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2. RGASPI 558.4.628, various memoirs. Maria Kuzakova memoirs and others including Kryukova: RGASPI 558.4.647. Letters and contacts with abroad, 31 Dec. 1910, and Jan. 1911: Stalin, Works, 2:209–18. Zaria Vostoka, 23 Dec. 1925. Ivanian: RGASPI 558.1.5097. S. V. Malyshev, “Moia rabota v Pravde,” Bolshevistkaya Pechat, vol. 4, 1937, p. 22. To Petersburg?: Kun, p. 109. Serafima Khoroshina, Kuzakova memoirs and local records—GAVO 108.1.4670 and 5058, 108.2.235;GAVO 18.2.4988 and PAVO 108.1.4670 3837.5.27, 3837.5.27 and 3837.5.2, and PAVO 859.10.43. Thanks to the directors of the two Vologda archives for their help. Ostrovsky, pp. 321–28: my account of the Serafima marriage is based on Ostrovsky’s researches in Party Archive of Archangel Region (PAVO 859.10.21.1–2). Y. Sukhotin, “Bastard krasnogo vozhda.” GARF 102.00.1910.5. Books, policemen, cheerful, singing, laughing, fiction and history books, jail time: RGASPI 558.4.540 Ivan Golubev. Vstrechi s vozhdem: Rasskazy krestyan s Kureiki o tov. Staline, pp. 32–36. Nikonov, Molotov Molodost, pp. 75–90. Sex and boredom: meeting of the British Ambassador Sir David Kelly and Stalin, 28 June 1949, cipher report, no. 548: thanks to Laurence Kelly and PRO 77618. Aram Ivanian: Kun, pp. 110–19; RGASPI 558.1.5097; Beria, p. 135. Lenin’s anger: Dubinsky-Mukharadze, Ordzhonikidze, pp. 75–76. Planting pine trees: Mgeladze, pp. 54–55. Guy Chazan, “East-West Alloy Reviving Stalin’s Belch,” Wall Street Journal, 9 June 2004: thanks to Guy Chazan for this story. Lordkipanidze: Charkviani, “Memoirs.”