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Speaking of Chekhov's and Tolstoy's friend Alexander Ertel' (1855-1908), his name reminds one of St. Petersburg's Ertelev lane (now the Chekhov street) in which the reactionary newspaper and publishing house Novoe vremya had its residence. Saltykov-Shchedrin, who used to call Suvorin's newspaper "Чего изволите?" ("What Can I Do For You?"), said that its motto was "Неуклонно идти вперёд - но через задний проход" ("Go steadily straightforward, but via the back passage"). Another rhymester composed the couplet:
Душа горит на сотне вертелов -
Лишь вспомню переулок Эртелев.
(I have but to think of the Ertelev lane,
And my soul is burning on hundred spits.)
Dishonestly, but Ertel + t = letter
Alexey Sklyarenko
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Душа горит на сотне вертелов -
Лишь вспомню переулок Эртелев.
(I have but to think of the Ertelev lane,
And my soul is burning on hundred spits.)
Dishonestly, but Ertel + t = letter
Alexey Sklyarenko
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