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Moscow-Petushki, the Glossary

Moscow-Petushki, also published in English as Moscow to the End of the Line, Moscow Stations, and Moscow Circles, is a postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Yerofeyev.^[1]

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1970 Russian novels
Novels set in Russia
Russian humour
Soviet novels

Alexander Kobrinsky

Alexander Arkadyevich Kobrinsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Арка́дьевич Ко́бринский, born March 20, 1967) is a Russian literary critic, opposition politician and lawyer.

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Apocalypticism

Apocalypticism is the religious belief that the end of the world is imminent, even within one's own lifetime.

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Barnaul

Barnaul (Барнау́л) is the largest city and administrative centre of Altai Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of the Barnaulka and Ob Rivers in the West Siberian Plain.

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Canaan (Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 –; כְּנַעַן –, in pausa כְּנָעַן –; Χανααν –;The current scholarly edition of the Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta: id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interpretes.

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David Remnick

David J. Remnick (born October 29, 1958) is an American journalist, writer, and editor.

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Dead Souls

Dead Souls (Мёртвые души, pre-reform spelling: Мертвыя души) is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Elektrichka

Elektrichka (p; elektrychka) is a Soviet and Eastern bloc commuter (regional) mostly suburban electrical multiple unit passenger train.

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Eschatology

Eschatology concerns expectations of the end of present age, human history, or the world itself.

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First-person narrative

A first-person narrative (also known as a first-person perspective, voice, point of view, etc.) is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from that storyteller's own personal point of view, using first-person grammar such as "I", "me", "my", and "myself" (also, in plural form, "we", "us", etc.).

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Garrick Theatre

The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster, named after the stage actor David Garrick.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.

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God

In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.

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Gorkovsky suburban railway line

The Gorkovsky suburban railway line or Gorkovskoye line (Горьковское направление Московской железной дороги) is one of eleven suburban railway lines used for suburban railway connections between Moscow, Russia, and surrounding areas, mostly in Moscow Oblast.

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Hair of the dog

"Hair of the dog", short for "hair of the dog that bit you", is a colloquial expression in the English language predominantly used to refer to alcohol that is consumed as a hangover remedy (with the aim of lessening the effects of a hangover).

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Heaven

Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside.

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Humiliation

Humiliation is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

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Ilf and Petrov

Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Feinsilberg or Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг, 1897–1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Katayev or Евгений Петрович Катаев, 1902–1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Intellectual

An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society, and who proposes solutions for its normative problems.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Kama (river)

The Kama (Ка́ма,; Чулман; Кам) is a long, Russian State Water Registry river in Russia.

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Kenosis

In Christian theology, kenosis is the "self-emptying" of Jesus.

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Komsomol

The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, usually known as Komsomol, was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union.

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Lily of the valley

Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis), sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, is a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring.

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Monologue

In theatre, a monologue (from μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Moscow Kremlin Wall

The Moscow Kremlin Wall is a defensive wall that surrounds the Moscow Kremlin, recognisable by the characteristic notches and its Kremlin towers.

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Novaya Gazeta

(p) is an independent Russian newspaper.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Perestroika

Perestroika (a) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.

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Petushki, Vladimir Oblast

Petushki (Петушки́, lit. little roosters) is a town and the administrative center of Petushinsky District in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Klyazma River on the Moscow–Nizhny Novgorod railway and motorway, west of Vladimir, the administrative center of the oblast.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow-Petushki

Also known as Moscow Stations, Moscow to the End of the Line, Moskva-Petushki, Москва - Петушки.

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1970 Russian novels

Novels set in Russia

Russian humour

Soviet novels

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