Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0019781, Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:10:30 +0400

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Lenin-plus-rab anagram
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I mentioned in my previous post Arbenin, the hero of Lermontov's play "Маскарад" (The Masked Ball, 1836) who poisons his wife, because

Arbenin + L = rab + Lenin
(rab is Russian for "slave"; L is for Lermontov)

Among young Lermontov's poems there is "Предсказание" (Prediction, 1830) that begins:

Настанет год, России чёрный год,
когда царей корона упадёт...

The year will come, Russia's black year
when the tsars' crown will fall...

Alexey Sklyarenko

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