20 November
Dates in History
1925Maya Plisetsakay, Russian ballerina, is born.
1910Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Great Russian writer and thinker, dies. | His last words written in the diary read: ‘Do what you ought to; and let it be whatever comes.’
1869Zinaida Gippius, Russian poetess and writer, ideologist of symbolism, is born. | |