“It was a strange story of a mysterious, in many respects barely credible relationship between a demented old man and his little granddaughter, who had fathomed him out thoroughly, mature beyond her years in the comprehension of what to other children, living in more stable and comfortable conditions, would remain a closed book till a much later age. It was a melancholy story, one of those dismal, heart-rendering stories which are so often played out unnoticed, almost shrouded in mystery, under the heavy St. Petersburg sky, in the dark hidden recesses of that huge city, amid the frenetic hustle and bustle of life with its unfeeling egotism, its conflicting interests, its sordid debauchery, clandestine crime, amidst the infernally senseless and abnormal conditions of life…..”
“Humiliated and Insulted”, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1860.
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