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Kozma Petrovich Prutkov (Russian: ΠΠΎΠ·ΡΠΌΠ°Μ ΠΠ΅ΡΡΠΎΜΠ²ΠΈΡ ΠΡΡΡΠΊΠΎΜΠ²) is a collective pen name used by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and his cousins, three Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, Alexei, Vladimir and Alexander to publish satires, aphorisms, fables, epigrams, and humorous and nonsense verses during Nicholas I of Russia's authoritarian reign in the 1850sβ1860s, most notably in the literary magazine "Sovremennik" (The Contemporary).
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βWatch out!β
βLook in the roots!β
βIf you want to be happy, be!β
βNot any tickling is pleasant.β
βNobody will embrace the unembraceable.β
βEvery tailor has his own views on art!β
βIf you want to be beautiful, enroll in the Hussars.β
βAnd once again: nobody will embrace the unembraceable!β
βIs there anybody in the world who could embrace the unembraceable?β
βHere come the Slavophiles and Nihilists, and none of them have clean fingernails.β
βThere are three things that once begun are difficult to finish: a) eating delicious food; b) talking to a friend who had just returned from a military campaign; and c) scratching where it itches.β
About Kozma Prutkov
Kozma Petrovich Prutkov (Russian: ΠΠΎΠ·ΡΠΌΠ°Μ ΠΠ΅ΡΡΠΎΜΠ²ΠΈΡ ΠΡΡΡΠΊΠΎΜΠ²) is a collective pen name used by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and his cousins, three Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, Alexei, Vladimir and Alexander to publish satires, aphorisms, fables, epigrams, and humorous and nonsense verses during Nicholas I of Russia's authoritarian reign in the 1850sβ1860s, most notably in the literary magazine "Sovremennik" (The Contemporary).