This is the fifth in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. On my last full day in Moscow I planned to spend the morning with Alexander Pushkin and the afternoon with Boris Pasternak—well, if not with them personally, at least in museums dedicated More

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