And at some point I think I will get a text copy of the book and actually, you know, read it. But work has changed a lot in the last year and I spend a lot more time on the move, so audiobooks are a good thing in the meantime.

AS far as Ivanovich's dream goes, I am sure a lot of the references to events and the figures that the "actors" represent would have been perfectly understandable to a reasonably well informed Muscovite of the time. But not me