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Luchinushka
The Little Splinter
also: Лучинушка, The Little Splinter of Kindling-Wood
A mournful traditional Russian folk song about poverty and hard fate, a favorite of melancholy listeners.
Reading notes
- Two in One §5 ``Little Splinter''
A mournful Russian folk song about poverty and hard fate, the tune the narrator imagines humming while pitying his clerk's crushed appearance.
- Ionych §18 Luchinushka
A mournful traditional Russian folk song about poverty and hard fate; the choir's performance of it is offered as more truthful than anything in Vera Iosifovna's novel.
- Temperaments (According to the Latest Findings of Science) §8 "The Little Splinter"
"Luchinushka" ("The Little Splinter of Kindling-Wood"), a mournful traditional Russian folk song about poverty and hard fate, a favorite of melancholy listeners.