Second Time Around

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A fascinatingly many-sided personality Vadim Bytensky retains the broadly arching interests of the traditional Russian intellectual a man with a broad and devoted knowledge of world literature, music, philosophy, and politics that constantly illuminate his traveler's observations." "Bytensky emerges as a well-rounded and harmonious personality, who combines sober reasoning with a romantic enthusiasm, a sentimental attachment to an old cultural inheritance, and an open, if sometimes skeptical and critical, curiosity about things new."