Which characters of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn are most memorable?

Question by Pineapple~Queen: In your opinion, are characters such as those of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn (among others)…?
relative in today’s world.. and if so, which do you find most memorable?
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Answer by xxmachina
Russian characters, or are you asking if any older fiction characters relative?

Either way of course they are, just because a book isn’t on the current best seller’s list or Oprah doesn’t mean it isn’t relative, especially when they focus on characters like Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. As for Solzhenitsyn, I’d find it hard to understand Russia today without understanding the purges and camps.

At least whoever asked you this didn’t make you read the heavy-handed, Soviet-endorsed morality short stories. (Still relevant.)

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