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Note 84 — Chapter 6 The Kremlin Department—Moscow University—Our Set—The Chemist—The Malov Affair—The Cholera—Filaret—V. Passek—General Lissovsky—The Sungurov Affair

Constance Garnett translation

Kostrov (1750–1796), a peasant’s son and a seminarist, wrote in imitation of Derzhavin, but is better known for his translations of the Iliad, Apuleius and Ossian.

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