Golden State Rose, don’t forget that 19 out 20 of Russian Golden Age authors were sentenced for wrongthink. Knowing this piece of history pokes a big hole to the arguments of those saying we should support the Czar Putin because of Tolstoy, who in fact was sentenced to death and not Tzarinista at all.
I agree with you Krosan, if Russian people truly understood their literature, their society and givt today would look a lot different...but as it stands...it seems they live as the very characters their great writers despised and warned against.