Wrong Country

A memoir

My dear Subscribers!

Following the request of some of my subscribers and for a better understanding of my work, I offer for your attention the CONTENTS of my memoir, Wrong Country, about my life in the former Soviet Union and the fascism of the communists, who preached Communism but were building the Gulag for the unsuitable to them people.

CONTENTS

PART I

MY POST-WAR CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH IN VORONEZH

CHAPTERS:

1. War by the Eyes of a Child

2. My Mother’s New Career and My Babushka

3. My Mother’s Youth in Leningrad and her marriage in Syktyvkar

4. I Am Starting School

5. My Aunt Nadia

6. Summer Pioneer Camp

7. Suddenly, I Have a Father

8 My School Years

9. Is this Imposing Man, My Father?

10. My Mother Got Married (Again?) ‘

11. My Mother and Me

12. Voronezh— the Tale of Two Cities

13. Books I Loved

14. I want to build Communism!

15. Trip to Siberia

16. Building Communism in Siberia

17. Back to Voronezh

    PART II LENINGRAD— PETERSBURG

18. Phasmatagoria of Petersburg.

19. Faculty of Philology and Kolkhoz

20. Lectures

21. Student Dormitory

22. My Vacation with My Parents. Digression:

23. Returning to Petersburg as a Foreigner

23. Running away. Return to Voronezh

24. Reverting to the University

25. Our Adventures

26. Fiodor Dostoevsky and Lev Tolstoy

27. My Infatuation with the KGB Man

28. Moscow-Dostoevsky and My Father

29. Yasnaya Poliana- Tolstoy

30. Last Year of University

    PART III VILLAGE SCHOOL

31. Drunkard Dunia and Her Suffering Cow

32. My Teaching and Sunday Trips to Leningrad

33. Bliss of Dunia’s Bania and Esenin’s Poetry

    PART IV MY UNIVERSITY FRIENDS and MY BROTHER

    Alia — Portrait of a Thief:

34. Alia at the University.

35. Alia’s Purgatory

36. Alia in Prison

37. Liuba’a Lost Life

38. After prison

39. Alia in America

    Elegy for My Friend— Nelia

40. University - the Smartest Girl

41. Librarian (and KGB informer) at the House of the Writers’ Creativity

42. Nelia- Poet

43. Suicide

    Lesia— A Tragic Dame

44. Woe from Intellect

45. Single Mother

46. Unlucky Young Ma

    Rakhil’ Isralievna (Roza)— the Best School Teacher in Leningrad

47. Roza - the only one Lenigradka among us

48. Her life and being

49. Her Unhappiness because of Her Kindness

My Lovely Brother — Bor’ka, Boris, Boris Timofeevich

50. Unnoticed in Childhood

51. Unlucky Marriage to His Beloved Schoolgirl

51. Work in Prison in the Polar Circle

52. Lucky Marriage and Ordinary Life

PART V LENINGRAD— "TO BE or NOT TO BE”

53. Registration Problem in the USSR

54. My Father Comes to Leningrad to Help with the Problem

55. Musings on My Father

56. Digression: from Present to Past

57. My Temporary Jobs

58. Vladimir Osobik— Exceptional Theater Actor

59. My Collision with Soviet Bureaucracy

60. My Night with a Cat

61. Call from the KGB

62. Accidental Meeting and Something Happened

63. Village of Sosnovo

64. Birth of Our Daughter

65. Returning to Leningrad

66. Joining the Exodus

67. Last trip to Russia