Tchitcherine

[Daniel Cape]

Yes, Dan, though your scholarship lacks the thoroughgoing commitment worthy
of the p-list, I think you are on to something.
Here, have a scholarship.

2009/10/19 Daniel Cape <daniel.cape at gmail.com>

> Reading "Celluloid Apocalypse" by Ian Christie, in an edited volume
> called _The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come_ and I stumble
> across this about Ibanez' novel _The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse_
> and the film adaptation by Rex Ingram:
>
> "...an important feature of both novel and film, which connects these
> to an earlier allegorical tradition, is the motif of the 'four
> horsemen', linked to a recurrent prophetic figure, Tchernoff, whose
> name suggests a reference to the Russian mystical tradition of
> Theosophy or of Gurdjieff. [...] And in a trope repeated forty years
> years later by Tarkovsky in _Ivan's Childhood_ , Dürer's famous book
> of Apocalypse woodcuts is shown by Tchernoff to to the hero, Julio,
> immediately before the horsemen appear..." (326).
>
> A quick google reveals the involvement of a German spy Tchernine and a
> valet called Tchernoff in the Rasputin/End-of-the-Tsar events in
> Russia (Wiliam Le Queux, _The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of
> Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia_).
>
> Immediately I wondered if our man in the Zone Tchitcherine in GR is
> somehow tied up in all this (of course he is!)... Can anyone explicate
> this link?
>
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