Word: chertkov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father came into the room, and he stood there with his hands inside the belt of his blouse, and he said, 'What's that? It isn't badly written.' He was a vegetarian and a pacifist, but when a mosquito sat on the head of Chertkov [one of Tolstoy's followers], father killed it without a thought. Chertkov turned to him and said, 'Oh, how could you do that, to take the life of an innocent mosquito?' All of us roared with laughter-the narrowness of some of his disciples! But father didn...