Part 2: Chapter 5 - 6 Farewell to the Old and The Moscow Encampment Summary

The new Russian government elects Lara and Yuri to positions for the small town of Meliuzeievo, and their work brings them together often. Yuri writes to Tania about Lara and some of their work. He has resigned his office and plans a return to Moscow. Tania writes back, upset that perhaps Lara has become Yuri's new love interest. Yuri immediately writes back that he does not know much about Lara outside of work.

A man named Blazheiko sets up a region as an independent republic, Zybushino, backed by a force of deserters from the 212th Infantry and with the help of a deaf-mute man, supposedly brilliant in politics. However, the Provisional Government takes back the territory a few weeks later. The short-lived republic...