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This reminds of me Maria Yudina

> was religious and expressed criticism of the Soviet leadership
>due to that, unemployed and homeless for a couple of years
>one night in 1944 Stalin heard a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 on the radio >Performed by Yudina
>He asked for a copy
>It was a live broadcast so officials woke up Yudina
>drove her to a recording studio where a small orchestra had quickly been assembled
>made her record the concerto in the middle of the night

A single copy was pressed from the matrix and then presented to Stalin.

Rumors hold that she was awarded a prize and donated its monetary portion to the Russian Orthodox Church for prayers for Stalin's sins

Niccoli Machiavelli

>Medici's couped Florence
>Machiavelli, a diplomat, tortured by hands tied behind back and hoisted up by the rope twelve feet and dropped multiple times, wrecking shoulders
>exiled to a farm out of town
>wrote the masterpiece political treatise The Prince while exiled

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>>36642948
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How about dostoyevsky? He was given a mock execution. One of the guys with him to be fake executed never recovered his sanity. Imagine how psychologically torturing that would be.

>>36645229
Yes that qualitfies. Robert Greene's can't remember which book he talks about Dostoyevsky being positively effected by it in a 'live every day like its your last' way, not sure if that was real or Greene assumed