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Smerdyakov

Dostoevsky F.M.

Phraseologism: Smerdyakov.

Meaning: A common noun for a person who hopes to receive material benefits and a comfortable social life not at the cost of his own efforts, but already prepared, from the hands of foreigners, who does not understand that the successes of other states in their improvement are caused by precisely what he is in a hurry to give up, - developed self-esteem of its citizens (contempt.).

Origin: The character of the novel "The Brothers Karamazov" (1880) by F. M. Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Smerdyakov argues as follows: "In the twelfth year there was a great invasion of Russia by the Emperor Napoleon of France, the first, and it would be good if these very French had conquered us then, a smart nation would have conquered a very stupid one, sir, and annexed it. There would even have been completely different orders" . Apparently, it was not by chance that the author of the novel paid tribute to the archaic, endowing, according to the literary tradition of the XNUMXth century, the hero of the "speaking", that is, the surname characterizing a person - Smerdyakov. From the word "smerd", which meant in Ancient and, later, in Moscow Russia - a slave, a serf. Hence the "smerdyakovism" - the worldview, philosophy, argumentation of people who reason in this way (contempt.).

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Meaning:

Wanderer, wanderer.

Origin:

The expression denoting the eternal wanderer originated from a medieval legend about the Jew Ahasuerus, doomed to eternal wanderings as punishment for refusing to help Jesus carry the cross with which he went to be crucified. The tragic image of Ahasuerus, the legend of which, according to some scholars, is rooted in the era of the migration of peoples, is widely used in world literature - Schubart (1783), Goethe (1792), Lenau (1839), Zhukovsky (1851), Eugene Xu (1845 ) and others.

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