Editing Eduard Limonov (section)

=== Life in Moscow ===
In 1967, he moves to Moscow. There, Eduard and Anna are clandestine, as in the Soviet Union a special permit is also required to move from one region to another and they do not have one. They live by expedients, often change apartments hosted by acquaintances, they also eat the leftovers of other customers at the public canteen and survive thanks to sewing jobs.

Eduard begins to frequent the circles of the official intelligentsia and the alternative ones gathered around the group called SMOG in parallel, remaining dissatisfied with both. When he finally gets permission to read his poems, they are appreciated, but he doesn't want to compromise, he wants to be recognized as a great poet without having to slavishly ingratiate himself with the characters of the Soviet cultural establishment. And while the turnover of tailoring jobs grows and the couple is economically calmer, Anna's malaise intensifies, so much so that she is hospitalized and then leaves the city to spend a rest period with some friends in Latvia. During her absence, at a birthday party, Limonov meets Tanja who, after a few months of stealth meetings and a suicide attempt, will marry in the church, leaving Anna and starting a bohemian made of sex, poetry and financial difficulties.

Seeing that neither of them succeeds in achieving the goals they had set themselves and convinced that the only place where their ambitions can be fulfilled is the United States, towards the end of 1974 they manage to obtain a visa for expatriation to Israel, to then reach North America.