When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?

Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.

Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.

Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.

Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.