`Once in presence of Irakliy Luarsabovich Andronikov I called a popular poet a genius. He immediately objected: `He`s too complicated to be considered a genius. All great is simple and clear. It is `I am going out on the road ...` that`s great. That sort of poems seems to contain ...
FIRM EVIDENCE This is a parody of a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky about the Soviet passport. It"s its substandard, lower, folksy variant. It"s a doppelganger. In Russia many classical and iconic poems and songs cast the obscene shadows sometimes more durable and lasting, but sometimes ...
Selene, the goddess of the moon, loved the mortal Endymion. She asked Endymion"s father, Zeus, to grant him eternal youth so that he would never leave her. Zeus granted her wish and put him into an eternal sleep. Every night, Selene visited him where he slept.
LE PRINTEMPS ET L"AUTOMNE Par Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) SPRING AND AUTUMN By Pierre-Jean de Béranger Пьер-Жан Беранже ПРОЩАЙ, ВИНО, В НАЧАЛЕ МАЯ `Aria of Béranger` from the musicle `The Heart of a Poet` (from the Pierre-Jean de Béranger`s poem `Le ...
There shows up white a sail so lonely ... Белеет парус одинокий ... The most famous poem by Mikhail Lermontov in Russia. It was put to music several times. In 19 c. it was done by a Russian composer Alexandre Varlamov. Sung by Sergei Lemeshev (record of 1942) https://youtu.be/4FKEsTZuNKY ...
In the Stance XXI of the 1st Chapter of the `Eugene Onegin` Alexandre Pushkin depicts the exact morals and manners of his time. The democratic public claps demanding to start the show. As to gentlemen the then theatrical good tone (bon ton) required to enter the hall at the last ...
One of Pushkin`s uncles came from Moscow to see little Pushkin for the first time. The uncle was red-haired and pocky. After glancing at his nephew he couldn"t help exclaiming: `O my! He is a real little blackamore!` The five-year-old Pushkin was quick to answer: `Yeah! Not like you, ...