Pushkin's 'Prorok'

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

There are a number of memoirs quoting the following lines, or lines similar
to them:
Восстань, восстань, пророк России,
В позорны ризы облекись,
Иди, и с вервием вкруг выи
К  У. Г. явись

Vosstan’, vosstan’, prorok Rossii,
V pozorny rizy oblekis’,
Idi, is s verviem bkrug vyi  (OR ‘I s verv’em vkrug smirennoi vyi
K U.G. yavis'.

These lines are understood to be either from an early draft of ‘Prorok’ or
from a separate, related poem.  У.Г.  Is understood to stand for ‘Ubiitse
gnusnomu’.

In a fine essay in Bethea’s THE PUSHKIN HANDBOOK, Sergey Davydov argues that
these lines are probably not by Pushkin at all.  Is this view now generally
accepted?

Vsego dobrogo,

Robert

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