Studying Russian Literature and Russia

I've always been drawn to that type of thing. Maybe I just have a brooding personality or something, but I tend to get drawn into trying to solve these large, large, intractable issues that are looming over us. And obviously Russia is much different today than it was when you first got into those studies back then. You know, throughout the decades that I've been studying Russia, there have been periods where you have this amazing hope for the country because it's such a beautiful culture with so much to offer the world. But in its worst moments, which we're seeing right now with its war upon Ukraine,Russia has this unfortunate tendency,. It seems over historical epochs to