Danielle’s Reviews > The Brothers Karamazov > Status Update

I am reading Dostoevsky (and Chekhov) for the first time this year and am in awe. So glad I made the effort. But does anybody besides me wonder if EVERYONE in imperial Russia ran around hysterically, behaving as if they had borderline personality disorder? (Impulsive, excessively emotional, overly dramatic and with a tendency toward self harm etc.) LOL