Название: Повести Белкина / The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin
Автор: Александр Пушкин
Издательство: КАРО
Жанр: Русская классика
Серия: Русская классическая литература на иностранных языках (Каро)
isbn: 978-5-9925-1150-5
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Baratynsky – a Russian poet of the 19th century
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Hussars – soldiers of light cavalry
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faro – (
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Burtzov, an officer of the Hussars, notorious for his drinking powers and escapades (TRANSLATOR’S NOTE)
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Denis Davydov, author, 1781–1839 (TRANSLATOR’S NOTE)
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verst – old Russian measure of distance equivalent to 3500 feet or 0.6629 miles or 1.067 kilometres
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Alexander Ypsilanti – (1792–1828), Greek patriot and revolutionary leader
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Zhukovsky – a Russian poet of the 18th century
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kopecks – a kopeck is one hundredth of a ruble (Russian money)
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assessor – a person whose job is to calculate the value of property or the amount of income or taxes