A writer readying for Russia 2018

I have always wanted to visit Russia. Like China, Russia to me still remains mysterious, historic and full of potentials. Apart from the very rich culture, I have always been an ardent follower of Russian Literature having devoured works of Boris Pasternack, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov and many of the Russian masters since childhood. Chekhov, the medical doctor/writer has always been my inspiration. His famous saying ‘’I am married to two wives, Medicine and Literature. When I am tired of one I go and play with the other one’ has always fascinated me.
 
Pasternack’s Doctor Zhivago, a moving historical book about the Russian Revolution is one of the few books that I have read and watched their film adaptations. Surprisingly, (just like the yet to be released film adaptation of my book Tenants of the House) I found the film adaptation better than the book.
 
I could even recollect that it was Dostoevsky’s The Possessed, a haunting psychological fiction that inspired my own psychological, tragicomedy book, Dreams Die at Twilight (adjudged in a 2009 National Literary competition as one of the best 50 books in Nigeria in the last 50 years)