Dear Carolyn:



see http://www.pushkinskijdom.ru/Default.aspx?tabid=4960



for the original Legend written down in 1237 (in Old Russian and modern Russian translation)



See also http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B6



Victor Fet

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Subject: [NABOKV-L] Help locating Kitezh? V.I. Bielsky?

To the List,

When Professor Taruskin learned that I was pursuing Sirin, the Russian folkloric bird and early nom de plumage of our own V Cantaboff (interesting initials, btw), he pointed me in the direction of Kitezh (as in the legend of the invisible city of).* I have begun listening to a recording of the Rimsky-Korsakov opera (Sirin should turn up in the fourth act, I believe) but have been unsuccessful in finding a reference to a written version of the story. Can anyone help? Is there a literary version? The name of Rimsky's librettist was Vladimir Ivanovich Bielsky** if this is should happen to ring any bells?

with many thanks from
unSeen Kunin