A poem of Apollon N. Maikov

[Richard Benert]

My sincere thanks to Vadim Besprozvanny and Kore Gleason for guiding me to 
Maikov's poem, "Lomonosov."
You have saved me many hours of searching from the wilds of Montana.

Richard Benert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vadim Besprozvanny" <vbesproz at UMICH.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] A poem of Apollon N. Maikov


> 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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