Son v ruku

[Robert Whittaker]

>Does anyone have a sense of the origin of the expression "Son v ruku"

A classical origin is in Griboedov, "Gore ot uma," at the close of Act I
(scenes 8-10), where Famusov contemplates what Sofiia meant by the phrase
(repeated several times).

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