title: The Return Of The Firebird. Evgeny Plushenko An Image of The New Russia
author:  Vildan Bahar Tuncay 
description: I suppose my work would interest Evgeny Plushenko's fans, figure skating spectators, journalists and commentators specialized in this discipline. I hope it will also contribute to the progress of the biography as a genre in Social Sciences by rebuilding the historical context in which Plushenko realized his exceptional achievements.
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  # THE BRIGADIER
  
  
  ### Ivan Turgenev
  
  
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  READER, do you know those little homesteads of country
  
  
  gentlefolks, which were plentiful in our Great Russian Oukraïne
  
  
  twenty-five or thirty years ago? Now one rarely comes across them,
  
  
  and in another ten years the last of them will, I suppose, have
  
  
  disappeared for ever. The running pond overgrown with reeds and
  
  
  rushes, the favourite haunt of fussy ducks, among whom one may now and
  
  
  then come across a wary "teal"; beyond the pond a garden with avenues
  
  
  of lime-trees, the chief beauty and glory of our black-earth plains,
  
  
  with smothered rows of "Spanish" strawber