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COLUMN: Recent bloodshed stains memories of Russia

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From: University Wire
Date: 20021029
Author:Josh Zumbrun

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(The Hoya) (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON -- "I was so used to imagining everything as it happened in books, and picturing to myself everything in the world as I had previously made it up in my dreams, that at first I could not all at once grasp the meaning of this occurrence." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

It was the literature that first pulled me toward Russia.

There was a madness in the Russian soul, conveyed in these books, that I found irresistible. The heroes of Russian literature were invariably tortured individuals struggling to live brutal lives in a country they both ...

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