A Gentle Creature

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1931 illustrations by Alexander Surikov for Dostoevsky's A Gentle Creature, saved from oblivion by (defunct blog) da-zdra-per-m



























From wikipedia: "The story was inspired by a news report that Dostoevsky read in April 1876 about the suicide of a seamstress. Dostoevsky referred to it as a 'meek suicide' that 'keeps haunting you for a long time.'"