TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waterdrinker,Pieter
AU  - Evans,P.C.
TI  - The long song of Tchaikovsky Street: a Russian adventure 
SN  - 9781925849134 (pbk.)
U1  - 947.0854092 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Brunswick, Victoria
PB  - Scribe
KW  - Waterdrinker, Pieter,
KW  - Authors, Dutch
KW  - fast
KW  - Dutch
KW  - Homes
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Tour guides (Persons)
KW  - Travel
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Smuggling
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Saint Petersburg
KW  - History
KW  - 1991-
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Saint Petersburg (Russia)
KW  - 1917-
KW  - 1985-1991
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 'History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.' One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinker's door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in the midst of one of the biggest social and cultural revolutions of our time, working as a tour operator ... with a sideline in contraband. Thirty years later, from his apartment on Tchaikovsky Street in Saint Petersburg, where he lives with his Russian wife and three cats, Pieter reflects on his personal history in the Soviet Union, as well as the century of revolutions that took place in and around his street. A master storyteller, he blends history with memoir to create an ode to the divided soul of Russia and an unputdownable account of his own struggles with life, literature, and love
ER  -