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12 June part dva. At the outset, I promised a story but it requires a touch more history to provide some context particularly regarding the three complications that arose on this day. Notice that the date for this entry is …

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12 June. Today is a day for history and storytelling and I’ll start with the former. We checked out of the B & B at 09:00 as scheduled no doubt much to Nikolai’s pleasure and relief. We boarded our bus …

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11 June. It’s about 22:30 and I’m looking out the window of my room in our B & B in Listvyanka a small town on the edge of Lake Baikal. Listvyanka is about 70 kilometers east of Irkutsk. It sits …