Last words

For many years, the famous Moscow collector Vladimir Belyakov collected the “last words” of great people. Words that “seem to sum up all our chatter in all our previous lives.”
For the first time, the author offers his unique collection,... numbering more than one hundred of these rare examples of oral creativity, to the attention of the public. So what words came out of the mouths of people who had reached the dark edge of life? What did the most august suicides leave in their suicide notes? What were crowned hanged men or members of a criminal brotherhood shouting at the annoying crowd gathered at the black scaffold? This has always aroused and continues to arouse genuine and equally justified interest among readers.