--- In dostoevsky@yahoogroups.com, bill orlando <size9hip@...> wrote:
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> IN RESEARCHING, IT APPEARS THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN NICHOLAS II OR ALEXANDER
I.  STILL LOOKING..
> BILLBO B.
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> --- On Fri, 3/27/09, adrian_sahlean <asahlean@...> wrote:
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> From: adrian_sahlean <asahlean@...>
> Subject: [dostoevsky] history of Dostoyevsky translations in all languages
> To: dostoevsky@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 2:20 PM
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> I heard some place/time (and I can't remember where/when) that the Czar (after
D's death) paid a few kgs of gold to have the works of Dostoevsky translated
into several languages.
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> Can anyone help with more facts on that? (or debunk the story?)
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> Understanding the importance of such cultural endeavor, this would indeed be
the exemplary decision of a visionary.
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Thanks, Billbo B.!
This is encouraging, I need to make sure that this is not an urban legend@ :)