Khlopushki i bengal'skie ogni?

[Anna Reid]

English Victorian novels sometimes mention 'Bengal lights', meaning a sort of firework, and the dictionary has a 'bengal light' as a 'steady bright blue light, formerly used for signalling, now as a firework.' Google the term and you get a chemical recipe for one! The phrase might have taken on a slightly different meaning in Russian of course.

Emily Saunders <emilka at MAC.COM> wrote:  I believe that khlopushki are Christmas crackers and bengal'skie ogni 
are sparklers. Fireworks on a large scale civic level are fejerverki 
ÆÅÊÅÒ×ÅÒËÉ or salyut ÓÁÌÀÔ. I've forgotten what you call the roman 
candle like things that people shoot off their balconies on New Year's.

Emily Saunders

On Dec 6, 2006, at 7:04 AM, Peter Scotto wrote:

> Are Russian "khlopushki" like good-old American "firecrackers," or are 
> they your more sedate (but more amusing) English-style "Christmas 
> crackers"?
>
> What about "bengal'skie ogni" like the "sparklers" we let the little 
> kids play with?
>
> Thanks!
> Peter Scotto
> Mount Holyoke College
> pscotto at mtholyoke.edu
>
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