Juliet Butler: The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep

Index of characters in order of appearance:

Paediatric Institute (the Ped), Moscow; age 0–6

‘Mummy’/Dr Anna Petrovna Kruchkova – physiologist

Nastya – cleaner

Dr Tatiana Tikhonovna Alexeyeva – physiologist

Scientific National Institute of Prosthetics (SNIP), Moscow; age 6–14

Nadezhda Fyodorovna Gorokhova /Aunty Nadya – physiotherapist

Uncle Vasya – Aunty Nadya’s husband and her former patient

Dr Lydia Mikhailovna Voroboiskaya – doctor and surgeon

Professor Boris Markovich Popov – director of SNIP

Academician Pyotr Kuzmich Anokhin – physiologist overseeing studies on the twins

Dr Golubeva – doctor in the Brain Institute working for Anokhin

Galina Petrovna – teacher at SNIP

Pasha – good-looking boy; friend in SNIP

Lucia – Masha’s friend

Olessya – Dasha’s friend

Stepan Yakovlich – caretaker/groundsman

School for Invalids, Novocherkassk; age 14–18

Konstantin Semyonovich – director of the school

Vera Stepanovna – head teacher

Irina Konstantinovna – history teacher

Little Lyuda – friend in school

Sunny Nina – friend in school

Slava – friend in school and Dasha’s boyfriend

Petya – friend in school

Big Boris – Olessya’s boyfriend

Icy Valya – pupil in school

Valentina Alexandrovna – form teacher

Vyacheslav Tikhonov – school cobbler

The Twentieth Home for Veterans of War and Labour, Moscow; age 18–38

Barkov – director of the Twentieth

Iglinka Dragomirovna – housekeeper

Sanya – cleaner

Ivan Ivanovich – guard

Uncle Styopa – inmate

Baba Yulia – inmate

Yemil Moseyevich – inmate

The Sixth Home for Veterans of War and Labour, Moscow; age 38–53

Zlata Ivanovna – director of the Sixth

Timur – groundsman

Baba Iskra – cloakroom attendant

Thanks to my astoundingly talented editor Helen Garnons-Williams, for lovingly shaping the book into its final form, and for her kindness and constant encouragement throughout the whole process. To my Aunty Jenny for a legacy that allowed me the time to write this book, and of course to Dasha for opening her heart to me as much as she was able. Also thanks to Professor Jeff Craig from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute for his invaluable help and advice on research into the heritability of parental character traits in identical twins.

To read more about the twins and the writing of this book please visit julietbutler.com

Juliet Butler has worked in Russia and the UK as a journalist and translator for a number of organisations. She knew the twins, Masha and Dasha, over a period of some fifteen years, during which time she interviewed and recorded them on the many occasions she visited them.

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