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EDNOTE. Some interesting info here. I would add though that the Crimean dancer
is singing a variant of a famous tango, "The Last Tango," (1913 "Le Dernier
Tango") popular in France and then in Russia with new lyrics by popular Odessa
singer Iza Kremer. A silent movie, "Poslednee tango" (Last Tango-1918) with
vamp Vera Kholodnaya that was based on Kremer's Russian lyrics. (Part of this
info was supplied by Yuri Shcheglov.) I have recently done an article on the
subject which was orally presented in Saint-Petersberg at the same time as I
was giving a different paper in New York in honor of VN's birthday.
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:30:24 -0300
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Reply-To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Subject: Sultry skies of Argentina
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Dear Don,
Still following the Mascodagama thread I discovered that the Russian various
conquests during their Artic expeditions to find a link between Alaska and
Siberia ( maritime exploits that also included Argentinian Patagonia in the
"netherworld" of South America ) were ended ( like Mascodagama´s last act ) by
the Crimea war.
This might be the reason that the Crimea dancer sang in Russian about the sultry
sun of Argentine...
After its defeat in the Crimean War, Russia did not want to cede its Alaskan
territories to Great Britain and so transferred them to the United States in
1867. This marked the end of Russian presence in North America. Russian
explorers contributed to making known the west coast and its people, from
Alaska to California, including present-day British Columbia.
Remember Ada´s agonies in Patagonia, Captain Grant´s explorations of Cape Horn,
Van´s dreaming of three fabulous trains and one that went through Brazilia to
Viedma ( Argentine & witch).
The link is with Admiral Lisiansky ( he named the island where Demon´s plane
crashed )
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