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Cover picture by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1883). Author picture by Vasiliy Mate (1899). Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU and all countries with author's life +70 yrs laws. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain.

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Krasavitse By Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

Krasavitse, Kotoraya Niuhala Tabak (To a Beautiful Woman, Who Was Smelling Tobacco) is a small poem written by Alexander Pushkin, a famous Russian poet well known outside the Russia. The author describes in a fun and artistic way the conflict between an image inside of his head of the beautiful and lovely women on the one hand, and her action - smelling tobacco - on the other hand! Can anyone imagine two more incompatible things than a clean and bright woman and a dirty toy of alcoholics and sailors - tobacco! This conflict hit the author straight into his heart, so he couldn't ignore it and wrote this amazing poem upon such a revolutionary theme. (Summary written by Yakovlev Valery)

Read in Russian by Yakovlev Yalery; total running time: 00:02:14.

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