A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

The approach of summer, says our Lord, is not more surely indicated by the first appearances of spring, than the final destruction of the wicked by the beginnings of vengeance on this impenitent people.

We'll liquefy this rock by heating it in a furnace until it melts and flows out.

The two classic accounts in English, by Prince D. S. Mirsky and Ernest Simmons, are a generation old, and great advances in Pushkin research have been made since them by Soviet Pushkinologists.