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[Alexandre Bougakov]

Hello Genevra,

Saturday, July 15, 2000, 2:14:55 AM, you wrote:

GG> Greetings:
GG> There is a statue of Alexander III in St. Petersburg, and I was told that
GG> the following lines referred to it:
GG> Stoit komod,
GG> Na komode,
GG> Begemot.
GG> Could anyone tell me the origin of the lines?

I have just checked - the author of this was count Alexei
Konstantinovich Tolstoy - <b>not</b> D.Bednyj. The epigram sounds as

Stoit komod,
Na komode begemot,
Na begemote -
Obormot.

Sorry many times for my previous email - I had to check it better
before sending my message. "Ne speschi, a to .. uspeesch!"


Cordially, Alexandre Bougakov <mailto:bougakov at mail.ru>

Student of the sociological faculty of the Higher School of Economics
(http://www.hse.ru/fakultet/sociology/default.html), Moscow, Russian
Federation

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