Meaning of Pushkinologist | Babel Free

Definitions

One who studies Alexander Pushkin.

Examples

“The two classic accounts in English, by Prince D. S. Mirsky and Ernest Simmons, are a generation old, and great advances in Pushkin research have been made since them by Soviet Pushkinologists.”

“Although the name of his beloved has not come down to us, Pushkin later took pains to keep his amours in some sort of order (the classicist in him) in his famous “Don Juan lists,” those sources of unending speculation among Pushkinologists, in which he carefully but cryptically tabulated his hits, runs and errors among all the Dashas, Mashas and Dunyashas of romantic Russia.”

“Men ponder God, Pushkinologists Pushkin.[…]Pushkinologists and the general Russian literary public argued for years about Nathalie’s fidelity;”

“It is a favourite pastime of “Pushkinologists” to puzzle over the real life identity of characters in Pushkin’s poems, especially in Evgeny Onegin.”

“Rimsky-Korsakov’s persistence in operatic composition was eventually rewarded by the emergence of an ideal librettist, Vladimir Bel’sky, who was delighted by Rimsky-Korsakov’s music, in tune with contemporary trends and able to produce consummate literary pastiches – his imitations of Pushkin, contemporaries witnessed, even fooled the Pushkinologists.”

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