Word: novgorod
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...smoke, make love, talk, talk, talk. A sensualist, without strong affections, Clim tries to imagine himself in love with Lidia; he becomes her lover, is relieved not to have the affair end in marriage. There is no upshot to the story; with a description of the Exposition at Nizhni-Novgorod it comes to an abrupt...
...middle ages a proud port of trade was the free city of Novgorod, situated on Lake Ilmen in what is now Northern Russia, some 100 miles from Leningrad. Merchants there knew that they owed their prosperity to the singer Sadko, often told their children how he had made the River Volkhov to flow, thus opening their city to the sea. The legendary Sadko appealed to famed Russian Composer Nicolas Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov, who wrote an opera about him in which is included "The Song of India." In its proper setting, in the opera Sadko, it was heard for the first...
...King would have chastised him but Volkhova intervened. She and Sadko married, with undines, lobsters, jellyfish and whales for guests. During the dancing which followed, the old king worked himself into a frenzy, called down everlasting grief upon all ships and men. But St. Nicholas, a legendary hero, saved Novgorod and stripped the King of power. Volkhova was transformed into a shining river; Sadko returned home, a hero...