One in Two Million

By one estimate, there are some two million homeless children in Russia today. Two million. Approximately equivalent to the population of Arkansas or Kansas.

But these are only numbers. One story in two million, in all its tragic and gory details, is enough to send shivers of disgust and anger through your being...

Seryozha (Sergei) was a six-year-old boy with the face of an angel and the mouth of a devil when his great-grandmother (only in her late 60s) brought him to the Moscow orphanage Dorogu k domu (A Road Home). She had read about the home in the newspaper Trud.