I wonder if his favorite is "The Idiot."
Chris Doss The Russia Journal --------------------------- Bush brushes up his Dostoevski ahead of Russian summit: Moscow AFP May 14, 2002
US President George W. Bush is taking a crash course in the novels of Fyodor Dostoevski, one of Russia's greatest writers, "to soak up the mood of Saint Petersburg" before he heads to Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin, a top Russian minister was quoted as saying.
Bush "is looking forward with impatience to coming to Russia" for the May 23-26 summit in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said in an interview published in the daily Vremya Novostei.
"He told me that he was reading Dostoevski specially in order to soak up the mood of Saint Petersburg," Ivanov said.
"This proves what enormous potential our culture has," Ivanov said, adding that it was one of his ministry aims to promote Russia's rich cultural heritage abroad.
In addition to discussing the works of Dostoevski with Putin, who is a native of Saint Petersburg like the 19th-century writer himself, Bush is due at the summit to sign a major disarmament accord slashing nuclear arsenals.