Ocupation: Novelist
Life: April 12, 1947 - October 1, 2013
Birthday: April 12
Death: October 1
The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.
topic: Philosophy, Men, Order, Political Philosophy