“Get up, old lady [Moscow], why are you sleeping? The plague is coming!”
Old lady: “Why are you shouting? As if I don’t hear the plague coming? When it arrives, I’ll get up.”
(Razvlechenie, Moscow, 1879)
The plague is coming!
“Get up, old lady [Moscow], why are you sleeping? The plague is coming!”
Old lady: “Why are you shouting? As if I don’t hear the plague coming? When it arrives, I’ll get up.”
(Razvlechenie, Moscow, 1879)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 