Почему?
Потому что Робинзон Крузо «провёл» в Тобольске 8 месяцев, именно столько по мнению Даниэля Дефо длится сибирская зима: «I had been here eight months, and a dark, dreadful winter I thought it; the cold so intense that I could not so much as look abroad without being wrapped in furs, and a kind of mask of fur before my face, with only a hole for breath, and two for sight: the little daylight we had was for three months not above five hours a day, and six at most; only that the snow lying on the ground continually, and the weather being clear, it was never quite dark. Our horses were kept, or rather starved, underground; and as for our servants, whom we hired here to look after ourselves and horses, we had, every now and then, their fingers and toes to thaw and take care of, lest they should mortify and fall off»
Интересно, что «побывал» Робинзон и в Соликамске, правда, город в романе «Дальнейшие приключения Робинзона Крузо» оказался на другом берегу реки: «We had just entered Europe, having passed the river Kama,which in this parts is the boundаry between Europe and Asia, and the first city on the European side was called Soloy Kamskoy, that is the great city on the river Kama».
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