"Triuki" -Reply

[Edward M Dumanis]

On Thu, 16 Mar 1995, Karen Kettering wrote:

> The attached file gives the context in which I found this word.
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> The word "triuki" appears as one of several inscriptions on the
> base of a polychrome statuette entitled "Shansonetka NEP" and
> sometimes referred to as NEPmachka (1923) made by Natalia Dan'ko
> in Petrograd/Leningrad.  It depicts a young woman with black
> eyebrows, blond hair (as if it's bleached?) eyes thickly rimmed
> with liner.  She wears lacy anklets, high heels, and a black
> corset over a low-cut pink dress.  (The overall effect is
> startlingly like that of the American pop singer Madonna).  The
> figure's left hand is on her hip.   The base of the statuette has
> several trompe l'oeil pieces of paper painted on it.  In front of
> the young woman is a green placard marked in Russian: "Kabare
> NEP/Triuki/Eksuentriki" (tricks and eccentricities?)   On a small
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>>From this context, the meaning is absolutely clear: it is just a part of
advertizing of the cabare's activities where Triuki (usually called
Fokusy now) means Magic Tricks and Eksuentriki means Jugglers

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>






> white placard on the back of the base is the phrase "kurs
> chervontsa" and a smaller slip of paper saying "vnosite
> podokhodnyi nalog" with the figure 1,000,000.  A small blue 25
> ruble note is also painted on the ground.
>