Training at the highly-decorated
Gorets MMA team, Gaziev has a solid boxing background and guarantees he's not afraid of his opponent's credentials.
Sumarokov-El'ston used stronger terms, claiming that the administration must aim to "recast all the inclinations and capacities of our steppe dweller and make him into a highlander [garets]." (69) By this he meant above all that the colonists should adapt to their new environment, but his use of the term
gorets, normally reserved for the often defiant Muslim residents of the mountains, made a strong rhetorical point.
Stalin was born in the Caucasus where Prometheus was chained to a rock in Aeschuylus's play--the 1933 Epigram had also recalled this heritage when it called Stalin the
gorets (mountain-man) in the Kremlin-- but at the time the Ode was written, it was Mandelstam--not Stalin--who was enchained, and the ugol' (coal or charcoal) with which Mandelstam draws "in cunning angles [na khitrye ugly]"--Prometheus was a master of cunning--is also the fire that the Titan stole in defiance of Zeus.