In the homeland of the Indian companion

To our Sight the rare show has appeared. In absolute darkness of tropical night the big fantastic lock with a colonnade, arches, the towers topped with domes sparkled. It was a palace maharadzhi Mysore, one of the most magnificent in India. This night in the beginning of October, 1962, as well as in preceding nine, it has been illuminated tens thousand electric lamps. There was a tenth day dasery, one of favourite holidays to India which mark everywhere, but in each area in own way. In Delhi, for example, this night on area Ramlila burn at confluence of tens thousand people the multimeter stuffed animals of three monsters personifying of malicious demons filled with petards which has won in due time legendary the Frame.

In Mysore this holiday is marked by night magnificent processions. In recent times thousand people went by an open verandah of a palace where in an environment of court and notable visitors on the gold throne decorated with jewels, sat maharadzha. In the tenth, final night of a holiday a throne established on an elephant covered gold parchovoj with a body cloth, and thus maharadzha headed a many thousands procession.

That memorable October night 1962 we observed procession in a little changed kind: parade have opened fakelshchiki, then there were divisions of infantry, a cavalry, group on elephants. All soldiers - in medieval ammunition and equipment, with swords and peaks. And along streets parade was observed by thousand enthusiastic spectators.

In the Afternoon we - the Soviet ambassador and accompanying his faces - were accepted maharadzha, then rather still by young, very corpulent man in snow-white national clothes. After that to us have given possibility to examine a palace. This very big building constructed in 1897, represented organic synthesis induistskogo and Muslim architectural the styles which have merged in full harmony of grace and beauty. Inside besides few living rooms of a family a maharadzhi-spacious hall of formal receptions with a throne in the centre and a wedding hall on which wall the big cloth represents a celebratory procession during time dasery. Woodcarving, incrustation on marble give magnificence to these premises.

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