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The siege of reality.(Russian authors have sought to define national identity)
"Bad men have no songs "--How is it that the Russians have songs?
--Nietzsche
THE TITLE (Natasha's Dance) of Orlando Figes' brilliant panorama of Russian culture, in eight thematic chapters from Pushkin to Stravinsky, derives from a tense scene in Tolstoy's War and Peace (1869). Natasha Rostov, filigree product of the European (largely French) education favoured by the Russian aristocracy, finds herself with her brother in the home of a distant relative who has embraced the "narod" and taken a serf wife, as many Russian intellectuals were to do after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Once the homely meal is finished, "Uncle" strikes up a melody on ...
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