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Acknowledgments
These thank-yous begin, as did this book, with Alex Melamid and Katya Arnold. Twenty-five years ago, when I lived in lower Manhattan and Alex’s painting studio was a few blocks away on Canal Street, our conversations about his life in Russia gave me a desire to go there. Katya’s insistence that I accompany them on their trip to Moscow and Ulan-Ude in 1993 started me on my Siberia journeys. As I did research, studied Russian, and wrote the manuscript, Katya provided counsel all along the way. Alex’s painting of a Siberian scene served as the cover for one of the issues of The New Yorker in which an excerpt of the book appeared. I can’t thank Alex and Katya enough for their brilliance, and for their generosity in sharing their past with me.
Boris Zeldin helped me greatly with the book’s literary, linguistic, and cultural details. Almost any question I asked, Boris knew the answer to. He found references I needed in his own extensive library and read the manuscript for kliukvi—the kind of errors travelers in Russia stumble into. Boris’s wife, Sophia, also read the manuscript and offered her perspective and suggestions. To my friends the Zeldins, deepest thanks.
Luda Sokolova, the Zeldins’ longtime friend in St. Petersburg, rented me her apartment and helped me generally in getting around there. In Moscow, Lyudmila Borisovna Melamida, Mitya and Irena Arnold, and Tatiana (Chuda) Kotreleva and Kolya Kotrelev kindly put me up on several occasions. Tisha Kotrelev, Chuda and Kolya’s son, showed me around the city. Thanks and best regards to them all.
I could not have done my longer trips in Siberia without the assistance of Victor Serov and Sergei Lunev. I am grateful for their competence, hard work, and patience. Vladimir Chumak helped the 2001 trip go smoothly and was the best driver I ever saw. To Victor, Sergei, and Volodya—thank you. I hope you always have successful journeys.
Aleksandr (Sasha) Khamarkhanov, now deceased, and his wife, Tania, hosted Alex and Katya and me in Ulan-Ude. Elsewhere I have expressed my admiration and thanks to Sasha, but want to thank him and Tania again here.
Sergei Prigarin and Sveta, his daughter, were of key assistance to me in Novosibirsk and Akademgorodok, as was Ivan Logoshenko. They are chief among the reasons that I rank Novosibirsk as my favorite part of Siberia.
In Alaska and Chukotka, I benefited from the help of Vladimir Bychkov, Eric Penttila, and Jim Stimpfle.
A number of gifted and patient teachers of the Russian language led me through its intricacies and did the best they could inserting them into my resistant brain. Many thanks to Irina Katz, Katya Popova, Lioudmila Tomachevskaya, Dina Kupchenka, and the master, Boris Shekhtman.
The late publisher Roger Straus, of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, took an interest in the idea of a book about Siberia when I first suggested it. He sent me Siberia-related materials he knew would be useful and otherwise encouraged me. Jonathan Galassi, my editor at FSG for the last twenty-two years, has always been completely great. My gratitude and affection go to Roger, Jonathan, Jesse Coleman, Susan Mitchell, Jennifer Carrow (who designed this book’s cover), Chris Peterson, and everybody at FSG. Thanks are also due my excellent agents, Jin Auh and Andrew Wylie, of the Wylie Agency. David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, helped me greatly with his expertise on Russia and with financial support so I could travel there, while The New Yorker’s Ann Goldstein, assisted by John Bennet, did an outstanding job of turning sections of the book into a three-part magazine article. Mike Peed, of the magazine’s fact-checking department, pursued factual accuracy with rigor while never neglecting to listen for the poetical—a rare skill. He also did invaluable checking work on the manuscript as a whole. Katia Bachko, also of The New Yorker, made checking calls to Russia in which her language fluency shed light into previously murky areas. I also thank Maddy Elfenbein, Chris Glazek, Blake Eskin, and everybody else who worked on the excerpts in The New Yorker.
John Lewis Gaddis, Lee Clark, Glenn Eichler, Robert Carey, Bill McClelland, Jonathan Alter, David Smith, Sumie Ota, John McPhee, Hedda Sterne, Marie D’Origny, Rich Cohen, José Manuel Prieto, Alec Wilkinson, Luda Stiler, Henry Timman, and Jean Strouse all helped me in one way or another. Many thanks to them all. For support at important moments during the travel, research, and writing, I am grateful to the Lyndhurst Foundation; the Lila Wallace–Readers’ Digest Foundation; and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, at the New York Public Library.
When I started working on this book, my daughter, Cora, was four, and my son, Thomas, was seven months. In later years, Cora helped with typing the manuscript and Thomas expertly handled all problems that came up with the computer. My wife, Jacqueline Carey, helped me plan my trips, stayed near the phone while I traveled, read and reread the manuscript, and managed to write books of her own. This book is dedicated to her.
Index
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Abramovich, Roman
Achinsk
acrylonitrile
Adams, John Quincy
ad-Din, Rashid
Aeroflot Airlines
Afghanistan
agriculture
air travel; airport bathrooms; see also specific airlines and airports
Akademgorodok
Akaturi
Akhmet, Khan
Alaska; –Russia ferry service; –Siberia tr
ansfer route
Alaska Airlines
Aldan River
Alekseev, V. V.: The Last Act of a Tragedy
Alexander I, Tsar
Alexander II, Tsar
Alexander III, Tsar
Alexei Mikhailovich, Tsar
Alliluyeva, Svetlana
aluminum
American Expeditionary Force
Amur River
Amursky Plate
Anadyr
Anadyr River
Anchorage
Angara River
animals; hunting; prehistoric; sable; tigers
animism
Annenkov, Ivan
antibiotics
antigovernment violence, nineteenth-century
Arabic
Arakcheev, Count Aleksei
Arctic Ocean
Armfeldt, Nathalie
Arnold, Katya
Arnold, Mitya
arrows
Arsenyev, Vladimir; death of; Dersu Uzala
art
Asia
Astafiev, Victor
astronomy
Atlasov, Vladimir
Aurora
Austria
Avars
Avvakumovo River
Avvakum Petrovich; The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself
Baikal-Amur Magistral (BAM)
Baikal Lake
Bajazet
Bakunin, Mikhail
Balanchine, George
ballet
Baltic territories
banya
Barabinsk Steppe
Baranov, Alexander
barbed wire
Barguzin
Barr, David
Basargin, N. V.
bathrooms
Batu, Khan
Bazhanov, Boris
beatings
bedbugs
beef
beer
Belinsky, Vissarion
Bell, John
Belov, Sveta and Tolya
Beluga Foresight
Beluga Fraternity
Bennett, James Gordon
Benyowsky
Bereyozov
Berezovyi Yar
Bering, Vitus
Bering Air
Bering expeditions
Bering Land Bridge