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Part I - Public order and its malcontents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2009

Susan K. Morrissey
Susan K. Morrissey
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University College London
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Those who kill themselves, bestially and swinishly, [are] demonic; but those who suffer lawfully, valiantly and gloriously, are pleasing to God.

Evfrosin, Untitled [Treatise against Suicidal Death], 1691

Following his instructions, his remaining moneys were distributed to beggars, and the priests got nothing. Consequently, the beggars tearfully accompanied his dust to its place of interment, and the priests cursed his name.

Mikhail Sushkov, The Russian Werther, 1801

Forgive me that I write this to your Excellency without the proper courtesy: the dead do not know respect for rank.

From the suicide note of Fedor Moskal'tsov, 1856
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Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia , pp. 17 - 18
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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