The Tsar of Love and Techno Author:Anthony Marra 1930s Leningrad: a failed portrait artist employed by Soviet censors must erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting. — The mystery behind this painting threads together each of the stories that follow, where we meet a Siberian beauty queen, a young soldier in the battlefields of Chechny... more »a, the Head of the Grozny Tourist Bureau, a ballerina performing for the camp director of a gulag and many others.« less