4.(13-15) Marriage a la Mode Soviet and Some Sex

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13. Marriage a la mode Soviet

To Olga's surprise, Vera and Alexei consider marriage a decision for only the couple and registration a formality not to waste time on. Eduard wants to go from curiosity, Vera has work to do and Alexei is set to meet a visiting astronomer. So Olga and Boris, with Eduard along, marry in minutes. They will do wedding bedding at the Parus then fly north to Siziman Bay Siberia where Boris has a mission. As they walk out of the city office Olga looks down at the small gold band on 4^th finger, her right hand, and muses At least one thing hasn't changed under communism.

14. Eduard Guides Olga

Boris has business so Eduard guides Olga home in a city without taxis because taxis are a capitalist corruption; this according to Eduard, a Young Communist Pioneer and font of party propaganda. Olga guesses the real reason is shortage of gas-driven vehicles.
   Eduard leads Olga to trolley car, drops gray coins in slot and guides her to his favorite viewing seat in rear. He loves trolleys and seeks any excuse to ride.To be a trolley driver is high on his list.

   Olga learns from Eduard that Alexei directs the Far East Astronomical Institute, which, in addition to usual stargazing and planet-trajectory tracing, is involved in rocketry, and also that Vera is a student of the late great Professor Pavlov of conditioned reflex fame and teaches special classes for high-IQ children.  

15. Eduard Goes About As Far As He Can Go

Olga and Eduard do a 3-block walk home from trolley stop with Eduard happily holding Big Sis's hand. As they walk, Olga is thinking it is fun having a kid brother like Eduard. No one is home and Eduard lets them in with key. Kitchen clock shows 3:30. He opens ice box and they sit in kitchen eating halvah with milk. Olga knows from Boris that Eduard is a stamp collector and she says “Hey kid, wait, I have something!” She rises and goes to living room for her bag. Bringing a large envelope she puts it before Eduard.

   "One hundred Japan commemorative postage stamps," he reads in English and opening it he pulls out the stamps still stuck to paper. Picking up some colorful large stamps, he exclaims “Look! The 1-, 3-, 6- and 10-yen Mount Fuji set! Esteemed Sister, what is the building on the 1-yen?” She bends over it and replies “The Japanese Diet.”

   He looks puzzled. “What Diet?”

   “Like the Duma Building in Moscow.”

   Eduard understands. “That is where Comrade Stalin works for the people. But who is leader in Japan?”

   Olga laughs inwardly as she answers in the literal truth from translation of the ideographs for the Emperor: “Big Man.” But the conversation is going where she does not intend. She gets up and says “Show me your stamps!”

   Eduard sweeps the new stamps back into the envelope, jumps up, grabs Olga’s left hand and almost drags her to his room.
   “How do you like my room, Olenka?” He runs to the near left corner, jumping onto his double-mattress bed and up & down to show its springiness. Olga stands just inside the door. Having grown up in luxury as single child, she has never seen a middle-class boy's room. It is not different from a boy's room in America except in America in 1939 one Joe's picture on Eduard's wall would be replaced by another Joe – Dimaggio, the New York Yankee baseball slugger. Eduard's bed has a brown and white comforter and brown hazelnut headboard. On the wall beside bed is a big poster of Mendeleyev’s Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements. Olga’s tutored education stressed arts and languages with almost no science and little math beyond practical arithmetic but she knows of Mendeleyev because he was a great Russian scientist.

   Hanging from ceiling at center of room and now trembling in the breeze from their entrance is a mobile of the 9 solar system planets, and had someone with knowledge measured the distances of the planets from the sun in the mobile he would have found the scale accurate.

   Against wall is Eduard's desk, a black roll-top his Mama rescued from family home in Moscow. In corner by window is a table that has on it a black-tube refracting telescope and next to that an old brass shiny gold color monocular microscope donated from Alexei’s student days to his son's. A fish tank with many guppies is at one end of the table and small flowerpots with Eduard's botany seed experiments growing out of them fill the rest of the space. On the other side of the desk is a book case with encyclopedias.

  Eduard bids Olga sit on bed and gets his stamp album, an outsize big red loose-leaf book its cover brown-papered over and on it written

MY

STAMP

ALBUM

Eduard Stepanov

Cosmos, Universe, Galaxy, Solar (Star) System, Earth, Asia, USSR, Russian Far East Region, Khabarovsk, Block 3400 Stalin Street, Apartment G12

   They sit side by side on edge of bed, Olga on Eduard's right so both their laps can share the open stamp album pages and turns the pages, country by country, explaining the stamps pasted on gummed cello hinges. Olga never was directed into stamp collecting because Daddy considered it terribly common for his little darling. But she enjoys Eduard's explanations about Abyssinian King Haile Selassie who is on several pretty stamps and had been shown in Movietone News because of his plea to the League of Nations to save his country from Italy's Mussolini. And when the pages open to Germany, Eduard proudly shows Olga his Adolph Hitler birthday set.

   Then Olga gets a surprise. It comes as a touch. At first she thinks it inadvertent because the widely opened album lies across both their thighs, its right page on Olga’s lap which is covered by skirt to just below her knees. Her legs are sheathed in silk stockings held in place by mid thigh garters and she is becoming aware that Eduard, who is using right hand to turn pages, has got his left hand onto the inner part of her right leg just below knee and is starting to work his fingertips between her knees. The fingers are inching up the inside of her thighs. 
   Well I’ll be …!, her inner voice exclaims. The kid is feeling me up, and on my marriage day to his big brother!

   Olga is a smart, cool young woman who only rarely exhibits her emotions or reacts suddenly without forethought. She knows Eduard is playing the game of making like nothing is happening as he feels her up. He has just turned page to the USSR and is talking about his interesting Russian stamps and Olga realizes she is going to have to do something soon.

   Eduard's hand is high up her skirt and all the while he continues babbling on about stamps.

   She puts her right hand firmly down on Eduard's left elbow which now is at her left knee and with left hand she pulls the lower edge of her skirt up so that Eduard’s seeking fingers are no longer hidden under clothing. Her uncovered front thighs show the top of silk stockings held up by garters and with her right hand firmly on Eduard's elbow she places her left hand over his hand on her thigh and holding on firmly she pulls his hand away from her thigh. And Eduard aware his ploy is not working becomes suddenly limp and his talk ceases.

   Olga smooths down her dress and looks at Eduard, and he immediately lowers his eyes. “Eduard, don't you know I am big brother's new wife and your new Big Sis? Please be my very good little brother, won't you?”
   Eduard, struck speechless, stands up. For a moment their faces are at same level and he impulsively kisses her on left cheek then runs from room.

   She sits for a moment to compose herself then gets up and goes to the living room thinking: What a day this has been!
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