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Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter6/10/2023 No one in the house spoke of how the painting had come to be there. And the subject, the countryside near Provence, was once a favorite of an artist named Cézanne. The brushstrokes were light but meticulous. The canvas was small, perhaps only eight by ten inches. And when the Second World War was over and places like Leningrad and Berlin were nothing but rubble and crumbling walls, the residents of the big house on Tverskoy Boulevard only had to take up a hammer and drive a single nail-to hang a painting on the landing at the top of the stairs-to mark the end of a long war. When the rest of Russia stood shaking in the Siberian winds, that house had fires and gaslight in every room. When breadlines filled the streets during the reign of the czars, the big house had caviar. But the big old house on Tverskoy Boulevard had always seemed immune to these particular facts, the way that it had seemed immune to many things throughout the years. Moscow can be a cold, hard place in winter.
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