December

DECEMBER

a novel




The December afternoon was sunny and frost was light.The white snow was
very nice and clean like the biography of the infant born to the loving and
superrich parents.12-year-old Natty,Princess of Kvenland was very pretty
in her black sheepskin coat trimmed with the white fur  and her black
boyish fur cap.The girl was in black top-boots and black trousers.
‘Na-ta-lee-ja,Prin-cessa Kvenlan-ska-ja’ Natty said in Russian
laughing joyfully.’I’m Na-ta-lee-ja!’
‘But you like visiting Moscovy,don’t you?’her smiling German teacher
asked her.
The girl and the very tall,large-headed,broad-faced blond young man were
strolling in the vicinity of Kvenland Palace.Natty was more Nordic than
her German teacher.
‘A very exotic country!’ Natty said.
‘You do not like it,do you?’ her teacher asked.
‘Well,i like orthodox Priester(priests-German).They’re heavy-bearded
and singing.Those singing priests and the huge,endless country are
really exotic!’
‘Both your parents have also Russian roots…How do you think
do you resemble a Russian girl?’
‘No!Our family is very different!There are no such people like
 Mum and Dad there at all!’
‘ I think many long-headed blond Slavs are Slavisized Germans’
remarked the teacher who was a German nationalist.’One of
your grand-mothers is German,another is Russian but looks
like a large-headed,broad-faced, blue-eyed woman from
Northern Germany,your parents will be at home in Germany…
You are a beautiful German girl!’ the teacher concluded boldly.
‘There is a difference between a German girl and a Nordic girl,
isn’t it?’the girl said.
‘Yes,it is’the teacher said.
This ethnic German born and raised in Holland was hopelessly in love
 with his 12-year-old narrow-faced,strait-nosed,long-headed blond
student…









See also Наследство and other novels about the Kvenlands.