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[1] ECG –
Electrocardiogram
[2] GRU –
Chief Intelligence Department in Russia
[3] Kursk –
Russian nuclear submarine which was wrecked in the Barenz Sea in 2000
[4] Kaf·ka
Franz, 1883–1924, Austrian novelist and short-story writer, born
in Prague.
[9] Che·lya·binsk - A city of western Siberian Russia,
south of Sverdlovsk. Founded in 1736 as a Russian frontier outpost,
it is a major metallurgical and industrial center. Poulation, 1,096,000.
[10]
THE TALE OF THE GIRL DARN FISH -
reference to Puschkin’s literary work
“The Fairy Tale of The Fisherman and the
Golden Fish”
[11]
Skuratov – Chief of repressive machinery under Ivan the
Terrible in the 14th century
[12]
Kio -
famous Russian magician and conjurer
[13]
Moskino -Administrative body of Moscow
city Cinematography
[14]
Goskino - Administrative body of all -
Russian State Cinematography
[15]
Bashmet – contemporary Russian musician and
composer
[16]
Shura -
common Russian name, short for Alexander (also: Shurik, Sasha)
[17] Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich. 1880-1921. Russian poet.
Considered Russia's greatest symbolist poet, he is particularly noted for his
lyrics, verse dramas, and long poem The Twelve (1918).
[18] Blake, William. 1757-1827. British poet and artist whose
paintings and poetic works, such as Songs of Innocence (1789) and The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1790), have a mystical, visionary quality.
[19] Bo·yar -
A member of a class of higher Russian nobility that until the time of
Peter I headed the civil and military
administration of the country and participated in an early duma.
[20] Ba·bi Yar
- A ravine outside Kiev , the Ukraine where the Jews of the city were killed by
German troops in 1941. The massacre is commemorated in Yevgeny
Yevtushenko's 1961 poem “Babi
Yar.”
