For someone as broke and isolated as Markov, even a fraction of this kind
of money would represent a spectacular payoff, but it was a payoff that
would come with a unique set of complications and liabilities—kind of
like selling a briefcaseful of stolen cocaine.
- In November 1918, at the height of the looting, six members of
Arseniev’s family, including his father, were murdered for their property
by local peasants. - This quote, often attributed to Marx, is Engels’s paraphrasing of Hegel:
“The truth of Necessity, therefore, is Freedom.”^7