Acknowledgements
Some names have been changed, others not. In Russia many of those who I need to thank are protected with a pseudonym. In Germany I am grateful to Prune Antoine, Holger Böken, Corinna Bröcher, Molly Brown, Martin Dammann, Nigel Dunkley MBE, Victoria Gosling, Matthias and My-Linh Kunst, Helena Palsson, Johannes Vogel and Yusra Mardini who took time away from her Olympics training and let me read the proofs of her biography Butterfly. In the Baltics I thank Jason Finch of Turku’s Åbo Akademi University, Kätlin Kaldmaa, Kristjan, Piret and Markus Moora and Keith Shannon, British Ambassador to Latvia. Elsewhere in Europe, the help of Paul-Henri Arni, Clifford Corzatt, Canada’s Ambassador to the EU Daniel J. Costello, Pascal Cuttat of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Jakub Kalensky of the East StratCom Task Force was invaluable.
In the UK, I am grateful to Lady Plaxy and Sir Michael Arthur, Rick Ball, Carole Cadwalladr, Clementine Cecil, David Chater, Susan Crean, Nick Danziger, Michael and Marlie Ferenczi, Ed Jones, Toby Latta, Rachel and Neil Moss, Mary Price, Joanna Prior, Douglas C. Rice, Varvara Shavrova, David Thomson and Marcus Warren. I am indebted to my agent Peter Straus, my editor Michael Fishwick and above all my resplendent wife Katrin (cue fanfare of trumpets) without whom neither Stalin’s Nose nor this book would have been written.
Finally, special thanks to Ekaterina Petrovna for sharing the secret of pipiska putina. Some days I wake up with my brain still sizzling. Nu pravda ze?
A Note on the Author
Rory MacLean is one of Britain’s most expressive and adventurous travel writers. His books – which have been translated into a dozen languages – include UK top-ten bestsellers Stalin’s Nose and Under the Dragon as well as Berlin: Imagine a City, which was named a Book of the Year by the Washington Post.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Stalin’s Nose
The Oatmeal Ark
Under the Dragon
Next Exit Magic Kingdom
Falling for Icarus
Magic Bus
Missing Lives
Gift of Time
Back in the USSR
Berlin: Imagine a City
In North Korea
Wunderkind
Pictures of You
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