Dedicated to
Alexander, Aleikhin, Alapin and Azev;
Blavatzky, Bakunin, Boris and Boguljuboff;
Dostoevsky, Dmitri and Diaghileff;
Gogol, Gregory, Gapon, Glinka and Gorky;
Ivan and Ilyitch;
Katherine and Kropotkin;
Lenin and Lermontoff;
Mendeljeff, Maisky, Mussorgsky, and Moiseivitch;
Pushkin, Pavloff and Peter;
Rurik, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Rasputin, Rachmaninoff and
Rostopschin;
Timoshenko, Tschaikovsky, Troitsky, Tschigorin, Trotsky,
Turgenieff, Tolstoi, and Tchekoff;
Vassily and Verestchagin;
Zosimoff and Zimbalist;
and so on through all the thirty-six letters of
the Alphabet; stones of honour and dishonour
that go to the building of the City of God.
