“This strange thing happened not so long ago; but few people knew about him, and due to the impossibility of giving a rational explanation of the facts, those who knew preferred to consign him to oblivion. But it seems to me that it is precisely such and such unsolved cases that should not be forgotten. It was in winter, just before Christmastide. Ivan Feodorovich Lobnichenko, a notary whose office is located on one of the main streets of St. Petersburg, was hastily called upon to witness a spiritual will to a terminally ill patient...”