Yasnaya Polyana Home of Leo Tolstoy
As the Yorkshire surroundings of Emily Bronte’s birthplace influenced Wuthering Heights, and Charlotte Bronte’s hardships at a stern high school fed her with the image…
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That Black, Dragon-Haunted Pass: The Mystery of Lermontov’s Caucasus
By Tara Isabella Burton “I was traveling along the military road back from Tiflis.” So begins Mikhail Lermontov’s 1833 A Hero of Our Time, the…
Becoming Dostoyevsky in St. Petersburg, Russia
Dostoyevsky was fond of crossroads, where stories are found in the foot traffic. Though he never owned or stayed longer than three years in any one ap…