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Dmitri Nabokov on VN's poetry collection DVA PUTI (fwd)
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FROM: DMITRI NABOKOV
SUBJECT: DVA PUTI
I HAPPEN TO HAVE AN ORIGINAL COPY, BOUND WITH _GORNIY PUT'_, AS I WRITE.
THE VN IS YOUTHFUL, BUT WITH SOME GREAT FLASHES. IT MAY SOON BE
FACSIMILED.
DN
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Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 20:15:00 +0400 (MSD)
> From: "Maria E. Malikova" <masha@assisi.spb.su>
>
> Evgeny Belodubrovsky, bibilographer from St.Petersburg, has asked me to
> put the following question to you Nabokovians. Has anybody undertaken
> excavations re the destiny of Andrey Balashov, who authored with Nabokov
> the poem collection "Dva puti" (1918). He's obtained some evidence about
> Andrey Vladimirovich Balashov, who lived in Belgrad, wrote poems and
> reminisciences,had some publications in "Chasovoy" newspaper and died in
> emigration around 1960 - but he doubts whether this is the right one.
> Following is an extract from his verse from "Dva puti" (Nabokov's are no
> better).
>
> Yours sincerely, Maria Malikova
>
> Dve zhizni
> Bal v polnom razgare, vesel'e i shutki,
> Iz damskih naryadov krasivyi buket,
> Za oknami temno i sumerki zhutki,
> Dvorets slovno fakel ognyami odet.
>
> V dvortse karnavaly i roskosh i nega,
> V nem tol'ko vesel'e, v nem goresti net.
> Za oknami prosyat neschastnie khleba:
> Podayte! No im ne uslyshat' otvet.
> ....
> Ustalo konchalisya shumnye plyaski,
> Poblek iz naryadov krasivy buket,
> Za okanmi sumerki serye gasli
> I teni lenivo polzli na parket.
SUBJECT: DVA PUTI
I HAPPEN TO HAVE AN ORIGINAL COPY, BOUND WITH _GORNIY PUT'_, AS I WRITE.
THE VN IS YOUTHFUL, BUT WITH SOME GREAT FLASHES. IT MAY SOON BE
FACSIMILED.
DN
= = = = = =
Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 20:15:00 +0400 (MSD)
> From: "Maria E. Malikova" <masha@assisi.spb.su>
>
> Evgeny Belodubrovsky, bibilographer from St.Petersburg, has asked me to
> put the following question to you Nabokovians. Has anybody undertaken
> excavations re the destiny of Andrey Balashov, who authored with Nabokov
> the poem collection "Dva puti" (1918). He's obtained some evidence about
> Andrey Vladimirovich Balashov, who lived in Belgrad, wrote poems and
> reminisciences,had some publications in "Chasovoy" newspaper and died in
> emigration around 1960 - but he doubts whether this is the right one.
> Following is an extract from his verse from "Dva puti" (Nabokov's are no
> better).
>
> Yours sincerely, Maria Malikova
>
> Dve zhizni
> Bal v polnom razgare, vesel'e i shutki,
> Iz damskih naryadov krasivyi buket,
> Za oknami temno i sumerki zhutki,
> Dvorets slovno fakel ognyami odet.
>
> V dvortse karnavaly i roskosh i nega,
> V nem tol'ko vesel'e, v nem goresti net.
> Za oknami prosyat neschastnie khleba:
> Podayte! No im ne uslyshat' otvet.
> ....
> Ustalo konchalisya shumnye plyaski,
> Poblek iz naryadov krasivy buket,
> Za okanmi sumerki serye gasli
> I teni lenivo polzli na parket.