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Out of the Darkness

By Brian Cook

In 1905, Leo Tolstoy wrote a scathing letter to the Times newspaper of London, attacking governments in general and the Czar in particular, describing him as a “weak-minded Hussar officer, standing below the intellectual level of most his subjects, grossly superstitious and of coarse tastes.” The pundits of the English press grew indignant at this act of lèse-majesté and a… return to article

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