previous            A–Z            next        Valentin Alekseevich Zhukovsky Pseudonym:        Maremyan Danilovich Zhukovyatnikov, President of the Commission on the Construction or the Muratov House, Author of the Crowded Stables, Fire-breathing Ex-president of the Old Kitchen Garden, Knight of the Three Livers, and Commander of the Gallimaufry V.A. Zhukovsky (1858–1918), a minor poet, assumed for a frivolous ‘Greek balled rendered in the Russian style’ entitled ‘Yelena Ivanovna Protasova, or Friendship, Impatience, an Cabbage’ (1811). For this Zhukovsky used the name Maremyan Danilovich Zhukovyatnikov, President of the Commission on the Construction or the Muratov House, Author of the Crowded Stables, Fire-breathing Ex-president of the Old Kitchen Garden, Knight of the Three Livers, and Commander of the Gallimaufry. Zhukovsky wrote this curiosity while staying with his friends, the Protasov family, at their estate at Muratovo, just outside Moscow.        A friend of Zhukovsky, one Alexander Pleshcheyev, wrote some ‘critical comments’ in this same ballad under an equally long and strange pseudonym: ‘Aleksandr Pleshchepupovich Chernobrysow, Active Mameluke and Bogdogan, Choirmaster of the Cowpox, Privileged Galvanist of the Delicate Arranger of Divers Musical Tummy-Rumblings, Including the Fully Scored Howling Herewith Appended. See also Alexander Pleshcheyev. Source: Room, A. (1981), ‘Names with a Different’, Naming Names, pp.60–61 previous            A–Z            next