Includes index. "First published in the United Kingdom by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd."--T.p. verso.

pt. 1. 1992-3 -- There be monsters -- Benya's ark -- Visions & fakes -- Opening the cages -- False pregnancy -- The red cardinal -- A-little-bit-me -- The other side of despair -- Tied back to back -- Turning Russia round -- Connaisseur of silences -- The devil's tune -- An abyss of stars -- A piece of green pumice -- Siberian Cassandra -- The art of mind control -- pt. 2. 1994-6 -- Legend of the golden woman -- The path not taken -- The lost heart of Russia -- Russia's Quakers -- In the wilderness -- The time of the Antichrist -- Photography is a sin! -- Music of the forest -- pt. 3. 1995 -- The dark side -- pt. 4. 1996 -- Creeping fascism -- Banging the table -- pt. 5. 1997-8 -- In search of the Russian idea -- The prodigal returns -- Building heaven or hell -- Touching the cosmos -- Riding two realities -- Ticket to the end of the Earth -- The Russian Orestes -- A country going cold turkey -- The society of original harmony -- Eating children -- Singing cedars? -- The twelve-step cure -- Music of the spheres -- pt. 6. 1998 -- Looking for Mother Olga -- The goddess & Baba Yaga -- Lifting Zina's curse -- pt. 7. 1999-2004 -- Cordelia of the steppes -- Freedom is slavery -- My dream house -- Theirs not to reason why -- One small mend in the past -- pt. 8. 2005-07 -- Fairy tale in dubious taste -- The two-plank bridge -- St. Seraphim & the bomb -- The crooked & the beautiful -- Glimpses of grace -- Finding the golden woman -- pt. 9. 2008 -- How about a riddle? -- The worm turns -- The price of dreams -- Pilnyak's island -- Festival of dead leaves.