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I found a picture of "The River of Time," which Alexey Sklyarenko mentioned:
http://www.photoshare.ru/photo2606013.html
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark05@mail.ru>wrote:
> For those who are interested in it: the description of the picture ("The
> River of Time, ot the Emblematic Representation of the World History", a
> kind of allegoric map) that hung in Derzhavin's room and was the source of
> his inspiration can be found in "Last Verses", a wonderful article by Natan
> Eidelman: http://vivovoco.rsl.ru/VV/PAPERS/NYE/LASTLINE.HTM (text in
> Russian). Alas, I failed to find in the Internet the image of the map
> itself.
>
> Funny, in his article (written in 1985) Eidelman calls Oxyrynchus (the
> Greek name of Pemdje, aka el-Bahnasa, a town in Upper Egypt, about 160
> km south-west of Cairo, an archaeological site where so many papirus texts
> dating from the time of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egyptian history
> were discovered) "the greatest rubbish dump in the world". The Internet
> (where one can find so many gems, precious stones and spurious stones) seems
> to be an even greater one these days. I occasionally enjoy rummaging in it.
>
> Alexey Sklyarenko
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http://www.photoshare.ru/photo2606013.html
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark05@mail.ru>wrote:
> For those who are interested in it: the description of the picture ("The
> River of Time, ot the Emblematic Representation of the World History", a
> kind of allegoric map) that hung in Derzhavin's room and was the source of
> his inspiration can be found in "Last Verses", a wonderful article by Natan
> Eidelman: http://vivovoco.rsl.ru/VV/PAPERS/NYE/LASTLINE.HTM (text in
> Russian). Alas, I failed to find in the Internet the image of the map
> itself.
>
> Funny, in his article (written in 1985) Eidelman calls Oxyrynchus (the
> Greek name of Pemdje, aka el-Bahnasa, a town in Upper Egypt, about 160
> km south-west of Cairo, an archaeological site where so many papirus texts
> dating from the time of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egyptian history
> were discovered) "the greatest rubbish dump in the world". The Internet
> (where one can find so many gems, precious stones and spurious stones) seems
> to be an even greater one these days. I occasionally enjoy rummaging in it.
>
> Alexey Sklyarenko
> Search the archive<http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en> Contact
> the Editors <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> Visit "Nabokov
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>
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Meghan
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