Name of Mexico of the country is the "United Mexican States" (), since it is a federation of thirty-two states. The official name was first used in the Constitution of 1824, and was retained in the constitutions of 1857 and 1917. Informally, "Mexico" is used along with "Mexican Republic" ("República Mexicana"). On 22 November 2012, outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderón proposed changing the official name of the country to "México". Anahuac (meaning land surrounded by water) was the name in Nahuatl given to what is now Mexico during Pre-Hispanic times. When the Spanish conquistadors besieged México-Tenochtitlan in 1521, it was almost completely destroyed.
What Is to Be Done? (novel) The "Dame in mourning" appearing at the end of the novel is Olga S. Chernyshevskaya, the author's wife. Characters with the last name "Kirsanov" also appear in Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons". Dostoyevsky argues with Chernyshevsky's ideas in "Notes from Underground". In particular, he responds negatively to Chernyshevsky's idealization of The Crystal Palace, a theme which is referenced throughout Russian literature. American playwright Tony Kushner referenced the book multiple times in his play "Slavs!". The main character of Gide's "Les caves du Vatican" (En. "Lafcadio's Adventures"), Lafcadio, resembles Rakhmetov. In the book "", author Chris Matthew Sciabarra claims that "What