On [:] Αdmiration | Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1838
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“Balzac is great!”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
in a letter to his brother Mikhail on 9 August 1838
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His literary idol was Honoré de Balzac and in 1843 even translated
one of Balzac’s greatest works, Eugenie Grandet, into Russian.
