"Deathly" plate Bruce

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In Moscow, at the corner of revelry and Dobroslobodskaya street, stands the old three-storey house .. Currently, this building is placed the second women's gymnasium.
       Built a house two hundred years ago, the famous Bruce, author of the famous calendar. Like all old buildings, this house has underground tunnels and passages, in which, says the legend, hidden by huge bogatsiva. Intricately woven, mysterious legends surrounding Brusovsky home.
     And the most interesting legend is the so-called "tombstones Bruce.
     The facade of the house, between the windows of the room where once there was Bruce, attached plate.
The appearance of plates, like the coffin.
     On top of it is covered with bony plates. On the surface of the plate cut out some cabalistic symbols, numbers, lines.
     They say that this is not a simple plate, - a real coffin, imbedded in the wall.
     In the course of two centuries, many scholars, archaeologists have tried unsuccessfully to guess the meaning of these signs .. They say that the plate appeared on the front of the house itself, on the third day as the construction of the building was completed. Then they say that Bruce drew on the stove mysterious signs that hide secret zagorobnogo world, which he managed to unravel .. They say that hidden beneath the bones of the Bruce ..
     Say that the plate from time to time somewhere disappears and reappears, she is at the old place ...
    And if you pull it, according to one legend, this house would collapse ...
(Zh Zhizn.1913 g.)