"Rossianin": QUERY

[gadassov]

> At 03:39 PM 8/28/02 -0400, John Pendergast wrote:
>> For what it's worth...
>>
>> "Rossiyanin" and "rossiyanka" appear in the Soviet-era Ozhegov dictionary of
>> 1987 published by "Russkij Yazyk" and in the 1983 4-volume Dictionary of the
>> Russian Language edited by A. P. Evgen'ev, strongly suggesting that the term
>> was not coined in the 90's.  Both dictionaries indicate that the word is
>> (was) antiquated and high-style.  Nonetheless, it is also true that your
>> average Russian finds the word stilted and amusing.
>>
>> John Pendergast

In 1822, was  publicized : "Okolo sveta, pervoe puteshestvie Rossijan,
opisannoe Rezanovym".(Nikolaj Petrovich Rezanov, chamberlain of the Tsar
Alexandre the 1st, participated in the first voyage around the world on
board the ship commanded by Kruzenstern, visited San Francisco, was engaged
with the daughter of the governor, dona Conception de Arguello, made plans
to colonize what is now North California, Oregon, and Washington state, in
order to grow foods to nourrish people who worked un Alaska and Siberia, but
died in Siberia during his voyage back to St petersbourg).
Georges.


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