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It is still unknown who had told him about an intelligent girl Zina, details of local life but he rendered with psychological precision a longing of a woman for a man with strong Russian northern character in which manliness, kindness and moral are not separable. Educated Zina, live, cheerful, elegant after mastering typewriting was ap pointed to Murmansk - This is a town where it is still possible To find a man of her dreams of a relict race of men who have lived the life of their ancestors for all these long thousands of years... a man of mesolite period - to be a XX century husband! Zina’s ideal is a combination of a Pomor peasant and a culture character. Here become evident echoes of those images that struck so much Nex 0 and Grieg in Russia. He will catch Belomor sharks, And fowl white bears in the tundra And in the evening in their log house He will read for her Tolstoy, Valentine Rasputin, Chingiz Aitmatov and she meanwhile Will dam his soaks Or handle the awl Stitching his snow boots with a waxed thread... But such men did not survive In Murmansk and in Moscow as well. She has not found a single one, Mesolitically sexual With not pasteurized blood. Laughing at Zina’s dreams, Durcan describes her everyday occupations and “labour” of her boss: She carries on correspondence of head of Belomor Steamship Company In Komintem street, 18 While he, with his fourth wife, is busy With every evening ritual: television and whoredom. The poet regards Russian North as a standard part of the world civiliza tion: Everything is the same From Murmansk to Batumi, From Novosibirsk to Shemakha... 96