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We are pskopsky

"We are from Kronstadt"

Phraseologism: We are pskopskie.

Meaning: About someone's provincial narrow-mindedness, "parochial" patriotism (iron.).

Origin: From the Soviet film "We are from Kronstadt" (1936), directed by Yefim Dzigan and written by the writer Vsevolod Vishnevsky. A replica of a soldier of the former tsarist army, who, seeing the attacking revolutionary sailors, repeats these words in fright, thereby wanting to emphasize that he is not their enemy, he is his own, Russian (Pskov), etc.

Random phraseology:

Herostrat. Herostratus glory.

Meaning:

Shameful glory.

Origin:

Herostratus - a native of the city of Ephesus (Asia Minor) out of ambition, in order to immortalize his name, he burned in 600 BC. e. the magnificent temple of Artemis of Ephesus, which was considered in the ancient world one of the "seven wonders of the world." The court sentenced Herostratus to death, his name was forbidden to pronounce. But, despite the prohibition, the Greek historian Theopompus (IV century BC) preserved his name for posterity. The works of Theopompus, which survived in fragments, served as a source for later historians (Strabo, Aulus Helius, Valery Maximus). The name of Herostratus has become a household name for an ambitious man who achieves fame in any way, up to a crime that does not stop at the destruction of cultural values.

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