Re: Djilas

From: george knysh
Message: 58041
Date: 2008-04-25

--- tolgs001 <george_st@...> wrote:

> > I've started to read this. Who is the translator
> and
> > commentator?
> >
> > George (Yury)
>
> I don't know. I only assume that he must be some
> Turk(ologue?).

****GK: There are interesting things in the
commentaries. But also a lot of kookeries: such as the
view that Scythians and Sarmatians were Turks, or that
the Rus' were a Slavicized Bulgarian tribe. The fellow
hates Russians with a vengeance, and takes it out on
mediaeval Ukraine (:=))). In any case the translation
of Pletneva is useful enough.****

Or
> maybe my assumption is wrong altogether.
>
> George
>
>



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