Here I want to describe other aspects of my experiences in that capitol. The leading literary journal Novy Mir, which had originally rejected Pasternak’s manuscript, finally serialized the novel in 1988. I attended a exhibition of Soviet art in the former Czarist stables (the Manage) just outside the Kremlin walls. One evening a Soviet rock band was playing in a ballroom of the hotel on Red Square close to St. Basil’s onion-domed cathedral. Afterwards, being a minor celebrity, at least momentarily, I was asked to dance by many women who could have leapt right off one of those Soviet era posters.

Source: Huffington Post December 24, 2017 19:07 UTC