Sublime

1880,

for Russian criminals still have faith.

And where is the harmony, if there is hell?

eight years of penal servitude,

The Lord God can’t take some Tartar by the neck and claim that he, too, was a Christian?

My goal first of all is to get at the truth of those years. Of those days. Without sham feelings. Just after the war this woman would have told of one war; after decades, of course, it changes somewhat, because she adds her whole life to this memory. Her whole self. How she lived those years, what she read, saw, whom she met. Finally, whether she i

‘Manuscripts don’t burn’,

Pyotr Alexandrovich Miusov,