"Unfortunately, I have to begin the chronicle the mark of mournful fact : Тургенев died. Death it staggered nobody, because a long ago already began to appear in the newspapers of information about the severe suffering of venerable artist. But, staggering nobody, new about death of Тургенева distressed all, and hardly there will be though one well-educated, "intellectual" Russian man that at the receipt of mournful new would not mention a deceased good after artistic pleasures and pushes got from him to work of idea. Тургенев died not suddenly - news about his death waited hardly not from a day to the day".