Nine fictional stories, set in Russia, tell of the lives of ordinary men and women in the turbulent years after the 1917 Russian revolution.A parcel from Moscow that eludes the secret police, is discovered to be a love letter without words; a man returns from exile in Siberia and settles a debt; a little girl loses the love of her life - a Caucasian sheepdog; the murdered Tzar's daughter, Anastasia, is disturbingly reborn; an old man who experienced...