Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and memoirist (1855-1913).
Born September 15th, 1855 in Taganrog.
Died June 12th, 1913 at 57 years old in Saint Petersburg (laryngeal cancer).
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde