The small wooden house where he lived as a boy still stands there.
VOA: special.2010.03.21
This ambivalence that was part of his personal life, the way he lived, would be a constant theme in subsequent Russian and still, in many ways, is today.
Though his father had not survived, and the restoration trade was moribund, hestilllived in much the same style as when Malskat first encountered him in 1936, wearing fine suits and smoking fancy cigarettes.
The specific reasons he chose to lash out aren't known, but Brown had separated from his wife years earlier, though hestilllived across the street from her, her new husband and his two children, according to neighbors and people who knew the family.