Eelõhtul - Ivan Turgenev

In those days, however, thunder broke out over the Orient. Turkey declared war on Russia, the deadline set for the liberation of the principalities had already passed; the day when the Turks were devastatingly defeated at Sinope was not far off. In the last letters that reached Insarov, he was relentlessly invited to his homeland. His health still hadn't improved: he coughed, was weak, suffered from mild bouts of fever, but he was almost never at home. His heart burned: he no longer thought of the disease. He was constantly traveling around Moscow, meeting secretly with various people, writing all night, disappearing for days at a time; he informed the host that he would be leaving soon and gave him his simple furniture in advance...