...konskie deti, freckled red-haired lads, children of the Sun Horse (Ada: 3.5)
 
Deti solntsa ("Children of the Sun," 1905) is a play (written during the author's imprisonment in St. Petersburg's Peter-and-Paul Fortress) by Maxim Gorky. On the other hand, Gorky is the author of Vas'ka krasnyi ("Red Vaska," 1900), a story about the incredibly cruel red-haired bouncer (vyshibala) in a Volgan brothel, and the four-volume Zhizn' Klima Samgina ("The Life of Klim Samgin," 1928-36). Cf. Baron Klim Avidov in Ada (1.36). Baron is a character in Gorky's play Na dne ("At the Bottom," 1902).
 

солнце + конь = соль + конец + н = кольцо + снег + н - г = цель + сон + окно - о

солнце - sun

конь - horse; knight (chess-man)

соль - salt

конец - end

кольцо - ring

снег - snow

цель - goal

сон - dream; sleep

окно - window

Alexey Sklyarenko

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