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On the 16th of October 2023,
a young man and woman sat down in the back row of the second floor reading room of the University Library of Warsaw,
Poland.
Their reading cards carried the names Sylvanna Hildegard and Marko Orovec.
On the desk in front of them were eight books with yellowing pages that they had ordered up from the library's closed storage 19th century collection.
Rare editions of classic works of poetry,
drama and fiction by two greats of the Russian canon, Alexander Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol.
They studied the books closely.
taking photographs on their phones and measurements with rulers.
When the duo did not return from a cigarette break and the invigilators checked their desk,
they found that five of the eight books had gone.
One of the missing Pushkin works was a narrative poem about the adventures of two outlaws,