Stargorod: A Novel in Many Voices

1990

Stargorod is emphatically not big. It is located at The Lake. There is a chemical plant, the State Bearings Factory No. 4, a brick factory, an agricultural machinery plant, a furniture factory, a kremlin and a great number of old churches and monasteries. Renovation efforts are ongoing.

A Guide to Stargorod

Sad! I feel sad beforehand! But let us return to the story.

Nikolai Gogol, “Old World Landowners”