Query: Sukhanov on Lenin's return to Petrograd

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Dear colleagues,

A fellow translator is trying to puzzle out an English translation of 
Nikolay Sukhanov's description of Lenin's return to Petrograd in 1917 
(so he can translate a quoted excerpt into French). Here's the paragraph 
in question:

"The throng in front of the Finland Station blocked the whole square, 
making movement impossible... awe-inspiring outlines of armoured cars 
thrust up from the crowd... a strange monster -- a ***mounted*** 
searchlight -- beamed upon the bottomless void of darkness tremendous 
strips of the living city, the roofs, many-storeyed houses, columns, 
wires, tramways and human figures."

He's most curious about this word "mounted" -- what would it have been 
mounted on? A pole, a vehicle, a building?

I thought if we had access to the Russian original there might be clues 
either in the wording or in the broader context.

Here's what he says about the source:

The reference given in the bibliography of the book is the English version:
	Sukhanov, N. N. The Russian Revolution, 1917:
	A Personal Record. London, 1955.

According to Wikipedia, the original was published in 1922:
	N. N. Sukhanov, The Russian Revolution: A Personal
	Record, ed. and trans. Joel Carmichael (Oxford, 1955;
	originally published in Russian in 1922), 101–8.

Presumably this is
	Суханов Н.Н. «Записки о революции»
which I found here:
	<http://scepsis.ru/library/id_1130.html>
But the word проектор does not appear anywhere in any of these sections.

Anyone?

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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