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 Dostoevsky-Themed Metro Station Prompts Suicide Concerns

 

Moscow transit officials have opened a new metro station in honor of Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, despite concern that the writer's gloomy temperament could turn the Dostoyevskaya stop into a "mecca" for suicide. True to Dostoevsky's dark prose, the station is covered with somber black-and-gray murals depicting scenes from his novels.
 
 One wall features a character from The Demons holding a gun to his head, and another "re-enacts the moment when the main character in Crime and Punishment murders an elderly pawnbroker and her sister with an axe."
 
 Lucky passengers are also treated to a "depressed-looking" portrait of Dostoevesky, which greets them while they wait for trains. While psychologists worry that the gloomy décor could "attract people with an unnatural psyche," artist Ivan Nikolayev dismissed concerns as ridiculous. "What did you want? Scenes of dancing?" Nikolayev asked. "Dostoevsky does not have them." 
 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7843557/Moscows-Dostoevsky-station-could-be-suicide-mecca.html

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