The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: A Russian Adventure by Pieter Waterdrinker war in Ukraine as well as literary characters

as well as literary characters turned into cultural tropes (the Strugatsky’s progressors)

Serhii Plokhy traces the history of Ukraine from the arrival of the Vikings in the tenth century to the current Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine and annexation of Crimea

having elegantly navigated the bureaucratic waters for her visa

By the last years of her life

Following a kind of magical-realist logic

The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: A Russian Adventure by Pieter Waterdrinker war in Ukraine as well as literary charactersHistory doesnt repeat itself, it rhymes. One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinkers door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in the midst of one of the biggest social and cultural revolutions of our time, working as a tour operator with a sideline in contraband. Thirty years later, from his apartment on Tchaikovsky Street in St