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We investigated the Sheinises. Everyone relevant had died, the family archive had vanished, the distant relatives replied rudely. On a Tuesday in February, at 10:15 a.m. I gathered everyone in the office, and Borya read aloud:
“We’re looking for Anastasia Vladimirovna Petrova, born in 1902. Petrova may be her maiden name, or she may have been married to a Mr. Petrov before she became Tsurko’s wife. She met Dmitry Tsurko while serving in the diplomatic corps. Later, she moved on to his brother Pyotr. With Pyotr, she had a daughter, Iraida. Subsequently, there was an affair with a German national known as Wendt not later than 1937. Petrova gave birth to a son, a retard, from the German. The boy was registered as Vasily Petrovich Petrov. At the same time,” Mirgorodsky
