Covid would not appear for another fourteen months, but the planet somehow knew it was heading for a period of lockdown that would drive people crazy. With the story of Savitsky and Beloguzov, everyday news coverage slipped into prophetic mode. The newsgathering business is connected to the world’s unconscious and also to surface reality. In retrospect, the facts of the case are less important than the global shiver of the story itself. A Russian judge later dismissed the case against Savitsky, who had no previous record. A stabbing did seem to have occurred at Bellingshausen Station. Checking online, including on Russian sites, I could find no solid source for the detail about Beloguzov giving away the endings of books. The Post cited, as its source, a story in the Sun, the British tabloid. The story went around the globe instantly. Petersburg, arrested him, and charged him with attempted murder. Beloguzov was flown to a hospital in Chile, where he recovered. Savitsky was reading books from the library to pass the time, and Beloguzov kept telling him the endings finally, Savitsky snapped and stabbed Beloguzov in the chest with a kitchen knife. At the isolated station, run by Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, the two men had been together for many months. Crime is uncommon on that continent, but what made this one even more unusual, according to the Post, was that the one scientist, Sergei Savitsky, had attacked the other, Oleg Beloguzov, for giving away the endings of books. On October 31, 2018, I read a story in the New York Post about a Russian scientist who stabbed another Russian scientist at a research station in Antarctica.
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