102,563 cases of Asiatic cholera have been registered in Russia. In St. Petersburg this year, 2,353 apartment disinfections will be carried out in connection with this disease. St. Petersburg’s water-supply system leaves much to be desired. Cholera bacilli will be found in the water pipes of the Winter Palace. The mortality rate will be 39.1%.
TCHAIKOVSKY, P. I. On October 21, he did not come out for breakfast and complained of a badly spent night after an upset stomach. His brother MODEST in those days was preparing the premiere of his play “Prejudices,” which will take place on the day of Pyotr Ilyich’s funeral. He will summon the doctor VASILY BERTENSON only in the evening. The latter also called his brother, court physician PYOTR BERNARDOVICH BERTENSON. In the evening, a diagnosis of cholera was made, but the time to begin treatment had already been lost. Early in the morning on Monday, October 25, Tchaikovsky died.
The Main Directorate for Press Affairs circulated to censors a list of prohibited works by L. N. TOLSTOY, including 19 titles.
A. P. Chekhov, through his brother Alexander, petitions for an appointment in the Medical Department (as an extra-staff junior official) with the sole purpose of obtaining a passport and resigning. Chekhov has no other way to obtain a passport.
The United States annexed the Hawaiian Islands.
Industrial production of acetylsalicylic acid, or aspirin, began, and accordingly its widespread use.
ULYANOV, V. I. arrived in St. Petersburg and began working in revolutionary Marxist circles.
MAYAKOVSKY, VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH, was born in Georgia, in the village of Baghdadi, into the family of a forester—the future poet.