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Fyodor Dostoevsky's letter to his brother following a mock execution, 22/12/1849

Fyodor Dostoevsky's letter to his brother following a mock execution, 22/12/1849

a translation from the Russian

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Fyodor Dostoevsky's letter to his brother following a mock execution, 22/12/1849
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Notes on the text: Fyodor Dostoevsky was to be executed in 1849, at the age of 28, for his participation in a socialist-utopian think-tank known as the Petrashevsky circle. However, as he was in line…

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