Spiridonovka Street becomes the home of Yurii Andreievich and Marina in 1929, marking a settled domestic chapter in a life repeatedly shaped by displacement. Its significance here is intimate and specific: it is the address shared by the doctor, Marina, and their two daughters, while Misha Gordon lives nearby.

A Moscow Home

By the early summer of 1929, Yurii Andreievich and Marina are living on Spiridonovka Street. Their household includes Kapka, short for Capitolina, who is five, and six-month-old Klazhka, short for Claudia. These precise ages give the household a distinctly everyday scale: the family’s life is measured not only by political and personal upheaval, but by the presence of a preschooler and an infant.

A Neighborhood of Nearness

Misha Gordon has a room on nearby Malaia Bronnaia Street. The two addresses establish a small geography of companionship within Moscow: Gordon is close enough to belong to the same neighborhood, where residents visit one another hatless and in shirtsleeves during the hot early summer. The passage locates Spiridonovka Street within this informal social world without describing the family’s dwelling itself, keeping the focus on who lives there and who is within reach.