Word: karatasv
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...wanted to be a Byron and died in a bourgeois duel, uncovered Russia's deepest melancholy in Boris Godunov, its worst superficialities in Eugene One gin. Tolstoy need not have written the great length of War & Peace to portray the best Russia; his typical common Russian, the soldier Karatasv, stands "an unfathomable, rounded-off and everlasting personification of the spirit of simplicity and truth." Glinka's Ruslan and Liudmila sang the gay folk tunes; Tchaikovsky's Pathetique caught in single chords all the national sadness...
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