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# "On Wednesday he called them hangmen, And on Thursday, tempted by their victuals, He was polishing their boots at «Nakanune»
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-sredu-on-nazval-ikh-palachami-a-v-chetverg-prelstivshis-ikh-kharchami-sapogi-im-chistil-v-nakanune/
- Published: 2021-02-23T18:56:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T09:27:35.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Books, Mores, Humour

"On Wednesday he called them hangmen,  
And on Thursday, tempted by their victuals,  
He was polishing their boots at «Nakanune».  
That service did not go unrewarded:  
A count, a landowner and a bourgeois squared,  
He is now being published by «Gosizdat»"

*Literal translation*

Sasha Chorny, A.N. Tolstoy, or «A Journey through the Fee Scales»