Last book of the year #Pushkin25 #AlexanderPushkin #PeterTheGreatsAfrican Translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and @bdralyuk.bsky.social
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Pushkin's ideal characters therefore,are always able to mediate between the two opposite realms of reality and to establish a new order.
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The Pushkins belonged to the old Russian nobility. Pushkin was proud of this and many of his works allude to episodes from his family's past.
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From his student days Pushkin had been deeply interested in Russian history. In I831 he was appointed Russia's official historian laureate (istoriograf).
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THE NEVER-completed Peter the Great's African was Pushkin's first serious attempt at a novel. He himsel£ always referred to it simply as "a historical novel." #Pushkin25 #PeterTheGreatsAfrican
I knew you would help me. Corpo di Bacco! You're a poet, just as I am;`and say what you like, poets are splendid fellows! How can I express my gratitude?
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"By the body of Bacchus," an exclamation of surprise or wonder.
Meeting this man in a forest, you'd take him for a brigand; in society- -for a political conspirator; in your vestibule-for a charlatan peddling elixirs and rat poison.
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But he was a poet, and his passion was not to be overcome. Wher he sensed the approach of that nonsense (his word for inspiration| Charsky would lock himself in his study and write from morning till late at night.
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He led the most distracted of lives; he was present at every ball,he ate too much at every diplomatic dinner, and at every reception he was as inevitable as Rezanov's ice cream.
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Hero's surname is derived from this word.
Dubrovka- oak grove.
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I understood that the house where you live is sacred and that no one related to you by ties of blood can ever be accursed to me. I renounced vengeance as madness.
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It grew dark; candles were lit; Kirila Petrovich sat down to a game of Boston with neighbors who had driven over.
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Bostogné, Boston or Boston Whist[1] is an 18th-century trick-taking card game
She realized that courage and a sense of proper pride were not the exclusive attribute of a single class, and from then on she began to show the young tutor a respect that included more and more warmth of feeling.
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I knew nothing of the bear," Desforges replied, "but I always carry a pistol about my person, because I do not intend to endure insults for which, in view of my position, I am unable to demand satisfaction."
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Where once was festive fare, now stands a coffin.
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From Derzhavin's "On the Death of Prince Meshchersky."
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Thunder of Victory, Resound!
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The first line of a poem by Derzhavin, celebrating the capture of Izmail from the Turks in 1791. It was set to music by Osip Kozlovsky (1757-1831).
We quote this in full, believing everyone will be pleased to learn of one of the methods by which we in Russia can be deprived of an estate to which our rights are indisputable:
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"No, Kirilaa Petrovich. My Voldka's no husband for your Maria Kirilovna. A
poor gentleman like him is better off marrying a poor gentlewoman-and being head of the household-than marrying a spoiled hussy and ending up as her steward."
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Belkin appears to be arguing for the former, but his earlier remark about the Goriukhinites crossing the Sivka *like the ancient Scandinavians undermines his case.
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she had been raised in the traditional manner---that is, amid nurses, nannies, maids, and other girls of her own age. She had been taught to embroider with gold but not to read or write.
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See here, Korsakoy," Peter continued. Those breeches of yours are made of velvet. Even I wouldn't allow myself such an extravagance, and I'm a great deal richer than you, Take care now, I don't want to have to speak to you again."
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How glad I am,' Korsakov went on, "that you have not yet died of boredom in this barbarous Petersburg! What do people do here? How do they pass the time? Who's your tailor?'ls there even an opera house?"
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Like clouds high in the sky, Our thoughts shift their soft shapes within us: Tomorrow we will hate what we now love. --WILHELM KÜCHELBECKER
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I am in Paris: I've begun to live, not just to breathe.
-IVAN DMITRIEV, "A Traveller's Diary"
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Through Peter's iron will Russia has been transformed.
-NIKOLAY YAZYKOVI
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But how can we?" exclaimed the old prince, now very much awake "How can we marry Natasha , my dear granddaughter, to a blackamoor who's been bought and sold?"
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Do vou think it seemly, madam, for a Russian noblewoman to be rubbing elbows with German tobacco merchants
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Until 1697, tobacco had been banned in Russia as ungodly; the Church called it "the Devil's incense."
In the old days, a grandmother's sarafan was a granddaughter's dowry. Now it's the mistress's robe ronde one day, and a serf's the next. What's to be done? It's a tragedy. It's the ruin of our old Russian nobility.
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Last book of the year #Pushkin25 #AlexanderPushkin #PeterTheGreatsAfrican Translated from the Russian by ROBERT and ELIZABETH CHANDLER and @bdralyuk.bsky.social
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