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"Nights of Madness"
Nights of Madness
also: Ночи безумные
A popular Russian romance setting Alexei Apukhtin's 1876 poem "Ночи безумные, ночи бессонные" ("Nights of madness, nights of sleeplessness") to music; Pavel Sergeich sings it as a duet with the student guest, interrupting his own writing of the embedded murder story.