From the beginning it was clear in my own mind that Russell and Holmes would be fairly long-lived, when it came to numbers of outings. But, yeah, fifteen or sixteen years is a long time.
When Anatoly Pavlovich Sukhanov was a young man, he was an avant-garde Soviet artist, but after marrying the daughter of another painter, Sukhanov becomes an art critic and apparatchik, in the debut novel by Russian-born Olga Grushin called The Dream Life of Sukhanov. It was a dream life -- until the Soviet system began to wither and die, and now Sukhanov has to face what kind of life he has made.
From the beginning it was clear in my own mind that Russell and Holmes would be fairly long-lived, when it came to numbers of outings. But, yeah, fifteen or sixteen years is a long time.
