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Review by Neil Mackay ON my first Russian visit, back in the 1990s, as the country struggled to make sense of itself after communism, I made a pilgrimage to Fyodor Dostoevsky’s grave in St Petersburg. An old lady was there, laying roses and weeping. “If only we revered our writers like Russians,” I thought. Thirty years later, love of literature has done Russia little good – locked in Putin’s embrace. Yet Dostoevsky still speaks directly to the soul of this great nation in all its wonderful, dreadful complexity: its radicalism and conservatism, maudlin sentimentality and ruthless rationality. The nation’s identity has always been splintered – just like the identities of the sons in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.