The Gambler Wife
Fearless Woman Warrior Stands Up to Putin’s Oppression
On March 8, to mark International Women’s Day, Putin gave a speech extolling the virtues of women: “You cope with a great pile of problems and worries while all the while remaining charming and beautiful,” he gushed to his mostly female audience. “How can one not simply admire this?” Promising government support to those who…
Read MoreHow Did Anna Dostoyevsky Become A Brave Russian Publishing Pioneer?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky is one of the giants of world literature, a writer whose work is still widely read, enjoyed, and debated, more than 140 years after his death. But even he admitted that he wasn’t much of a businessman—and he lived much of his adult life as if trying to prove the point. Thankfully, he…
Read MoreDostoyevsky’s Honeymoon to Forget Is Fascinating. Read On…
Honeymoon Drama – Dostoyevsky and Anna Every vacation has its highs and lows, even a honeymoon. But you’d be hard-pressed to find a honeymoon with more drama than the trip taken by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his new wife, Anna, soon after their marriage in 1867. What was meant to be a three-month getaway abroad for…
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