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The great writer Leo Tolstoy once recalled a big tale that he never got around to telling: "What a wonderful novel I could have written about a story I heard in Moscow, a supposedly true story. An officer's wife was about to bear a child. The doctor attending her declared that she herself could not be saved. A priest came hurriedly to give her the last rites. He was a monk from a nearby cloister."

Tolstoy continued, "It so happened that during his worldly life he had been a famous surgeon. He realized at once that there was a chance to save both the woman and her child. Without stopping to think, he grasped the instruments and performed the operation. It was successful, and the happy officer fell on his knees before the monk. But the latter, in his turn, begged forgiveness and made those present swear they would never tell a soul of his deed, for he had sinned grievously, he said: He had seen a woman's naked body."