Pushkin, champagne and "The Marriage of Figaro"

[OLGA BUKHINA]

Alexander Pushkin, Mozart and Salieri. 

С а л ь е р и
     И, полно! что за страх ребячий?
     Рассей пустую думу. Бомарше
     Говаривал мне: "Слушай, брат Сальери,
     Как мысли черные к тебе придут,
     Откупори шампанского бутылку
     Иль перечти "Женитьбу Фигаро".

http://mozart.km.ru/pushkin.html


Olga Bukhina
American Council of Learned Societies
E-mail: obukhina at acls.org 
www.acls.org 


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From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Margarita Nafpaktitis
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 7:33 AM
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Pushkin, champagne and "The Marriage of Figaro"

Dear colleagues,

Vasilii Aksenov's "V poiskach grustnogo bebi" (1984)
includes an imaginary "predvybornaia perepiska" (by
carrier pigeon) between the author in Washington DC and an
"old Moscow friend" described as a cross between Childe
Harold and Sancho Panza and dubbed Fil Fofanoff.

Fofanoff has the last word in the correspondence, sending
off the advice:

"Dorogoi Vasilii, vsled za Pushkinym, 'otkupori
shampanskogo butylku il' perechti 'Zhenit'bu Figaro'."

Can anyone point me to the passage where Pushkin offers
this remedy?

Thank you in advance,

Margarita

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Margarita Nafpaktitis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages &
Literatures
University of Virginia
109 New Cabell Hall / PO Box 400783
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4783
Tel: (434) 924-3548   FAX: (434) 982-2744
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