Volume 24, Number 3 · March 3, 1977
Under the Cranberry Tree
By Nicolas Nabokov
In the Russian Style
edited by Jacqueline Onassis. with the cooperation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, introduction by Audrey Kennett, designed by Bryan Holme
Viking, 184 pp., $14.95
During his travels to Russia in the midnineteenth century Alexandre Dumas père wrote of a mythical 'broad spreading cranberry tree' under whose comforting shade, he said, he used to repose his considerable bulk. Soon thereafter this nonexistent tree, the Razvesistaya kliukva (a branchy cranberry), became the synonym for all the nonsense that was being written abroad about the land of the czars, boyars, samovars, etc.
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