Some of the categorizations about the Quixotic and Hamletic character traits which Turgenev cites in his essay are already apparent in his Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District.

Its uncurtained windows were red with the sinking sun, as though bloodshot and inflamed from a too long unlidded existence.

Now [the wind] swithered through the badly-fixed windows, making zithering sounds as of an army of cold and frozen-out mosquitoes […]

Given a die which is a regular cube of uniform density, and given that one and only one of its faces is painted black, then if the die is cast, the theoretical probability that the outcome will be the black face is 1/6.