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Eli McCann: From Russia with love — A stranger in the woods, his accordion and the moment I will always remember

Do you play your music in the wee hours often, I asked him. “Only,” he replied, “when I have something I need to forget.”

(Michael Stack | Special to The Salt Lake Tribune) Red Square at dusk, the Kremlin, seat of the government, left, and St. Basil’s Cathedral on the right. Tribune guest columnist Eli McCann recalls a nighttime encounter he had while walking through the woods in the city.