According to Arkady Gornfeld, " His whole character, from the inability to understand foreign cultures to ingenuousness, humour, keenness of remarks and common sense was that of a simple, if very clever, Russian muzhik.
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In 2003 Gladkov, Nabokov and Agopyan planned to make a " Fool's Village " spin-off about Muzhik and Moryachok being on North pole with polar bear, but it didn't rise for unknown reasons.
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Like Lebed, the barrel-chested Yeltsin came to Moscow as a no-nonsense " muzhik, " or man of the people _ a decisive politician who loved action and crises, hated bureaucracy and liked to rattle cages.
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"The Village " proved to be a healthy antidote to the officially approved " peasant literature " propagated by journals like " Mayak " ( Lighthouse ), praising good-natured, God-loving Russian muzhik and his benevolent, caring master.
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On the other hand, in " picturing the Russian muzhik, and being the master of reproducing the language of the lower classes, Pisemsky had no equals; after him a return to the type of peasant novel created by Grigorovich became unthinkable ", critic A . Gornfeld argued.
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Saltykov-Shchedrin called the first two books by Grigorovich " a springtime rain which invigorated Russian literary soil . " Both made the Russian educated society aware for the first time of the plight of muzhik, as a human being, not an abstraction, according to the famous satirist.
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"People here watch and think, well, there may be something wrong with it, but on the other hand, he is a real muzhik, " said Sergei Markov, a political analyst on a television talk show, using the Russian word for " real man ."
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The snapshots of uniformed men and begowned women, the amateur movies ( was that a flash of regal rump in the water ? ) and the newsreels of ceremonial occasions ( there's the bearded monarch being kissed by a barber school's worth of bearded officers ) are juxtaposed with glimpses of the miseries of the muzhiks.
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Like many of the hearty souls in his book, Montaigne is a ( itals ) muzhik ( unitals ) _ a " real " man, swilling vodka, traveling across roads resembling a lunar landscape, warding off poachers, predatory artists, and intestinal parasites, and boldly striding into the rough-and-tumble world of Klondike capitalism.
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In the lyceum the quality of education was poor . " The information taught to us was scant, sporadic and all but meaningless . . . It was not so much an education as such, but a part of social privilege, the one that draws the line through life : above are you and me, people of leisure and power, beneath-just one single word : muzhik, " Saltykov wrote in his " Letters to Auntie ".
