chekhov "the jubilee"

[black--rainbow.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone, I'm looking for an english translation of chekhov's "the jubilee" on the internet & i haven't been able to find it myself. you are all very helpful people, so i was wondering if anyone was able to point me to a link. thanks heaps :)

Problem with Russian e-mail

[kasak.livejournal.com]

Hello, всем!

I have a friend who sent me an e-mail in Russian, but unforunately, it came out looking like a bunch of asterices. I fiddled with the character encoding in the browswer, but to no avail. Is there any way to decipher this e-mail, or should I just give up?

Спасибо заренее!

Gerunds and prepositions

[krasnojarsk.livejournal.com]

Hello!

I'm currently writing my thesis about Swedish translation of Russian gerunds, and to clearly show the difference between благодаря as a preposition taking the dative and the gerund of благодарить taking the accusative, I would like to form a sentence for both, i.e. "Благодаря ему, она получила свою зарплату.". Thought I would need some help with the other one, I understand it's not very common to see благодаря  used as a normal gerund, but if anyone could think of a good, short sentence with a gerund and a main verb, I would be thankful. :) So, for example, "Благодаря его, он bla bla bla bla."

Thank you in advance!