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Quotation from The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

“On the 25th March, 18--, a very strange occurrence took place in St Petersburg.”

Nikolai Gogol (spoken by Narrator)

The Nose, Part I, trans. Claud Field (1916)

Portrait of Nikolai Gogol

The deadpan opening sentence of the story.

Citation: "On the 25th March, 18--, a very strange occurrence took place in St Petersburg." — Nikolai Gogol, The Nose, Part I, trans. Claud Field (1916). (id gogol-the-nose-q1)

Portrait: Portrait of Nikolai Gogol, Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller, Public domain.

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