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Fyodor Dostoevsky Station Sparks Suicide Frenzy On Moscow Underground

SCARE Story of The Day comes via the Indy wherein we learn that “Fyodor Dostoevsky images on metro ‘could cause suicides’”. News is that bigwigs of the Moscow metro has delayed the opening a metro station named after Dostoevsky over “fears that illustrations from his works that decorate it could turn the station into a ‘mecca for suicides’”.

On one wall, Rodion Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment brandishes an axe over the elderly pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her sister, his murder victims in the novel. Near by, a character from Demons holds a pistol to his temple.

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Posted: 16th, May 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment