Volume 1, No. 1

Banquet / Tyrras ... 2 

was taken, with the three principals and all the workers of the Amur Machine Works crowded on the stage. The photographer took several shots because the happy people just could not keep still. At last they were permitted to step off the stage and take their places for dinner. Directly in front of the stage, a long VIP table was set for the three principals and the few Blagoveshchensk dignitaries The workers were seated at round tables that were separated from the VIPs by a small dance floor.
Morozin, Bellamy, and Bondarenko sat at one end of the head table. In the centre were the guests of honour, Mr. Harioto and Ekaterina Efimovna, the solid, compact, and matronly mayor of Blagoveshchensk who was also a deputy in the State Duma or the Russian parliament. Ekaterina Efimovna brooked no nonsense and everyone referred to Her Worship as Catherine the Great. Mr. Tanaka, Harioto¹s assistant came next, followed by two