In 1847, a 24-year-old arrogant capitalist hamster, a descendant nobleman, retired hussar Sergey Lisitsyn stepped onto the deck of a ship under the Andreevsky flag, seeking to get to America. He was accepted in the officer cabin company amicably, but in drunken form spoke boldly to the ship's commander and began to beat the sailors into rebellion. The captain ordered to turn the instigator, tie the eyes and land on the desert shore, with a note.
When the prisoner freed himself from the put and broke the bandage from his eyes, on the horizon he saw a departing ship. The noble captain left him a suitcase with clothes, three pairs of boots, a towel (Ohio Sea is not a tropical ocean), a pair of pistols, a shackle, a hammer, a supply of sugar and tea, a gold pocket clock, a foldable knife, a pud of sweaters, two flags with vodka, clean notebooks, a shackle, a fireplace, a supply of flashbacks and even 200 Havana cigars.
All this was accompanied by an excellent rifle with 26 charges and the note of the ship's commander: "Happy Sergei Petrovich! According to the Maritime Statute, you should be sentenced to death. But for the sake of your youth and your wonderful talents, and most importantly, the good heart I have marked, I give you life... I sincerely wish that loneliness and need correct your unhappy character. Time and reflection will teach you to appreciate my indulgence, and if the fate ever brings us back to what I sincerely desire, we will not encounter enemies. A. of M. »
The nobility of Lisitsyn did nothing by his own hands: in his estate he was served by serfs, in the regiment he was cared for by a day worker. Knowing that the ship was going along the Sea of Okhotsk, he hoped that it was left on one of the crumbs of the Aleutian or Kuril Islands. But he soon realized that his situation was no worse. He was caught by fate in the clutches of two seas. In front of him, the cold Okhotsky Sea blasted, and behind his back the drizzle of the "green sea of taiga". And in it – bears, wolves, rises, poisonous snakes...
In a week "Russian Robinson" arranged a house with a stove, smashed furniture. He made the bow, the bow and the arrows (consciously deciding to guard the ammunition to the rifle). And rightly - in the winter, a hungry wolf squirrel ran into his house - killed eight predators from a rifle in the focus. And before that, he shot a bear, providing himself with a warm shirt and a stock of bear meat. He caught fish, gathered and dried mushrooms.
On April 12, Sergey Lisitsyn walked along the shore, evaluating the consequences of spring storms, and saw a man lying on a thread. Without strength and feelings. It turned out that Vasily, so called the unfortunate, was from a transport that went to Russian America. The boat leaked, everyone fled from it, and he and his son were forgotten. The ship was found nearby. In addition to the 16-year-old boy, there were two shepherds, cats, 8 hillbilly cows, a bull, 16 oxen, 26 sheep, food supplies, tools, seeds of barley and rye, as well as weapons, a telescope, two surveillance tubes, a samovar, a building and gardening tool.
Seven months of loneliness completely wiped out the baron's whole nobility. With such a farm and two more pairs of strong and skilled hands, they not only renewed the house and bathroom over the summer, but also learned to make butter, cream, cheese and cheese. They spotted the field and gathered the harvest of barley and rye. We organized abundant fishing of sea and river fish. We started collecting and processing mushrooms, berries and forest herbs. In other words, a labor community.
In 1857, the writer Alexander Sibyryakov met with the hospitable master of copper and gold stores in Priamurye Sergey Lisitsyn. The deposits of copper ore and gold he once found, being alone. He was appointed by the government and the governor of these lands. Vasily “Friday” was with him. His son studied at the Moscow University.
And at the University of St. Petersburg for Lisitsyn's account, both sons of the ship's commander, who once landed the smith-husar on the desert shore, studied. Becoming a wealthy man, Sergey Lisitsyn found an old man, led him on his last journey and took care of his children.