In Leningrad of the late Soviet period, one could traditionally find one’s nose or another part of one’s body on Nevsky Prospekt - already on Vasilievsky Island, or find something that is not found anywhere except here and now - C-flat minor - key from the St. Petersburg film director and prose writer Andrei Chernykh. “Deep down I was always afraid of this black and purple tonality, but I was always drawn to it and returned with thirst and fear. And only she ignited thoughts and soul, and she also warned of an unkind outcome,” he reflects in his first book, written back in 1987, about death as a legless woman who once fell in love with the hero of his story...