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Yevgeny Vodolazkin
To mark the publication of Yevgeny Vodolazkin's Solovyov and Larionov, his second novel to appear in English in under a year, The Calvert Journal sat down with the academic-turned-writer to talk about his literary success, the role of religion and the allure of the medieval world
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