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Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's War and Peace, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is amazing. The human narrative you get out of War and Peace is universal.
Andre Leon Talley
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Andre Leon Talley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 16
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