According to my dictionary (Random House Webster), ermine [Russ., gornostay] is also "the rank, position, or status of a king, peer, or judge, esp. one in certain European countries who wears, or formerly wore, a robe trimmed with ermine, as on official or state occasions."

 

Jesus entered Jerusalem as King of Israel: "Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt". (John, 12:15)

 

Jesus was sometimes called "the son of David" (syn Davidov).

 

Syn Davidov + de = sny + Avidov + ded = Denis Davydov (de - particule; sny - dreams; Avidov - Baron Klim Avidov; ded - grandfather; Denis Davydov - poet and hussar, 1784-1839).

 

In a letter ov November 25, 1892, to Suvorin Chekhov mentions Denis Davydov: У одних, смотря по калибру, цели ближайшие – крепостное право, освобождение родины, политика, красота или просто водка, как у Дениса Давыдова, у других цели отдалённые - Бог, загробная жизнь, счастье человечества и т. п. (Some [artists] have more immediate objects—the abolition of serfdom, the liberation of their country, politics, beauty, or simply vodka, like Denis Davydov; others have remote objects—God, life beyond the grave, the happiness of humanity, and so on).

 

 

Btw., here is a poem by VN (written in St. Moritz, on July 10, 1965):

 

 

Among these larches and pines,

under the ermine of these mountains...

Re Armenia: in Pushkin's poem "The Black Shawl" (1820) the young Greek girl whom the hero loved passionately was unfaithful to him with an Armenian:

 

 

I silently entered—alone and amazed;
An Armenian was kissing the girl as I gazed. [pah]

Alexey Sklyarenko