"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow," writes Leo Tolstoy in his tragic opus Anna Karenina. What better place to experience light and shadow than in the home country of the novelist, where darkness and long winters nurture artists brooding great philosophical questions of truth, beauty, and the nature of love. In Russia, love means that souls intertwine and a broken heart gives way to reckless cynicism. The words and characters of Tolstoy caution...
"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow," writes Leo Tolstoy in his tragic opus Anna Karenina. What better place to experience light and shadow than in the home country of the novelist, where darkness and long winters nurture artists brooding great philosophical questions of truth, beauty, and the nature of love. In Russia, love means that souls intertwine and a broken heart gives way to reckless cynicism. The words and characters of Tolstoy caution...
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