tiger that killed Vladimir Markov was never weighed, but when he
recalled it later, Trush’s number two, Sasha Lazurenko, said, “As long as
I’ve worked here, I’ve never seen a tiger as big as that one.”
- Apparently, this is a timeless impulse: in the U.S. National Archives is
a photograph of Marine Sergeant M. L. Larkins presenting the heart of an
Indochinese tiger he has just killed to his commanding officer, Lieutenant
Colonel W. C. Drumwright, May 25, 1970.^9
- As of 1997, the zapovednik has a much reduced area of about 1,500
square miles. - Zazubrin was arrested and shot sometime in 1937–1938. Fifty years
later, in 1988, the Kremlin’s chief ideologist, Vadim A. Medvedev,
finally conceded that “ ‘universal values’ such as avoiding war and
ecological catastrophe must outweigh the idea of a struggle between the
classes.”^18
† The study was not published until 1948 when it was included in his
groundbreaking book, Tigr, izyubr, los (“Tiger, Red Deer, Moose”).