Anwyn Urquhart

pg. 334 — first drawing since thawing
Innokenty was an artist before he was frozen, but since thawing he has not been able to find his passion for art. He draws the Themis statue with the missing scales that he broke off. He has a moment of recollection for the movements of how to draw and the emotions that result from him drawing. He is reliving his history which is only possible because he was frozen and forgot.

pg. 336 — “When God wishes, nature’s order is overcome”
This was repeated a couple times in this section of reading. Innokenty and Geiger talk about higher powers, but this seems to kinda contradict Innokenty's philosophy on personal responsibility. Innokenty believes that everyone is fully responsible for whatever happens in their life, but this seems to say that sometimes God intervenes. People have no way of knowing when God is overcoming nature's order and thus can attribute what happens in their life to just the work of God.

pg. 342 — Chistov
A lawyer in charge of monitoring the interaction between Innokenty and Voronin (the malicious guard from the labor camps).

pg. 345 — innokenty finds solidarity in Voronin
"Voronin turns out to be the only other person who has remained to bear witness to my time" 
Innokenty does not feel hatred towards Voronin despite how terrible of a person Voronin was. He feels no hatred because they are the only one left and he finds solidarity in that. This highlights how isolated and lonely Innokenty feels despite having built a new life. His past is still a part of him, but only Voronin can relate to the events that happened in the early 1900's.

pg. 346 — ‘Titanic’ and ‘Ferdinand’
Topics of discussion at a tea party of sorts. The Titanic sunk in April of 1912 and the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated June 1914. At the end of the memory Innokenty throws out multiple dates for when this happened. Meaning the actual tea party, which he describes at great lengths, is more important to him and his personal history than the historical events that shook the world.

pg. 349 — writing preserves things forever
History is a common theme throughout the book and this touches on how it is preserved. Innokenty though is writing about his personal history to preserve that for his daughter. Arguably it is more important for personal histories to be written down because they are only preserved by one memory whereas larger history is remembered by many people.

pg. 350 — Mount Athos
A mountain and peninsula that has a strong Christian connections. It is on the eastern coast of Greece and houses 20 monasteries. Throughout the 1800's the Russian government donated money to support the growth of those monasteries. Then in 1913 there was a rise in the Russian Orthodox movement imiaslavie which asserted that the name of God in a part of God and they are inseparable, but each exist as distinct energies. The Archbishop of Vologda was sent to the peninsula to discourage the movement, but was unsuccessful so instead the military was used to 'persuade' two of the monasteries.  Over a thousand imiaslavtsy monks were imprisoned, excommunicated, and spread out throughout Russia.

pg.3 51 — hub dynamo
A small generator for powering lights on a bicycle. It is typically attached to the hub of a bicycle wheel.

pg.3 53 — Pushkin’s “The Shot”
"The Shot" is a short story written by Aleksandr Pushkin about a Russian officer named Silvio who is insulted by another officer named the Count. Silvio holds onto this grudge and vows to kill the Count, but not until the count has something to live for. When the Count is married, Silvio challenges him to a duel and the Count shoots first, missing and hitting a painting. As Silvio is about to shoot the Count's wife walks in so instead Silvio shoots and hits the exact same spot in the painting as the Count proving he could have killed the Count if he had tried. Innokenty feels that his situation is parallel to the Count's. Innokenty did not die while working at the labor camps before he was frozen, but now he has a wife and child on the way and he is dying. 

pg. 354 — "Innokenty is fading"
He is not dying; he is fading, slowly disappearing with his memories and history.

pg. 357 — Oredezh
A river in Leningrad Oblast, Russia.

pg. 357 — Devonian clay
Sediment and clay from the Devonian. The Devonian was a period in the Paleolithic era when life on dry land began to flourish. 

pg. 358 — idée fixe
An obsession. To get fixated on an idea