The 20th-Century Russian Novel: Revolution, Terror, Resistance

Wings 12-18

Pg. 12 Munich - City in Germany- where Stroop resides.

Pg. 12 Foulard - thin material of silk or cotton.

Pg. 12 Stroop -a well off, educated, English Russian adult male.

Pg. 12 The Volga - The longest river in Europe that traverses through Russia. 

Pg. 12 Sestroretsk - town in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Pg. 13 Antidiluvian - time referring to before the biblical great flood.

Pg 14 Chevaux de Frise - a defense consisting typically of a timber or an iron barrel covered with projecting spikes and often strung with barbed wire- for anticalvary.

Pg. 15 Fontanka -left branch of the river Neva, flows through the whole of Central Saint Petersburg, Russia - from the Summer Garden to Gutuyevsky Island.

Pg. 15 Parapet -defensive mini-wall made of earth or stone that was built to protect soldiers on the roof of a fort or a castle. Now it indicates any low wall along the roof of a building, the edge of a balcony, the side of a bridge, or similar structure.

Pg. 16 Ivan Petrovich

Pg. 17 Pince-nez - a pair of eyeglasses with a nose clip instead of earpieces.

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