Quotes About Livadia

Mike Reilly had noted, while making security checks on peasant huts near the Livadia, that 'every house, no matter how poverty-ridden, had a radio . . . They were odd-looking radios to these American eyes, as they had no knobs or dialling apparatus of any kind. It seemed that they were built to receive only one frequency, which was that of the powerful Moscow government-controlled station.

They had 'decided … to make themselves as ugly as they could' by soaking up the sun, hatless, on the journey from Livadia, 'so that Carol should not fall in love with any of them'.