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Title: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: Tonji on April 23, 2010, 01:22:35 PM Can anyone translate this for me please?
(http://photo-history-books.co.uk/ms1a.jpg) ty Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: Acidmouse on April 23, 2010, 01:24:28 PM give me a bit I work with a Russian archivist but hes at lunch will grab him when hes back
Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: mondatoo on April 23, 2010, 01:25:07 PM I expect this thread to deliver :)
Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: BulldozerD on April 23, 2010, 01:26:01 PM just emailed it to my Russian GF so hope its not an insult
Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: gatso on April 23, 2010, 01:26:27 PM fairytale alphabet by T. Mavrina
Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: gatso on April 23, 2010, 01:27:08 PM bottom bit is the moscow publishing house 'goznak'
Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: Laxie on April 23, 2010, 01:27:39 PM It happened in 1969 anyway. No need to thank me.
Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: gatso on April 23, 2010, 01:31:05 PM magical alphabet also a valid translation
it's written сказочная азбука Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: BulldozerD on April 23, 2010, 01:36:13 PM It says:
To: Mavrina Fairy tale vocabulary Produced by "Gozznak" in 1969 I believe it's a cover from kids' book Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: GreekStein on April 23, 2010, 01:40:02 PM Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: gatso on April 23, 2010, 01:41:32 PM quick bit of research- author is tatyana mavrina Татьяна Маврина
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fkroxa.com.ua%2FE-Book%2FKnigi%2Fskazochnaya-azbuka.html&sl=ru&tl=en Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: gatso on April 23, 2010, 01:43:29 PM don't worry, it's a bluff. no way any russian thinks that says 'to mavrina' Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: BulldozerD on April 23, 2010, 01:50:05 PM lol i am merely a messenger and is a copy and paste from the email she just sent me - i deleted the xxx on the end tho
Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: gatso on April 23, 2010, 01:52:27 PM should leave the xxx in imo. it makes us all feel more wanted
Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: Claw75 on April 23, 2010, 01:53:12 PM Pretty sure it's Russian for 'Nandos'
Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: Tonji on April 23, 2010, 03:17:56 PM Thanks all, thats great.
It's a wonderful book, I love the colourful illustrations. (http://photo-history-books.co.uk/ms1b.jpg) (http://photo-history-books.co.uk/ms1c.jpg) Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: gatso on April 23, 2010, 03:49:54 PM Thanks all, thats great. It's a wonderful book, I love the colourful illustrations. (http://photo-history-books.co.uk/ms1b.jpg) top left translates as 'winter beasts' not sure what I'd choose if asked to name some winter beasts but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't go for a pig and a chicken Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: Tonji on April 23, 2010, 06:21:39 PM Cheers gatso, you are obviously fluent. I may need your skills at some time. I've bought a collection of books & papers from a deceased estate in London. The owner seems to have lived & worked in the Soviet Union & China during the 50s & 60s.
Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: thetank on April 23, 2010, 06:48:42 PM gatso for модератор
Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: gatso on April 24, 2010, 08:23:01 AM depending on what you've got I may be interested in some of the older stuff tonji, let me know when you've catalogued it if you don't have a buyer lined up
Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: Tonji on April 24, 2010, 11:42:04 AM I've unloaded most into the warehouse. On first sort through there seem to be a lot of propaganda publications from the Foreign Languages Publishing Houses of Moscow & Peking, 1950 through to the 1970s. Boxes of Communist Review, Marxist Quarterly & China Pictorial Magazine.
I was hoping to find posters or photographs by Alexander Rodchenko (http://www.arantxaalcubierre.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/rodchenko.jpg) But nothing rare or valuable has emerged so far. Title: Re: Any Russian Speakers? Post by: gatso on April 24, 2010, 12:53:16 PM I was hoping to find posters or photographs by Alexander Rodchenko yeah, I bet you were. there's a piece coming up at bloomsbury next month that's going to make a lot more than I reckon it's worth |