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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
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
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