Onegin envies a councilman from Tula who is lying
paralized:
Зачем, как тульский заседатель,
Я не
лежу в параличе?
Why like a councilman from Tula
am I not lying paralized?
(Fragments of Onegin's Journey: [XIV]:
9-10)
Chekhov's friend and correspondent L. V. Sredin (1860-1909;
see my post "Tornikovski & Kalikakov") was lying paralyzed in the last ten
(or more) years of his life.
Alexey Sklyarenko