Bearpit
“The colour – or lack of it – was one of Yuri’s most positive impressions: dark cars, dark-clothed men, dark-earthed burial place. Even the sprigs and flower arrangements on the other, existing graves seemed withered and old, bleached of any brightness.
The uncertainty at the line-up to the grave was not from any respect for the man they had come to bury but one of protocol because Victor Chebrikov was attending. The KGB chairman chose his own place actually alongside Yuri: earlier the man had n...odded, once. Yuri knew that anything further, like conversation, had to be initiated by Chebrikov, so he didn’t speak. He supposed the man’s presence indicated a great honour in memory of his father, like his signing the obituary in Pravda. It seemed immaterial. The self-awareness surprised Yuri. Very recently being in the presence of Victor Chebrikov would have mattered to him a very great deal.
The cortege set off through the graveyard with appropriate slowness and Yuri, who had never before been in a Soviet cemetery, became conscious of the size and ornateness of the burial place.MoreLess
The uncertainty at the line-up to the grave was not from any respect for the man they had come to bury but one of protocol because Victor Chebrikov was attending. The KGB chairman chose his own place actually alongside Yuri: earlier the man had n...odded, once. Yuri knew that anything further, like conversation, had to be initiated by Chebrikov, so he didn’t speak. He supposed the man’s presence indicated a great honour in memory of his father, like his signing the obituary in Pravda. It seemed immaterial. The self-awareness surprised Yuri. Very recently being in the presence of Victor Chebrikov would have mattered to him a very great deal.
The cortege set off through the graveyard with appropriate slowness and Yuri, who had never before been in a Soviet cemetery, became conscious of the size and ornateness of the burial place.MoreLess
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