where did mendeleev died?
Saint Petersburg
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 Chekhov 's death has become one of " the great set pieces of literary history , " retold , embroidered , and fictionalised many times since , notably in the short story " Errand " by Raymond Carver . In 1908 , Olga wrote this account of her husband 's last moments : 

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 Mikhail Chekhov , a member of the household at Melikhovo , described the extent of his brother 's medical commitments : 

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 In February and March 1936 , Berkman underwent a pair of prostate gland operations . Recuperating in Nice and cared for by his companion , Emmy Eckstein , he missed Goldman 's sixty @-@ seventh birthday in Saint @-@ Tropez in June . She wrote in sadness , but he never read the letter ; she received a call in the middle of the night that Berkman was in great distress . She left for Nice immediately but when she arrived that morning , Goldman found that he had shot himself and was in a nearly comatose paralysis . He died later that evening . 

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 While planning for a World Championship match against Botvinnik , Alekhine died aged 53 in his hotel room in Estoril , Portugal on March 24 , 1946 . The circumstances of his death are still a matter of debate . It is usually attributed to a heart attack , but a letter in Chess Life magazine from a witness to the autopsy stated that choking on meat was the actual cause of death . At autopsy , a three @-@ inch @-@ long piece of unchewed meat was discovered blocking his windpipe . Some have speculated that he was murdered by a French " death squad " . A few years later , Alekhine 's son , Alexander Alekhine , Jr . , said that " the hand of Moscow reached his father " . Canadian Grandmaster Kevin Spraggett , who has lived in Portugal since the late 1980s , and who has thoroughly investigated Alekhine 's death , favors this possibility . Spraggett makes a case for the manipulation of the crime scene and the autopsy by the Portuguese secret police PIDE . He believes that Alekhine was murdered outside his hotel room , probably by the Soviets . 

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 In 1948 , at the age of 53 , one week and four days before his 54th birthday , Pennock collapsed in the lobby of the Waldorf @-@ Astoria Hotel as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage . He was pronounced dead upon his arrival at Midtown Hospital . Pennock had been healthy , even inviting friends to join him at Madison Square Garden to attend a boxing match . 
