“...There was a newspaper on the table. I didn’t like newspapers and didn’t read them; but this time it happened differently. I was talking to a young girl about my difficulties, talking about Turgenev, and accidentally opened the newspaper. Suddenly I see an announcement: “Nikolai Sergeevich and Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev are calling the debtors and creditors of their deceased mother so-and-so; Lomakovskaya's house, on Ostozhenka." It was almost opposite my apartment. I showed mlle Sophie the newspaper, and we were both surprised. I went home and the next morning at about 9 o’clock, with a constricted heart, I took my manuscript to Turgenev...”