Tchitcherine

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

Zachary Haberer notes:
"He seems on target with what other use of Russian I recall-- all GR
stuff about the "Semirechiye" (Seven Rivers country), "medvezhy
ugolok" (lit. "bear's corner", meaning BFE).  Weird thing about
Checherin's name (GR uses the German-style "Tch" transliteration)
is that whatever his sailor's son ancestry in the book, there was a
real Checherin who was Lenin's first Foreign Minister in the new
Soviet state-- one of the few mainstream, aristocratic politicians
in the Tsarist government who was able to ride the change in power."


I wonder, is there a link between the "seven rivers country" of Russia/USSR and
that of northern California in VINELAND?


Somewhere in GR the narrator comments that Tchitcherine is not related to the
one who negotiated the Brest-Litovsk treaty that got Russia out of WWI in
exchange for certain lands.


Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)