The Translator by Harriet Crawley, Notes from first four chapters

The Translator by Harriet Crawley. I picked this book up at Broadway Books on Northeast Broadway. As I started reading it, I started making notes.

AgustaWestland AW109

Clive Franklin, the British translator, is picked up by a helicopter from a village in Scotland.

York Minster

They fly over York.

Rioja

He has a glass of Rioja at the airport.

Royal Air Force Voyager Vespina

They fly to Moscow.

The Caipirinha is Brazil's national drink, made with fresh lime juice, sugar, and cachaça, which is distilled from sugar cane juice p. 32

The Russian translator, Marina Volina has drinks with her son at a bar while watching the Russian Victory Parade.

Newton Running Shoes p. 32

Marina is a marathon runner.

Jaguar XJ Stretched Limousine p. 33

Clive catches a ride in Land Rover, the big shots ride in a limo.

Now we have a few places in Moscow:

Karl Marx Monument
Google - Workers of All Countries Unite
Wikipedia - Proletarians of All Countries, Unite!
Harriet - Workers of the world, unite!

British Ambassador Residence in Moscow p. 42

The Moscow Times reports:

The mansion at 14 Sofiiskaya naberezhnaya across the Moscow River from the Kremlin was built in 1893 for the “sugar king” Pavel Kharitonenko and his family.

After the 1917 Revolution, the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs claimed the mansion — and saved the interiors. At first it housed the families of important Soviet diplomats and visitors such as H.G. Wells and Isadora Duncan.

In 1929 the mansion was transferred to the embassy of Great Britain, the first major country to establish diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R.

They also has some fine photos of the interior of this place.

Zaryadye Concert Hall p. 44

Zaryadye Concert Hall Interior

At the Russian President's villa, the gang admires the paintings. These two get special mention.

Girl with Peaches by Valentin Serov (1887) p. 46

The Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer (1851) p. 47