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Perhaps in Vienna, where the diarist makes one of her more bizarre entries: "Laszlo Szapary and Erwein Schonborn . . . both had just dug themselves out of the Palais Schonborn, where a bomb had crashed into the courtyard before they could reach the cellar. The building is pretty battered and they are now fishing among the wreckage for Erwein's shooting trophies; he had many ivory tusks mounted in silver, as well as two stuffed orangoutans." The power of Vassiltchikov's observations lies in her restraint: "These last days innumerable inscriptions in chalk have appeared on the blackened walls of wrecked houses...