My Dear Archives - E.B. Bartels https://www.ebbartels.com/tag/my-dear/ Writer. Dead Pets. Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:19:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.ebbartels.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Site-Icon-32x32.png My Dear Archives - E.B. Bartels https://www.ebbartels.com/tag/my-dear/ 32 32 Freedom, My Dear https://www.ebbartels.com/freedom-my-dear/ https://www.ebbartels.com/freedom-my-dear/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:19:14 +0000 https://ebbartels.wordpress.com/?p=255 For the full essay, see it on The Butter. Originally published on January 21, 2015. — In college, I was a terrible Russian language and literature major. I never finished reading Crime and Punishment, I still haven’t touched War and […]

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In college, I was a terrible Russian language and literature major. I never finished reading Crime and Punishment, I still haven’t touched War and Peace, and I never went to the public Russian baths. Even though I spent a significant amount of time in the Motherland — a month living in a Siberian village on Lake Baikal, fourteen months in St. Petersburg, and a month studying in Moscow — I never had a proper public banya experience.

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