Rowling herself confessed that the villain’s name had been “borrowed” from Fyodor Dolokhov, a character in Leo Tolstoy’s novel ‘War and Peace’. In 2006, Yemets' books featured in the 10 best children's books 2006 in a reader's poll at the Pushkin Central Children's Library, Saint Petersburg. K.Rowling books that have topped Western best seller lists, theystarted a Russian web site dedicated to the boy and his magicpowers, and translated fragments themselves. The results vary from 'extremely unreadable' or 'unfinished' to 'way better than the official', and each non-English-reading fan often finds themselves supporting this or that amateur translation.

I often get mistaken for a native speaker these days, so I've learned a thing or two about what works and what doesn't if you want to speak Russian well. It might be added that the surname Porskov actually does exist - although it is not very common - and is apparently derived from the archaic verb porskat (meaning “to snort with laughter”).com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. If even native speakers struggle with reading Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, than you cannot expect to breeze through it after a couple of months of studying Russian, right? Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved.

This blatant attempt to silence our voice is a direct assault on the integrity of journalism and the values we hold dear. I would be very far from truthful, though, if I said that there were absolutely no differences between the way fandom works in Russia and the way it works in the English-language community, borrowed concept or no. In the first Russian edition of the Harry Potter books, the translators decided to spare the reader and simply turned the heroine into a man by the name of Pyotr Porskov.

And it’s a lot easier to motivate yourself for a nice book, then for a Russian case review session at your desk, isn’t it? So while you do remember the gist of the main plot, most chapters will still have some surprising things that you’ve forgotten over the years. The pictures below show the comparison of the spread and cover of the fake (top) and real (bottom) editions of Half-blood Prince.