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Val Karren: The Deceit of Riches

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Val Karren The Deceit of Riches
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    The Deceit of Riches
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In the new Russia, nothing is as it seems. A senior Russian military engineer is murdered. Is it espionage or treason? In the modern Russian revolution, corruption and hidden agendas in both government and industry have replaced law and order. When Peter Turner, an American student uncovers a murderous shadow network of extortion, money laundering and espionage he must get out of Russia before the KGB and gangsters silence him for good. When morals become relative, and all choices are dangerous, self preservation is no longer intuitive.

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Valentina Petrovna turned to me and said in English, assuming I didn’t understand her conversation with the clerk, “Please give him your money and show him your receipt from the bank from this morning. He is afraid to accept the money not knowing its source.”

I reached for my passport and my wallet from inside my coat while looking questioningly at the impotent accountant, looking for an approving nod or a step forward that didn’t come. His face was blank. He stood looking at Valentina as I slowly walked to his desk and gave him my documents and the receipt, but not yet the money. He obviously couldn’t read them. He quickly glanced over them and handed the items back to me with a shrug and a blank expression as if to say ‘What is going on here?’ I stepped away without producing the fifteen bank notes in my other pocket.

“Valentina, he doesn’t know what to do with the money,” I stated the obvious.

She looked frustrated and flustered like an actor who had forgotten her lines.

I turned and addressed the clerk directly. “Tell me, please, if we exchanged these dollars into rubles, could the University accept the cash then?”

“Nyet, our office does not have access to a bank account. We transfer credits given to us by the administration and the government. Nobody pays with cash for education in Russia,” the clerk explained further.

“Mr. Turner please stay out of this matter. I will arrange this,” Valentina huffed again in English.

“Well, it seems we should be doing this differently, isn’t this so my friend?” I turned again to the statuesque clerk, hoping for a suggestion of alternate solution from him.

“Mr. Turner please give me the money and the receipt and I will work this out.”

I gave the envelope and receipt to Valentina who then placed it deliberately on the clerk’s desk.

“Please put this money in the safe, young man, and I will work out the acceptance of this money with the university’s director later this afternoon,” she instructed.

I watched as my tuition money was locked in a thick cast iron box with a large jagged key which the clerk took from an unlocked desk drawer.

“So much for an abundance of precaution,” I commented to Valentina, mocking her with sarcasm which she didn’t grasp at that moment. I had my doubts that my money would ever be seen in the accounts of the university.


I was quiet for the ten-minute ride back to the Gagarin Street building and dormitories trying to take in just exactly what had happened, but Valentina interrupted my thoughts to chide me again. “Mr. Turner. Please remember that you are a foreigner. People in our city are not used to dealing with foreigners. There are ways to do things in Russia and ways NOT to do things. To exchange so much money would draw attention and you could become a target. Please just focus on your studies and let the university take care of such matters.”

“Very well then, Valentina. I trust my money will be received and I can study then?” I poked the proverbial bear to hear her response, as my suspicions had been peaked by the display and act in the accounting office.

“Arkadiy is our witness that your money was deposited with the university,” she motioned to Arkadiy who was already nodding with a docile smile on his face.

Arkadiy was an interesting character; A former Soviet air force intelligence officer who spoke and wrote English like no other Russian I had ever met, yet so subservient to Valentina Petrovna. He must have been stationed abroad in a Soviet embassy in an English speaking country. Was this the fate of ex-Soviet military officers: to be clerks in the newly organized foreign students’ offices around Russia? Whatever his story, he was my witness.


With my tuition paid, that morning I was introduced to the heads of the two departments in which I would be studying: Dean Roman Sergeyevich Karamzin, the head of the History Faculty, and Professor Lyudmila Ivanovna Dashkova of the School of Pedagogy.

Professor Dashkova, a plump middle-aged woman with thick curly black hair was a warm and encouraging mentor who corrected mistakes without chiding. Self-correction of grammar, mis-annunciation or an incorrect stress on a changing adjectival form would be congratulated with a warm smile from her round, rosy cheeks. She was a doting mother over her students, who absolutely loved reading and teaching the Russian classics — Pushkin, in particular, was her specialty and she evangelized the world with the virtues of his tales and poetry. For her, there was only one version of the Russian lexicon that was acceptable, and that was Pushkin’s! Street slang and foreign cognates were to her as abhorrent as margarine to a French pastry chef. Only the best ingredients went into our essays.

In our initial meeting, Professor Dashkova spoke only Russian with me and asked open questions to make me speak and explain myself.

“Young man, please tell me what motivated you to study Russian and Russian literature,” Lyudmila began.

“Well, I think it all started because I was afraid of war between our countries,” my reply started the professor.

“So you are here to study the language of the enemy?” she asked suspiciously.

“No, just the opposite,” I gave a startled return to her accusation, “so that we don’t remain enemies!”

“Oh, yes, I understand,” she seemed relieved yet a bit ruffled.

“I started teaching myself how to read the Russian alphabet when I was sixteen years old, and for several years taught myself vocabulary and phrases and started trying to read lexicons — but that was too advanced for me to do on my own. Once I reached university level and could take proper courses from a Russian born professor I really started to love this language. I find it very expressive. I wish English had so many adjectives.”

“Have you done much reading in the classics in your study?” she inquired.

“Sorry, I only know the stereotypical Russian authors. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky & Pushkin. I can understand Tolstoy’s writing if I really concentrate, but then I have to read a paragraph twice. I can’t follow Dostoyevskiy in English or Russian, but I love Pushkin’s short stories! They are so Russian and timeless. I feel I understand Russia so much better through Pushkin,” I expounded.

“I too love Pushkin very much. I feel he was the true Russian writer who not only observed Russia, like Tolstoy but who accurately interpreted Russia and Russians. Tolstoy was too caught up in Russia’s relation to and with France and other European countries. Pushkin was focused fully on Russian matters. He was the original Russian writer,” she said with a sparkle in her eyes.

“I look forward to reading more of his works. I only know a very few,” I admitted.

“And so we shall, and so we shall,” Ludmilla confirmed.

“Your Russian skills seem to be excellent. Both your grammar is very careful and accurate, your accent is very good, and your vocabulary seems to have good depth. But I notice you do not use idioms and expressions. You speak very literally.” Her analysis intrigued me.

“You don’t think or dream in Russian yet, do you?” she inquired.

“No, not yet,” I conceded.

“Well, if we put your nose into Pushkin a few hours every day, we can change that,” she smiled and made some notes in her notebook. “The more you read Pushkin, the more you will speak and write like Pushkin. So we will focus heavily on reading the classics and essay writing. Your conversation skills are excellent, you don’t seem to miss many details. Much of this work will be self-study so you will have to motivate and discipline yourself. Try to speak with people of all different kinds while you’re here. Old people speak differently than students. Lawyers speak differently than a worker from one of the automobile factories. You will do well to speak more than listen to lectures.” She rattled these instructions off like a pharmacist giving instructions for the careful use of dispensed medicines. “And in April we will do a pre-test for the entrance exams to the Moscow State University, the MGU, and in June I expect that you will pass that proficiency exam. When you do that you will be eligible to study in Moscow if you wish,” she explained with proxy excitement.

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