Do you know, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, I am making my will; in fact, I've made it already ?" "That's interesting.

What are you leaving, and to whom ?" "To my fatherland, to humanity, and to the students.

Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, I read in the paper the biography of an American.

He left all his vast fortune to factories and to the exact sciences, and his skeleton to the students of the academy there, and his skin to be made into a drum, so that the American national hymn might be beaten upon it day and night.

Alas! we are pigmies in mind compared with the soaring thought of the States of North America.