 just as a native German and Russian as well as English as well as other languages. But he studied Russian very intensively starting in his mid-20s. He read literature, particularly 19th century, early 20th century Russian literature. He thought for many years he was going to write a biography of Chekhov, and we can talk more about that because the reason he didn't, I think, is as significant as what he thought about Chekhov.