Lev Marcin

==About==
Lev Marcin (full name: Lev Tomasz Marcin; April 4th 1939 - July 30th 1995) was a former Zedrutian criminal. He was infamous for breaking into a Crimsonian government building in 1964 and stole valuable items, and he was also known as the Thief of Taurin, after committing a series of robberies in Taurin which cost local businesses a lot. In 1970 after getting away with the crime and avoiding confrontations with Crimsonia's secret police, Lev returned back to Zedrutia and began a new life there, purchasing a abandoned house and an empty plot of land which would eventually become one of East Zedrutia's most popular shooting ranges; Marcin's Shooting Range. In the game, Lev can be spotted in the main building resting on the counter. He is also the father of Jakub Marcin and a friend of Andrzej Łukasiewicz, who became Lev's assistant.
On the morning of 30th July 1995, when Lev was unlocking the gates to his shooting range, he was confronted by a group of around 4 mysterious men in a truck, and was subsequently killed as they immediately began firing at the gates, instantly killing Lev Marcin as the bullets struck his vital organs including in the head. His shocking death would bring a series of mysteries and conspiracy theories throughout most of Zedrutia, shocking the public opinion to its core when it was revealed that the 4 men allegedly had ties to the Zarveda Security Service, when the Liberation Army for the Freedom of Crimsonia (LAFC) was nearing Kradovo the following year, possibly being one of their final attempts to clean up secrets which would make them bear responsibility for the alleged secrets after their disbandment. His death 20 years later and the motive for the attack remains unsolved, despite the four men being identified. The mysterious circumstances of his death would further strain relations between Zedrutia and Crimsonia, which had already been its lowest since 1986. Lev Marcin would become the first Zedrutian national to be allegedly killed by the Crimsonian government since the Zedrutian-Crimsonian skirmishes in the year of 1958.
== Background ==
=== Early life ===
Lev Tomasz Marcin was born in Chotyń on April 4th 1939 to his mother Karolina Lena Marcin and his father Artur Tomasz Marcin. Lev's father, Artur, was of half Savorjan descent while his mother was of both Polish and Bukko descent. Lev's father owned a karczma in downtown Chotyń, but it was barely able to support itself financially. As a result of this Lev's father relied on loan sharks to keep his business afloat and stop his business from reaching bankruptcy, however it only further strained the family and would soon worsen when Artur's only vehicle for transport was burned by the loan sharks, after he was not able to pay the loan sharks back. Because of this, Artur began having an interest in politics, especially left-leaning ones as he often looked up to the dreams of a socialist paradise. This was probably attributed to Artur's supposed mental illness.
The Marcin family would soon witness a terrible moment, especially when Lev was only two years old, as Ruralian troops invaded Zedrutia in retaliation for provoking military conflicts on maritime borders. As a result the Ruralians occupied most of the country in weeks, and the Zedrutian government was forced to surrender or flee from Kiezyn. Chotyń was subsequently occupied after the collapse. Although it was a terrible moment, Artur's loan sharks ran away and fled as the Ruralian occupiers were chasing after them. As the occupation went on for years, it soon came clear that the occupation was a nightmare for Artur's family. The karczma had to be closed down, and the family struggled to gather as much food as they could in order to survive. Artur, with his left-wing connections, joined the resistance and soon half of Chotyń began hunting after him, along with the Ruralian occupiers. Artur helped smuggle food to the resistance members and soon came in contact with a member from the Crimmitonian Communist Party, who soon after would help Artur. 
Despite the penalties which were enacted by the Ruralian collaborators which gave extreme punishments to those who collaborated with the resistance, Marcin and the family were able to survive, but was at risk of being taunted by the Ruralian occupation authorities after a passerby had recognized Marcin's father for allegedly carrying out partisan attacks. They escaped to a safehouse on the outskirts of the city with the help of partisans and his father. The Allied Forces began the liberation of Zedrutia in 1943, and soon after swept across the country within days. liberating Chotyń. The Marcin family in the end eventually survived the war, and they were ready to begin a new life after struggling for almost 2 years. By then, Lev was around only 4 years old. Artur eventually left the resistance in the aftermath of the war but kept in contact with some members, and eventually afterwards Artur began being affiliated with the Zedrutian Socialist Party.
=== Post-war and life in Crimsonia ===
In the post-war period, Chotyń was damaged as a result of the war, and the Marcin's karczma was destroyed as a result. Instead of reopening the business, Artur joined the Zedrutian Socialist Party in 1945 after the war, and began distributing propaganda and left-wing books to the residents of Chotyń, which brought suspicion amongst the Allied Forces, who were occupying Zedrutia at the time. Lev's mother eventually had to work, becoming a worker at a ceramic factory. However after the end of the war, Artur and the partisans in Chotyń would face scrutiny during the early beginnings of the Cold War, with many of them including Artur being accused of infiltration. The situation for Lev's family eventually worsened, as a coup d'etat led to Drewnowski assuming power. Drewnowski was a former Ruralian collaborationist, having been served in the collaborationist army in the Vakolov Free State. Drewnowski's regime had absolute power on all of Zedrutia's governmental systems, in which he used to begin a political purge of opponents, including those who were formerly known to be part of the Zedrutian partisans. With the deaths of alleged partisans at the hands of Drewnowski's regime, Artur and his family was at threat of being killed by the secret police, as Artur himself was still devoted to socialism. It did not turn out better for the family, as Artur was openly supporting the Crimsonian Communist Party during the Crimsonian Civil War in 1949.
With the entire family at threat, they were forced to immigrate in the year of 1951, only around a few years after Drewnowski took power. Artur and his family fled to the People's Republic of Crimsonia, along with a group of his colleagues who were former partisans, when the Crimsonian Communist Party (which was now ruling the country at the time) was providing free citizenship to those who wanted to avoid trouble with Drewnowski's secret police, especially those who were affiliated with the partisans such as Artur. Artur and his family fled to Crimsonia, initially settling in Kriadavia on mainland Bistonia, but moving to the small city of Tauriniv in mainland Crimsonia. With the help of his wife, Marcin's father eventually established another business and generated a reliable source of income enough to support the family. Artur and his family lived in a small and dilapidated communal home in Tauriniv, but with their income they managed to purchase a small apartment in the city in 1953. Lev Marcin spent his early childhood in Crimsonia, away from Zedrutia.
Lev would begin his first and early crimes when he was just aged 14 in 1953. With his friends, both of them committed several misdemeanors and was sentenced to over 14 months of community service within the small city. Most of his early crimes included stealing from an elderly man, and assaulting several others. Cause of the bad influence brought on by many of his friends, Lev allegedly said that he was known as the "boogeyman" of the town, tormenting those who were older than him. During those times spent in community service, he was mistreated by the supervisor. The supervisor, who was a veteran of the Crimmitonian Imperial Army, spoke out after Lev gained fame in the early 80s, claiming that Lev was a "child who needed to be disciplined". He gained a prejudice for Crimsonians, as many of them in the town he was living in realized that his family immigrated to here from Zedrutia. Lev also started drinking at an early age including smoking cigarettes. Artur, Lev's father, was largely disappointed and had wanted to keep Lev away from the influence of his friends, which were responsible for causing a majority of his early crimes. He graduated in 1956.
=== Adult life and crime ===
Although Lev graduated and was going through the adult life, he would face difficulties on his way to becoming one which had turned him into a criminal. With the beginning of the Bistonian Conflict in 1957, Lev was faced with discrimination by many of his neighbors in the town. He still lived in his parents apartment, obtaining a job at a local factory in the town. In the year of 1958 things took a turn for the worse, as Drewnowski's regime attacked, beginning the events of the Zedrutian-Crimsonian conflict. This led to attacks against Lev's father, and on September 3 1958, Artur Marcin was stabbed to death allegedly by a Crimsonian fundamentalist. Lev was devastated by his death and it became one of his greatest losses, having to give up his job at the local factory and selling most of his fathers belongings to purchase a burial site for his father. Authorities found the perpetrator, whose corpse was discovered in the basement of an apartment located next to Tauriniv. It was discovered that the perpetrator was bludgeoned to death with a hammer and Lev was seen as the main suspect. However, he was able to get away with such a crime and allegedly it was the first time Lev had committed such a murder.
After Artur's death at the hands of a fundamentalist, Lev went into a life of crime. He would begin his first major robbery, by breaking into a store and stealing around 300 Crimsonian Crimits (CC) from a safe. He continued his robbery spree for months, without the police officers not managing to capture the robber. His robberies troubled the authorities in Tauriniv, so much so that by the time Lev had already stolen tens of thousands worth, most houses and businesses in the small town were all secured due to the increasing crime. His last robbery would be in the year of 1963, when he failed to break down the door of another business down in a town located outside of Tauriniv. He also engaged into several street fights, most of them being drunkards who roamed throughout most of the town in the dark, bringing fear to the locals and bringing a bad reputation for those who go to the town while drunk at night. Some of his targets also included workers from the factory he used to work in, which prompted his former boss to confront him after a colleague recognized him during a fight. His former boss confronted him, and a few days later he disappeared from public life, never emerging again.
Tauriniv, despite being a town, saw a gradual rise in crime, and it was not done by others overnight. The crimes committed by a single man, Lev Marcin himself, had brought a dangerous reputation to the town, with all of the locals being completely unaware of who the perpetrator was. Lev managed to frame others for such severe robberies and crimes, often managing to get them detained and sent to a labor camp. Lev would also take his victims items that he picked up from them in the streets, including hats, clothing and in some cases, stole cigarettes. He would vandalize property around the town, and would break windows whenever the media had criticized the "unknown perpetrator" who was harming the reputation of the town.
=== 1964 Kradovo scandal ===
Lev's crimes did not stop there in Tauriniv. Lev's crime spree was not enough for him, and thus after committing a series of crimes which shook the entire town, he travelled to Kradovo hundreds of kilometers away from Tauriniv on an alleged business trip when in reality, Lev was there to continue his spree. His first crime spree was immediately a day after he had set foot in Kradovo, going to a local bar and engaging in a fight with the authorities, who had mistaken him for a robber who was on the run. This resulted in him being detained in the prison and held in custody by the secret police, however he was eventually let go after only spending 2 days in custody. His crime spree continued, which involved robberies, and continued assaults. Lev also allegedly stole a firearm, but had stated to the authorities after his detaining that he had lost it, and it was nowhere to be found.
On the midnight of July 29th 1964, Lev walked out of a bar in the center of Kradovo, and walked up directly to the Baduvena, the headquarters of the Crimsonian Communist Party where it was known to be the very center of Kradovo (now the Crimsonian parliament) and walked in unnoticed. Many of the personnel in the headquarters soon grew suspicious of the man, and as hours passed, an alarm was blaring, after it was now clear that Lev was there to steal property. Authorities, coming in with hundreds of them, arrived and stormed the headquarters to find the thief who broke into the headquarters unnoticed. They soon broke into most of the rooms, only to find out most of their confidential info had been stolen, including priceless items which were embedded into the furnitures in one of the conference rooms, one small painting reported to have been stolen. Not also did the authorities arrive, but also units from the Crimsonian army, due to the severity of the crime. A broken window was discovered and it was assumed that he escaped from a broken window.
Witnesses reported a man running out of the building holding a sack, presumably full of items, including the portrait, giving details regarding the man. Lev was now wanted by the Crimsonian authorities. When the authorities managed to trace his steps, Lev was identified as the person who broke into the building, but by then Lev had already ran away from the hotel where he was staying, and went back to Tauriniv. Shortly after arriving back to his town, he immediately realized that he was wanted by the Crimsonian authorities, and also knew that the ZSS was after him. They thought that Lev himself was a spy sent to Crimsonia to steal the valuable items, and it was believed that Lev himself actually stole confidential files and had them in possession. Lev, hoping that he did not get killed, instead travelled hundreds of miles for days without stopping, going into hiding and constantly avoiding Crimsonian authorities. He spent around almost 13 months in hiding, before he turned himself in a year later to the authorities, where they had him apprehended.
After Lev was imprisoned, there were numerous controversies which followed, especially after the fact that he stole valuable items. The Crimsonian court had planned to execute him, after the decision was influenced mostly by the ZSS. However, since he was born in Zedrutia and was legally a Zedrutian national, the Crimsonian court instead made the decision to deport him, much to the dismay of the ZSS and the authorities, which were keen on imprisoning him in a prison for the rest of his life. The Crimsonian court chose this decision as the Zedrutian government at the time had recently signed a peace treaty, and believed that Lev's execution could violate the treaty and bring another war between them, something that the Crimsonian government feared as the presence in their areas had been threatened after Bistonia's independence in 1960.
=== Return to Zedrutia and new beginnings ===
Shortly after arriving back to his hometown of Taurin, he immediately realized that he was on the wanted list and had been identified as the perpetrator of the robbery, He then drove for over a hundred miles for days while stopping and somehow avoided Crimsonian police, as they were on his tail and trying to chase his every trail. He then arrived to a local harbour, where he had stole a dilapidated fishing boat which he used to flee the country, in which he had spent 13 days worth travelling to the city of Byeradzina, and was apprehended by the Zedrutian coast guards. He was immediately identified as Lev Marcin and the Crimsonian government had wanted him immediately, because of his name on the wanted list. Unfortunately, the Zedrutian military government at the time, in retaliation for beginning the war and discrimination towards Zedrutian and Bistonian migrants, the Zedrutian military government gave him permanent citizenship and he returned to Zedrutia, ever since he fled from Zedrutia back in 1951. His mother, despite being interrogated, was allowed to return back to Zedrutia, as she had no intention of staying back in Taurin as nobody was there to help her. 
During his new fresh start in Zedrutia, both Lev Marcin and his only mother stayed in the city of Mikov, where they had purchased a house. Lev Marcin would eventually take care of his mother and found work as a fisherman at the harbor in Mikov. Marcin's mother spent the last years of her life while Marcin took care of her, until she had died at an old age in the year of 1968. A year after her death, the Zedrutian Revolution began, in which the Zedrutian military government was overthrown in a bloody coup d'etat and subsequently overthrown by Zedrutian civilians, establishing the Provisional Government of Zedrutia. In 1971, he would later on marry a young woman known as Zosia Marcin, and later on had a son named Jakub Marcin, As Lev Marcin was going to move on from his crime of life, and later on become a family man and a father. 
As his new life would begin growing and turning better for him, Lev Marcin had a small passion to open up a shooting range, and would begin sorting out his plans by purchasing plots of land 90 miles from Mikov in the Dzuathichvin Autonomous Region, and constructed the shooting range. He later on sold the family home at Mikov to move into the shooting range with the rest of his family in the small town of Verovo, where he had constructed the shooting range. He used the money inherited from his fathers business to construct it, and the shooting range was later on opened in the year of 1974. He had found a gun salesmen in Mikov who was willing enough to sell firearms including unique ones to Lev Marcin for his own shooting range. After the shooting range was opened, Marcin's Shooting Range quickly became well known amongst the local community, and Lev Marcin would generate a generous amount of income from the shooting range. The town of Verovo was booming, with the shooting range being its main reliable source of it. After Marcin's Shooting Range begin to attract attention, many firearm salesmen had been offering to him. 
=== Events of Marcin's Shooting Range, 1990 ===
During the events of 1990, Lev Marcin can be found in the game, in the main building where he can be spotted resting on the counter. There is no way to interact with him, and would stay there for the time being. His family isn't seen anywhere, but currently as the game is still work in progress, it's likely that Lev Marcin's son and wife can be found in the game sooner or later on.
== Death, burial and aftermath ==
In the year of 1995, approximately 5 years after the game took place, Lev Marcin and his family had just woke up in the morning to do their daily routines, preparing to open the shooting range and go as usual. That was until when Lev Marcin approached the gate, 2 black trucks later on drove to the entrance of the gate, and later on a group of over 4 people in black clothing, vests and balaclavas eventually came out of the truck armed with rifles and sprayed at Lev Marcin. He immediately died from his wounds, and after causing a chaotic scene, and as the local sheriff was driving towards the scene, the 4 people attempted to escape, before being ambushed and eventually, killed off by the locals after they crashed their trucks as the local sheriffs came to chase them off.
After Lev Marcin died, his wife and son had been miserable following his death, and would have difficulty attempting to actually maintain the shooting range, now that they inherited it. After an investigation, it was later on revealed that the perpetrators were apparently Crimsonian mercenaries, after they had been identified by their faces and fingerprints. Additional evidence to back up that they were hired Crimsonian mercenaries was the weapons used in the attack, the vests and equipment used to take them down. A cigarette box, which was made in Crimsonia, later on backed up the claim. It soon came to conclusion that somebody must've had hired his death, and although the mission was carried out successfully, they barely didn't have enough time to escape, and as a result they had left their tracks which traced them back.
After Lev Marcin was assassinated, his death made nationwide media coverage, in which media coverage of the incident describes that he was the first Zedrutian national to be killed by Crimsonia, since 1958. This led to outrage and prejudice towards Crimsonians in Zedrutia, where they would demonstrate in retaliation for the killing. The Zedrutian government, being informed of the incident, sent their condolences to Lev Marcin's wife and son and would provide them compensation for Lev Marcin's death. The Zedrutian government retaliated towards this attack by restricting visas on Crimsonian nationals, in which Crimsonia responded by condemning the act, claiming that Lev Marcin's death was of a tragedy unrelated to them despite the connections being made. This led to alot of strains towards the relations between Zedrutia and Crimsonia, in which it reached its lowest point since 1986. Despite this, the relations between Zedrutia and Crimsonia was restored anyways, following the election of Leslav Olek to power.
After Lev Marcin died, his shooting range was passed over and inherited over to his wife, Zosia. His wife, was unable to maintain such a huge facility and as a result would employ several staff in order to maintain it and continue the shooting range for another 6 years. The family received compensation and huge amounts of money from the donations with support from the locals. In 2001, after nearly 6 years and struggling to maintain the shooting range despite the generous amounts of income, the shooting range was run down, and in June of 2001, Zosia Marcin sold the property and moved back to Mikov, where her son also moved to work at a business. Lev Marcin was buried at the graveyard back in Verovo, but later on was moved far away by the request of Zosia Marcin to a graveyard in the outskirts of Mikov, where he was buried beside his mother.
== Trivia ==
* Initially when Marcin's Shooting Range was in its early versions in the year of 2022, he was only known as Marcin, and he did not appear in the shooting range during the games early versions. He was only mentioned by the name of the location, and no lore was actually made during the games infancy. This however changed on September 2022 when Marcin's Shooting Range underwent a massive overhaul which led to the creation of Lev Marcin and the lore behind him, all thanks by the efforts made by the original creator of Mapping himself, reboolder, who also designed the character and made Marcin's initial backstory.
* Lev is believed by many of the locals to be not dead, as there are rumors that he used an unknown teleportation device, or an unknown device which, at the same time could allow him to time travel, or traverse different world dimensions.
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