• Novels
• Russian Literature

• Type: Novel
• Length: 720 pages

The Idiot is a 1868 makrystoria, a very long novel, by notable Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. - AsNotedIn

When day dawned, two passengers in one of the third-class carriages found themselves opposite each other. Both were young fellows, both were rather poorly dressed, both had remarkable faces, and both were evidently anxious to start a conversation. If they had but known why, at this particular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third-class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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• Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed.