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e hall, as the government knew by experience that the most staid cultural assemblies had a queer knack of slipping into an orgy of revolutionary propaganda. The fact that one of Perov's first poems contained a veiled but benevolent allusion to the insurrection of 1825 suggested taking certain precautions: one never could tell what might happen after a public mouthing of such lines as "the gloomy sough of Siberian larches communicates with the underground ore" ("sibirskikh pikht oogrewmyi shorokh s podzemnoy snositsa roodoy").
As one of the accounts has it, "soon one became aware that something vaguely resembling a Dostoyevskian row [the author is thinking of