Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
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At last, on the ninth day of February in the year 18—, Dubrovsky received a summons to appear before the District Court to hear the Court’s judgment on the matter of the property disputed between himself, Lieutenant Dubrovsky, and General-in-chief Troyekurov, and to affirm his signature in agreement or disagreement thereto. That day Dubrovsky set out for the town.

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