Autumn returned to New York with a blaze of scarlet, amber, and gold across the rolling hills of Connecticut. At the sprawling forty-acre Greenwich estate of the Volkov family, the ancient sugar maples along the winding gravel driveway shed a carpet of crimson leaves. The estate, fully renovated over the summer, had become an idyllic sanctuary: a restored Georgian manor of red brick and white limestone, surrounded by manicured rose…
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