Mr. Stepashin said he expected this response and was glad the letter included some praise.
斯捷帕申先生表示，他对回信的内容早有准备，同时也为信中包含了某种赞扬而感到高兴。
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Stepashin, who recalls staying up two nights as a 10-year-old so that he could finish Tolstoy's novel "Resurrection," Shared the sense that the writer was getting short shrift.
Stepashin described the visit - made while he was director of the Federal Security Service, successor to the K. G. B. - as an emotional experience that he has never been able to shake off.