Nablyudaya za gollandcami. Nizhe urovnya morya

Uvidet' Gollandiyu glazami umnogo cheloveka dorogogo stoit. Sergey Shtern, pisatel' i perevodchik, mnogo let zhivuschiy v Shvecii, v kazhdoy strochke etoy knigi ironichen i iskrenne vlyublen v stranu, po kotoroy puteshestvuet. Kroshechnaya naciya, postavlennaya Bogom v isklyuchitel'no neblagopriyatnye usloviya vyzhivaniya, v techenie mnogih vekov ne tol'ko zhivet v odnoy iz samyh procvetayuschih stran mira, no i sluzhit obrazcom terpimosti, trudolyubiya i otsutstviya nacional'noy spesi, kotoroy tak greshat (bez vsyakih na to osnovaniy) nekotorye drugie strany. K tomu zhe gollandcy - vpolne strannye lyudi: oni zhivut nizhe urovnya morya, kuryat marihuanu, ne veshayut zanavesok na oknah i radostno prazdnuyut den' rozhdeniya korolevy. A esche, oni tot redkiy narod, kotoryy vse esche lyubit russkih i nashego energichnogo carya Petra…