hand in his buttoned coat, he turned to the official, handing him two letters.
“To Mr. Baron Asch from General Chief Prince Bolkonsky,” he proclaimed so solemnly and significantly that the official turned to him and took his letter. A few minutes later the governor received Alpatych and hastily told him:
- Report to the prince and princess that I didn’t know anything: I acted according to the highest orders - so...
He gave the paper to Alpatych.
- However, since the prince is unwell, my advice to them is to go to Moscow. I'm on my way now. Report... - But the governor didn’t finish: a dusty and sweaty officer ran through the door and began to say something in French. The governor's face showed horror.
“Go,” he said, nodding his head to Alpatych, and began asking the officer something. Greedy, frightened, helpless glances turned to Alpatych as he left the governor’s office. Unwittingly now listening to the nearby and increasingly intensifying shots, Alpatych hurried to the inn. The paper that the governor gave to Alpatych was as follows:
“I assure you that the city of Smolensk does not yet face the slightest danger, and it is incredible that it will be threatened by it. I am on one side, and Prince Bagration on the other side, we are going to unite in front of Smolensk, which will take place on the 22nd, and both armies with their combined forces will defend their compatriots in the province entrusted to you, until their efforts remove the enemies of the fatherland from them or until they are exterminated in their brave ranks to the last warrior. You see from this that you have every right to reassure the inhabitants of Smolensk, for whoever is protected by two such brave troops can be confident of their victory.” (Instruction from Barclay de Tolly to the Smolensk civil governor, Baron Asch, 1812.)
People were moving restlessly through the streets.
Carts loaded with household utensils, chairs, and cabinets continually drove out of the gates of houses and drove through the streets. In the neighboring house of Ferapontov there were carts and, saying goodbye, the women howled and said sentences. The mongrel dog was barking and spinning around in front of the stalled horses.
Alpatych, with a more hasty step than he usually walked, entered the yard and went straight under the barn to his horses and cart. The coachman was sleeping; he woke him up, ordered him to lay him to bed and entered the hallway. In the master's room one could hear the crying of a child, the wracking sobs of a woman, and the angry, hoarse cry of Ferapontov. The cook, like a frightened chicken, fluttered in the hallway as soon as Alpatych entered.
- He killed her to death - he beat the owner!.. He beat her like that, she dragged her like that!..
- For what? – asked Alpatych.
- I asked to go. It's a woman's business! Take me away, he says, don’t destroy me and my little children; the people, he says, have all left, what, he says, are we? How he started beating. He hit me like that, he dragged me like that!
Alpatych seemed to nod his head approvingly at these words and, not wanting to know anything more, went to the opposite door - the master's door of the room in which his purchases remained.
“You are a villain, a destroyer,” shouted at that time a thin, pale woman with a child in her arms and a scarf torn from her head, bursting out of the door and running down the stairs to the courtyard. Ferapontov followed her and, seeing Alpatych, straightened his vest and hair, yawned and entered the room behind Alpatych.
- Do you really want to go? - he asked.
Without answering the question and without looking back at the owner, looking through his purchases, Alpatych asked how long the owner was supposed to stay.
- We'll count! Well, did the governor have one? – Ferapontov asked. – What was the solution?
Alpatych replied that the governor did not tell him anything decisive.
- Are we going to leave on our business? - said Ferapontov. - Give me seven rubles per cart to Dorogobuzh. And I say: there is no cross on them! - he said.
“Selivanov, he got in on Thursday and sold flour to the army for nine rubles a sack.” Well, will you drink tea? - he added. While the horses were being pawned, Alpatych and Ferapontov drank tea and talked about the price of grain, the harvest and favorable weather for harvesting.
“However, it began to calm down,” said Ferapontov, drinking three cups of tea and getting up, “ours must have taken over.” They said they won't let me in. This means strength... And after all, they said, Matvey Ivanovich Platov drove them into the Marina River, drowned eighteen thousand, or something, in one day.
Alpatych collected his purchases, handed them over to the coachman who came in, and settled accounts with the owner. At the gate there was the sound of wheels, hooves and bells of a car leaving.
It was already well after noon; half the street was in the shade, the other was brightly lit by the sun. Alpatych looked out the window and went to the door. Suddenly a strange sound of a distant whistle and blow was heard, and after that there was a merging roar of cannon fire, which made the windows tremble.
Alpatych went out into the street; two people ran down the street towards the bridge. From different sides we heard whistles, impacts of cannonballs and the bursting of grenades falling in the city. But these sounds were almost inaudible and did not attract the attention of residents in comparison with the sounds of gunfire heard outside the city. It was a bombardment, which at five o'clock Napoleon ordered to open on the city, from one hundred and thirty guns. At first the people did not understand the significance of this bombing.
The sounds of falling grenades and cannonballs aroused at first only curiosity. Ferapontov’s wife, who had never stopped howling under the barn, fell silent and, with the child in her arms, went out to the gate, silently looking at the people and listening to the sounds.
The cook and the shopkeeper came out to the gate. Everyone with cheerful curiosity tried to see the shells flying over their heads. Several people came out from around the corner, talking animatedly.
- That’s power! - said one. “Both the lid and the ceiling were smashed into splinters.”
“It tore up the earth like a pig,” said another. - That’s so important, that’s how I encouraged you! – he said laughing. “Thank you, I jumped back, otherwise she would have smeared you.”
The people turned to these people. They paused and told how they got into the house near their core. Meanwhile, other shells, now with a quick, gloomy whistle - cannonballs, now with a pleasant whistling - grenades, did not stop flying over the heads of the people; but not a single shell fell close, everything was carried over. Alpatych sat down in the tent. The owner stood at the gate.
- What haven’t you seen! - he shouted at the cook, who, with her sleeves rolled up, in a red skirt, swaying with her bare elbows, came to the corner to listen to what was being said.
“What a miracle,” she said, but, hearing the owner’s voice, she returned, tugging at her tucked skirt.
Again, but very close this time, something whistled, like a bird flying from top to bottom, a fire flashed in the middle of the street, something fired and covered the street with smoke.
- Villain, why are you doing this? – the owner shouted, running up to the cook.
At the same moment, women howled pitifully from different sides, a child began to cry in fear, and people with pale faces silently crowded around the cook. From this crowd, the cook’s moans and sentences were heard most loudly:
- Oh oh oh, my darlings! My little darlings are white! Don't let me die! My white darlings!..
Five minutes later there was no one left on the street. The cook, with her thigh broken by a grenade fragment, was carried into the kitchen. Alpatych, his coachman, Ferapontov’s wife and children, and the janitor sat in the basement, listening. The roar of guns, the whistle of shells and the pitiful moan of the cook, which dominated all sounds, did not cease for a moment. The hostess either rocked and coaxed the child, or in a pitiful whisper asked everyone who entered the basement where her owner, who remained on the street, was. The shopkeeper who entered the basement told her that the owner had gone with the people to the cathedral, where they were raising the Smolensk miraculous icon.
By dusk the cannonade began to subside. Alpatych came out of the basement and stopped at the door. Before clear evening her sky was all covered with smoke. And through this smoke the young, high-standing crescent of the month strangely shone. After the previous terrible roar of guns had ceased, there seemed silence over the city, interrupted only by the rustling of footsteps, groans, distant screams and the crackle of fires that seemed to be widespread throughout the city. The cook's moans had now died down. Black clouds of smoke from the fires rose and dispersed from both sides. On the street, not in rows, but like ants from a ruined hummock, in different uniforms and different directions, soldiers passed and ran. In Alpatych’s eyes, several of them ran into Ferapontov’s yard. Alpatych went to the gate. Some regiment, crowded and in a hurry, blocked the street, walking back.
“They are surrendering the city, leave, leave,” the officer who noticed his figure told him and immediately shouted to the soldiers:
- I'll let you run around the yards! - he shouted.
Alpatych returned to the hut and, calling the coachman, ordered him to leave. Following Alpatych and the coachman, all of Ferapontov’s household came out. Seeing the smoke and even the fires of the fires, now visible in the beginning twilight, the women, who had been silent until then, suddenly began to cry out, looking at the fires. As if echoing them, the same cries were heard at other ends of the street. Alpatych and his coachman, with shaking hands, straightened the tangled reins and lines of the horses under the canopy.
When Alpatych was leaving the gate, he saw about ten soldiers in Ferapontov’s open shop, talking loudly, filling bags and backpacks with wheat flour and sunflowers. At the same time, Ferapontov entered the shop, returning from the street. Seeing the soldiers, he wanted to shout something, but suddenly stopped and, clutching his hair, laughed a sobbing laugh.
- Get everything, guys! Don't let the devils get you! - he shouted, grabbing the bags himself and throwing them into the street. Some soldiers, frightened, ran out, some continued to pour in. Seeing Alpatych, Ferapontov turned to him.
– I’ve made up my mind! Race! - he shouted. - Alpatych! I've decided! I'll light it myself. I decided... - Ferapontov ran into the yard.
Soldiers were constantly walking along the street, blocking it all, so that Alpatych could not pass and had to wait. The owner Ferapontova and her children were also sitting on the cart, waiting to be able to leave.
It was already quite night. There were stars in the sky and the young moon, occasionally obscured by smoke, shone. On the descent to the Dnieper, Alpatych's carts and their mistresses, moving slowly in the ranks of soldiers and other crews, had to stop. Not far from the intersection where the carts stopped, in an alley, a house and shops were burning. The fire had already burned out. The flame either died down and was lost in the black smoke, then suddenly flared up brightly, strangely clearly illuminating the faces of the crowded people standing at the crossroads. Black figures of people flashed in front of the fire, and from behind the incessant crackling of the fire, talking and screams were heard. Alpatych, who got off the cart, seeing that the cart would not let him through soon, turned into the alley to look at the fire. The soldiers were constantly snooping back and forth past the fire, and Alpatych saw two soldiers and with them some man in a frieze overcoat being dragged out of the fire across the street onto neighboring yard burning logs; others carried armfuls of hay.
Alpatych approached a large crowd of people standing in front of a tall barn that was burning with full fire. The walls were all on fire, the back one had collapsed, the plank roof had collapsed, the beams were on fire. Obviously, the crowd was waiting for the moment when the roof would collapse. Alpatych expected this too.
- Alpatych! – suddenly a familiar voice called out to the old man.
“Father, your Excellency,” answered Alpatych, instantly recognizing the voice of his young prince.
Prince Andrei, in a cloak, riding a black horse, stood behind the crowd and looked at Alpatych.
- How are you here? - he asked.
“Your... your Excellency,” said Alpatych and began to sob... “Yours, yours... or are we already lost?” Father…
- How are you here? – repeated Prince Andrei.
The flame flared up brightly at that moment and illuminated for Alpatych the pale and exhausted face of his young master. Alpatych told how he was sent and how he could forcefully leave.
- What, your Excellency, or are we lost? – he asked again.
Prince Andrei, without answering, took out notebook and, raising his knee, began to write with a pencil on a torn sheet. He wrote to his sister:
“Smolensk is being surrendered,” he wrote, “Bald Mountains will be occupied by the enemy in a week. Leave now for Moscow. Answer me immediately when you leave, sending a messenger to Usvyazh.”
Having written and given the piece of paper to Alpatych, he verbally told him how to manage the departure of the prince, princess and son with the teacher and how and where to answer him immediately. Before he had time to finish these orders, the chief of staff on horseback, accompanied by his retinue, galloped up to him.
-Are you a colonel? - shouted the chief of staff, with a German accent, in a voice familiar to Prince Andrei. - They light houses in your presence, and you stand? What does this mean? “You will answer,” shouted Berg, who was now the assistant chief of staff of the left flank of the infantry forces of the First Army, “the place is very pleasant and in plain sight, as Berg said.”
Prince Andrei looked at him and, without answering, continued, turning to Alpatych:
“So tell me that I’m waiting for an answer by the tenth, and if I don’t receive news on the tenth that everyone has left, I myself will have to drop everything and go to Bald Mountains.”
“I, Prince, say this only because,” said Berg, recognizing Prince Andrei, “that I must carry out orders, because I always carry out them exactly... Please forgive me,” Berg made some excuses.
Something crackled in the fire. The fire died down for a moment; black clouds of smoke poured out from under the roof. Something on fire also crackled terribly, and something huge fell down.
- Urruru! – Echoing the collapsed ceiling of the barn, from which the smell of cakes from burnt bread emanated, the crowd roared. The flame flared up and illuminated the animatedly joyful and exhausted faces of the people standing around the fire.
A man in a frieze overcoat, raising his hand, shouted:
- Important! I went to fight! Guys, it's important!..
“It’s the owner himself,” voices were heard.
“Well, well,” said Prince Andrei, turning to Alpatych, “tell me everything, as I told you.” - And, without answering a word to Berg, who fell silent next to him, he touched his horse and rode into the alley.
The troops continued to retreat from Smolensk. The enemy followed them. On August 10, the regiment, commanded by Prince Andrei, passed through high road, past the avenue leading to Bald Mountains. The heat and drought lasted for more than three weeks. Every day, curly clouds walked across the sky, occasionally blocking the sun; but in the evening it cleared up again, and the sun set in a brownish-red haze. Only heavy dew at night refreshed the earth. The bread that remained on the root burned and spilled out. The swamps are dry. The cattle roared from hunger, not finding food in the sun-burnt meadows. Only at night and in the forests there was still dew and there was coolness. But along the road, along the high road along which the troops marched, even at night, even through the forests, there was no such coolness. The dew was not noticeable on the sandy dust of the road, which had been pushed up more than a quarter of an arshin. As soon as dawn broke, the movement began. The convoys and artillery walked silently along the hub, and the infantry were ankle-deep in soft, stuffy, hot dust that had not cooled down overnight. One part of this sand dust was kneaded by feet and wheels, the other rose and stood as a cloud above the army, sticking into the eyes, hair, ears, nostrils and, most importantly, into the lungs of people and animals moving along this road. The higher the sun rose, the higher the cloud of dust rose, and through this thin, hot dust it was possible to look at the sun, not covered by clouds. with the naked eye. The sun appeared as a large crimson ball. There was no wind, and people were suffocating in this still atmosphere. People walked with scarves tied around their noses and mouths. Arriving at the village, everyone rushed to the wells. They fought for water and drank it until they were dirty.

"The world has gone crazy. The Michelin guides to Paris have been thrown out. In the Vatican, no one is interested in the Pope's sermons anymore. In London, tourists who have forgotten about the grave of Princess Diana crowd around the majestic tombstone of Sir Isaac Newton. Tens of millions of people from more than forty countries around the world are looking for the main treasure of Christian civilization. They are driven by the Book.
This book is not Holy Scripture at all, as it might seem at first glance.
It's about about the novel American writer Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code"
I allowed myself to begin stories about my journey to the shores of Foggy Albion with a lengthy quote from the article Maxima Kononenko (“Network Writer of the Year” 2003/2004, etc., etc., etc., aka Mr.Parker) due to the fact that by chance she was among these “tens of millions”. I had just read this bestseller and then, quite unexpectedly, I was given a trip to London for work.
Here's what they write about this novel:
“Paul McCartney admitted in an interview before the concert that he was almost afraid to forget the words to “Yesterday”: he is now reading “The Da Vinci Code” and is unable to think about anything else.”
"Wow!!!" - meows the New York Times Review of Books reviewer, but then pulls herself together: “My jaw drops.” "If your pulse doesn't start beating like crazy while reading this novel, see a therapist immediately!" - her colleagues throw coal."
"The Da Vinci Code is the bestseller of not even the year, but the decade; the adult equivalent of Harry Potter." The story begins with the museum curator being killed in the Louvre, right in front of the La Gioconda. The signs he left point to the American specialist in religions and symbols, Robert Langdon. But the murdered man’s granddaughter, the cipher reader Sophie, does not believe in the American’s guilt and, together with him, sets about solving the dead grandfather’s puzzles. It turns out that the grandfather, like da Vinci, was the master of the secret order of the guardians of the Grail (Priory of Sion). Discoveries are becoming more and more sensational: the Grail is not a cup, but...
Jesus was not a bachelor, but a husband...
At the Last Supper it is not Saint Peter who is depicted, but...
For a whole week, part of the day I diligently did the work assigned to me, and the rest of the time I spent as a “wild” tourist.
In fact, for those who want to visit all the places described in the novel, the famous publishing house Penguin has released The Da Vinci Code Overview Guide, a 256-page book available from UK bookstores for £4.99.

However, the title of “wild” had to be justified somehow and I armed myself with an ordinary Holborn map taken from the hotel counter.
Pipes! It turned out to be not so easy to understand the eerie mixture of streets, alleys and names!
I marked the place I needed with a circle and went on reconnaissance (oh, a beautiful word!).
To quote Brown:
"Langdon's watch...was almost half past seven when he, along with Sophie and Teabing, stepped out of the limousine on Inner Temple Lane...."
This is the street:
I went there through the parallel one - Middle Temple.
This is a pedestrian street. Do you see the entrance in the background? This is the entrance from Fleet Street.
"A tree-lined path between buildings led them to a small courtyard in front of the Temple Church..."

(All photographs of this format included in this article were taken by me. I tested the digital camera Canon PowerShot A520
"One of the oldest churches in London was built of cayenne stone..."

"Low, round in shape, with a nave protruding from one side, it looked more like a fortress or military outpost than a place where God was worshiped...."

"Consecrated on February 10, 1185 by Heraclius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Temple Church successfully survived eight centuries of political battles, withstood the Great Fire of London and the First World War, but was badly damaged by bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe in 1940. After the war it was completely restored.. .."

"The simplicity of the circle, Langdon thought, admiring the building, which he saw for the first time. The architecture is simple, even primitive, without any frills, and the structure is more reminiscent of the Roman Castle of Sant'Angelo than an exquisite pantheon. And jutting out across right hand The “box” of the nave is simply an eyesore, although it does not hide the original pagan form of the structure...."
My attention was drawn to a notice posted on the doors.

It said that on Fridays the local rector held short lectures explaining the events described in the book "The Da Vinci Code".
Luckily for me, instead of Friday, Thursday was in full swing at this point in space...
“The entrance to the church was a stone niche in which a massive wooden door could be seen. To the left of it hung a notice board with a schedule of concerts and church services that seemed completely out of place here...”
As you can see, there is a board. Although, for some reason, on the right.
“The rounded room seemed to have been created for pagan ceremonies. A single stone bench along the walls went around the floor in a circle, leaving the center empty...”
Photos interior decoration churches taken

“On the floor lay statues of human-sized knights carved from stone. The knights in armor, with shields and swords, looked so natural that Langdon was momentarily struck by a terrible thought: they lay down to rest, and someone crept up, covered them with plaster and walled them up alive, in a dream. It was clear that these figures were very ancient, had suffered a lot from time, and at the same time, each was unique in its own way: different armor, different location arms and legs, different signs on the shields. And the faces are also not similar to each other...."

“All the stone knights who found eternal rest in the Temple Church lay on their backs, their heads resting on rectangular “pillows” of stone...”

"Looking at the stone knights, Sophie noted the differences and similarities between them. Each knight lay on his back, but three had their legs extended, and the other two had their legs crossed....
Looking at the robes, Sophie noticed that two of the knights had tunics over their armor, and three had long cloaks... Then Sophie noticed one more, last and most obvious difference: the position of the hands. Two knights clutched swords in their hands, two were praying, and the third was lying with his arms extended along his body...."

"Having reached the second group, Sophie saw that it was identical to the first. And here the knights lay in different poses, in armor and with weapons. All except the last, tenth.
She ran up to him and stopped dead in her tracks.
No stone pillow. No armor. No tunic. Not a sword.
- Robert! Lew! - she called, and her voice echoed under the arches. - Look, there's something missing here!
The men raised their heads and immediately walked towards her...
- Looks like the knight himself is missing here.
The men approached and stared in bewilderment at the tenth grave. Here, instead of a knight lying on the floor, there was a stone coffin. He was trapezoidal shape, tapered towards the foot and was covered on top with a conical pointed lid.
- Why wasn’t this knight put on display? - asked Langdon.
“Amazing...” Teabing muttered, stroking his chin. - I completely forgot about this oddity. Haven't been here for many years.
“It looks like this coffin,” Sophie noted, “was carved from stone at about the same time and by the same sculptor as the figures of the other nine knights.” So why is this particular knight resting in a coffin?
Teabing shook his head.
- One of the mysteries of this church. As far as I remember, no one has yet found any acceptable explanation...."
The heroes of the story went on a further search for answers to the questions that troubled them, and I followed them...

To the grave Sir Isaac Newton .
The fact is that the abbey has been serving as a tomb for rulers and greatest people England. The name of this genius (he was a physicist, a mathematician, an astronomer, a very serious alchemist, a member of parliament, the head of the mint, etc., etc., etc....) and large original often associated with the legend of a fallen apple, which supposedly led to the discovery of the law universal gravity. Newton's idleness in orchard caused a myriad of imitations among scientists. People lay under the trees for hours, waiting for them to also be hit on the head by a fruit and have an epiphany. All to no avail. Nature itself knows who, when and with what to hit on the head...
True, modern researchers claim that no apple fell on Isaac Isaakovich’s head, and he himself invented the story in order to hide his passion for the occult sciences, for which in those harsh times he could be sent to the gallows. Yes, yes, he was also the Abbot and Grand Master of the Priory of Sion! At one time this position was occupied by the following famous personalities like Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, Robert Boyle, Victor Hugo, Claude Debussy, Jean Cocteau...
Unfortunately, according to local regulations, taking photographs inside the premises is strictly prohibited and you, my dear readers, will have to be content with the pictures I found on the abbey’s website and simply on the Internet.
Sir Isaac Newton is buried in a place of honor.
In the northern part of the central nave in the left triangular niche there is his tomb on which a luxurious tombstone by the sculptor is installed Michael Rysbrack .
To describe this, I quote from the book “The Da Vinci Code”:
"On a massive black marble sarcophagus stood a sculpture of the great scientist classic suit. He proudly relied on an impressive stack of his own works - “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, “Optics”, “Theology”, “Chronology” and others.
At Newton's feet, two winged boys were unrolling a scroll. Right behind him stood an ascetically simple and austere pyramid. And although the pyramid looked rather out of place here, not she herself, but geometric figure, located approximately in the middle of it, attracted the Teacher’s especially close attention.
Ball .
The teacher never ceased to puzzle over Saunière's riddle.Find the ball from the grave...
A massive ball protruded from the pyramid in the form of a bas-relief, on it were depicted all kinds of celestial bodies- constellations, zodiac signs, comets, stars and planets. And it was crowned with an allegorical image of the goddess Astronomy under a whole scattering of stars..."

On the sarcophagus we will also see an image of another group of boys using tools associated with Newton's mathematical and optical work (including a telescope and prism) and his work as a Manager Mint.
During restoration work in 1834 Edward Blore slightly altered the framing structures and in this form we see the tomb today....
Those interested in details can take a tour of Westminster Abbey using this interactive map . Oh, and admire the circular panoramas of the interior decoration of the room.
This is the end of this little trip to London. For those who have already read this book, it will, of course, be understandable, but for those who have not read it yet, perhaps they will also want to join the “tens of millions”....
Although, for the sake of fairness, I will cite excerpts from abusive critical articles about this book:
"It has no literary merit. It has no bright heroes, and the images characters flat and poster-like. There is practically no action in this book."
“Here everyone is chasing something: the Templars, the Pope, anything - but not verisimilitude. The entire police force in Paris is unable to catch up with a smart car: Brown’s heroes function as if inside a Zeno aporia about Achilles and the tortoise "And when the main coordinates - space and time - are devalued, then why on earth should we believe an obviously superficially erudite author when he undertakes to decipher the symbolism of the pentacle and talk about the line in Leonardo?"
“Yes, this is a very dynamic novel, something happens in it all the time - but when you close the book, you understand that nothing happened here. A needle in an egg, an egg in a duck, a duck in a chest, a chest in a tree - and so ad infinitum; one code leads to another, another to a third, a third to thirty-three. It is not surprising that when you reach the last page, you are much more happy about the fact of completing this meaningless chain than wondering why nothing was found "

Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code is extremely popular. Its total circulation is more than eighty million copies and it has been translated into more than forty languages. This novel perfectly combines religion, art, mysticism, secret orders, symbolism and extraordinary high intelligence. The mysteries and secrets that this book touches on have been worrying society for many years, which is what aroused such interest in the work. In addition, the events of the novel happen quickly, you barely have time to follow the characters, it captivates you so much that you forget about reality.
Religious symbolism professor Robert Langdon teaches at Harvard and has to travel to Europe to teach people about symbolism in Catholicism. But he finds himself at the very center of the crime. At the Louvre, caretaker Jacques Saunière, an old friend of Langdon's, was killed. The police suspect the professor himself of murder, because his name was written in blood near the corpse. Then Langdon decides to conduct his own investigation to prove his innocence in this case. Everything turns out to be much more complicated; this is not an ordinary murder at all.
The professor is helped by the murdered man's granddaughter Sophie. From childhood, her grandfather instilled in her a love of intellectual riddles. The key to death lies in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci. It turns out that Jacques was an influential person in a secret society that preserves the legacy of the Templar Order and information about the location of the Holy Grail, which scientists, including Langdon himself, have been trying to find for many years.
Unraveling the mystery of Jacques' death and escaping from the police is not all that awaits the professor and Sophie. They are already being followed by a religious fanatic, who wants to interfere with Langdon with all his might in order to preserve the secret that has been hidden for so many years...
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