A Stranger's Land, Far Away in Moscow

In his teachers’ eyes, he was a thoroughly hopeless student: rebellious, sick of school, and utterly carefree, with not the slightest chance of passing the college entrance exams. His twelve-year school career was about to draw to a close when, by a twist of fate, he ended up in Russia at the very last moment. In that faraway foreign land, he spent his youth in ways he could never have imagined.