Acknowledgments
Contents
I. Day of the Border Guards
Old Maps
Reading Mr. Lincoln’s Army
Centralized Heating
Speaking English
Speaking Russian
Fish Tale
Nearing Chernobyl
The Cow
Lady Macbeth in the Caucasus
No Dog in This Fight
Wreaths
Day of the Border Guards
II. Knitting in Siberia
Siberian Spring
Driving the M8
The Parrot Flaubert
June Snow
Yellow Flowers
Names for Snow
Last Flight of the Gypsy King
City of Bells
What’s Left
Knitting in Siberia
Kingdom of Heaven
III. Peredelkino
On the Bosphorus
At the Lermontov Museum
My KGB File
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Thirty Years Later
Red Vineyard, 1888: A Painting by Van Gogh
The Arrest: May 13, 1934
Evdokia
The Percussive Quality of Light
Zagorsk
Peredelkino
Notes