The second of the novels under the general head of “The Created Legend” deals with the previous existence of Elisaveta when she was the Queen Ortruda of the United Isles in the Mediterranean, and her consort was Prince Tancred, now Trirodov. She died from suffocation in a volcanic eruption, after a vain effort to help her people. The author draws a curious parallel, not only with regard to these two characters, but has also a revolution as the background; it is a rather veiled effort to describe over again the events which took place in Russia in 1905. —Translator ↩
Unleavened bread of the Passover. ↩
In a poem in prose which serves as an introduction to his Complete Works, Sologub says: “Born not the first time, and not the first to complete a circle of external transformations, I simply and calmly reveal my soul. I reveal it in the hope that the intimate part of me shall become the universal.” —Translator ↩
Readers of The Little Demon will have no trouble in recognizing in Ardalyon Borisovitch an old acquaintance—Peredonov. ↩
Diminutive for father, and used in the sense of “my good fellow,” etc. ↩
Golubushka is “little dove.” English equivalent as used here: “my dear.” ↩
Title of standard didactic work by Karamzin (1766–1826). ↩
Mikhail Katkov (1820–1887), a celebrated reactionary and Slavophil. ↩
Little Mother. ↩
The Russo-Japanese War. ↩
A reference to J. M. Guyau’s book, Non-Religion of the Future. ↩
There is an evident effort here to identify “Immanuel Osipovitch Davidov” as a modern symbol of Christ, or more properly of Christ’s teachings. “Osipovitch” means the “son of Joseph”; “Davidov,” “of David.” —Translator ↩
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The Created Legend
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Fyodor Sologub.
It was translated from Russian in 1916 by
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