"On June 11 [1980] he [Turgenev] wrote to M. M. Stasyulevich, editor of the European Messenger, requesting that he include in an article about the Pushkin celebration a denial that "he had been completely subjugated" by Dostoevsky's speech and accepted it completely. "No, that's not so," Turgenev insisted. "It was a very clever, brilliant, and cunningly skillful speech, while full of passion, its foundation was entirely false. But it was a falseness that was extremely appealing to Russian self-love."
-- Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time, Joseph Frank, 2010, p. 834.
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