Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Could Europeans, Englishmen or Americans of the nineteenth century ever have thought of banning Russian culture, which was precisely then acquiring worldwide significance and influence?

I doubt it.

Especially when I read, for instance, in a letter from Charles Dickens to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, whether he knows of the new Russian authors, such as Nikolai Gogol and his "Taras Bulba".

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