Europe | The vagaries of memory
A museum in Russia for a man who never existed
The communists destroyed so much that even an imaginary past appeals to Russians
|TOMSK
ENTER AN ELEGANT two-storey Art Nouveau house in Tomsk, a Siberian university town, walk up a solid wooden staircase and step into the measured world of an early 20th-century university professor.
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