https://russian-world-citizens.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-new-yorker-rereading-russian.html Russian World Citizens Project: #TheNewYorker: Rereading #RussianClassics in the Shadow of the #UkraineWar by #ElifBatuman " Vronsky on his way to join a Pan-Slavic volunteer detachment fighting the Ottomans in Serbia. With Anna dead, and the love plot over, his only desire is to end his own life, and to kill as many Turks as possible in the process. “#Russia is always waging a war where a man can flee in search of death.” #Tolstoy #essay #AnnaKarenina #imperialism