Methodius Buslaev. Ticket to Bald Mountain. Дмитрий Емец

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      Примечания

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      Kuskovo, built in the mid-18th century, was one of the first great summer country estates of the Russian nobility and one of the few near Moscow still preserved. The estate is now a museum and the park is a favourite of Muscovites.

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      Mrie de’ Medici (1575–1642) was Queen of France and second wife of Henry IV of France. She was known for political intrigues at the French court.

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      Lavrentii Pavlovich Beria (1899–1953) was a Soviet security administrator under Joseph Stalin. He was Stalin’s longest-lived and most influential secret police chief.

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      The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (1603) is a Shakespearean play. Othello, having been manipulated, smothered his innocent wife Desdemona out of jealousy.

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      The original Russian text used the word bezbashennyi for mindless, referring to the severed head.

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      Australopithecus – from Latin australis (southern) and Greek pithekos (ape) – is a genus of hominins that existed millions of years ago and from which modern humans are considered to be descended.

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      The Russian word for stroller is the same word for wheelchair.

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      Pierrot and Harlequin are both stock characters of pantomime, Pierrot being the sad clown and Harlequin the nimble and witty servant, both pursuing the same love interest – Columbine.

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      This is an adaptation of It’s time, my friend (1834), a poem by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (1799–1837), the greatest Russian poet.