Wow, a very interesting webpage, thanks Dave for the link. I used Google Translate to be able to understand the writing and can say that Alexey Petsyk has that soulfulness that a Russian literary critic once wrote about, "Russian literature has a bad tradition. Russian literature is devoted to the description of unsuccessful love affairs."
I definitely see that with Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pasternak, but I’m having a hard time working that into my understanding of Dostoyevsky. I guess because of Raskolnikov’s relationships with the women in his life!
