Chapter 26 Summary

It is about time to open 22 Lipka for spring cleaning. Frank is putting it off until the children return because he knows they will be disappointed to miss it. He plans to go down to the dacha on Saturday to fetch them. In the morning mail he receives a letter from the Ministry of Defense. The letter says that he, Frank Reid, is released from his responsibility for V.S.Grigoriev (Volodya) because the latter has been taken into preventive detention. The letter goes on to say that not only would there be no objection to Frank's departure from Russia, he is urged to do so at his earliest opportunity.

Tvyordov comes to ask Frank if he will sign papers so he can go work in England. Tvyordov has a copy of Tolstoy's Resurrection, which had been printed in England in Russian and...