Monsters of Russian Literature

[Mark Yoffe]

Also A.K. Tolstoy's Upyr' (Vampire).
MY

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From: Tatyana Buzina <tbuzina at YANDEX.RU>
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:27 pm
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Monsters of Russian Literature
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> Eto, verno, kosti glozhet
>  Krasnogubyi vurdalak.
>  
>  Also Pushkin's "Marco Yakubovich" from "Pesni zapadnykh slavyan" 
> which is about vampires, too, and Alexei K. Tolstoy's vampires (Sem'ia 
> vurdalakov if memory serves).
>  
>  And Alexei N. Tolstoy's statue that Caliostro brings to life in the 
> story that is called  "Graf Caliostro."
>  
>  Plus, any collection of "Russkie romanticheskie povesti" (which 
> should rather be called Russian Gothic tales of terror) will feature a 
> number of lovely monsters starting with Porogelsky's "Lafertovskaia 
> makovnitsa" with a witch's cat turning into a prospective fiance for 
> the witch's heiress. Zagoskin's "Kontsert besov" leaps to mind, too.
>  
>  Tatyana
>  
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