Alexey Sklyarenko:
In my previous post I mentioned Gorky's play Deti
solntsa ("Children of the Sun...One of
the songs that Van, Ada and Lucette listen in Ursus (where they get
drunk on champagne: 2.8) is "There's a crag on the Ross, overgrown with wild
moss..." The original song about Sten'ka Razin begins: Est' na Volge utyos
("There's a crag on the Volga...")...Onboard the Tobakoff,
Lucette drinks three Cossack ponies of Klass vodka - hateful, vulgar, but
potent stuff -before she jumps in the Atlantic (3.5).
JM: I don't know if, among your
effervescent translinguistic associations, a reminder about the German link
by "Ross" (Pferd, Horse) would be of any help to
you?