The story “Funeral Games” takes place in the studio of a dying Moscow artist who has long made his home in New York. The protagonist tries to resolve the complicated and contradictory relationship with his abandoned homeland, with the official God that is imposed on him, and with the Higher Power whose presence he feels in the world… This is a story about a man who did everything possible so that, after his departure, there would remain not a black pit of despair, but an atmosphere of reconciliation and love. And he manages it…