SOVIET UNION 1989

BERLIN, LEIPZIG, DRESDEN, PRAGUE 1990

ST. PETERSBURG 1992

a little Part in World History

In the fall of 1989 Claus Beck-Nielsen went on a tour through the SOVIET UNION
22 concerts in 15 cities during September and October 1989,
St. Petersburg, Vologda, Kirov, Perm, Tobolsk, Sverdlovsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Ufa, Tjeljabinsk, Uljanovsk, Kuybychev, Moscow

Somewhere far out in Siberia he found LOVE
that great flaming passion

Back home in Denmark he dropped out of the band and got lost, loved ones died, he moved to Copenhagen, fell out again, hit the road, slept here and there, and finally escaped to the south and old Europe:

During the spring and summer 1990
when walls crumbled, curtains fell and everything opened up in a moment
a short historic flash where
everything was possible!
he hit the road and was picked up by
the historic moment
and it took him all the way through
BERLIN, LEIPZIG, DRESDEN, PRAGUE
and ...

In the summer of 1992 he was broke, completely, no band, no future, no bed & no girls

He travelled to ST. PETERSBURG and settled on Vasilievskij Ostrov, island of the poets, to write the novel of his Age, story of the fall of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall, the new Europe, and the LOVE OF HIS LIFE.

He failed.