In the beginning...

[Elizaveta Moussinova]

Here is the discussion about this topic:
http://speakrus.ru/articles/uncle1.htm

Liz Moussinova
emoussin at indiana.edu


Quoting Genevra Gerhart <ggerhart at COMCAST.NET>:

> Ladies and Gentlemen,
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> 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".
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> I hurried to my Nabokov commentaries and found no such suggestion either in
> the translation in the overflowing notes.
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> Can we give credence to such an assertion? Did Uncle die?
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> Genevra Gerhart
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> ggerhart at comcast.net
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> www.genevragerhart.com
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> www.russiancommonknowledge.com
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