Comrades In Crime
April, 1994
Comrades in CrimeThe Roots of America's Russian Mob run deep beneath Zagrebsky Boulevard in St. Petersburg, where Andrei Kuznetsov grew up. Built in the Soviet era, Zagrebsky is a place of brick factories and crumbling eight-story tenements, of weedy vacant lots and rattling trams. If there were truth-in-labeling laws in Russia, this part of the city would still be called Leningrad.Andrei never bought the ideologically prescribed view of life on Zagrebsky Boulevard as a privilege, a reward to hi...