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ST. PETERSBURG
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too severe, a little too cruel, between the humorous opening and the atrocious climax.[1]

  1. Another novel written at this period is a simple narrative of a journey—The Snowstorm—which evokes personal memories, and is full of the beauty of poetic and quasi-musical impressions. Tolstoy used almost the same background later, in his Master and Servant (1895).