Jun 24, 2010

Moscow's Dostoevsky station could be 'suicide mecca' - Telegraph

Moscow Metro, clockImage via Wikipedia
"'What did you want? Scenes of dancing?'
Dostoevsky does not have them,' he (Alexander Mozhaev) said."

The Moscow Metro, where about eighty people kill themselves every year, has reopened with 'gloomy' murals drawn from Dostoevsky's novels. The representation of dark, brooding Dostoveskian characters in the metro that already has a reputation of inspiring suicidal thoughts has invited criticism from Russian psychologists.

Alexander Mozhaev, the artist who made the murals finds them inspiring, though. 

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