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Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother
The long read: In postwar Warsaw, my grandmother Zosia fixed the teeth of prisoners and spies. In doing so, she came into contact with the hidden history of her times in a way few others could
He wrote Alexander a 60-page memorandum in which he listed out all of the tsar’s faults as a man and a ruler (among them “despotism, hypocrisy, incompetence, cowardice, perfidy and vanity”) and called on him to end autocracy in Russia and inaugurate an era of constitutional rule. As if to make up for the outrage of the key, Alexander has a grand piano sent to Timo’s cell (Von Bock was an excellent pianist), but he doesn’t otherwise lift or lessen the terms of his secret imprisonment, which only ends after the tsar’s death. Not that the story was in any way implausible: the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, a radical nobleman a generation younger than Von Bock, lost his teeth in the very same prison – though from scurvy, caused by the terrible jailhouse rations.
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