Monsters of Russian Literature

[Tatyana Buzina]

I meant Pogorelsky's "Lafertovskaya Makovnitsa." Sorry, it's been a long day.

>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
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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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Tatyana V. Buzina,
Associate Professor, Chair,
Dpt. of European Languages,
Institute for Linguistics,
Russian State U for the Humanities

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