• Ориенталистика
• 2023 год
• Vol 6, № 5

A.A. Dolinina is the contemporary of the 2nd World War at the territory of the former Soviet Union and of the Siege of Leningrad. We gained the Victory owing to the firmness of our soldiers and civilians, as well as thanks to the devout serving of those, on whom it was bestowed to preserve and to present to the Nation the great Universal and National cultural values. A testimony of that is the edition of a free translation of “The Song of Roland”, carried out in 1943, soon after the break of the Siege. It is a worthy landmark of that Great Epoch.

• “The Song of Roland”
• the Soviet art of literary translation
• Arabic Studies in Leningrad
• the Siege of Leningrad

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