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THOUGHTS: Nitsa - Bol'nitsa in Pale Fire
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Alexey Sklyarenko's afterthought:
As always, it occurred to me a bit too late that there was боль (pain) in both большевик (Bolshevik, this political term comes from большинство, "majority", and большой is Russian for "large") and another historical place name: Тобольск (an old Siberian town on the Irtysh river, not far from the place where the Tobol river flows into it). It was to Tobolsk that the last Russian tsar was banished with his family in 1917 by the Provisional Government (the following year the entire family, including the family doctor, E. S. Botkin, and servants, was executed by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg).
I never heard of St Botolph before. Thanks to Stan for his comments.
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As always, it occurred to me a bit too late that there was боль (pain) in both большевик (Bolshevik, this political term comes from большинство, "majority", and большой is Russian for "large") and another historical place name: Тобольск (an old Siberian town on the Irtysh river, not far from the place where the Tobol river flows into it). It was to Tobolsk that the last Russian tsar was banished with his family in 1917 by the Provisional Government (the following year the entire family, including the family doctor, E. S. Botkin, and servants, was executed by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg).
I never heard of St Botolph before. Thanks to Stan for his comments.
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