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This is the Way

At the very beginning of the cold and completely ‘unspring’ May 2022, my wife. Maria. and I, with three huge suitcases and our two beloved cats Margo and Gargoyle, boarded a plane flying from Sochi to Istanbul. All the time I kept thinking that almost 100 years ago, in an almost identical way (only on steamboats), the best minds and intelligentsia escaped from Russia, leaving from the Bolsheviks and the civil war ... how hard it was for them and now, the Russian customs officials, could, finally, after everything else, exhaust all our nerves!

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