Witness his presentation to the Chief Executive group, during a luncheon at RUIE's private dacha in the posh Moscow suburb known as Serebryany Bor, The Silver Forest, so-called for its lustrous stands of sugar maple and white birch.
Travelling through the country that formed the composer, Charles visits the two Russian cities that were most important in Tchaikovsky's life - St Petersburg and Moscow - as well as the dacha at Klin, where he spent much of the last 10 years of his life, writing some of his most famous works.
General Lev Rokhlin, who gained notoriety as a staunch critic of President Boris Yeltsin, was found in his bed yesterday with a gunshot wound to the head at his dacha, 40 miles south west of Moscow.
When in 1985 this lawmaker lived at the state dacha, we received food products using ration cards [lawmaker hints at MP Iskhak Masaliyev, son of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan during 1985-1991].
Was this because the authorities were still trying to find me and were closing in, or had the occupants of the dacha been frightened by my attempted escape, and instructed my captors to leave pronto?