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Часть текста: «third edition» are particularly agreeable to the ears of a Russian, in connection with this issue of Mr. Ralston’s excellent translation of Krilof’s fables, as they prove that English readers are beginning to feel an interest in the literature of his country, and in the national life and character which they have hitherto only contemplated from a political point о view. And Krilof certainly deserves all the attention thus bestowed upon him. He is the only original fabulist who has appeared since La Fontaine; and though he does not, perhaps, equal the exquisite grace of the inimitable Frenchman, though he has fewer sly strokes of wit, less cunning simplicity in telling a story, he has, on the other hand, more originality of invention. His observant good sense penetrates to the roots of things, and he possesses a genuine kind of phlegmatic humour which betrays the Oriental element in Slavonic nature. In his birth and all the circumstances of his life Krilof was as Russian as possible: he was essentially national in his ways of thinking, feeling, and writing; and it may be maintained without exaggeration that a foreigner who has carefully studied Krilof’s fables will have a better idea of the Russian national character than if he had read through all the travels and essays that attempt to describe it. Russian children learn Krilof by heart as French ones do La Fontaine, without entering into all the wisdom of his teaching, but in later life they return to him with double profit. Like La Fontaine, but to a still greater degree, Krilof has supplied the public conscience with a number of precepts and adages and sayings which have become proverbial even in the mouth of unlettered peasants; no one is oftener quoted than he, and, like the Bible and Shakespeare in England, those who quote him...
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Часть текста: là les chemins sont impraticables - et je ne veux pas rester si longtemps en Russie; - et puis j'ai enfin reèu des lettres raisonnables de mon oncle: il se résigne à céder les rênes du pouvoir. Mon intendant me fait savoir aussi qu'il commence à devenir le maître: il paraît qu'il a trouvé un chaos indicible. Ma présence n'aurait pas servi à grand'-chose. Mon oncle voudrait me revoir - et je ne demanderais pas mieux que de lui procurer cette satisfaction - mais c'est impossible. Je lui écris chaque jour des lettres fort longues - et j'espère qu'il s'en contentera 1 . Je vois bien qu'il y aura fort à faire pour remettre la barque à flot - mon oncle l'a laissé terriblement ensablée... les deux premières années je serai obligé de tirer la Muse par l'oreille - puisque la littératare donne encore. - Je crois que j'ai mis - dans mon intendant - la main sur un homme énergique et sensé 2 . Ainsi - voici mon plan - si rien ne vient se mettre en travers: je reste ici jusqu'à lundi 8 avril. J'achève mes épreuves, je prends sous le bras 10 exemplaires, je palpe l'argent de Katkoff 3 , je fais deux lectures publiques - il m'a été...
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Часть текста: М. Е. Салтыков. С. -Петербург, 1870 History Of A Town Edited by M. E. Saltykoff, St. -Petersburg, 1870 This is a book which in spite of its eccentricity, an eccentricity even running somewhat into caricature, will not only be read with pleasure by lovers of humour and of satirical verve, but will doubtless be taken into consideration by the future historian of the changes through which the face of Russian society has passed during the last hundred years. Its author, who usually writes under the name of Stchedrine, but whose real name is Saltykoff (a descendant, by the way, of the ancient family of Moscow Boyars of that name), after having, like many other writers suspected of propagating liberal opinions, undergone his time of persecution and of exile under the Emperor Nicholas, acquired a great deal of popularity by the publication, some fifteen years ago, of a series of sketches called Scenes of Provincial Life (Gubernskie Ocherki) , in which he lashed with indomitable vigour the numerous abuses then current under the name of Government and Justice. Saltykoff’s manner as a satirist somewhat resembles that of Juvenal. His laughter is bitter and strident, his raillery not unfrequently insulting. But, as we have already said, his violence often assumes the form of caricature. Now there are two kinds of caricature: that which exaggerates the truth, as with a magnifying glass, but which never entirely alters its nature, and that which more or less consciously deviates from the natural truth and proportion of fact. Saltykoff indulges in the first kind only, the only admissible one. It is the natural consequence of his character: kind and sensitive at bottom, but superficially rude. At the same time he is very delicate in his perceptions, which have something of instinct and divination about them. He has read much, and above all he...