A RassKuzik about the Three Great Heaps

We usually began filming the movie "Peculiarities of the National Hunt" early — by 8 in the morning work was already in full swing on set. But at exactly 12 o'clock there would ring out the "salvo of the Aurora", as we'd nicknamed it. This was the film's director Mikhail Kirilyuk waking up. Yawning and stretching, he would step out onto the porch of his cottage and fire his gun into the air. It must be noted that what added to the comedy of this monumental scene was the fact that the attire of this not-exactly-slim man consisted solely of… his boxer shorts. By the end of the shoot, a Heap of spent cartridges had formed by his door, alongside it flaunted a similar Heap of empty bottles, and completing the composition, in no way inferior in size to the previous two, was a Heap of gnawed bones… It should be said that Mikhail Kirilyuk had set off on the shoot with his Laika dog, and the last heap was "the work of her paws". In the canteen where we were fed, she, as the film director's dog, was greatly respected by everyone. Deciding not to lag behind her master, this Laika would bring all the bones she was given to Kirilyuk's door, and throughout the whole expedition built that very third heap out of her "treasures". Many years have passed, but to this day, when the clock strikes noon, I often recall our director — now a producer — Kirilyuk, in his boxer shorts, carbine in hand, standing proudly by his three personal "Egyptian" pyramids.