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Baron Klim Avidov + Ivan Golovin = golova + divo + vina + vino + milk + barn
Baron Klim Avidov - anagram of Vladimir Nabokov
Ivan Golovin - hero of Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Il'yich
golova - Russ., head
divo - Russ., wonder, marvel; cf. Pushkin: Vblizi osmatrivaya divo, / Ob'yekhal golovu krugom (Examining the wonder closely, [Ruslan] rode around the head); in The Bronze Horseman, Pushkin calls St. Petersburg polnoshchnykh stran krasa i divo (the beauty and marvel of northern lands)
vina - Russ., guilt
vino - Russ., wine
Parasha + ad + dar = sharada + parad
Parasha - female given name, diminutive of Praskovia; heroine of Pushin's "The Cottage in Kolomna" (1830); Eugene's betrothed in Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman" (1833)
ad - Russ., hell; cf. My sister's sister who teper' iz ada (now out of hell), as Aqua signed her last note (1.3)
dar - Russ., gift
sharada - Russ., charade
parad - Russ., parade; cf. "I will command the parade!" (Ostap Bender's words in Ilf and Petrov's The Golden Calf); parad is mentioned in "The Cottage in Kolomna" and (indirectly) in "The Bronze Horseman"
How many (Cyrillic) letters does this anagram contain? Only five (п, а, р, ш, д).
p. s. I notice that I derive "bigamist" (a person who has two wives) from English words "by" and "game".
p. p. s. Speaking of geese (in one of my earlier posts), I forgot to mention gusekrad (the abductor of geese) Panikovski, a character in "The Golden Calf" (a poet in his own right who simulates blindness and is compared to Homer and Milton by Ostap Bender).
p. p. s. Let me also mention that there are akuly (sharks) in both "The 12 Chairs" and "The Golden Calf".
Alexey Sklyarenko
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Baron Klim Avidov - anagram of Vladimir Nabokov
Ivan Golovin - hero of Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Il'yich
golova - Russ., head
divo - Russ., wonder, marvel; cf. Pushkin: Vblizi osmatrivaya divo, / Ob'yekhal golovu krugom (Examining the wonder closely, [Ruslan] rode around the head); in The Bronze Horseman, Pushkin calls St. Petersburg polnoshchnykh stran krasa i divo (the beauty and marvel of northern lands)
vina - Russ., guilt
vino - Russ., wine
Parasha + ad + dar = sharada + parad
Parasha - female given name, diminutive of Praskovia; heroine of Pushin's "The Cottage in Kolomna" (1830); Eugene's betrothed in Pushkin's "The Bronze Horseman" (1833)
ad - Russ., hell; cf. My sister's sister who teper' iz ada (now out of hell), as Aqua signed her last note (1.3)
dar - Russ., gift
sharada - Russ., charade
parad - Russ., parade; cf. "I will command the parade!" (Ostap Bender's words in Ilf and Petrov's The Golden Calf); parad is mentioned in "The Cottage in Kolomna" and (indirectly) in "The Bronze Horseman"
How many (Cyrillic) letters does this anagram contain? Only five (п, а, р, ш, д).
p. s. I notice that I derive "bigamist" (a person who has two wives) from English words "by" and "game".
p. p. s. Speaking of geese (in one of my earlier posts), I forgot to mention gusekrad (the abductor of geese) Panikovski, a character in "The Golden Calf" (a poet in his own right who simulates blindness and is compared to Homer and Milton by Ostap Bender).
p. p. s. Let me also mention that there are akuly (sharks) in both "The 12 Chairs" and "The Golden Calf".
Alexey Sklyarenko
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