Teffi - "Rasputin"

[Steve Marder]

FWIW, "зеркальное окно" = plate-glass window.



>What Jan Zieliński has provided a link to is an oriel window; that this
>is indeed the meaning of окно-фонарь could easily have been ascertained
>by looking up фонарь in Dal's dictionary.  I confess I do not really
>understand the meaning of зеркальное in this context, unless it simply
>means that one could see one's reflection in it.
>
>As for "растушеванный карандашный мазок", this is rather "smudged pencil
>shading"; as Seelangers will recall from an earlier exchange, карандаш is
>graphite, which, in English at least, is pencil, not crayon.
>
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>Od: "Anne Marie Jackson" <annemarie.jackson at ROCKETMAIL.COM>
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>Odoslané: sobota, 20. júl 2013 10:50:54
>Predmet: [SEELANGS] Teffi - "Rasputin"
>
>Dear everyone
>
>I wonder if anyone can make sense of the 'зеркальное окно-фонарь'
>referred to in the text below, taken from the beginning of Teffi's
>account of meeting Rasputin.
>
>
>
>   Петербургская оттепель. Неврастения.
>
>   Утро не начинает нового дня, а продолжает вчерашний, серый, тягучий
>вечер.
>
>   Через большое зеркальное окно-фонарь видно, как на улице унтер- офицер
>учит новобранцев тыкать штыком а соломенное чучело. У новобранцев сизые,
>иззябшие сыростью лица. Баба с кульком, унылая, уставилась и смотрит.
>
>
>Might this be a skylight?  But if it is, then how is it that Teffi is
>able to see down onto the street?  Are the sides mirrored, and the
>soldiers on the street reflected in the mirror(s)?  Or is there a less
>complicated explanation?  Might the зеркальное окно-фонарь be a bay
>window?  
>
>Whatever it is, what exactly is mirrored?
>
>Thank you for any ideas!!
>
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