"They had their own forgatherings: they, over the goblet of wine, they, over a glass of Russian vodka … for trenchant oratory famed, the members of this group assembled at unquiet Nikita’s, at circumspect Ilya’s."
—Alexander Pushkin, describing the 1825 Decembrists’ uprising ... Read the story
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"They had their own forgatherings: they, over the goblet of wine, they, over a glass of Russian vodka … for trenchant oratory famed, the members of this group assembled at unquiet Nikita’s, at circumspect Ilya’s."
—Alexander Pushkin, describing the 1825 Decembrists’ uprising ... Read the story
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