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Leonid Tsypkin’s Summer in Baden-Baden is a novel about one man’s love for the literature of his country and, in particular, for the writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Tsypkin, a medical researcher by day, pursued another, more passionate vocation in the evenings. This remarkable day by day regimen is chronicled by Tsypkin son in the book’s introduction:
Every day, he left at a quarter to eight sharp for his work at the Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitis, situated in a distant suburb...more

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