Markov Chain Text Analysis⤓ .md 2026-07-17T120407.600 000000000000896 A. A. Markov, lecture to the physical-mathematical faculty of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, 23 January 1913 (Julian): "An Example of Statistical Investigation of the Text Eugene Onegin Concerning the Connection of Samples in Chains." The target was Nekrasov's claim that independence is necessary for the law of large numbers; the text was the instrument, not the subject.