"White Nights" (Russian: еле нoи, Belye nochi) is a short novella written by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in 1848, early in his career.
"White Nights," like many of Dostoevsky's works, is presented in the first person by an anonymous narrator. The narrator is a young man who lives in Saint Petersburg and is lonely. He meets and falls in love with a young woman, but the love is unrequited since she misses her boyfriend, with whom she is eventually reunited.
One of the most old and liberal Constitutions ever written, still in use since 1814.
A classical Greek mythological play, centered around the illegal burial or rebel Polyneices by a relative of Oedipus.
One of the first documents in History to curtail a monarch's power formally, signed in England in 1215.