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Cardinal Richelieu was 42 at the time of the siege of the La Rochelle fortress described in The Three Musketeers.
From the notes of the 16-year-old Pushkin: "A 30-year-old man entered the room" (it was Karamzin).
Tyanyanov: “Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was the oldest of all who gathered. He was thirty-four years old, the age of extinction.”
I went crying.

In the end I was expecting to read something like: I was 12, I went fucking.