Imperium

Edition I Year: 1993 Print run: 85,000 copies

Edition II Year: 1994 Print run: 10,000 copies

Edition III Year: 1996 Print run: 8,000 copies

Edition IV Year: 1997 Print run: 7,000 copies

Edition V Year: 1999 Print run: 8,000 copies

Edition VI Year: 2000 Print run: 6,000 copies

Edition VII Year: 2001 Print run: 5,000 copies

Edition VIII Year: 2001 Print run: 3,000 copies

Edition IX Year: 2002 Print run: 5,000 copies

Edition X Year: 2002 Print run: 3,000 copies

Edition XI Year: 2003 Print run: 3,000 copies

Edition XII Year: 2004 Print run: 3,000 copies

Table of Contents:

I First Encounters (1939–1967) • Pinsk, ‘39. • Trans-Siberian, ‘58. • The South, ‘67.

II A Bird’s-Eye View (1989–1991) • The Third Rome. • The Temple and the Palace. • We Watch, We Weep. • A Man on an Asphalt Mountain. • Flight from Oneself. • Vorkuta. • To Freeze in Fire. • Tomorrow — the Bashkir Revolt. • Russian Mystery. • Jumping Over Puddles. • Kolyma, Fog and Fog. • The Kremlin: An Enchanted Mountain. • The Trap. • Central Asia, the Destruction of a Sea. • The Ghost of the Town of Drohobych. • Return to the City of My Birth.

III The Sequel Continues (1992–1993) • The Sequel Continues.

Passages from “A Kirgiz Dismounts” were incorporated into Imperium:

• Georgia — An Invitation to Georgia: chapter 2 (closing fragment), chapter 4 (complete). • Armenia — Vanik, or the Second Armenia: chapters 3–4 (complete). • Azerbaijan — Borderland Country: chapter 1 (extensive passages), chapter 3 (complete), chapter 4 (fragment). • Turkmenia — Turkmenia, a Desert Republic: chapter 1 (extensive passages), chapter 3 (complete), chapter 4 (fragment). • Tajikistan — Tajikistan, as High as Tibet: chapter 2 (extensive passages). • Kirghizia — A Kirgiz Dismounts: chapter 3 (fragment). • Uzbekistan — Billiards at the Bukhara Mosque: chapters 1 (extensive passages), 2, 3 (complete).

Premier instalments of Imperium were published in the Saturday edition of Gazeta Wyborcza (Gazeta Świąteczna): • 1992 29.08 p.12 Trans-Siberian, ‘58 • 1992 05.09 p.14 The Third Rome • 1992 12.09 p.12 The Temple and the Palace • 1992 19.09 p.12 We Watch, We Weep • 1992 26.09 p.12 A Man on an Asphalt Mountain • 1992 03.10 p.12 Flight from Oneself • 1992 10.10 p.10 Vorkuta, a Window onto the Cold • 1992 17.10 p.10 Vorkuta, Glass Flowers • 1992 24.10 p.12 Tomorrow — the Bashkir Revolt • 1992 31.10 p.12 Russian Mystery • 1992 07.11 p.12 Jumping Over Puddles • 1992 14.11 p.10 Magadan, First Approach • 1992 21.11 p.10 Kolyma, Fog and Fog • 1992 28.11 p.14 The Kremlin: An Enchanted Mountain • 1992 05.12 p.12 Central Asia, the Destruction of a Sea • 1992 12.12 p.12 Tin Soldiers • 1992 19.12 p.12 The Ghost of the Town of Drohobych • 1993 02.01 p.12 Return to the City of My Birth • 1993 09.01 p.16 Treatment and Journey • 1993 16.01 p.12 The Sequel Continues

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