place
Albion
also: Альбион, Great Britain
An old poetic name for Great Britain; "perfidious Albion" was a stock nineteenth-century jibe at British self-interest, invoked here for comic overreach.
Reading notes
- My Jubilee §2 haughty Albion
"Albion" is an old poetic name for Great Britain; the phrase "perfidious Albion" was a stock jibe at British self-interest in nineteenth-century Russian and European rhetoric, mocked here as the target of the narrator's overwrought verse.