New Delhi. 11 November: On the birth anniversary of eminent Russian Writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, India’s capital city witnessed a historic evening, when his Great-Great Grandson Alexei Dostoevsky visited it and gave a detailed lecture about the history of Dostoevsky Family. Alexei is the first member of Dostoevsky lineage to ever set foot in India. On the late afternoon of 11th November I visited the venue “Russian Cultural Centre” about half an hour before the start of the lecture. The place is a Brezhnev era construction, and I remember I used to visit it during my college days to watch Russian Cinema. Just before the Start of the lecture I got the chance to meet Alexei Dimitrievich Dostoevsky. He was a very warm and cordial gentleman and there was an ease in his manners that dissolved all formality. It felt like as if kindness and depth of his ancestor’s world have found a living expression in him. I took an autograph of him and when I asked f...