Po portretam

[Margo Rosen]

Robert, why not translate it "from their pictures"? My guess is from  
posters in parades as well as wall newspapers.

Best,
Margo

Quoting Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>:

> Dear all,
>
> This is a sentence from Grossman¹s story ŒMama¹:
> ŒKaganovicha, Molotova, Voroshilova ona znala po portretam.¹
>
> I suddenly feel sure about these Œportrety¹.  Are they photographs in
> newspapers, or could they be on placards and banners?
>
> The subject of the sentence is the peasant nyanya to Yezhov¹s adoptive
> daughter.  Whether or not she reads newspapers is unclear; she certainly
> does not have much understanding of what is happening in the country.
>
> Vsego dobrogo,
>
> Robert
>
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