"Недуг, которого причину Давно бы отыскать пора, Подобный английскому сплину, Короче: русская хандра"
— Aleksandr Pushkin

January 1, 1970

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The illness with which he'd been smitten should have been analysed when caught, something like spleen, that scourge of Britain, or Russia's chondria, for short. — Ch. 1, st. 38.