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Перекладач Тетяна Шкарупа, Леся Кондратюк, Марина Мартиненко
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Dozens of wonderful studies have been written about the Danube, one of the largest in Europe and the most famous rivers of the Old World, at different times and in different languages. Why, tell me, write, and you read another? Here is the answer: to look at yourself and your neighbors through other people's eyes; to get unexpected material for comparisons and comparisons. The Danube is the water horizon of the new Europe, a curved west-eastern spear on which history has strung hundreds of events. This is why the Danube is more interesting than any other river in the Old World. There is no other in Europe so experienced witness of the pain and torment with which this old world is transformed into a new one. It is here that many centuries ago the lines of power of the German, Romance, Slavic, Hungarian, and Eastern worlds intertwined; modern Europe arose here; at least seven empires ruled and fell on these shores - Roman, Byzantine, Habsburg, Ottoman, German, Nazi, Soviet; various peoples built a pantheon of immortal gods and fallen heroes on these shores, composed tragic and sublime Danube myths. From the former Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen to the former city of the socialist future - built in a clear field from the foundations to the factory pipes of the concrete Stalinvaros - just a partial day of leisurely river travel.
