Canadian Avangard defender Darren Dietz In an interview with , he said that his friends in North America were very surprised when they learned that he had quickly learned a short poem by Alexander Pushkin in the original.
In May, Avangard announced a two-year contract with Dietz; the 30-year-old left CSKA Moscow in exchange for monetary compensation.
— Do you have any favorite Russian writers?
— I read Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” in the original. I’m finishing reading Dostoevsky’s novel The Gambler now. And in my queue I have “Idiot.” I read when the season starts and we have a lot of flights. I always take classics with me or listen to an audiobook.
— At the 2020 KHL All-Star Game, you recited Alexander Pushkin’s “Winter Morning” on the ice: “Frost and sun, a wonderful day…”
“The night before, they came to me: ‘Darren, can you do this?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘Let’s try.’ And that’s how that evening I learned this poem.
— How did they react in North America?
— Many friends who had not seen me for a long time were shocked that I spoke Russian so well. They simply did not know this Darren, “Dietz told .
During the 2023/24 season, Dietz, born in Canada and a citizen of Kazakhstan, played 60 matches for CSKA, in which he scored 23 (9+14) points.
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