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Russia's future is bright despite the dour predictions of press and scholars, Anatoly Sobchak, mayor of St. Petersburg, told an audience of about 350 at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics last night...
Domestic opposition to the Russian offensive is mounting. A new poll of Moscow and St. Petersburg citizens reveals that 75 percent of those surveyed say the government's actions in Chechnya are a massive human rights violation. Eighty-five percent said there should be no bombing of Grozny...
...Harvard sailing team set out for the Sloop National Sailing Championships November 18-20 in St. Petersburg Florida, the team could only hope that the waters and the winds of Tampa Bay would bring them good fortune...
...Coetzee's darkly convincing narration, Dostoyevsky hears that his 21- year-old stepson Pavel Isaev, who has fallen in with nihilists in Petersburg, has been murdered, perhaps by the police or by his comrades. The writer travels to Petersburg, finds the rooming house where Pavel had lived and -- guilt-haunted because he did not get along well with this difficult son of his dead first wife -- moodily retraces the young man's last months. He tries to retrieve Pavel's papers from the police and is subjected to repeated, insinuating interrogations. He encounters a deadly, contemptuous young nihilist named Nechaev...
...Coetzee sums things up. But there are some facts the typical reader may not know that he ought to: in real life Dostoyevsky did not travel to Petersburg in 1869; he remained in Dresden. His stepson Pavel was not murdered by nihilists or anyone else. A pest and a spendthrift, he tormented the author all his life, and a standard scene from biographies has Pavel being forcibly kept from Dostoyevsky's deathbed. Nechaev did exist, and Dostoyevsky did transform him into a character in Demons, but the student his gang murdered in a celebrated crime was one Ivan Ivanov. Coetzee...