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It followed a street musician near the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood. He was playing a melancholic tune on a violin. The audio was stereo, separated and clean. I could hear the chatter of the crowd in the left channel, the distant rumble of a marshrutka bus in the right. The camera zoomed in on the musician's face. He was sweating. The "Baltic Sun"—that strange, twilight sun that never truly sets—hung low behind the spires, casting long, golden shadows that stretched across the cobblestones. That was the agreement I made with the