[Included without a commentary is a satirical verse, ‘Decameron’, by Don-Aminado (Aminad Shpolyansky), a famous émigré poet, published in the Russian émigré newspaper Poslednie novosti on 2 June 1939. The satirist scoffs at the Anglo-Soviet alliance: the ‘spousal’ ends with the adultery between the ‘Russian lady’ and Hitler, and the ‘English lord’ and ‘the Italian lady’. The matchmakers Potemkin and Maisky find themselves in prison.]