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More vivid and more accurate than Soviet Delegate Georgy Pushkin's description of the Russian troika [June 16] is that of Dostoevsky's character Ippolit Kirillovitch in The Brothers Karamazov, Book XII, Chapter...
Author Troyat tells his grim, credible story in terms of the diverse fortunes of one family. The head of the Arapov clan is old Constantine Kirillovitch, a doctor who illustrates in his old Russian virtues the fatal inability of the Russian ruling class to come to early terms with the nation's liberal professional classes. One of his daughters is an actress whose sole ambition is to play before the Czar; instead she sees his back in a railway station as he is about to make his exit from history. Another Arapov is a captain in a crack cavalry...
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