адъютант в
жандармском мундире, белокурый, плотный мужчина с разноцветными (так
называемыми арлекинскими) зрачками
It was at this evening in the beginning
of 1837 that the eighteen-year-old Turgenev met Pushkin (who dedicated
to Pletnyov his Eugene Onegin) for the first (and second
to last) time.
Alexey Sklyarenko
This is a fascinating discovery; it reminds me of
the way (described by me in an obscure footnote somewhere) that Nabokov
encodes Pushkin's first making acquaintance with Anna Kern in The
Gift, at which meeting, a birthday party, he heard Krylov recite
the now-famous verse fable "The Ass and the Peasant," which Pushkin
commemorated in the opening line of Eugene Onegin.
Stephen Blackwell