JM: I couldn't
understand the meaning in AS's final sentence: did
Vivian Calmbrood attack Ivanov assuming the role of Johnson, or did he address
Ivanov as Johnson?
Because John = Ivan, Johnson is the English
counterpart of Russian Ivanov. In Vivian Calmbrood's poem Chenston (the
fictitious poet to whom Pushkin ascribed "The Covetous Knight") mentions a
certain Johnson whom they beat with a candlestick for a marked
article.
Alexey Sklyarenko