CLASS 6. Lexico-semantic modifications

Exercise 1. Translate the text paying special attention to some words that need concretization.

Dostoevsky was a deeply religious man and politically a strong conservative Slavophile. For a short time, he became editor of the archconservative magazine The Citizen and later a regular contributor. He waged war against the liberals and the revolutionaries, who repaid him by calling his work "corruption" and "lunacy". For Dostoevsky, Western society was too materialistic and commercial; instead he felt the values of the simple Russian people -- meekness, compassion and acceptance of the will of God -- were what society should emulate.

During their parallel careers, as Tolstoy was writing about the world of the country gentry, a class and a way of life which were gradually disappearing, Dostoevsky was creating the anti-heroes who haunted the dark streets of misty St. Petersburg. Yet, although they were very different -- Tolstoy the champion of nature and man, the brilliant recorder of reality in its most precise detail, and Dostoevsky the relentless explorer of the dark recesses of men's souls -- they were joined in their belief that in the Russian people lay the virtues that could illuminate the world.

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