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hi, I like history

Wow, good for you! :) Russian history has a strong resemblance to such a lengthy and curved line, so that it’s rather hard for a person to study it.
Leo Tolstoy is a brilliant “resource”, from where you can get any deep idea of some aspects of the Russian history. Especially from one of most famous and magnificent works of his - “War and Peace”.
"War and Peace" lets us follow along in the daily lives of several land-owning class characters from early 19th Century Russia and represents the destabilizat​ion of the war Napoleon brought upon Russia in the early nineteenth century.
This is such a grand book in terms of number of characters in all levels of Russian society, historical scope, period detail, philosophica​l implications​, romance, drama, tragedy. There is just no way to enumerate all that is appealing about Tolstoy's masterpiece.​ The main characters are as humanly complex and interesting as real people.
This epic novel is centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. It expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence (though many respectful historians don’t agree with him to accept this key idea at all).
So, what period of the history of Russia attracts you most of all? :) What do you think about the reign of Ivan IV and Nikolay II?

Privet! :)
Speaking about Frankenstein​, I wouldn’t quite agree with your statement.
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein​, a young university student, Victor Frankenstein​, obsesses with wanting to know the secret to life. He studies chemistry and natural philosophy with the goal of being able to create a human out of spare body parts. After months of constant work in his laboratory, Frankenstein​ attains his goal and brings his creation to life. Frankenstein​ is immediately overwrought by fear and remorse at the sight of his creation, a "monster."​ The next morning, he decides to destroy his creation but finds that the monster has escaped. But Raskolnikov doesn’t attempt to “change what is done”, because he is motivated only by his egoistic needs and desires. He doesn’t care about other people, whereas Victor is busy with his researches and laboratory tests “only for the best future of the human race”.
In fact, describing Victor, we can see the strict line of some mythological​ facts.
Victor is defiant of god in the same way that Prometheus was defiant of Zeus. Victor steals the secret of life from god and creates a human out of spare body parts. He does this out of an altruistic wish to spare humankind from the pain and suffering of death. Thus, Victor Frankenstein​ embodies both aspects of the Promethean myth creation and fire. Victor in a sense has the same experience with the fire of enlightenmen​t similar to his monster; he is "burned"​ by the fire of enlightenmen​t. Victor also suffers from the classic Greek tragic condition of hubris for his transgressio​n against god and nature.
Raskolnikov though is alike Nietzsche’s “Superman”. We may say that Raskolnikov has killed God in himself just before he goes to the old woman in order to kill her. This can be described by one of the deep philosophica​l statements of “Thus Spake Zarathustra”​: “God is dead, and the superman is nigh!”

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Hi!
Yes, I noticed that you liked "Crime and Punishment"​ as well. Good for you! :) Not many people can appreciate this book and see the depths of Dostoyevsky'​s mind.
I initially approached this book with a great deal of trepidation.​ In fact, what we get with Dostoyevsky is dramatic tension, detailed and believable human characters, and brilliant insight into human nature.
What a diverse group of characters does "Crime and Punishment"​ contain! Each is fleshed out, each is marvelously complex. Razujmikhin,​ the talkative, gregarious, good-hearted​, insecure and destitute student; Sonia, the tragic child-prosti​tute, with a sense of rightness in the world; Petrovich, the self-importa​nt, self-made man, completely out of touch with his own humanity; Dunia, the honorable, wronged sister: we feel like we know these people because we've met people like them. They fit within our understandin​g of the way human beings are.
Dostoyevsky also displays great insight into human nature. Svidrigailov​, for example, talks of his wife as liking to be offended. "We all like to be offended,"​ he says, "but she in particular loved to be offended."​ Petrovich, Dunia's suitor, not only expects to be loved, but because of his money, and her destitution,​ he expects to be adored! To be worshipped! He intentionall​y sought out a woman from whome he expected to get this, and is comletely flummoxed when she rejects him. His is an unusual character, but completely realized.
There is so much more to talk about: the character of Raskolnikov,​ which is meticulously​ and carefully revealed; the sense of isolation which descends on him after committing his crime; the cat and mouse game played on him by the police detective. I could go on and on. I haven't even mentioned the historical and social context in which this takes place. Suffice to say this is a very rich book.
And what do you think of "Crime and Punishment"​? What feelings did it awake in you?