13 OCTOBER is a year and a half of my stay on this blog site.
about my one year anniversary you can read here:
http://ohlala007.blog.co.uk/2008/04/01/my-one-year-anniversary-on-the-website-3978411

*the rotunda*
In the play Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), in this very rotunda in the park, which you can see in my two photos, the soldier's band plays for enjoyment of the citizens of the town who have a good time in the park at weekends, and the Prozorov family, the three sisters Olga, Masha, and Irina and their brother Andrei used to listened to the music.

in the sunshine of the autumn day
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in the shade
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The soldiers play a marsh, when leaving the town in the end of the play, and one of the sisters says: “The bands are playing so gaily, so bravely, and one does so want to live! Oh, my God! Time will pass on, and we shall depart for ever, we shall be forgotten; they will forget our faces, voices, and even how many there were of us, but our sufferings will turn into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will reign on earth, and people will remember with kindly words, and bless those who are living now. Oh dear sisters, our life is not yet at an end. Let us live. The music is so gay, so joyful, and, it seems that in a little while we shall know why we are living, why we are suffering. ... If we could only know, if we could only know! [The music has been growing softer and softer.]”

16 OCTOBER -- birth of Oscar Wilde.
The essay on Oscar Wilde and Chekhov you can read here:
http://ohlala007.blog.co.uk/2007/08/20/vamp_up~2837823

08y2