By Victoria Hammond
ISBN-10: 1741143381
ISBN-13: 9781741143386
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ISBN-13: 9781741151800
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21 FINAL PAGES 3/2/04 10:09 AM Page 22 LETTERS FROM ST PETERSBURG That’s the problem. Any of the tenement blocks looming around me could be Mitri’s and as it gets darker the subtle distinguishing feature that belongs to his block alone — the scratched blue door to the stairs — is becoming increasingly difficult to identify. My search has been systematic. I’m working my way in snakelike curves past all the buildings on the west side of what I’m pretty sure is the main thoroughfare to St Petersburg.
The latter implies a determination to hold it all together, and even suggests that one day the Russians, masters of reconstruction, may reconstruct Rozhestveno. But, for the time being, the house is abandoned, a blackened ruin all but hidden amidst the shimmering foliage of its still enchanted forest. From one side of the house you can ascend earth-covered steps and enter the blackened interior through a grand double door. Curiously, it still feels like a wonderful house. In the nobly proportioned entrance, I glimpse a staircase going off at a strange angle.
It remained intact through Soviet times because it was patronised by Party officials who could afford to buy its quality vodka and wines, its black or rich red caviar, its varieties of cheeses, German beers and sausages and other luxury imported goods. Tamara and I buy cheese, bread, chocolates and a large round tin containing her favourite cake — ginger with fig jam. Food is happiness. For years, Tamara tells me, she stood in long queues to buy something that ‘wasn’t fish’. As we walk back, wending our way through the crowds of broad Nevsky Prospekt and turning left into her street, she laughingly quotes something she heard on television last night.
Letters from St. Petersburg by Victoria Hammond
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