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RKS Russian Literature: The Sticky Nature of a Personal Nickname (Nikolay Gogol)
“Strongly indeed do Russian people express themselves! And if they bestow a particular epithet on someone, it will become part of his lineage and posterity, he will drag it around him into his place of work, and into his retirement, and to Petersburg, and to the ends of the earth. And however cunningly he may…
RKS Russian Literature: Nozdryyov Delivers Ultimate Insult to His Brother-in-Law (Nikolay Gogol)
‘I really can’t stand such namby-pambies!’ and he added, aloud: ‘Well, the devil with you, go play house with your wife, you girlie-man!’ ‘No brother, don’t you go calling me a girlie-man!’ replied the brother-in-law, ‘I owe her my life. She’s really so good, so kind, she’s so nice to me. It brings tears to…
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