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Maykov portrait

Here he is... and standing!.. Do we need him at all, since he's well represented here?

I'm starting on Apollon Maykov. I notice you have a weblink to http://www.tez-rus.net/ViewGood19666.html. If you have time, can you upload this to Commons? The proper license would be {{PA-ART|PD-old-100-1923}}. Then we can wikilink it which is better than a weblink. I don't edit on Commons any more after the shitty treatment I received from all and sundry over there.

The portrait is actually by Nikolay Maykov (the fact that first time round I somehow failed to highlight) and it's already well and truly Common'ed... Since Solonitsyn stands, can he be said to have 'sat'? Probably not. So I've skipped 'sitting' and re-worded it... but it still feels clumsy, perhaps you'd like to improve it. Or probably get rid of him at all. -- Evermore2 (talk) 18:02, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

I noticed I had already finished Gippius, when I'd thought I was only half-way through when I left it. In other words, it's been a while. After Maykov, I'll probably do Balmont and Fet. I'll have to scrape together leads for all these as usual. It's strange to see the very short leads in ru.wiki good and featured articles. We have to roll out the red carpet in our leads here, as I did for Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy. Maykov looks like it will be easier than some of the older ones. I'm reading Oblomov, so I'll have to stop somewhere and put some work into that article too. I'm just a bit ashamed that we have no modern translation of an important work like Goncharov's A Common Story. Hence my desire to learn Russian. I've thought about a Russian bride too of course... lNeverCry 04:43, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

I bet she'll be a fine folk singer -- Evermore2 (talk) 18:02, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

I'm a pretty good singer myself, so that would be nice. But I'm not a picky guy. A decent-looking woman who's intelligent but likes to use bad language, and who's pretty nice but still keeps me in line... As for the portrait, we'll have to get rid of it most likely. You said you didn't have any more monuments left to build here, but that's sad news for Ivan Turgenev. His article hardly does him justice... lNeverCry 02:15, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Indeed.... It's notoriously difficult (if not impossible), though, to 'expand' something that is unsourced. You have to either re-write the whole stuff, or tag every sentence, both options being for me unacceptable. So no, I don't think I'll ever touch the 'Work' section. As for the Biography sec, it could be dealt with easier, through re-structuring, with some bits sent down to the Private life/Personality/etc (proposed) sections, to be safely tagged there. So perhaps I'll look into it... but not in the nearest future, no) -- Evermore2 (talk) 20:28, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

There certainly are a lot of articles here that're so fucked up it would probably be easier to start over from nothing than to fix them. I have some good sources on Turgenev though, especially criticism of his works, so I may get around to fixing the article up a bit. I have an Irish writer, Gerald Griffin, that I've been thinking of building a monument for, and a couple others, William Carleton and Charles Lever, who may get the same treatment somewhere down the road. All in good time... lNeverCry 22:42, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Excellent!.. And thank you for your work on Maykov! -- Evermore2 (talk) 21:05, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

I've doubled the size of the lead just to get everything straight. His article here is now a small and shiny monument, while on ru.wiki, it's nothing but a little stub. Maybe Balmont next. lNeverCry 20:09, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Great!.. You yourself deserve a monument, Jeff. Keep on!) -- Evermore2 (talk) 20:12, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Oblomov

I just finished this great Russian novel. Oblomov and Zakhar are every bit as alive as any characters in Tolstoy. This is what made me love Russian literature! I looked at the article, and it's a sizable thing already. I'd rather have a stub to start with than that. I'll have to see if I can do anything for it.

I have a small request for you my friend, and that's to leave one article to me, namely One Thousand Souls, which I'll be reading next. I've got another article planned after that, something neglected but very important in Russian literary history. The one article I can't believe is still a stub, is Vremya. Imagine how deeply important that journal was for Dostoyevsky! He published The House of the Dead in it, alongside Pomyalovsky's <<Ocherki Bersi>>, another great work I hope you've read. Pisarev reviewed the two works together in an essay called Those who are Lost, and Those who are About to be Lost. These are two of my favorite works, though anyone who's read Shalamov, Ginsburg, or Solzhenitsyn knows Dostoyevsky held back just a little on the horrors of his time in the prison at Omsk.

One more question, before I bore you to tears. What do you know of Paulina Gagarina? Is she pop, or something deeper and better like Pugacheva? I'm thinking of singers like Amy Lee or even Joni Mitchell when I say "better". lNeverCry 03:32, 22 July 2017 (UTC)