In the embassy office, Arthur was crossing his legs, warming himself by the fire while sipping tea and browsing through the freshly published "Moscow Telegraph," "Russian Paper," and other mainstream Russian newspapers.
Perhaps because Russians are inherently more temperamental than the British, even the newspaper content reflects significant differences.
There's not much of the subtle irony like in "The Times," instead, the pages are filled with direct, aggressive attacks.
"The Defense of a Madman? A Traitor to the Nation! A Follower of Western Pathology!"
—— Recently, the Russian literary world welcomed both good and bad news. The good news is that Pushkin's new work "The Bronze Horseman" maintains its usual high standard. The bad news is that the cultural traitor and parasite, Peter Yakovlevich Chadayev, a loyal lackey of the French, published a defamatory work titled "The Defense of a Madman."
