In 1828, somewhere in the countryside north of Moscow, Leo Gustov was born into the Russian nobility. Count Gustov although acquainted with the finer things that life had to offer, knew that the Romantic view of the world was false early in his life. His mother left this world when he was two, and his father undoubtedly told horrific stories of the chaotic Napoleon Wars. This, coupled with the consecutive deaths of not only his father, but his favorite aunts and grandmother. All before his twenty-first birthday, a three year stint in the military during the Crimean war, and the works of masters such as Rousseau, Voltaire, Hegel, Darwin, Dickens, Gogol, and the New Testament contributed to the
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