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[studentka-hb.livejournal.com]

Does anybody know the correct translation for Царское Село in English? I want to say Kingdom, but not sure that is exactly right...
спасибо!

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[oblomov-jerusal.livejournal.com]

First, it's Царское Село. It literally means "czar's village", but it is really name of a town near St. Petersbourg, which is now called Pushkin, so I guess it's best left untranslated.

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[studentka-hb.livejournal.com]

Um, I also have this phrase which I'm not too sure what it means... something about service of the sovereign? "для важнейших частей службы государевой"

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[oblomov-jerusal.livejournal.com]

Literally, "for most important parts of sovereign's service", i.e., I suppose, for top positions in administration and military.

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[studentka-hb.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

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[annyway.livejournal.com]

I`m not sure, but I think it means they prepared officials. Государева служба = государственная служба.

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[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Not exactly: государева = sovereign's, государственная = state [service]. Both words mean the same for many Russians, though :))

[annyway.livejournal.com]

Царское село. Tsarskoye selo, I think. Do you know the correct translation for New York or Los Angeles in Russian? ;)

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[quem98.livejournal.com]

Ню Йорк and Лос Анджелес. Don't ask me why... They just don't bother with the translations...

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[annyway.livejournal.com]

Нью Йорк and Лос-Анжелес. Proper nouns.

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[quem98.livejournal.com]

Further proof that I can't spell in any language.

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[studentka-hb.livejournal.com]

Fair point, but if I had known it was a place name I wouldn't have asked for a translation... it wasn't clear from the context that it was a town!

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[annyway.livejournal.com]

:-)
It`s the typical thing for russian menthality, I think. Tsarskoye Selo is the place where Pushkin studied. And russians think that every one in the world must know everything about Pushkin. So, we don`t bother with explanations. :-))

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[studentka-hb.livejournal.com]

:) I'm sure we are the same with Oxford and Cambridge ;)

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[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Note that, for example, Oxford nicely translates into Russian as "Бычий Брод" :)))

[ignat.livejournal.com]

Geographical names, as well as personal names, are not being translated, they are being transliterated: Tsarskoe Selo.

[mjhelol.livejournal.com]

It would be translated as "The Hermitage" if you're refering to the residence in St. Petersburg

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[onlyif.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but the Hermitage has nothing to do with Tsarskoe selo. The Hermitage is a museum. If you refer to the residence of the Tzars in St-Petersburg - it is called the Winter Palace. And Tsarskoe selo is a proper noun as it is correctly stated above, a name for a village.