kochines

Updated: May 26, 2025

All that that is the kochines, spermines, and so on seem to the public a kind of miracle that leaped forth from some brain, after the fashion of Pallas Athene; but people who have a closer acquaintance with the facts know that they are only the natural sequel of what has been done during the last twenty years. A great deal has been done, my dear fellow!

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Letters of Anton Chekhov