An Odessa judge, who before the war sentenced criminals to read Tolstoy, gave a life sentence to a “traitor to the motherland”
Perhaps readers remember the Odessa judge Alexander Garsky, who awarded petty thieves not prison sentences, but forced reading of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, basing his decisions on the arguments of the famous Russian lawyer, judge, actual privy councilor and member of the State Council of the Russian Empire (1907-1917) Anatoly Koni. Garsky's sentences resembled not punitive verdicts, but philosophical treatises. For his humanism he...
