“There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.”

Letter to M.V. Kiseleva (January 14, 1887)
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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904

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