In the beginning...

[Genevra Gerhart]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

A dinner guest the other night assured me that "On uvazhat' sebya zastavil"
meant, in the time of Pushkin, "He kicked the bucket" that is, he died. He
even found an online source that said as much, except that the only proof
offered was "Lyuboe izdaniye Evgeniya Onegina s kommentariyami".

 

I hurried to my Nabokov commentaries and found no such suggestion either in
the translation in the overflowing notes.

 

Can we give credence to such an assertion? Did Uncle die?  

 

Genevra Gerhart

 

ggerhart at comcast.net

 

www.genevragerhart.com

www.russiancommonknowledge.com

 

 


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