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Fw: Two deep backgound items bearing on VN's Mashen'ka: 1)
Podtyagin 2) Russian boarding houses in emigre Berlin
3) reprint of the Balashov-VN "Dva puti"
Podtyagin 2) Russian boarding houses in emigre Berlin
3) reprint of the Balashov-VN "Dva puti"
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir Mylnikov" <vmylnikov@yahoo.com>
> from vmylnikov@yahoo.com
>
> Dear List,
>
> Let me express some scepticism regarding - no doubt -
> both very interesting motifs to Mary suggested by
> E.Belodubrovskii.
>
> Firts, I am not very sure if Nabokov read
> "Vozrozhdenie" and picked up the name Podtiagin from
> there. That type of newspaper (if I am not mistaken
> "Vozrozhdenie was promonarchistic product although
> Khodazevich had his poems published there).
>
> The second motif is much less convincing - First,
> according to E.Belodubrovskii that (really charming)
> piece by N.N.Chebyshev was published in "Novoe Vremia"
> where A.Suvorin was the editor. But was not he a
> relative of M.Suvorin with whom Vladimir Dmitrievich
> had a duel? If so, I can not imagine that Nabokov
> would even touch the newspaper.
> Second, the piece was published in March 1926 in
> Beograd and Mary was already 90% written.
> But my main argument regarding characters deals with
> Nabokov's letter to his mother (I guess it was written
> in early 1925 or 1924 where he gives a very distinct
> description of all the characters and says that he is
> trying to really feel these people - how they move,
> how they speak, they are "existing people" and not
> traditional characters.
>
> I am not sure if the letter was published but one can
> find it in Nabokov Archive in Berg Collection
> (N.Y.P.L).
>
> But truly I enjoyed reading the piece sent by Eugenii
> Belodubrovsky.
>
> Cheers, Vladimir Mylnikov
>
>
>
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From: "Vladimir Mylnikov" <vmylnikov@yahoo.com>
> from vmylnikov@yahoo.com
>
> Dear List,
>
> Let me express some scepticism regarding - no doubt -
> both very interesting motifs to Mary suggested by
> E.Belodubrovskii.
>
> Firts, I am not very sure if Nabokov read
> "Vozrozhdenie" and picked up the name Podtiagin from
> there. That type of newspaper (if I am not mistaken
> "Vozrozhdenie was promonarchistic product although
> Khodazevich had his poems published there).
>
> The second motif is much less convincing - First,
> according to E.Belodubrovskii that (really charming)
> piece by N.N.Chebyshev was published in "Novoe Vremia"
> where A.Suvorin was the editor. But was not he a
> relative of M.Suvorin with whom Vladimir Dmitrievich
> had a duel? If so, I can not imagine that Nabokov
> would even touch the newspaper.
> Second, the piece was published in March 1926 in
> Beograd and Mary was already 90% written.
> But my main argument regarding characters deals with
> Nabokov's letter to his mother (I guess it was written
> in early 1925 or 1924 where he gives a very distinct
> description of all the characters and says that he is
> trying to really feel these people - how they move,
> how they speak, they are "existing people" and not
> traditional characters.
>
> I am not sure if the letter was published but one can
> find it in Nabokov Archive in Berg Collection
> (N.Y.P.L).
>
> But truly I enjoyed reading the piece sent by Eugenii
> Belodubrovsky.
>
> Cheers, Vladimir Mylnikov
>
>
>
> ? ??? ? ??? «?????» ? ??????? ??????? ????
>
>
>
> ??? ??????? ????????? ??????? ? ?????
> ????????????? ??????????? ????????? ??????? «????????»
> ?.?. ????????.
>
>
>
> ?????? ? ??? ??? ????????? ??? ?????????? ? ?????????
> ?????? «???????????» ?? 29 ???????
>
> (? 149) ? ???, ??? :
>
>
>
> «????????? ??????
>
> ?????????????
>
> ??????????? ??? ????
>
> Berlin. N.W. 21. Dreysestrasse 9 »
>
>
>
> ===========================
>
>
>
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> ??????????? ???????? ?.?. ???????? ??? ????????? «?
> ?????». ??????????? ? ???????? ? ?????? «????? ?????»
> ?.???????? ? ????? 1926 ????.
>
>
>
> «??????.????? ????? 1922 ????. ??????? « KAVFILAG» ...
>
>
>
> «... ? ???????? ? ???????? ?? ????????? ????. ??? ????
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