kuda tsar' idet peshkom

[Donna Seifer]

DEAR SEELANGERS:
In memory of my Belarussian-born grandfather, Mitrofan Adamovich Tyrkich,
and my New Jersey-born father, Nikolai Mitrofanovich Tyrkich, I wish to
affirm that as a child growing up in the USA in the 1950s, I often heard
"idu tuda, kuda tsar' khodit peshkom." Вот и всё.

Donna (from grandmother Domna Petrovna)
Turkish (Americanization of Tyrkich)
Seifer (from first marriage, and from the Hebrew "sefer" for "book"

Donna Turkish Seifer, M.A.
Portland, OR  97219
donnada at mac.com
donna.seifer at comcast.net







On 4/3/08 6:42 AM, "Pendergast, J. Mr DFL" <John.Pendergast at USMA.EDU> wrote:

> Certainly, though as Donna Seifer correctly pointed out, it should be KHODIT,
> since the Tsar would presumably make this trip quite regularly.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Deborah Hoffman
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:36 AM
> To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: [SEELANGS] kuda tsar' idet peshkom
> 
> This is an actual expression? And here all these years I thought Tom Lehrer
> had made it up (in "Lobachevsky").
>    
>> Date:    Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:21:53 -0400
>> From:    "Pendergast, J. Mr DFL" <John.Pendergast at USMA.EDU>
>> Subject: Re: two fashion terms
>> 
>> Apropos of the "toilet" P.S. below - and apologies if this one already
>> came up in prior discussion - but a phrase that I always liked that I
>> have heard among military colleagues (and which at least one civilian
>> colleague met with a wince) is "idu tuda, kuda tsar' idyot peshkom."
>> (èäó òóäà, êóäà öàðü èä¸ò ïåøêîì)
>> 
>> John Pendergast
>> Assistant Professor of Russian
>> United States Military Academy
>> 745 Brewerton Road
>> West Point, NY 10996
>> 845-938-0310
> 
> 
> 
> Deborah Hoffman, Esq.
> Russian > English Legal and Literary Translations
> 
> A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in
> that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his
> life. -- R. G. Collingwood
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