Name The Character - Object - Or Idea Being Described By The Following Quotation: "So On Receiving The News Of Ivan Ilyich's Death The First Thought Of Each Of The Gentlemen In That Private Room Was Of The Changes And Promotions It Might Occasion Among Themselves Or Their Acquaintances"

An 1886 novella by Leo Tolstoy. It tells the story of a high-court judge and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness in 19th-century Russia. Ivan finds it hard to come to terms that he is dying.