Pushkin's "Klevetnikam Rossii" (1831)

[Frans Suasso]

Dear Robert

On reading Binyons book I felt three things:

1. What a tremendous work!

2. I was flattered that in his final chapters he often refers to my PhD 
thesis as a source.

3. I was annoyed  that  like so many Soviet Pushkinist he pretends to know 
everything about everbodies motives, especially those of van Heeckeren and 
dÁnthes.
I checked some of the sources,in the notes in the library of the Pushkinskiy 
dom in 2005. The stated facts coould not be related to the mentioned 
sources. When I  tried to contact Binyon I found out that he had passed 
away.


I will look Up my travel notes from may 2005 and hopefuly come back to you 
on wednesday.

If You prefer, I can contact you directly.

Frans Suasso

franssuasso at hotmail.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Chandler" <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pushkin's "Klevetnikam Rossii" (1831)


> Dear Frans,
>
>> The widely praised Binyon gives a fair representation of the state of
>> Soviet Pushkinology around 1990 with  all its nationalistic distortions 
>> and
>> sometimes even forged sourcematerials.
> Do you have time to give a few examples, esp. with regard to the forged
> sources?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Robert
>
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