Andrei v3

[RiverNotch]

thanks for the feedback busker!

i have half a mind to just remove the Last Judgement stanza, just as it wasn't in the first draft. what do y'all think?

authorial stuff i recommend reading only after y'all've critiqued the piece on its own terms:

this was written semi-hastily as an emotional response to current events. that one visit to russia in my teens, and how it impacted me, is one of the reasons i'm even in this forum, so i'd say i'm a bit of a slavophile

also a bit of a response to busker:
originally wrote something longer here, but yeeted it for one very good reason: the movie is great enough that you should just borrow a copy from a friend, so to speak, and watch it xD