How famous writers depicted the lives of prostitutes in Imperial Russia
The public image of a fallen woman has long captivated the foremost Russian writers. Describing the life of their fictional characters, male novelists couldn’t bear to turn a blind eye to such follies and vices of society as injustice, poverty, moral choice and female freedom.
Sankt Peterburg Leo Tolstoy Soneckla Marmeladova Dmitry Nekhlyudov Dmitri Nekhlyudov Rodion Raskolnikov
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