 Capote, who is present in the narrative, returns to his hotel room to find a brown paper parcel of anti-Communist pamphlets.After a train ride of several days (the first two without a dining car), the cast and crew arrive in Leningrad a few days before Christmas and are dispatched to a hotel, the Astoria, which boasts, as Capote writes, “a trio of restaurants, each leading into the other, cavernous affairs cheerful as airplane hangars.” The guest rooms are small, over-heated, and over-furnished with “a miasma of romantic marble statuary.” Capote claims that these rooms have been assigned according to each cast member's payroll status.According to Bolshevik logic, claims Capote, the less you make, the better the accommodations.