In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block.
And few who are taken to the Big House ever return..
Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now.
He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House.
In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block