The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: A Russian Adventure by Pieter Waterdrinker war in Ukraine and is indispensable reading for

and is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to make sense of international politics today

By the last years of her life

having elegantly navigated the bureaucratic waters for her visa

Following a kind of magical-realist logic

The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: A Russian Adventure by Pieter Waterdrinker war in Ukraine and is indispensable reading forHistory doesnt repeat itself, it rhymes. One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinkers door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in the midst of one of the biggest social and cultural revolutions of our time, working as a tour operator with a sideline in contraband. Thirty years later, from his apartment on Tchaikovsky Street in St