Word: katorga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aspect of a religious teacher, not a theologian not a didacticism, but one who used as his text the Gospel story of the raising of Lazarus. He becomes rather the man who, having passed through a life of suffering and deprivation and a decade of hell in the Siberian katorga, returned without losing faith in humanity and with boundless pity for the insulted and injured. A man like that must look at life from more angles than one, and it is primarily the task of calling forth Dostoevsky's human philosophy that Mr. Meler-Graefe has set himself, a task...
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