“Hey, everyman, turn around! It is I, the Caucasian plague, who is coming to you!!”
“And I, the Balkan, going to war again!”
“And I, the Chinese, approaching your border…”
Summer everyman: “Damn it, damn the newspaper … Ach, it’s so pale and plump!”
(Novyi Satirikon, St. Petersburg, 1914)
