We lead this gray existence, and all because we’re not allowed into the new world. My husband brings home library books by the bagful, that’s the one thing we can still afford. We still have our strolls around old Moscow, through our favorite places, Yakimanka, Kitai-Gorod, Varvarka. That’s our shell; these days, everyone has to grow armor. [She is silent.] We were taught…Marx wrote that “Capital is theft.” And I still agree with him.
