Pleasure is a feeling, an object or a person, a name of a settlement and a pseudonym

In Russian there is a lexical layer in which words are usually called archaisms. They are not used in modern speech. But the author of works about the past needs to know what, for example, means the word "joy". This knowledge is useful to the reader who gives preference to historical novels or stories.

Lexical meaning

Explanatory dictionaries say that the word "joy" is a designation of a sense of joy, pleasure, grace. You can even give an example of its use in speech. Here is the phrase: "Watching the sprouting fields is such a joy! This feeling of delight and pleasure is difficult to convey in words! "

There is also the second meaning of the word. Usually they designate an object (animated or inanimate) that gives a person joy. "All my joy is the same scarlet flower that you so unintentionally tore, merchant!"

Very often a loved one was called this beautiful word. Few people today are unfamiliar with the song about the joy, the girl of the dream, who lives in the theater, where it is difficult to get through. It is often sung in a close circle by people who celebrate some pleasant event.

Delight in toponymy

Many names of cities, villages, villages were given by people in such a way that they correspond to appearance or purpose. So there were cities Zelenogorsk, Mezhdurechensk. And the village of Vidnoe, which has become a fairly large settlement today? It can be called a beautiful city.

Knowing the meaning of the word "joy", it is easy to imagine what feelings were felt on the village by its inhabitants, giving such a sonorous beautiful name. Villages and villages marked on the map as Otrada, in Russia and Ukraine about thirty. Only in the Samara region there are two such settlements: in rural settlements of Zakharkino and Elshanka. And in the Ryazan region there are three whole villages of the same name. The same number of Otrad is available in the Orel region.

Today, many cottage settlements under construction are named Otrada. Yes, and the same shops, shopping centers, businesses now do not count.

Alias of the Russian poet

Nikolay Karpovich Turochkin, born in Voronezh province in 1918, was fond of poetry. He himself wrote wonderful poems. Nikolai Karpovich began publishing his works under the pseudonym Otrada in local media in 1938.

During the Finnish War, Nikolai Turochkin volunteered for the front. There, at Suojärvi, he was killed, surrounded. His classmate and comrade Aron Kropshtein, also a poet, tried to take the friend's body off the battlefield, but was also killed.

Posthumously Otrada Nikolai Karpovich was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. In 1963, 1964 and 1965 the poet's poems were published in the collections "Names in Verification", "Through Time", "Green Stars Wander".