A poem of Apollon N. Maikov

[Vadim Besprozvanny]

The poem titled "Lomonosov" (1865, 2nd version 1882) you can find at:
http://az.lib.ru/m/majkow_a_n/text_0220.shtml. The comments to this poem
(on the same web-page) are also very significant. The source of the on-line
publication is: A.N. Maikov. Izbrannye proizvedeniia (Selected Works).
Leningrad, 1977. P. 393-396; (comments: p.834-835). 

Best regards,

VB



On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:33:09 -0500, Richard Benert <benovich at IMT.NET>
wrote:
> The entry for 14 March, 1865, in Aleksandr Nikitenko's Diary of a Russian
> Censor states that "Maikov came to see me and read the poem he had
composed
> for the dinner in Lomonosov's honor.  It is well written, but has strong
> anti-German overtones."  
> 
> I am currently interested in late Imperial Russian attitudes towards
> Germans
> and would like to know where it might be possible to find this poem.  My
> initial problem is that (difficult to admit on this listserve) I don't
read
> Russian.  I've looked at two online editions of Maikov's collected works
> (1884 and 1904).  Only one short poem composed in 1865 showed up, and I
> don't THINK this is it.  Lomonosov isn't mentioned by name, at any rate.
> 
> Can anyone tell me, first, whether this poem was ever published and, if
so,
> its title and where it can be found?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Richard Benert
> Bozeman, Montana
> 
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