Crimea

And who lived most of the time in the Crimea and whom Marya Zamyatina described as if he were Jesus Christ reincarnated.

One night he dreamed he was back in Crimea.

Without going into detail, Archimboldi told her about the war, about Crimea, about the Kuban and the great rivers of the Soviet Union, about the winters and the months he spent unable to speak, and somehow, obliquely, he conjured up Ansky, though he never mentioned his name.