Perm (or Пермь) is 700 miles from Moscow.
– Пермь [фото царской России]
– Андрей Петров Калганов, его сын и его внучка. [фото царской России]
take hold of what’s left of your life and save it…
– Chekhov, quoted in Michael Pennington’s, Are You There, Crocodile?, p. 165
When in doubt, Chekhov should be humorous.
– Ibid.
Russia is an enormous plain across which wander mischievous men, convincing our people that their crass prejudices are the truth, as if some beautiful future could justify deceiving them now.
– Chekhov quoted, in ibid., p. 168
– вид с Волгой [фото царской России]
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