Tsars Mnemonic

[Josh Wilson]

Actually looked it up myself after seeing this email: 

It's on WikiSource - here's a tiny url for it: http://tinyurl.com/queanf

Anybody know if an English translation exists? Poked around with various
translations of the name, but didn't turn up anything. 


Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
SRAS.org 
jwilson at sras.org


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[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Stephanie Briggs
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 3:21 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Tsars Mnemonic

Is there an URL for this?

~Stephanie Briggs

2009/6/27 Slivkin, Yevgeniy A. <slivkin at ou.edu>

> The only work that comes to my mind is "Istoriia gosudarstva rossiiskogo
ot
> Gostomysla do nashikh dnei" by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy.
> It is hardly a mnemonic poem, but as a kid I learned the names of Russian
> princes and tsars reading this brilliant text.
>
>
> Yevgeny Slivkin, Ph.D.
> Department of Modern languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
> University of Oklahoma
>
>
> ________________________________________
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> SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Richardson [paulr at RUSSIANLIFE.NET]
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:31 AM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Tsars Mnemonic
>
> I am curious. A friend recently sent me this mnemonic poem for
> learning the kings of England:
>
> Willie, Willie, Harry, Ste,
> Harry, Dick, John, Harry Three,
> One, Two, Three Neds, Richard Two,
> Henry Four, Five, Six, then who?
> Edward Four, Five, Dick the Bad,
> Harrys twain, and Ned the Lad,
> Mary, Bess, James the Vain,
> Charlie, Charlie, James again.
> William and Mary, Anna Gloria,
> Four Georges, William, and Victoria,
> Edward Seven and Georgie Five,
> Edward, George, and Bess Alive.
>
> Anyone know of anything similar, in English or Russian, for
> remembering the order of the Russian tsars? Surely there is something.
>
> Paul Richardson
> Russian Life magazine
>
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