olesya ostrovska, she... wrote this material for the hb at the start of a large-scale invasion, myroslava barchukt this material on her page. already in the first weeks of the full-scale invasion , the behavior of russian intellectuals and cultural figures, their silence, their self-justification, their request for self-compassion, was a big surprise. this behavior was so bizarre for the ukrainian perception that prompted the analysis of key texts of russian literature. it is from such a perspective. what can we do? teach classical russian literature, what are the models of behavior, what are the images and metaphors, let's look at three outstanding texts of russian literature, between which, as it seems to me, there is a strong connection: it is about dostoevsky, the crimes of kara, nabokov's lolita and turgenev's muma, all three works are written either on behalf of, or with great sympathy for, the main character, who commits a crime, murder, or rape, and this is... search for justification, search for feeling sympathy, some even pity on the level of admiration for the inner rich inner world of