The Spirit-WrestlersThe new book from the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House. In Moscow, a man points on a map to the place where he was born. He is a Doukhobor, a spirit wrestler, a member of a group of radical Russian sectarians. He is pointing to a village beyond the southern steppe, at the far south of the old Russian empire: I was born here, he says. On the edge of the world. So begins Philip Marsdens Russian journey perhaps the most