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ADA and the Siege of Leningrad
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Dear Mr. Kelly-Bootle,
If you are so fond of figures, ADA, according to my very rapid and approximate calculations, contains about 203000 words.
Accorging to present-day historians, at least one million people died during Blokada (as the Siege of Leningrad, the time span of 872 days, from September 9, 1941, to January 27, 1944, is known), my paternal great-grandfather (who died of hunger in the Siege's first, and worst, winter) being one of them.
BLOKADA = BLOK + ADA. Among Blok's short poems there is the weird and ultra-pessimistic Golos iz khora ("A Voice from the Choir", 1910-14) that has these prophetic lines:
O esli b znali vy, druz'ya,
Kholod i mrak gryadushchikh dney!
Oh, if you only knew, my friends,
How cold and dark the days to come will be!
About Blok (who is the most "Petersburgian" of all Russian poets) in ADA, see my article in Zembla "The Dreams of Aleksandr Blok as Enacted in Nabokov's ADA by Van Veen and Vice Versa".
Alexey Sklyarenko
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If you are so fond of figures, ADA, according to my very rapid and approximate calculations, contains about 203000 words.
Accorging to present-day historians, at least one million people died during Blokada (as the Siege of Leningrad, the time span of 872 days, from September 9, 1941, to January 27, 1944, is known), my paternal great-grandfather (who died of hunger in the Siege's first, and worst, winter) being one of them.
BLOKADA = BLOK + ADA. Among Blok's short poems there is the weird and ultra-pessimistic Golos iz khora ("A Voice from the Choir", 1910-14) that has these prophetic lines:
O esli b znali vy, druz'ya,
Kholod i mrak gryadushchikh dney!
Oh, if you only knew, my friends,
How cold and dark the days to come will be!
About Blok (who is the most "Petersburgian" of all Russian poets) in ADA, see my article in Zembla "The Dreams of Aleksandr Blok as Enacted in Nabokov's ADA by Van Veen and Vice Versa".
Alexey Sklyarenko
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