Unsung Heroe // Moscow Magazine. - May 1991. - #5(13). - P. 9.
My eternal shame.
For a Russian intellectual, both the photograph and such glorification are a disgrace. How could this even have appeared?!
My former classmate, Elena Myasnikova, who knew Dutch very well, went to work with Derk Sauer. He decided to use Perestroika as an opportunity to launch the first magazine in Russia with a section in English as well.
May 1991.
That very month I was interrogated by KGB officers for the last time, right at my workplace — it was in the church at Bolshiye Vyazemy, where I was preparing an exhibition about Alexander Pushkin (the church was closed at the time, though the poet had once visited it).
The magazine was only just beginning and was desperately short of material, so she asked me to serve as the subject of a feature article.
9 May, 2026
