Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire by Howard Amos harpercollins suitor‑searching – imposed by her

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In the hours that followed

Child soldiers proudly parade across Red Square

Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire by Howard Amos harpercollins suitor‑searching – imposed by herShortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2025. On Russias neglected European edge, Amos follows the lives of ordinary people in Pskov from orphanage carers and hospital patients to a museum curator fighting to preserve local heritage. He paints a lyrical, human portrait of a frontier marked by decay, historys erasure and quiet defiance. Returning to an overlooked region on the edge of Russia, Howard Amos sets out on a quest to understand the