listeners for a wonderful, wonderful material, from an art manager and a person who knows about art, olesya ostrovskawrote this material for hb at the start of a large-scale invasion, myroslava barchuk reminded about 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 whimsical... for the ukrainian perception that it encouraged to the analysis of key texts of russian literature, precisely from this perspective: what can classic russian literature teach us, 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's crimes of kara, nabokov's lolita and turgenev's muma. all three works were written either on behalf of, or with great sympathy for , the main character. hero who commits a crime, murder or rape, and this is a search for justificat