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# Hm! Hm!
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/gm-gm/
- Published: 2026-01-07T10:33:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T09:13:04.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Mores, Humour

*Hm! hm! Noble reader,* 
*Is all your kin in health?* 
*Permit me: perhaps you would care* 
*To learn from me just now* 
*What relations, properly speaking, are.* 
*Relations are people of this sort:* 
*We are obliged to caress them,* 
*To love them, to respect them from the heart,* 
*And, according to the custom of the people,* 
*To call on them at Christmas* 
*Or to congratulate them by post,* 
*So that for the rest of the year* 
*They may not think of us at all...* 
*And so, God grant them long days!*

*Literal translation*

**Pushkin on the season of obligatory festive visits, Eugene Onegin, Chapter IV, stanza XX**