A Romantic Love Letter written by Alexander Pushkin to Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova, his fiancee.

It is believed that this romantic love letter was written September 30, 1830.

I have just been told that five quarantines have been set up between here and Moscow, and that it will be necessary for me to spend fourteen days in each; do a little counting and then imagine what a b-tch of a humour I must be in. As a crowning piece of good fortune, the rain has commenced and of course it will not stop before the beginning of sleighing…

May the hour be accursed when I decided to part from you in order to come to this beautiful land of mud, pestilence, and conflagration… My angel, your affection is the only thing in this world which keeps me from hanging myself in the main entrance of my sad manor house…

Preserve your affection for me, and believe that all my happiness is in it. Do you permit me to embrace you? That is of no consequence at a distance of 350 miles and across five quarantines. I can't get these quarantines off my mind.

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Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer, to Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova, his fiancee.