CURLY FORELOCK
The time “after the war” began. It suddenly seemed to the Empire that it had conquered something greater than what it actually obtained. Both the iron men and the masses were possessed with desires; the Emperor contemplated distributing bread for free. In Ogaryovo, at the former estate of the Governor General, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the elites gathered on summer evenings in the manor house: secretaries of the Moscow committee of the Communist party, the secretaries of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, the boyars and sextons of the Moscow region and city Councils. They played dominoes and volleyball, and some attempted to follow the example of the first secretary of the Moscow city Council Shcherbakov by mastering lawn tennis. There were family-style m
