Not many literary works move me but Berlin's Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament is one of'em, along with Thackeray's Vanity Fair (the scene where the philistine aristocrat-soldier dies in battle). That piece was so moving, I finally decided to buy it after all these years.
http://www.amazon.com/Russian-Thinkers-Penguin-Classics-Isaiah/dp/0141442204/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387178889&sr=8-1&keywords=berlin+russian+thinkers
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