Everything I know about Russia, I learned from Fyodor Dostoevsky and Winston Churchill. Last week's melodramatic events there reminded me of scenes of drunken chaos in 'Demons,' the Russian novelist's prophetic (and wellnigh unreadable) 1872 novel, with today's two bloody-handed gangsters named Putin and Prigozhin as protagonists.
Both men would be well-advised to avoid tall buildings and open wind…