In the Russian language there is such a lexical layer in which words are usually called archaisms. They are practically not used in modern speech. But the author of works about the past needs to know what, for example, the word “joy” means. This knowledge will also be useful to the reader who prefers historical novels or short stories.
Lexical meaning
Explanatory dictionaries say that the word “joy” is a designation of a feeling of joy, pleasure, grace. You can even give an example of its use in speech. Here is a phrase: “Looking at the eared fields is such a joy! This feeling of delight and pleasure is hard to put into words!”
There is also a second meaning of the word. Usually they designate an object (animate or inanimate) that brings joy to a person. “All my joy is that same scarlet flower that you so imprudently plucked, merchant!”
Very often a loved one was called this beautiful word. Few people today are unfamiliar with a song about joy,a dream girl who lives in a tower, where it is difficult to get through. It is often sung in a close circle by people who celebrate some pleasant event.
Joy in toponymy
Many names of cities, towns, villages were given by people in such a way that they corresponded to their appearance or purpose. This is how the cities of Zelenogorsk and Mezhdurechensk appeared. And the village of Vidnoye, which has become quite a large settlement today? It can be called a beautiful city.
Knowing the meaning of the word “joy”, it is easy to imagine what feelings its inhabitants had for the village, giving it such a sonorous beautiful name. There are about thirty villages and villages marked on the map as Otrada in Russia and Ukraine. Only in the Samara region two such settlements were noted: in the rural settlements of Zakharkino and Elshanka. And in the Ryazan region, there are as many as three villages of the same name. There are the same number of Joy in the Oryol region.
Today, many cottage villages under construction are called Otrada. Yes, and stores of the same name, shopping centers, firms now cannot be counted.
Pseudonym of a Russian poet
Nikolai Karpovich Turochkin, who was born in the Voronezh province in 1918, was fond of poetry. He wrote wonderful poetry himself. 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, near Suoyarvi, he was killed, being surrounded. His fellow student and comrade Aron Kropstein, also a poet, tried to carry the body of a friend from the battlefield, but was also killed.
Posthumously Otrada Nikolai Karpovich was admitted to the Writers' Union of the USSR. In 1963, 1964 and 1965, the poet's poems were published in the collections "Names in Verification", "Through Time", "Green Stars Roam".
