zhizn

For what it's worth, there is a more or less stable Russian expression zhizn yest' zhizn -- "life is life".

languagehat.com: CHEKHOV. 2004

"Putyovka v zhizn" A ticket into life was one of the better early ones.

Archive 2007-06-01 Richard 2007

This Nation review by Lee Siegel of Chekhov's The Complete Short Novels, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, expresses concisely why I like Chekhov so well:"Zhizn zhizn" goes a Russian saying: Life is life.

languagehat.com: CHEKHOV. 2004

As I mentioned in a recent entry, I just bought Kornei Chukovsky's Zhivoi kak zhizn': o russkom yazyke Alive as life: on the Russian language, and I am so pleased by his opening paragraphs on language change that I am going to translate them here.

languagehat.com: CHUKOVSKY ON CHANGE. 2004

I'm certainly no fluent Russian speaker, but couldn't it be "zhizn, zhizn" -- with a comma?

languagehat.com: CHEKHOV. 2004

Khimiia i zhizn '(Chemistry and Life), Nos. 3, 4, 5 pp. Peter Kapitza, who died last year at eighty-nine, was probably the most celebrated Soviet scientist before Sakharov, and for analogous reasons.

Return of the Native Joravsky, David 1985

No. 5 pp. Drugaia zhizn '( "Another Life") by Yury Trifonov

Writing in the Shadow of the Monolith Proffer, Carl R. 1976

Nevertheless, I would challenge Professor Kline's above quoted statement, for it implies that Brodsky's achievement to date can stand comparison with Akhmatova's by the time she published her Anno Domini MCMXXI (her third volume), with Pasternak in Sestra moia zhizn '(My Sister Life), with Tsvetayeva's Lebedinyi stan (Swans' Camp) and other poetry of the revolutionary years, and with Mandelstam's wonderful Tristia.

Brodsky's Poetry Struve, Gleb 1973

With Sestra moya zhizn (My Sister Life), 1922, and Temy i variatsii (Themes and Variations), 1923, the latter marked by an extreme, though sober style, Pasternak first gained a place as

Boris Pasternak - Biography 1958

"Semeinaya zhizn v russkom Raskole," St. Petersburg, 1869; part I., pp. 55-57.

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880