Falconet statue question

[KALB, JUDITH]

Russell, are you possibly thinking of the great passage in Belyi's Peterburg?
Judy
 
Dr. Judith E. Kalb
Associate Professor of Russian
Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
email: jkalb at sc.edu
fax (departmental): (803) 777-0454
 

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Subject: [SEELANGS] Falconet statue question



Dear colleagues,

I'm having trouble recalling who reads Falconet's Monument to Peter the Great as symbolic of the Russian people, with its peasant rear hooves planted in the soil but its intelligentsia front hooves uprooted and floating above Europe. Or maybe it's all about the intelligentsia? Sorry, it's a memory from something I read long ago. Is this in a Sinyavsky book? I'd appreciate a lead or two.

Thanks.

Russell Valentino

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