Oleksandr Polianichev on Twitter: "Some thoughts on this piece by @yermolenko_v. That European literature in the age of empire was often complicit in… https://t.co/0lri7cIqlg"

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7/20 https://t.co/0Bf3BOt1rw Second,Russian literature paved the way for the imperial expansion in a very literal sense. Many army officers ended up in the Caucasus corps influenced by Lermontov, Marlinsky, and Pushkin (their memoirs and letters are full of references to their reading experience).5/