Steve after the second check at the airport came out and started looking for a cab.
He saw a middle aged,red haired cab driver whose moustache was of imperial design and he was busy in reading a newspaper.
Steve went to him and before he could say anything the driver noticed him and asked "Your luggage sir?"
Steve after a pause answered
"This is it"

"Seems like you're here for a very short span of time"

"Yeah!just got an important work to do. It should not take too long....I guess"

"I see, " driver said, folding his newspaper.
He opened the cab door and in gesture asked Steve to sit inside.
Steve occupied his seat and driver closed the cab door behind him.
Driver occupied his seat as well and asked Steve for the address.
Steve remembered he had Mark's Address. He had retrieved it from the office.
He asked the driver to take him there.
In the way Steve observed the beauty of the place.
The driver was kind of voluble and was ready to start a conversation and now he got someone to talk to so he started

"My name is Abram Golovin and I've been driving this cab for 6 years....."

Steve wondered why is he telling all this to him

"I see" Steve whispered

"...what about you, sir? Are you a business man ? Here to attend a meeting?"

"No! I'm a professor of genetics in a university."

"Oh, so you're here to teach students"

" Ah...um..yeah,something like that "

"Your name, sir?"

"Steve Gray"

"You've been here before?"

"Nah, it's the first time"

"I'm sure you'll like this place, sir"

"Yeah, sure"

Steve kept on talking with the driver and in the way he encountered
Saint Basil's Cathedral, which was in Red square, but due to shortage of time he was unable to explore the place's beauty completely.

At last he reached the house whose address Mark had mentioned in his application.

"Here, sir" Abram said, stopping his car.

Steve glanced at the house through the cab window and the house looked quite old.
He came out of the cab ,paid the fare and cab left.

Steve took a deep breath and headed towards the house's main door.