Then came a strange time, like a sleep of a paralysed man. In the evening, in the whole city, no fire was lit in a single window, but brightly burned fire marks of cafeterias and windows of cabbages. The winners tested their power, not yet filled with impunity. Some people in Manchurian papas, with Georgian stripes in jackets, walked around the restaurants and insisted on the performance of the national anthem and watched for everyone to get up. They also crashed into private apartments, bowled in beds, in shelters, demanded vodka, money, an anthem and filled the air with drunk riddles.

A. and The Cuprin. and Gambrinus. In 1907