Kenneth is determined to take his Roerich walk, so often contemplated but always cancelled in the interests of the Rite. He strides out towards Vasilievsky Island, past St Isaacs and across the Neva, to the embankment where Roerich grew up. There is a plaque on the house where the artist was born. Further along the river is the Academy of Art and university he attended. En route Kenneth meets Andrei, once a dancer and now a teacher at the Mariinsky, who is walking his dog in the park. His daughter Vera is in our first cast. Many dancers live on this island and often rush from performances to reach its bridges before they are raised for the nightly passage of the ships. Millicent never gets to Nijinsky's house.