“From the hospital, the recovered boy was brought not to the dacha, but to a two-story stone building surrounded by the fading greenery of poplars. The orphanage was inhabited, according to the general list, by exactly thirty orphans and sixty-eight social orphans—those whose parents were presumably alive. It was possible to squeeze out part of the alimony from someone, someone skillfully hid or died in obscurity, and the child, without the consent of the blood parents for adoption, remained by law in the orphanage until he came of age. The boy was lucky: he was a full-fledged orphan and could hope to find a family..."