Paolo Nori in 'St Petersburg and the Avant-Garde'.

«The girls, the ones who walk with boots of black eyes on the flowers of my heart. The clouds. The KGB headquarters. A brick building, across the river: the largest prison in the Soviet Union. Light even at night. A jazz band playing with gloves without fingertips. Cigarettes with long cardboard filters. The stray dog. The Winter Palace. The Russian Museum. The ‘when you buy a bird, look to see if there are teeth or not. If there are teeth, it is not è a bird’

A tale of the ferments of artistic and cultural renewal during the Revolutionary period.