
‘You’re not Dostoyevsky,’ said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev.
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‘Well, who knows, who knows,’ he replied.
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‘Dostoevsky’s dead,’ said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
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‘I protest!’ Behemoth exclaimed hotly. ‘Dostoevsky is immortal!’
Mikhail Bulgakov, “The Master & Margarita”.
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Today is the 142 anniversary of Fyodor Shalyapin‘s birthday.
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Also on February 13, 1940, Mikhail Bulgakov stopped writing “The Master & Margarita”, just four weeks before his death…
P.S. And at last but not the least – today is the 246 anniversary of Ivan Krylov‘s birth!
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