I ended up minoring in German lol. I probably remember just as little of it as you do Russian, but I'm more confident in myself so would rate myself as having retained 20% of what I'd known. 

There were German practice sessions and stuff after college that I attended. Did you do any practicing for your Russian after graduation?

I remember you also speaking way better German than me when we were at 

MSU

because you had taken it so many years at the great 

Okemos

high school lol.

When were you reading the 19th century russian novelists? I think I got into them right around graduation and then extending into my post college years.

And yes those Russian novelists really captured something that resonates with people like you, me, and 

GabrielGreco