title: Russian Experiences:  Life in the Former USSR and Post-Soviet Russia
author: the Raven
description: <b>The Raven</b><br /> "The Raven" was born in Baku City, Azerbaijan, in the Former Soviet Union. In 1975 he was stricken by an unusual childhood disease. The incorrect treatment by doctors damaged his nervous system and led to hearing loss. Although school officials wanted him to attend a special school, The Raven persisted in the regular school system. He arrived in the US in 1999 and now works for a computer company as a software licensing representative.
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  # Easter Day
  
  
  ### Alexander Kuprin
  
  
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  ON his way from Petersburg to the Crimea Colonel Voznitsin purposely broke his
  
  
  journey at Moscow, where his childhood and youth had been spent, and stayed
  there two
  
  
  days. It is said that some animals when they feel that they are about to die
  go round to all
  
  
  their favourite and familiar haunts, taking leave of them, as it were.
  Voznitsin was not
  
  
  threatened by the near approach of death; at forty years of age he was still
  strong and
  
  
  well-preserved. But in his tastes and feelings and in his relations with the
  world he had
  
  
  reached the point from which life slips almost imperceptibly into old age. He
  had begun
  
  
  to narrow the circle of his enjoyments and pleasures; a habit of retrospection
  and of
  
  
  sceptical suspicion was manifest in his behaviour; his dumb, u