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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All this can be seen as testimony to the resonance of The Egyptian Nights. The questions it raises stay in the minds of readers. And, if it ends abruptly we could say that, like Shakespeare's Cleopatra, Pushkin "makes hungry Where most [he] satisfies.
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On the other hand he did not- despite his famous poem The Prophet-aspire to be a sociopolitical prophet nor did he imagine himself as a judge. It is not-he believed-_ ahistorian's business to justify or accuse- His business is to resurrect a past age in all its truth. #Pushkin25
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 idea of mediation between Russia and the West was very dear to Pushkin. Moreover, mediation in general is a central concern of Pushkin's philosophy and his works.. In his own life too, Pushkin wanted to mediate between his friends, tho Decembrists, and the regime.
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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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Chaadaev's argument -laid out in his Philosophical Letters- -that Russia somehow stands outside history, that it has no history worth the name, Russia, Pushkin retorted, had its own special mission, an important part of which had been to absorb the Mongol conquest.
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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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The sentry finished his sewing shook out the tattered garment,admired the patch, stuck the needle into his sleeve & burst out at the top of his voice,into an old melancholy song
Green mother, green dubrovka, don't rustle,Don't stop a young lad from dreaming his dreams
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She did not confuse her silks like Konrad's mistress who, in her amorous distraction, embroidered a rose in green.
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Konrad Wallenrod byPolish poet/ friend of Pushkin's,Musing on the absence of her beloved Konrad,heroine embroiders a rose in green & its leaves in red.
To Dubrovsky?" Vereisky repeated. ""The famous brigand?""To his father," Troyekurov replied, *"who was something of a brigand himself." "And what's become of our Rinaldo:
#Pushkin25 #PeterTheGreatsAfricanRobin Hood figure, the hero of Christian August Vulpius's Rinaldo Rinaldini
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).
Enough of that, Savelich, don't go grieving the host and upsetting the guests. Kirila Petrovich is one master, and Andrey Gavrilovich is another master, and every one of us is in the hands of God and the Tsar,' But vou can't sew buttons on others' mouths.
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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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In his domestic life Kirila Petrovich exhibited all the vices of a man without education. Spoiled by everything around him, he was accustomed to giving free rein to every impulse of his hot-blooded nature and every whim of his somewhat limited mind.
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axiom: the richer the peasant. the more troublesome; and conversely, the poorer, the humbler. And so - set about promoting humility as the cardinal peasant virtue. He demanded an inventory of the peasant households and divided them into rich and poor
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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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The Goriukhinites' apparel consisted of a long shirt worn over trousers, a clear indication of their Slavonic origins.
#Pushkin25 important historical controversy of the time was over whether the origins of Russian culture lie in the Slav world or in Scandinavia.
