06/03/2021 Towards Sir Rowan Atkinson?Blackadder filming project “The Magic Flute”:
- That moment when the Soviets took Berlin and Reichstag 9th May 1945 – the British were fighting in Munich. Though officially the victory over Nazi is after the Soviets – the military decision of combining Western and Eastern Fronts and suggestion of his plan to Mr Joseph Stalin belongs to Sir Winston Churchill. Many years after the war British veterans were coming to Moscow to celebrate the Victory of 1945, and many years the Soviets were joining the Brits and the French on D-Day. My grandfather could have been sent by Churchill to work in the British Embassy for that reason, but, that fact that his son, my father, was graduated in a ship building industry tells that his dad could play a role in it. And that decision could be not of his own but of Sir Churchill...You see, the British ship building yards were destroyed...
- What about his Russian Jewish wife, your granny?
- M-lle Elena Shaliapina could have met him in London...They could have come to St Petersburg together...
- Any proof of it?
- Well, my cousin collected documentation about the Russian Royal origin of our common grandmother on my mother’s side, of course, I could go to St Petersburg and find Shaliapin’s family and search through the archives in the same manner...Yet, some sort of sixth sense tells me to be cautious, I didn’t forget that my father was murdered.
- And, your mom? What did she say?
- Mom said that my father spoke English better than Russian, he was writing and sending many letters to United States. Please, don’t forget that Mr Roosevelt had kept close contact with Stalin as well right after the war...