Marik is seven, like Sasha, and no driver would waste time plowing through snow all the way to the edge of Ivanovo to stand by while a first grader pulls on his itchy uniform and tosses his books into a schoolbag.ĭespite the dusk of early mornings, Sasha has always savored this hour before school, from the moment she plunges out of the clouds of frost and into the warmth of Marik’s house to see his father leaf through Pravda over a glass of tea to the minute she curls her fingers around the piece of sucking candy his mother stuffs into her hand before they leave for class. Who is this wagon waiting for? Not for her friend Marik, for sure. It looks more like the wagon that plucks drunks off the sidewalks on holidays and deposits them at the sobering station in the town’s center.
Not really a car-there aren’t many cars in Ivanovo. The door to Marik’s house is ajar, and there is a black car blocking the street just a few meters away. She immediately knows something is wrong.
As a past secret comes to light, Sasha’s ambitions converge with Andrei’s duties, and Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if, as her grandmother likes to say, all will indeed be well.Ī Train to Moscow Introduction Excerpt. Kolya’s revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage.Īfter graduation, she begins acting in Leningrad, where Andrei, now a Communist Party apparatchik, becomes a censor of her work. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin’s brutality.
When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei.īefore she leaves, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. A Train to Moscow: In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress.
0 kommentar(er)
