Moscow

Moscow is the capital city of Russia, and the capital city of the Soviet Union. It is the most heavily-policed and guarded city in the Communist empire, and is the seat of power for the Communist world. Leo and Raisa work and live in Moscow, along with numerous others, including Leo’s parents and Vasili. Moscow is where MGB headquarters, the Lubyanaka, is located and is where Leo moves as a small boy with his adoptive parents following departure from their starving Ukrainian village. It is in Moscow that Leo first comes into contact with a murdered child, which he initially dismisses as an accidental death by train. It is from Moscow that Leo and Raisa are exiled when Leo refuses to denounce his wife, and to Moscow that they later return to investigate the death of the child as an actual murder, rather than accidental.

Rostov

Rostov...