Nekrasov’s Red-Nosed Frost
Translation and Notes by Colin John Holcombe
Ocaso Press 2020
Nekrasov’s Red-Nosed Frost
Translation and Notes by Colin John Holcombe
© Author 2020
Contents
Introduction 1
Russian Text and Formal Translation 5
Explanatory Notes 107
Appendix
Significance of Nekrasov 109
Prosody and Word-for-Word Rendering 147
Selected References and Resources 251 Recordings 254
Red-Nosed Frost
Sovreménnik Otéchestvennye zapíski
The Pedlars, Who Can Be Happy in Russia? Red-Nosed Frost.
The Death of a Peasant Red-Nosed Frost
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Dreams and Sounds
Sovremennik Sovremennik
Sovreménnik
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Ochesestvennye zapista
Who Can Be Happy in Russia
The Pedlar’s Song Who Can Be Happy? in Russia Red-Nosed Frost
Dreams and Sounds Duma, Funeral, Kalistrat, Peasant Children, Pedlars Red-Nosed Frost Who Can Be Happy in Russia? Grandfather Russian Women Contemporaries Who Can Be Happy in Russia? Sowers Who Can be Happy in Russia?
The Peddlers The Pedlars:
Red Nosed Frost, The Death of a Peasant Red-Nosed Frost
Red-Nosed Frost Red-Nosed Frost
Dead Souls The Village
Huntsman’s Sketches, Bezhin Lea
Dreams and Sounds
Vlas On the Road A Dog Hunt The Forgotten Village Reflections at the Grand Entrance On the Volga Who Can Be Happy in Russia?
The Thief Red-Nosed Frost
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