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How! Is the Kurilka journalist still alive?
- Lively! still dry and boring
And rude, and stupid, and tormented by envy,
Everything squeezes into its obscene sheet -
Both old nonsense and new nonsense.
- Ugh! tired of the smoking-room journalist!
How to extinguish a stinking splinter?
How to kill my Smoking Room?
Give me advice. - Yes... spit on him.
Pushkin, 1825
In a letter dated March 3, 1825, Pletnev wrote to Pushkin: “ Kachenovsky is always fussing about the “Prisoner of the Caucasus”, but he, poor man, is no longer in the shops».
Pletnev was referring to a note published in Vestnik Evropy, 1825: “ A true writer will not dare to publish works from which you learn nothing more than that someone was taken prisoner; that some young girl fell in love with a prisoner who could not love her mutually, having lost the voluptuousness of life, and finally, that the same girl freed him and drowned herself».
The note was signed with a pseudonym Yust Veridikov, behind which was not the editor-publisher of the magazine Kachenovsky, as Pletnev and Pushkin thought, but probably M. A. Dmitriev.
On March 14, Pushkin wrote to his brother: “ Kachenovsky rebelled against me. Write to me whether his critic’s tone is decent - if not, I’ll send an epigram" Lev Pushkin’s answer, unknown to us, caused Pushkin to write the epigram “ The smoking room is alive, alive!».
The text of the epigram is based on a song known at one time, which was sung during fortune telling (it was included in the collection of Russian folk songs with notes, published by Prach in the 18th century, and was also in use at the end of the 19th century):
The smoking room is alive, alive,
Alive, alive, but not dead.
At our smoking room
The legs are thin,
The soul is short.
Divination: they conceive a wish, light a torch, you need to sing a song while the torch is burning - then your plan will come true.
The Smoking Room is alive!
An expression from the ancient Russian folk children's game "Smoking Room". The rules are as follows: the players sit in a circle and pass a burning splinter to each other, while singing the corresponding saying song. The one in whose hands the torch goes out is considered a loser, and in this case he must perform some comic task: sing a song, dance, etc.
A version of this song about the Smoking Room, which was popular in the Penza province, was published in 1847 in the St. Petersburg newspaper “Northern Bee” (No. 215):
Once upon a time there was a Smoking Room, Once upon a time there was a Smoking Room, but he did not die. Like our Smoking Room, the legs are thin, the soul is short. Don't make me cry, young me. Don't make me jump, pretty good one.
Variants of this children's song were known in Russian urban culture before. Thus, back in 1806, the Russian composer of Czech origin Ivan (Johann) Prach, who taught music to the girls of the Smolny Institute, wrote the song “The smoking room is alive, alive, alive, but not dead” (St. Petersburg, type Shnor), based on a folk text. became quite popular.
Even in Pushkin’s time, the expression began to be used in relation to people who, in the opinion of others, stopped their activities, disappeared somewhere, and here they are, alive, healthy, busy with the same business, etc. A. S. Pushkin (epigram to critic, journalist and translator Mikhail Kachenovsky, 1825):
How! Is the Kurilka journalist still alive?
Lively! still dry and boring, and rude, and stupid, and tormented by envy, he squeezes everything into his obscene sheet, both old nonsense and the absurd new thing.
Ugh! tired of the smoking-room journalist! How to extinguish a stinking splinter? How to kill my smoking room?
Give me advice. - Yes... spit on him.
In modern speech, the expression is used both ironically and in a positive sense - to express the joy of meeting someone, when receiving information about someone, etc.
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From the book Air Crash and Adventures author Shutkin Nikolay PetrovichTHE SMOKING ROOM IS ALIVE Early in October morning, the helicopter flight commander Vyacheslav Mulin persistently called from the village of Nelkan to the Nikolaevsk-on-Amur airport: he urgently demanded that the detachment commander Anatoly Samsonov be called to the phone. Neither the dispatcher nor the duty commander Mulin
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From the book World of Aviation 2005 02 author author unknownSMOKING ROOM History twenty-one from Leonid KRYLOVAS they killed the Saber in Korea. He landed on a forced landing, and they rushed to the landing site from both sides: the Americans - to save the pilot, and ours and the Koreans - to capture the pilot. They managed to do it ahead, but left ours only with a crippled
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From the book World of Aviation 2004 01 author author unknownSMOKING ROOM History twentieth from Vladislav MARTIANOVA Previously, the hottest time in agricultural aviation was in the summer. Orders from collective farms kept pouring in. What kind of work does it do at the point? Fly away from your bosses, and make sure that the locals don’t unscrew something from the plane. And then there was an An-2
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From the book World of Aviation 2003 01 author author unknownSMOKING ROOM History sixteenth from Vladislav MARTIANOVA, not a moon, not a star. The night is thick, pitch black... like a black man's... But the authorities were eager to carry out the plan for night training flights. Not only that, but they want to check the group cohesion. A pair of Mi-8s are getting together:
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The smoking room is alive - words from a children's game, during which the children sat in a circle and with the refrain “Like our Smoking Room, thin legs, short soul” passed a burning splinter to each other, the one whose splinter went out left the circle and had to “as punishment” as the loser perform some kind of task some humorous task: sing, dance, etc. Why Smoking Room? Apparently, that was the name of the splinter itself, which smoked as if “smoking”According to another version, the word “smoking room is alive” comes from a fortune-telling procedure. During fortune telling, a song was sung:
“The smoking room is alive, alive,
Alive, alive, but not dead.
At our smoking room
The legs are thin,
The soul is short".
You need to think of a wish, light a torch and sing a song. If the torch does not go out, your plan will come true.
Today, the phraseology “the smoking room is alive” is used in meetings of those (news about those) about whom nothing has been known for a long time
Smoking room and A. S. Pushkin
In 1825, in the third issue of the journal “Bulletin of Europe”, signed by Yust Veridikov, there was a review of Pushkin’s poem “Prisoner of the Caucasus” (finished in 1821, published a year later): “A true writer will not dare to publish works from which nothing more you will not know except that someone was taken prisoner; that some young girl fell in love with a prisoner who could not love her mutually, having lost the voluptuousness of life, and finally, that the same girl freed him and drowned herself.” Pushkin was offended and wrote an epigram in response
"How! Is the Kurilka journalist still alive?
- Lively! still dry and boring
And rude, and stupid, and tormented by envy,
Everything squeezes into its obscene sheet -
Both old nonsense and new nonsense.
- Ugh! tired of the smoking-room journalist!
How to extinguish a stinking splinter?
How to kill my Smoking Room?
Give me advice. - Yes... spit on him"
The epigram was addressed to the editor-publisher of the magazine “Bulletin of Europe” M.T. Kachenovsky, although under the pseudonym Yust Veridikov the poet, critic, translator and memoirist M.A. was most likely hiding. Dmitriev. By the way, Pushkin did not publish the epigram. It became public knowledge only in 1857 after the publication in the Sovremennik magazine of “Pushkin’s Unpublished Epigrams. (1825)"
The use of the expression “smoking room is alive” in literature
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« I have only one joy left: a desk, pen, paper and ink. While all this is at hand, I sit and sing: the smoking room is alive, the smoking room is alive, not dead! But who can guarantee that this joy will not suddenly disappear?? (Saltykov-Shchedrin “Letters to Auntie”)
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« Bah, the Smoking Room is alive! – the governor laughed. - Gentlemen, look, our mayor is coming» (A.P. Chekhov “Frost”) »
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« The smoking room is alive! It’s hard for people and our party to live. And yet they live"(Lenin "Letters to I. F. Armand")
Alive Smoking Room
Alive Smoking Room
An expression from a folk children's song sung when playing "Smoking Room". The players sit in a circle and pass each other a burning torch with the refrain: “The Smoking Room is alive, alive, thin legs, short soul.” The one in whose hands the torch goes out leaves the circle. This is where the expression “the Smoking Room is alive” came from, used as a playful exclamation when referring to the ongoing activity of insignificant people, as well as the continuous activity of someone in difficult conditions.
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The smoking room is alive! an expression that has been used for a long time in relation to people who, by general opinion, have stopped their activities, disappeared somewhere, disappeared, died, but in fact are alive and busy with the same business. Contents 1 Origin ... ... Wikipedia
An expression from the ancient Russian folk children's game "Smoking Room". The rules are as follows: the players sit in a circle and pass a burning splinter to each other, while singing the corresponding song and saying. The one in whose hands the torch goes out is considered... ... Dictionary of popular words and expressions
◘ alive smoking room- ◘ ALIVE ALIVE SMOKING ROOM About a person living in conditions of incredible difficulties; about something that exists for a long time and acts. How! Is the smoking-room journalist still alive? Lively! still dry and boring, and rude and stupid, and tormented by envy. // Pushkin.… … Dictionary of forgotten and difficult words from works of Russian literature of the 18th-19th centuries
Adverb, number of synonyms: 1 live (85) ASIS Dictionary of Synonyms. V.N. Trishin. 2013… Synonym dictionary
Alive smoking room- Just kidding. Someone who has already begun to be forgotten lives and acts, showing his capabilities in something. Bah, the smoking room is alive! the governor laughed. Gentlemen, look, our mayor is coming (Chekhov. Frost). From an ancient folk game in which... ... Phraseological Dictionary of the Russian Literary Language
Alive Smoking Room- wing. sl. An expression from a folk children's song sung when playing "Smoking Room". The players sit in a circle and pass each other a burning torch with the refrain: “The Smoking Room is alive, alive, thin legs, short soul.” The one in whose hands the torch goes out... ... Universal additional practical explanatory dictionary by I. Mostitsky
alive, smoking room!- joking. , iron. or approved an exclamation when mentioning someone’s continued activity, his existence, despite difficult conditions. The phrase goes back to an ancient game with a lit torch, which was passed from hand to hand, accompanied by... ... Phraseology Guide
Razg. Joking. Who l. exists, acts, manifests itself despite difficult conditions. FSRY, 217; BTS, 481; SHZF 2001, 75; ZS 1996, 315; DP, 54; BMS 1998, 323 ... Large dictionary of Russian sayings
the smoking room is alive!- About someone who did not disappear, despite life’s failures, or about someone who was in obscurity for a long time and suddenly showed up... Dictionary of many expressions
Alive, alive Churilka (or: Smoking-room). The Smoking Room is alive, not dead. See PATIENCE HOPE... IN AND. Dahl. Proverbs of the Russian people
Books
- Cola Breugnon Lives the Smoking Room, Rolland R.. The book "Cola Breugnon" (1913) shows the life of the small French town of Clamcy and its inhabitants of the late 16th - early 17th centuries. Written in the manner of folklore stylization, the book recreates...
