Word: polina
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sentenced to death for revolutionary conspiracy, instead spent four years in prison, six years' exile in Siberia. Jailed with murderers & thieves, he exclaimed: "What a wonderful people! On the whole I did not lose my time." While his consumptive wife died slowly, he pursued a wretched affair with Polina Suslova, a wild, rebellious hussy who bobbed her hair, wore dark glasses, never went to church. He lusted for roulette, thought he had a "system," was systematically cleaned out. He sifted the newspapers for tales of murder, scandal, disaster, folly. The wary police eyed him till death exiled...