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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Map of Russia

Author’s Note

PART ONE

Pianomania · 1762–1917

1 · Music in a Sleeping Land: Sibir

2 · Traces in the Snow: Khabarovsk

3 · Siberia is ‘Civilized’: St Petersburg to the Pacific

4 · The Paris of Siberia: Irkutsk

5 · Pianos in a Sandy Venice: Kiakhta

6 · The Sound of Chopin’s Poland: Tomsk

7 · Home in a Hundred Years: Sakhalin Island

PART TWO

Broken Chords · 1917–1991

8 · The Last Tsar’s Piano: The Urals

9 · The End of Everything: The Altai Mountains

10 · The Moscow of the East: Harbin

11 · Beethoven in a Red Chum: The Yamal Peninsula

12 · Music in the Gulag Archipelago: Kolyma

13 · The Siberian Colosseum: Novosibirsk

14 · Vera’s Mühlbach: Akademgorodok

PART THREE

Goodness Knows Where · 1992–Present Day

15 · A Game of Risk: Kamchatka

16 · Siberia’s Last Piano: The Commanders to the Kurils

17 · Provenance Regained: Khabarovsk

EPILOGUE

Epilogue: The Orkhon Valley

A Brief Historical Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Picture Acknowledgements

Source Notes

Index

About the Author