part 2: the rogue Englishman
A story that nibbles around the edges of the mystery of the man who, one day in the 1830s, sat at his desk scribbling notes in English on a Russian map of a Ukrainian town...
introduces the "queen of science"...and ponders the politics of pontoon bridges.
Enter the story.
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