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Vek
The Age
also: Век, The Age
A short-lived St. Petersburg weekly (1882-1884) whose name ('The Age') Chekhov puns on: what is short-lived cannot boast of its own Age.
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- Thoughts of a Reader of Newspapers and Journals §4 Vek
Vek ("The Age"), a short-lived St. Petersburg weekly (1882-1884), the butt of the pun that what is not long-lived ("nedolgovechno") cannot boast of its own "Age."