I haven't slept all night

Second half of the night was spent mostly in hysterical laughter and some light Napoleonic Wars discussions. But the first half yet again showed me that I am an incurable slasher. x _ x

I was rewatching 'The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed', a Russian mini-series filmed in 1979, but set in the summer of 1945. The set-up of the story is enough to make any slasher's heart beat a little faster.

A young (and utterly handsome with incredible blue eyes) reconnaissance officer comes back from the fighting and is assigned to duty at Moscow CID.  He is young, still idealistic, kind, doesn't know anything about the way the criminal world works and did I mention, incredibly cute? ^_^ His new boss is a tough, 'ends justify the means' guy, who is not that bad looking and certainly very charismatic. Of course they clash! With fireworks!

If that wasn't enough, let's just look at some things that happen in the series:

- In the very first episode they start living together, because OMG, the boss lives way too far from the office, and our young officer is sooo kind. ^^ (Later on during a fight, he tells his boss to get the hell out of his flat! Then he tells his girlfriend that he was unneccessarily harsh, ahd that he is worried, and the girlfriend just looks like she knows, if they don't yet. Of course, that night when he comes back home, his boss is there, asleep, with no intention of moving out and our young hero smiles adorably as he is told to switch off the lights and not make too much noise.)

- at a work celebration/event where most of the men came in their police/military formal uniforms, the young hero attracted immediate attention, because formal uniform = all the medals he got for his service in WWII. Let's just say he was packing A LOT of 'jewelery' and was very shy because of all the attention. Next comes the scene that is HEAVEN for any slasher. The young and much admired but shy hero turns around and sees his love interest boss coming down the stairs towards their group. When the boss spots him in his formal uniform he slows down, his eyes going a little wide with surprise that's written all over his face. OMG!!! *flails*

And there is much much more, but I will stop here. XD

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The statue of Peter I commonly known as The Bronze Horseman is one of the most commonly used symbols of St.-Petersburg. The sculptor Etienne Maurice Falconet was recommended to Catherine II by Denis Diderot. The statue took 14 years to make and was finally unveiled in 1782. Its pedestal is a huge boulder known as Thunder Stone, shaped to represent a cliff. Peter's outstretched arm points towards the Neva river, and a snake writhes under the hooves of his horse, representing his enemies.

It stands on the Senate square, with Neva in front of it and St. Isaac's cathedral behind it. It was here that in December 1825 the Decembrist revolt took place.

One of St.-Petersburg legends says that during particularly heavy storms, Bronze Horseman gallops around the city. Another says that as long as Bronze Horseman stands in its place, St. - Petersburg will not fall into enemies hands. During the 900 day siege of St.-Petersburg (then Leningrad) during the WWII, the statue was not taken down, but instead covered with sandbags and a wooden shelter. Amazingly enough it survived the whole siege without being damaged by the bombing and artillery fire, and true to the legend, the enemy forces did not enter the city. 

 

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