The most recognizable landscape description in Russian literature

[colkitto]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Aleksey Tolstoy's poem that starts 
off "Po greble ..." which is very evocative for landscape, and the people in 
it.
I don't have a copy available for the exact citation.

Athough it doesn't really count as Russian literature, the scenes in 
Flashman at the Charge where Flashman, East, and Valla flee through the snow 
from Michael Ignatieff's great-grandfather (and wolves) are worth a footnote 
......

and this line of thought leads to the evocations of winter  in Pushkin's 
"Besy", which should be included in this discussion as well - except the 
question is answered: the "pen" turns out to be a "volk", except it's heard 
before it's seen .....



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicole Monnier" <monniern at MISSOURI.EDU>
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Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] The most recognizable landscape description in 
Russian literature


>I know it's not strictly literature, but how about Nikita Mikhalkov's 
>filmic
> version of Oblomov - the scene in the "dream" with the child Oblomov 
> running
> over grassy field/hill?
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> Nicole
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> On 11/13/06 7:52 AM, "Julia Tulovsky" <julia at WETSNOW.COM> wrote:
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>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> A friend of mine asked my to post this question to the list-serve. She is
>> searching for the most recognizable landscape description, the most
>> "khrestomatiinoe opisanie" of a Russian landscape in Russian literature. 
>> I
>> would appreciate any ideas.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Julia Tulovsky
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