cards

[John Dingley]

Unbegaun wrote a short article entitled "Cards and Card-Playing in
Muscovite Russia" (The Slavonic and East European Review XLI (1962-3),
25-30).  Here he discussed the card-playing terminology to be found in the
1618 Russian vocabulary list compiled by Richard James, who was chaplain
in the British Embasssy in Moscow at that time.  In footnote I of this
article, Unbegaun refers the reader to:
V.I. Chernyshev
Terminologija russkix kartezhnikov i ee proisxozhdenie
(stat'ja pervaja)
Russkaja rech', novaja serija, II (1928), 45-68
According to Unbegaun "this is the only comprehensive study of Russian
playing-card terminology".  (Evidently the promised second article never
appeared.)

John Dingley

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