Person A: "No Russian feeds the Penguin." Person B: "But my uncle Andrey feeds the Penguin all the time." Person A: "Ah yes, but no true Russian feeds the Penguin."
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After the Penguin ad controversy, I thought of a very famous (in Russia) quote from another oustanding Russian – Alexander Pushkin. In his 1826 letter to Pyotr Vyazemsky he wrote:
Continue reading “‘No True Russian’ Feeds the Penguin”
Oh, dostoyevskiness of a flowing cloud!
Oh, pushkinities of mellow noon!
Night looks like Tyutchev,
Filling boundless with supernal.
Velimir Khlebnikov, 1908-1909.
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Apparently, Fyodor Dostoyevsky became a symbol, an archetype of a Russian writer, along with Lev Tolstoy (‘Tolstoyevsky’). Simplified image of Dostoyevsky’s Russia (or Dostoyevskian Russia) became a part of popular culture both in the West and in Russia. Continue reading “#Dostoyevsky Is the Limit?!”
Why rave ye, babblers, so — ye lords of popular wonder?
Why such anathemas ‘gainst Russia do you thunder?
What moves your idle rage? Is’t Poland’s fallen pride?
‘T is but Slavonic kin among themselves contending,
An ancient household strife, oft judged but still unending,
A question which, be sure, you never can decide. Continue reading “Alexander Pushkin – To the Slanderers of Russia (1831)”
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Once coming home from the church
Two women had a spat.
The first one said: “I do remember ’bout your smirch;
You will be in regret. Continue reading “Alexander Pushkin “Once Coming Home from the Church…””
Лучше один раз увидеть, чем сто раз услышать (luchshe odin raz uvidet’, chem sto raz uslyshat’), i.e. it’s better to see [something] once than to hear [about it] a hundred times.
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