Further, of course, I don't have the full Cyrillic-font
glory on this keyboard (without some messing about)
I'm reminded of the typewriter "with a Turkish
accent" (the letter e is missing on its
keyboard and has to be substituted with э, the "reversed epsilon" absent from
the keyboard of Stan's computer) that Balaganov buys for the Chernomorsk
office of "Antlers and Hooves" in Ilf and Petrov's "The Golden
Calf".
Btw., a typewriter also plays a role in "The Luzhin
Defense". The letter that Luzhin composes with its help is signed Abbat
Buzoni (Abbé Busoni is one of names assumed by Edmond Dantes in A.
Dumas pere's "The Count of Monte Cristo", the novel that Luzhin's French
governess reads to him when he is a child).
Alexey Sklyarenko