Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Mikhail Kalinin
Born: November 19, 1875
Died: June 3, 1946 (aged 70)
Bio: Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, known familiarly by Soviet citizens as "Kalinych", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist Leninist functionary, who served as head of state of the Russian SFSR and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946.