a story or a coinsidence

[avrelia]

I was reading the works of the famous Russian lawyer of the XIX century A.F. Koni, and, in the article on suicides, I came across the following two cases – one is of a 82 years old Russian priest, found dead with the Gospel of John open near the body and no explanations; another one is of a 82 years old Jewish man, found dead with Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason open, also no note or anything. Both cases seemed to be suicides connected only by similar circumstances, but I imagine the story hiding behind…

also: he (Koni) keeps inserting quotes in Latin, German, French, English, Sanskrit... without translation. I feel very illiterate and uncouth.

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[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I shudder to think of the days before that fateful October...

And, suddenly, a woman could be anything she wanted. Except for rich and powerful. Or anti-soviet.

I often wonder about history of the women's legal education. May be one day I will get curious enough to find out more on the subject. I know that in the later Soviet Uniion there were more than half of female judges. The same is now. But curiously, in the highest judiciary institutions (such as the Constitutional Court) the proportion is in favour of men.