Byline: Craig Brandon Staff Writer
On the morning of Aug. 19 Nickolay Tyutyunov was on holiday at his country dacha outside of town, tending to his potato plants, then resting.
The call at 6:30 a.m. informed him that there was "something strange" going on in Moscow, that "some kind of committee" had been formed and had declared a state of emergency.
For Tyutyunov, 39, the highest- ranking elected official in the city of Tula, it was a Hemingway-like moment - the beginning of three days when his beliefs and convictions would be put to the ultimate test. Was he willing to die for what he believed in?
"There was an inner struggle," said Tyutyunov, chairman of the city council. "I didn't worry about myself, but I have a family, a son. I thought about them many times." …
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