The Elder Who Bowed to Dmitri
In Fyodor Dostoevsky's *The Brothers Karamazov*, there is a moment that shocks everyone in the room — including the reader. The aging elder Zosima, revered...
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In Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, there is a moment that shocks everyone in the room — including the reader. The aging elder Zosima, revered by monks and pilgrims alike, suddenly bows low to the ground before Dmitri Karamazov. Not to a saint. Not to a dignitary. To a proud, dissolute young man who has just made a scene at the monastery.…
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