"Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others."Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time (1839)
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At such a great distance, the only advice I can give to the young is this: If a girl ever gives you any of Lermontov's works, go there.
Russian Romanticism? I'm there.
Caucasia?
I am reminded of the following from Bowden's Killing Pablo:
The joke Colombians told was that God had made their land so beautiful, so rich in every natural way, that it was unfair to the rest of the world; He had evened the score by populating it with the most evil race of men.
Dzhokhar Dudayev, a Chechen nationalist and politician, was a big fan of Lermontov. The resemblance is striking:
http://topwar.ru/uploads/posts/2010-12/1293478881_dgahar-dudaev01.jpg
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