The next postcard was obviously a bought one. A little map of Russia on which a line had been traced with a blue felt-tip pen from St Petersburg through Arkhangelsk, Magadan, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok and Irkutsk, where a ring had been drawn around Lake Baikal. From there, the onward route was marked by a dotted line going through Novosibirsk, Volgograd, Novgorod and Moscow.

