Our young man, being exceptionally brezgliv (squeamish, easily disgusted), had no desire to share a few cubic meters of chlorinated celestino ('blues your bath') with two other fellows. (1.32)

 

This seems to confirm that Van and Ada (even though they are not "freckled red-haired lads") are konskie deti, children of the Sun Horse. Hors is the Slavic sun god mentioned in "The Song of Igor's Campaign." The action in Slovo begins on April 23, 1185, the day of solar eclipse. In the opening lines of Georgiy Marina Tsvetaev compares St George's eyes to the suns eclipsed by the bashfulness of his eyelashes:

 

 

G. A. Vronsky (the film director who makes the movie of Mlle Larivière's novel Enfants Maudits, 1.32) left Marina for another long-lashed Khristosik:

 

...to her [Aqua] it meant that only a brief black nightmare had obliterated the radiant fact of her having slept with her husband all along - ever since Shakespeare's birthday on a green rainy day, but for most other people, alas, it meant that Marina (after G. A. Vronsky, the movie man, had left Marina for another long-lashed Khristosik as he called all pretty starlets) had conceived, c'est bien le cas de le dire, the brilliant idea of having Demon divorce mad Aqua and marry Marina who thought (happily and correctly) she was pregnant again. (1.3)

 

Aleksey Vronski is Anna's lover in Tolstoy's Anna Karenin. According to Lidia Varavka (Klim's step-sister and lover in Gorky's "The Life of Klim Samgin"), in Anna Karenin "everybody is a horse [vse loshadi]: this Anna, and Vronski, and all the rest."

 

According to the poet Sluchevski ("The Diary of a One-Sided Man"),

 

We all were born a bit fast horses.

 

In one of his most famous poems (included in Pesni iz Ugolka, "Songs from Ugolok," 1898-1902) Sluchevski compares a wayward rhyme and poetry to Princess Yaroslavna weeping at dawn on the rampart: