Table of Contents

The translators; acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1
1Prologue
2About Homer
3About father
4To age seventeen
5About mama
6Childhood
7Ideology
8 First deviation
9Papa’s friends
10Pity
11The whole country
12All-Saints and Sokol
13Reflections
14Boy with a cock
15Sverdlovsk
16Kabakov’s black cat
17Perm; it’s also Molotov
18He and She
19The theatre
20 The other grandmother
21Colleagues
22Ignoramus
2322nd June 1941
24Evacuees
25Commissar Zavirokhin
26A fighting friend
27Antselovich
28To the front
29The front
30German leaflets
31Don’t be a white crow!
32My universities
33A situation
34A pass to all locations
35Mistakes
36Again the theatre
37Crisis
38November celebrations
39International Organisation for the Assistance of Casualties (MOPR)
40The crisis develops
41Not comrade Stalin, but Iosif Vissarionovich!
42Seriozha Shtein
43Dust, dust, dust…
44The role of Lenin
45Verkhovsky
46 Internationale

Part 2

47In the remand cell (KPZ)
48Friday
49Alone
50The martyr’s crown of the Russian intelligentsia
51A twilight state of the spirit
52The commission
53One floor higher
54Taganka – every night filled with fire
55Balashikha prison
56The stolypin
57Kazan
58The Russian nationalist Soldatov
59The Anthem of the Soviet Union
60He is dead, dead, dead …
61The doctors’ plot
62Emperors and presidents
63Beria – enemy of the people
64To the gallows of the Bolsheviks!
65The British subject
66On the side of the party
67Film director Kapchinsky
68Intellizhens Servis
69SR Lapshov
70The dictator
71Butyrka
72 With your things

Part 3

73How life treated me when I was free
74Amorous business
75Rumours
76The American exhibition
77Two more years
78My little white pigeon
79From my diary
80A death and a funeral
81Ivan Denisovich
82Working days
83Chapaevsky Street
84Unemployed
85Tomsk
86Grandmother Fenia
87Nikolia-the-fool
88Television
89Zaochni Narodni Universitet Iskusstv
90 Kashchenko
91In the homeland of a great writer
92I love you
93At the Ministry of Culture
94Aesop and the GPU (State Political Administration)
95A page from my diary
96Pages from my diary
97In the Kremlin hospital
98The Klyazma sanatorium
99The last lines of a confiscated diary
100 Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev and Petka
101 Yakir
102 Epilogue

Chronology

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Clive Giller (born 1933 in London) is a retired architect, but after graduating from Cambridge University practised at first as an engineer. He learned Russian when doing National Service and has since travelled in Russia and become keenly interested in recent developments there.


Yuri Popov (born 1951 in Kotlas, USSR) studied sculpture and architecture at the Repin Institute, Saint Petersburg. He came to England in 1991 and since then has continued to involve himself in building design and sculpture.