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Diplomats who have been watching the convoy believe that Andropov now spends mornings at his Kremlin desk, then relaxes for part of each afternoon. At about 5:30 p.m., the motorcade dashes back down Kalinin Prospect, possibly taking Andropov to his dacha on the outskirts of Moscow. Zamyatin sought to reinforce such speculation when he mentioned, during the Moscow press conference, that Andropov "concerns himself in full with party and state affairs...
Brezhnev enjoyed entertaining foreign visitors at his dacha outside Moscow, where he could display his prowess as a hunter, and at his luxurious summer home in Yalta, where the Olympic-size swimming pool was shielded from the wind by thick glass walls that glided back and forth at the press of a button. Early on, he spoke to state visitors of his interest in splashy automobiles. Taking the hint, they plied him with examples of the motorized best that Western technology could offer. Brezhnev was a notoriously bad driver; yet at one time his stable included a Rolls-Royce...
...days, Andropov was nervous True, he reasoned, he had recently spent the weekend at Brezhnev's dacha on the Baltic. That was a good sign. But Brezhnev had also been seeing more and more of Chernenko. The two often lunched together at a little French restaurant near the Kremlin and went out for a drink after work. Besides, Ninushkin, Andropov's aide, had overheard Brezhnev compliment Chernenko on the completion of a business deal with the Canadians. "Much better job than Andropov did on the natural gas business: he lost us that contract." Brezhnev had said...
Sometimes a weird sort of yearning intrudes. As a child, Melamid lived on the Moscow street that Stalin's staff car reputedly took on its way from the Kremlin to his country dacha: If you look carefully, his elders told him, you might see him in the back of the car. Melamid never did, but a yearning for the ogre is commemorated in I Saw Stalin Once When I Was a Child: the red curtain in the rear window slides back, revealing the fleshy nose, the twinkling eye of the Dreadful Father. "To us," Melamid points out, "Stalin...
...various reports disagree on what happened to Brezhnev after his arrival in Moscow. Some put him in the Kremlin clinic on Granovsky Street and cite stories that police cordoned off entrances to the health center. Other versions have him convalescing at his suburban Moscow dacha, which is believed to have the latest in medical equipment. When quizzed about the hospitalization rumors, the laconic Foreign Ministry spokesman stopped just short of a denial, noting that he had "no information...