Podvigi (feats) are famously mentioned by Blok in the opening line of the first poem in his cycle Vozmezdie (“Retribution,” 1908-13):

O doblestyakh, o podvigakh, o slave…

About valours, about feats, about fame…

Slava (“Fame,” 1942) is a poem by VN. In Russian slava means “fame” and “glory.” Glory is the English title of VN’s novel Podvig (1932).

Alexey Sklyarenko