Гордость вологжан

[freiburg234.livejournal.com]

Dear Community,

Here another sentence for your review. Could you please explain why "общественного предприятия" and "гордости вологжан" are in the genitive? I can't seem to find the reasoning for this.

Каждый уезжающий ссыльный — это было традицией — жертвовал свою всегда огромную библиотеку в книжный фонд Городской публичной библиотеки — тоже общественного предприятия, тоже гордости вологжан.

Thank you.

ФБ

Comments

[pzrk.livejournal.com]

This long sentence consists of (and even can be splitted to) parts with each of them having their own meaning:
1. "Каждый ссыльный жертвовал библиотеку в книжный фонд"
2. "Книжный фонд был общественным предприятием"
3. "Это общественное предприятие было предметом гордости вологжан"

More than 3 levels of enclosure are hard to understand and, therefore, are rarely used.

[markushka.livejournal.com]

That's what I wanted to tell...

"Каждый уезжающий ссыльный по традиции жертвовал библиотеку в книжный Фонд Городской публичной библиотеки, который, как и библиотека в целом, был государственным предприятием, являвявшимся гордостью вологжан".

И волки сыты, и овцы целы... Dashes looks ugly... Double "тоже" also.

Moreover, it's not required to highlight that Public Library is a state enterprise - it's obvious for Soviet Russia. Fund as a part of library cannot be private, that obvious too.

I think that the Russian text should be edited and corrected if it's a journal article or some kind of masterpiece. If it's a memoir - nothing to say, it's usual for that kind of text to be sample of bad style and hardly understandable logic...

[markushka.livejournal.com]

Ops. I see. It's not quite later days Soviet Russia. It's a beginning and/or pre-Soviet Russia.

So, it's not a modern style Russian language.

[igorborisov.livejournal.com]

2. "Книжный фонд был общественным предприятием" - How book collection of library can be self-dependend enterprise? It's integral part of library.