Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Figes Orlando

Author:Figes, Orlando [Figes, Orlando]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2012-05-21T21:00:00+00:00

Five days later, Sveta had not yet left Moscow. There were difficulties getting train tickets (not uncommon in the Soviet Union, where people queued for days at ticket-offices). ‘Goodness knows when I’m going to depart,’ she wrote on 18 August:

There hasn’t been a separate booking office for people travelling on work trips for three months. If you’re lucky you can get a ticket in a day at the advance booking office, or in a couple of days, because they note down who’s in the queue so that it can start again unchanged the following day … But through my own stupidity we’ve already flushed two days down the drain for nothing. I took my place in the queue, then left for work with Yara and then Mama taking over for me, but the tickets ran out before Mama got to the window, and, not realizing that she had to secure her place in the queue, she went home. She was angry with herself and the following morning she went early to stand in the queue, but when I arrived to replace her it turned out she’d trusted some policeman who had told her that all the tickets for trains in the direction of Gorky were at a different window. To cut it short, she wasn’t standing in the queue I had been in, and I didn’t have time to start all over again since I really had to be at the institute …

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