Posted on 08/20/2020 6:17:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
The tombstone of the world-famous Russian author Feodor Dostoyevsky at the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg has undergone a thorough restoration, in time for next year’s celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
His grave is located in the Necropolis of the Masters of the Arts just outside the Lavra walls.
Work on the tombstone began in the spring of this year. In all, the cast-iron fence was restored, lost pieces of the tombstone were replaced, the foundation was strengthened, the granite part of the monument was cleaned and polished, and the bronze bust of Dostoyevsky was washed and treated with a protective compound, reports the St. Petersburg Metropolis.
The inscriptions were also updated with gold paint, including Dostoyevsky’s favorite Gospel verse: Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit (Jn. 12:24).
Back in the summer between 9th and 10th grade, I eschewed the banal assigned reading list and plunged myself into Dostoevsky.
When the teacher demanded why I didn’t read “Cheaper by The Dozen” or “Goodbye Mr. Chips”, I replied that I didn’t get to them because I was too busy reading “The Brothers Karamazov”, “Crime and Punishment”, and “The Idiot”.
“Uh...OK” she said. And that was that. I took great pleasure in being a Smart Alec.
Same here. Big Fyodor D fan.
Well, he was no Yuri Testikov.
Sounds like you were be a smart Alekseyev.
That would be a Smart-Alexia Alexiyeva.
I read them all again recently, and I think my favorite is “Crime and Punishment”.
If that was a public school teacher, that would be way above her pay grade. Today you’d be assigned some mind-numbing SJW/Stalinazi tracts trash about how racist and oppressive honkeys are.
The House of The Dead, a novel based on his experiences in a prison camp in Siberia, is well worth a read as well.
[Well, he was no Yuri Testikov.]
War? What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
For later
Well, “Cheaper By The Dozen” was written by a well-known liberal, so there’s that.
Hmmmm...Interesting Analogy.
At least he didn’t do the Manning thing, or we would have had to give him a copy of “The Dream of the Ridiculous “Man”.
I think The Brothers Karamazov is the greatest novel ever written. You could spend your life studying it and still never completely plumb its depths.
Agreed.
They have tried to make movies of it and always fail to plum its depth.
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