"Good. Seat." He nodded to the empty half of the couch. Vasily moved the well worn photo from a random placement in the book to the page he was on. "Eat eas book by Mikhail Kuzmin. You probably never heard of heam. He vrote ean early tventieth century." He let Ethan see the cover despite being pretty sure the younger man would not be able to read the Cyrillic. "Eat eas comeang of age story." Yea, that was a way to put it. Boy finds out mentor is gay, tries to sort out confusions with 'rural' girls, then goes to Italy with said mentor and learns all about hedonism.
He chuckled to himself. "Eat vas very scandolous ven eat came out." Vasya added.