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Russia: the essential lives

7 figures from Russia, from the earliest recorded to the present day.

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Took the reader inside the mind that has decided to do the terrible thing.

War and Peace; his nonviolence doctrine directly shaped Gandhi.

Arranged the elements so precisely that he could describe ones nobody had found.

Proved there are different sizes of infinity.

Doctor-playwright who invented modern drama's subtext.

Built the world's first seed bank; starved to death in Stalin's prison.

The Gulag Archipelago broke the Soviet system's moral standing.