Return: smoke of the Fatherland
The New Times continues to publish the diaries of the famous journalist Masha Slonim, who went into exile for the second time* When you wander, you return home, And the smoke of the Fatherland is sweet and pleasant to us; Homesickness! A long-exposed trouble… etc. Returning after four months of absence for just a week is, of course, not a return, but just a fleeting visit. But now, on the way from Sheremetyevo, I recalled my first return to Moscow after thirteen years of wandering.