"I would not wish,by a false idea seduced,
           To disparage censors with offhand abuse
           What's opportune for London is for Moscow oversoon."
Where did this quote come from.the quote was translated by Anya Kuraeva.
Thanks

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 28 Feb 2006 10:39 PST

I am not fluent in Russian, but I believe the lines you've quoted are
from Pushkin's 1822 poem "Epistle to the Censor" (sometimes translated
as "Message to the Censor").

If your computer is capable of displaying Cyrillic fonts, you can read
the poem here (select the proper font encoding at the bottom of the
page):

http://www.fplib.org/literature/19century/pushkin/themesst.html

If this is the information that you're looking for, please let me
know, and I'll be glad to repost this as your official answer.

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Clarification of Question by schullerx-ga on 28 Feb 2006 15:55 PST

Yes pinkfreud,that was the source,Iwas trying to find.Could you show
me your search path? Thanks
GJS

I'm glad to have been able to help you find the information that you needed!

This is how I located the information. I began with this search:

Google Web Search: pushkin censor OR censors moscow london
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pushkin+censor+OR+censors+moscow+london

This led me to a paper about Russian journalists which gave a
different translation of the quote, and provided the date and title of
the poem:

"What London needs that is early for Moscow
 Alexander Pushkin 1822 The Epistle to the Censor"

PROFESSIONAL ROLES OF RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS AT THE END OF THE 1990s
http://tutkielmat.uta.fi/pdf/lisuri00006.pdf

Armed with this info, I used this search string:

Google Web Search: pushkin "to the censor"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pushkin+%22to+the+censor%22

...which provided the link that I posted in my request-for-clarification above:

Friends and Partners: Alexander Pushkin
http://www.fplib.org/friends/literature/19century/pushkin/themesst.html

Since I do not read Russian, I awaited your verification that this was
the correct source before posting my answer.

Best regards,
pinkfreud

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Clarification of Answer by pinkfreud-ga on 28 Feb 2006 16:24 PST

I have noticed that the Friends and Partners site is rather flaky; the
link was working fine earlier today, but when I click on it now, I get
a message that says the server is unavailable. If anyone is interested
in reading the Pushkin poem in question, it may take a few attempts to
get to the page which has the Russian text. If the link doesn't work,
I suggest trying it later, since it seems to come and go.

~pinkfreud

I am sorry that you were not fully satisfied by my answer. If you
needed anything further, I wish you had asked me before assigning a
rating.