Leaving

MOSCOW: So I'm packed, stocked up in Crimean wine and a reading list like you wouldn't believe. It includes:

Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam
The Aeneid by Virgil
Snow by Ohum Pahnuk
Post-Captain by Patrick O'Brien
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Anna Karenin by Leo Tolstoy

Four days till Irkustk. I'll tell you more when I get there.