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Nikolai Bokov

Nikolai Bokov is a former samizdat writer.

Death in the Wasteland

By Nikolai Bokov

I am one of those solitary, melancholy messengers To Whom cherished gifts are not given. -Rainer Maria Rilke

Chuck Bowdish, watercolor on paper, 2002

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Death in the Wasteland
By Nikolai Bokov

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