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  The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevish, the Young Oprichnik, and the Valorous Merchant Kalashnikov, often abbreviated as The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, is a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written in 1837 and first published in 1838.
The plot of the poem is set during Oprichina times.
Rhythmically, Kalashnikov is patterned after bylina, the Russian folk epic.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Song_of_the_Merchant_Kalashnikov   (133 words)

  
 Kalashnikov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mikhail Kalashnikov, who designed the AK-47, and most of the other rifles in the Kalashnikov series
The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov
The Kalashnikov Variation of the Sicilian Defense, a sequence of opening moves in chess.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kalashnikov   (137 words)

  
 [ information-center.be | Kalashnikov Resources ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Look up Kalashnikov in Database, the free dictionary.
If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
History and specifications on the AK-47 and other designs of Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov.
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 Travel | Going for a song
When the unsung minnows of Estonia won last year's Eurovision Song Contest, their prime minister at the time, Mart Laar, leapt to his feet and punched the air.
It lies on the Baltic Sea, north of Latvia, west of Russia and a short ferry ride from Finland.
They protested against the Soviet occupation by gathering in fields and squares to sing banned folk songs.
travel.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4415432-104895,00.html   (1452 words)

  
 Russian Lacquer Box - Kiribeevich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Classical scene from the poem "Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov" by Lermontov.
The Tsar's guard named Kiribeevich fell in love with the merchant Kalashnikov's wife Alyona.
One winter evening when she was returning home from church, Kiribeevich met her and told her about his feelings.
www.lacquerbox.com /KOMKIR.HTM   (211 words)

  
 Ukrainian Literature in English: Books and Pamphlets by Marta Tarnawsky
Folk Songs of the Ukraine: an experiment in recording Ukrainian folk songs by phonograph during a musical ethnological excursion to the province of Poltava in 1903.
After hearing one day a band of pilgrims sing folk songs and ballads, she decided to devote her life to the collection and preservation of the old folk songs.
Paul Crath's preface is a lyrical hymn to the beauty of the Ukrainian song, "a precious pearl in the common treasury of mankind." Translator's note provides some background on Ukrainian folk songs and literature and a rendering of an old Ukrainian ballad which the author learned from an old Ukrainian immigrant in Winnipeg.
www.utoronto.ca /cius/HTMfiles/Intpub/Tarnawsk/tar-bk2.htm   (16908 words)

  
 Russian Lacquer Art Gallery
Description: This piece entitled "The Song about young Merchant Kalashnikov, the Servant of Tsar Ivan Vasilievich," was painted by the famous Kholui artist Sergey Devyatkin.
His style is one of the most recognizable in the world of lacquer art.
The reason of it is Kalashnikov's wife, Alyona Dmitrievna, whom Kiribeevich tried to tempt.
www.russianlacquerart.com /cnt/Kholui/0500/001746   (215 words)

  
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This city didn’t even EXIST when Russian men began the annual tradition of beating each other senseless in a test of strength called a “stenka na stenku” (wall on wall).
Yet this noble Russian tradition -- which is described lovingly in Lermontov's immortal poem, "The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov" -- is apparently not proper for New York.
Organizers of the festival, which will (hopefully) be held on Feb. 23-24 at the Prospect Park bandshell and is co-sponsored by the Russian newspaper, Novoe Russkoye Slovo, do not have all the permits they need.
gershkuntzman.homestead.com /files/russian_festival_1_28_text.wps.txt   (498 words)

  
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Later, he was exiled to the Caucasus, where he wrote The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov.
In this novel, Salim, a Muslim Indian merchant opens a new business, but loses it to the incompetent Citizen Theotime, while a dictator called The Big Man hires a white intellectual to write his speeches for him.
Given a list of songs, give the group that recorded them FTPE, or FFPE if you need more famous songs.
www.stanford.edu /group/CollegeBowl/archive/slo01/SLO3-Indiana.doc   (4161 words)

  
 LearmonthLermontovProphets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He is the author of such famous poems as 'The poet's death', 'Borodino', romantic drama 'Masquerade' (about the tragic fates of the thinking people in Russia of that time), the first in the Russian literature social, psychological and philosophic novel 'The her of our time", epical 'Song...
No other poet in Russia may be compared to Lermontov in force of protest and negation, in force of power and the language expressiveness..
On the 18 of February 1840 he participated in a duel with the son of the French Ambassador A. de Barant, was arrested and brought to Ordnance-house and then exiled again.
molchanova.com /LearmonthLermontovProphets.html   (2691 words)

  
 A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch his young body-guard and the valiant merchant Kalashnikov. Translated by John ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch his young body-guard and the valiant merchant Kalashnikov.
LERMONTOV, MIKHAIL YURIEVITCH, A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch his young body-guard and the valiant merchant Kalashnikov.
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 Lermontov
Unfortunately, the outcome of this duel resembled Pushkin’s life more than it resembled Pechorin’s fictional existence, for Lermontov was shot in the heart.
* Lermontov’s most famous works include the poems “The Angel,” and “The Song of Merchant Kalashnikov,” the volumes “The Demon,” and “Mtsyri,” and his sole novel A Hero of Our Time.
PESNJA PRO TSARJA IVANA VASIL' EVICA, MOLODOGO OPRICHIKA I UDALOGO KUPCA KALASHNIKOVA, 1837 - A Song About Czar Ivan Vasiliyevich, His Young Bodyguard, and the Valiant Merchant Kalashnokov
community.middlebury.edu /~beyer/courses/lermontov   (3126 words)

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