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Modernity's Madness and Manifestations of Masochism and Malice: A Demand for Irrational Self-Love, Forgiveness, and Faith Word count 3349 Fyodor Dostoevsky's birth-year representatively embeds him in two events that determine Russia's course for the next hundred years; Alexander Pushkin, at sixteen years old, became Russia's first national poet in 1815 and in 1825 the Decembrists' failed coup d'etat of Nicholas I, the country's one shot at democracy and exoneration from serfdom, initiated a 'Frozen Society', marked by harsh censors and absence of reform. Nikolai Gogol appropriately arrived in St. Petersburg from rural Russia in 1837 when Pushkin died following a duel in timely fashion to claim Pushkin's title. The trinity of Russian Romantic writers not only share styles which coalesce to form the great tradition now known as Russian Literature, but would also uniquely define themselves as representatives of their people. That creating and finding identity in St. Petersburg, both Russian...

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