Word: snitkina
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...Anna Snitkina, stenographer, stands across the street from a dingy building in the artisans' district of St. Petersburg, and thinks: This is the apartment house where Raskolnikov must have lived. Timidly she climbs the stairs and knocks on the door of the second floor apartment. A servant with a green shawl draped around her shoulders lets Anna in, and the stenographer thinks: this must be the shawl worn by Mrs. Marmeladov. Anna follows the servant down a dark hallway, into a dimly lit study and thinks: This is the desk where the great man must have written Crime and Punishment...
After months of this, Dostoevsky fell all the way back to Russia, in time to see his wife waste away and die of TB. An ash-blonde, 20-year-old stenographer named Anna Snitkina, who came to take dictation for The Gambler and Crime and Punishment, stayed on to become the second Mrs. Dostoevsky, and his last and greatest love...
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