JM: These relationships between calendar days, characters and real people are sometimes puzzling. Without checking it in the text... didn't Demon's airplane crash in April 23?
 
Jansy,
You must be thinking of Andrey Vinelander who dies on April 23, 1922. Demon perishes in an airplane crash in March, 1905. (It is always better to check in the text:)
best,
Alexey 
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