The fact is that I have never been able to finish reading a Russian novel. There are
thousands of characters, and yet it turns out that there are only four or five. When you
start out, you get accustomed to a man called Alexandre, but then he is called Sacha, then
Sachka, Sachenka, until he has a grandiose name like Alexandre Alexandrovich Bunine,
and finally, it is only Alexandre Alexandrovich. Whenever…
    
    
      — Sep 20, 2025 02:16PM
    
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