The perepelyatnik.com site was launched on 17 June 2022. It is live and active and is developing further, and it makes me happy. Initially, the site only had stories of the Before series. Today there appeared new branches—about The Rabbit and the beginning of The Beginning; a news line is developing as well, covering in the first place some considerations on the books I’m reading currently. But this is just the very beginning.
A big job has been finished on translating the site into English, as well as most of the stories of the Before series. The six of them—Before: Destiny, Before: Journey, Before: Politics, Before: The Red Button, Before: Taxi and Before: The Pill—have been published on the site and are available for reading and downloading.
I couldn’t have done this on my own, neither hypothetically, nor practically. The whole team has worked and continues to do so on this job: Victoria Perepelyatnik, Max Kłoczenko, Oxana Klochenko—they translated and checked the texts, worked on the site sections and rendered all sort of general support as well.
The fellows not only work on the translation of the resource, but also participate—in one way or another—in the literary activity in general: in particular, by reading draft versions and making critical remarks.
I’m really grateful to my colleagues for help and support. We hope that the information present in the English section of the site, and the works in particular would be of interest for at least someone.
For obvious reasons, the English version will be somewhat lagging behind. For example, at the moment there is nothing on The Rabbit and The Beginning. This will come a bit later.
But, as I’ve mentioned before, this is just the beginning.
The estimate of the total number of speakers of the world languages varies a lot. On the internet I’ve found the following (no idea how valid the information is today):
Most spoken languages in the world, by number of speakers:
- English: 1.35 billion
- Mandarin: 1.12 billion
- Hindi: 600 millions
- Spanish: 540 millions
- Arabic: 270 millions
- Bengali: 270 millions
- French: 270 millions
- Russian: 260 millions
- Portuguese: 260 millions
- German: 140 millions
So, it turns out, that in 2022 the site and the works published on it will be available for understanding by 1.6 billion people in the world—the Russian and English-speaking communities. And in 2023 we plan to bring in another 540 mln—Spanish-speaking people. Summing up: 2.1 billion people. (It would be worthwhile to show a picture of a Mini-Me with a little finger raised to his mouth. It’s Doctor Evil from the Bond series, just in case).
And then—we shall see.
en.perepelyatnik.com