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If there was anyone to whom the brothers were indebted for their upbringing and education for the rest of their lives, it was to this Yefim Petrovich, a most generous and humane man, of a kind rarely found.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
he was simply an early lover of mankind,
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (Russian: Николай Фёдорович Фёдоров; 9 June 1829 – 28 December 1903), known in his family as Nikolai Pavlovich Gagarin, was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, religious thinker and futurologist, library science figure and an innovative educator. He started the movement of Russian cosmism which was a precursor of
... See moreHe wasn’t afraid to open himself to you, Alexei Fyodorovich. Why haven’t I yet deserved the same?”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
precisely the type of man who is not only worthless and depraved but muddleheaded as well—one of those muddleheaded people who still handle their own little business deals quite skillfully, if nothing else.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
precisely the type of man who is not only worthless and depraved but muddleheaded as well—one of those muddleheaded people who still handle their own little business deals quite skillfully, if nothing else.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
The old woman’s principal heir, however, turned out to be an honest man, the provincial marshal of nobility of that province,1 Yefim Petrovich Polenov.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Who knows, maybe this accursed old man, who loves mankind so stubbornly in his own way, exists even now, in the form of a great host of such old men, and by no means accidentally, but in concert, as a secret union, organized long ago for the purpose of keeping the mystery, of keeping it from unhappy and feeble mankind with the aim of making them ha
... See moreLarissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
“Brother, let me ask you one more thing: can it be that any man has the right to decide about the rest of mankind, who is worthy to live and who is more unworthy?”