People often say they are bored with their work, that they are "burnt out" by it. I don't know how it is for them, but I still love mine even though I didn't start work yesterday! Since 1909, I have been guarding the entrance to the Kossuth Mausoleum (i.e. tomb), here at the cemetery on Fiumei Street in Budapest. If you ever visit it, you will see that the mausoleum is a really imposing building with two fierce lions guarding the entrance. I'm one of them, the one on the right. Unfortunately, it is rarely possible to enter the tomb, but believe me, it is beautiful inside. The caution is understandable because one of the greatest Hungarian politicians of the 19th century, Lajos Kossuth, is buried here. What a life he had! He was born in 1802 into a Hungarian noble family. He studied to be a lawyer, but then turned to politics. His main objective was independence for Hungary, so that it would finally not be part of the Austrian Empire. After that, I think it is not surprising that he played a serious political role in the revolution and War of Independence of 1848-49, as well as in the years before that. During the revolution, he was first Minister of Finance, then he was elected chairman of the National Defence Commission, which eventually made him head of the military. After the War of Independence had been lost, he and his wife had to flee Hungary. They first found refuge with the Ottoman Sultan, then travelled to England before visiting America, and finally settling in Turin, Italy. As an exile he kept the cause of Hungarian freedom close to his heart and supported it, even after the Settlement of 1867. He was, however only able to return to Hungary in 1894 after his death. The mausoleum was built later, but here, surrounded by the love and respect of the Hungarians, he could finally find peace.