Punishment without crime. For which Europe takes revenge on us. Dostoevsky F.M.

“Everyone looks at us in Europe with a mockery, and they look at the best and undoubtedly smart Russians in Europe with arrogant condescension,” wrote F.M. Dostoevsky in the second half of the XIX century. “The Europeans did not want to honor us for their sacrifices and in any case.” Russian life, features of the Russian national spirit, relations between Russia and Europe. According to Dostoevsky, “the more we for the sake of our nationality for the sake of, the more they despised ourselves. True, recently they realized that we want something, something terrible and dangerous to them; It ended in the fact that they directly called us enemies and future crushers of European civilization. ” About this his essays and articles included in this book.