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"The Railway" (Железная дорога)
The Railway
also: Железная дорога
Nikolai Nekrasov's 1864 narrative poem on the deaths of the serf laborers who built the Moscow-Petersburg railway; Varya and Podgorin recite fragments of it from memory, half-forgotten, as students once did.
Reading notes
- Visiting Friends §136 The Railway
Nekrasov's 1864 poem on the deaths of the serf laborers who built the Moscow-Petersburg line, named here as the poem Varya recited earlier in the evening, half-remembered.