Pushkin pronunciation question??

[pjs]

For my third-year Russian class, I am having my students memorise poetry
(a la Brodsky). To make it easier of them, I had a native speaker record
four Pushkin poems they have to memorise. She is an educated speaker with
some of the most beautiful spoken Russian I have ever heard.

The question concerns the pronunciation of "beznadezhno" which she
consistently reads as "beznad'Ozhno",

This certainly MUST be a mistake for "Ia vas liubil" where Pushkin rhymes
it with "nezhno", and for  "K***" where he again rhymes it with "nezhnyi"
and it is picked up again by "miatezhnyi".

Comments?

Peter Scotto
Mount Holyoke College

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