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I was feeling strange watching
this neighbourhood. It was an important part of my life half a century ago. Those people
carrying their bags did not know a thing about it. On the contrary, they might have asked
- and some did - what my business was in their town. I always told them that I was
studying the architecture of an old Russian town.
I recalled that fires alone had destroyed the town thirty times. No-one knows the scope of
the destruction caused by wars. |