"yellow house" in Russian
Natalia Samoilova
ns7 at ST-ANDREWS.AC.UK
Wed Jun 11 08:30:27 UTC 2003
Dear Seelangers,
Does anybody know the history of the expression zheltyj dom "mental hosptal" in Russian? All I know is that it was used already in the early 19th c. (e.g. Pushkin "Ura! V Rossiju skachet..."). Why it is yellow?
Can you possibly suggest any on-line resourses which could help here?
Thank you,
Natalia Samoilova.
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