Véronique Jobert and the Voeikov Family Archives : Russian ...

And he was right, as it turned out later! In fact, Alexander Ivanovich was a vegetarian; he ate nothing but dried fruit and cereal. It is why his guests were not very enthusiastic about the idea of having dinner at his place. ... We stayed at the hotel Ukraina, where all rooms were bugged and chambermaids stole hair rollers and used our perfumes. When I returned to Moscow, already as a student, on an internship programme to practise my Russian language skills, ...