Sakharov’s last name meant “sugar,” and from the way Zhanna’s father said his name, Zhanna knew there was something magical about him. She begged her father to take her with him when he said he was going to “Sakharov’s building”—she did not realize that he was not actually visiting the great man, just keeping a sort of occasional vigil—but he would not take her. She named her kitten Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov.
