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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: time so near and so akin.
FET, STRAKHOF, GAY
"WHAT'S this saber doing here?" asked a young guardsman, Lieutenant
Afanásyi Afanásyevitch Fet, of the footman one day
as he entered the hall of Iván Sergéyevitch
Turgénieff's flat in St. Petersburg in the middle of the
fifties.
"It is Count Tolstoy's saber; he is asleep in the
drawing-room. And Iván Sergéyevitch is in his study
having breakfast," replied Zalchar.
"During the hour I spent with Turgénieff," says Fet, in
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