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1984 Soviet copy of the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, "Записки о Шерлоке Холмсе," published in Minsk. It features "The Sign of the Four" ("Знак Черырех") and 17 short stories ("Рассказы"), including "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" ("Тайна Боскомской Долины") and "The Final Problem" ("Последнее Дело Холмса"), each with a small illustration at the beginning.

While a number of translations of Watsons name use Ватсон, this copy uses the Уотсон cyrillization.

#ooh i should try again to read these... think i could do it now!

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“Spring Is Just Around The Corner” (literally “Spring Is On The Nose”)

by S. Byalkovskaya, 1958

#art

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december 31st!

my goal was to finish it by the end of the year and i'm on track to finish exactly in time :')

#yay :)

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Yes we still do some sketches（

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my goal was to finish it by the end of the year and i'm on track to finish exactly in time :')

#i can read a lot better than i could when i began at least :)

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fun language learning exercise from the wildly outdated textbook i was assigned to teach russian from in grad school. it's actually a great exercise, giving students a real-world russian text that has a lot of easy-to-figure out words (cognates, transliterated english names) and asking them to infer as much info as they can.

the text is a "pirate video parade" listing the top 10 most popular movies showing in pirate video salons in moscow in september 1992. numbers 1 & 3 are officially liscenced releases, but the rest are not. interesting little time capsule...

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И ᴍʜе․․․․и мʜе․․․ спрaвку у меня тᴏже лaᴨки

И ᴍʜе․․․․и мʜе․․․ спрaвку у меня тᴏже лaᴨки

#memes

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— I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin (translated by A.Z. Foreman)

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please, what kind of word is this "тэ‐экс" 😓

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This is how prefixes work.

#vocabulary

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Russian vocabulary

Phrases to express one’s opinion

я думаю — I think

мне кажется — it seems to me

я считаю — I reckon

по-моему — to me

по моему мнению — in my opinion

на мой взгляд — to my mind

как я вижу — the way I see it

полагаю — I suppose

предполагаю — I guess

подозреваю — I suspect

у меня сложилось впечатление — I got the impression

я убеждён/убеждена  — I am convinced

с моей точки зрения — from my point of view

честно — honestly

что касается меня — as for me

я бы сказал/сказала — I would say

если я не ошибаюсь — If I am not mistaken

на самом деле — actually

если вы спросите меня — if you ask me

#vocabulary

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word of the day that i just looked up the reason behind: немедленно

i knew медленно as "slowly," so my initial assumption was "not slowly, but not necessarily very quickly either, at a moderately quick pace." but no, it's immediately. now i understand better because...

медлить, to delay

промедление, delay

без промедления, without delay

#russian langblr

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“Spend your vacation time travelling!” 

Poster by P. Golub (1947)

#😂 :)

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i keep seeing сей and finally i was like fine if it's such a simple common word then why don't i know it

OH !

#it's literally this day this hour..... #somehow it boosts my confidence the all of the times a word stands out to me as unusual and then i look it up and it's like #(archaic) (obsolete) [unavailable on english wiktionary]

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ни ра́зу ― not once; never

не раз ― repeatedly

tricky! (from Wiktionary)

#i came across не раз like i know what that means :) #i did not! #comparing now the lack of double negative in the sentence makes it clearer #russian langblr

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gentleman? i guess??

#i just like the ?s