Arriving at two in the morning, Dr Schwörer offered the dying Chekhov a cylinder of oxygen. Anton Pavlovich declined: "By the time they bring the oxygen, I shall be dead." He had only minutes left. Chekhov preferred to drink champagne. He took the glass with the words "it is a long time since I drank champagne". He drained it to the bottom, turned over and lay still.
Something tells me, on this day of splendid quotations from presidents, that in response to the call not to allow society to be divided into a thinking intellectual elite and people who will find themselves in the second or third rank in their level of intellectual development zealous executors, should
The Voronezh meme finds a new incarnation, this time in a country of the First World
Our time needs men and women who have the courage to do good, even when it involves sacrifice. Draw near to those who are lonely, support the weary and seek out those who have lost their way. Have the courage to forgive, to begin anew and to enter into dialogue.
The Orientalist Grigory Alexandrovich Kozakov, surrounded by his relatives, his daughter-in-law Countess Anna Nikolayevna Tolstaya, the children and their tutor, at a picnic near the village of Zhikharevka in 1903