“We are all condemned to one and the same thing: to death. I, the writer of these lines, shall die, and you, their reader, shall die. Our deeds shall remain, but they shall ultimately be destroyed. Let us therefore not interfere with one another as we go about our business.”
From a letter written by Josef Brodsky to General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Cited by S. Volkov in A History of the Culture of St. Petersburg, 2008.
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Original Russian Text © A.T. Mikhailov, 2010, published in Ontogenez, 2010, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 66–69.
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Mikhailov, A.T. In memory of Nikolai Grigoryevich Khrushchov: A view from the past. Russ J Dev Biol 41, 55–58 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062360410010078
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