Kratchkovsky mourned pupils cut down by wars and hardship in his memoir

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‘My heart is saddened. The shades of the teachers do not hide from us the shades of our pupils who passed away before us. Many of these do I see: a life full of hardships and two devastating wars cut down the young shoots before their prime and it was not given to all to attain full blossom. But they all had entered the realm of learning and had felt its fascination. To them, as to me, the manuscripts had spoken in the tongue of the living, and they had come to me with the treasures which they had unearthed.’ — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 415

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• SHARE: For anyone who studies the human cost of scholarship under totalitarian or war conditions — a moving elegy for students lost to politics and war.