After a long voyage from provincial Russia (the luggage tags indicate Tula, Moscow, Berlin and Paris), the émigré arrives in decadent Paris, clasping the volumes of the Russian classics Pushkin, Gogol and Tolstoy, as well as a 4-volume set of Dostoevsky. Josephine Baker is flitting like a firefly against the Eiffel Tower, while a faceless but
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