Nigel would like to thank family and colleagues whose advice and support encouraged him to persevere with this article so that, he trusts, it is now suitable to be a published publicly available resource for GAPS readers

November 2022: Following the death of Mikhail Gorbachev in August 2022, Nigel has added a postscript tribute to him (see p.10). 

The multiple domes of St. Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, c.1889: symbol of the beauty and the spiritual and cultural heritage of Ukraine (Public Domain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, sourced via Wikimedia, ‘Kyiv’)