In 1945 Yara wrote a poem `Sweet Beauties of Russia` ("Милые красавицы России") where he expressed his gratitude to all the women of the USSR who sacrificed everything to victory. Yeah, he was a true gentleman, and he never joined men who several times after the war attempted to defame ...
`E la nave va` is an allusion of a Federico Fellini`s feature film of the same name that translates into English as `And the Ship Sails On` (1983) https://youtu.be/PIFxpgg6A1Q
The poem by Evgeniy Yevtushenko that I dared to translate has got an alliteration of `sh-sh` in the original that I replaced with the sound of `w-w` in English.
Taffy was extraordinarily famous in Russia for her short stories full of humour. Fewer knows as well that she was a poetess. Of course, she was not as great as her sister Mirra (Maria) Lokhvitskaya-Gibert who was an immediate predecessor of Anna Akhmatova, Xenaida Gippius and Marina ...
There shows up white a sail so lonely ... Белеет парус одинокий ... The most famous poem by Mikhail Lermontov in Russia. It was put to music several times. In 19 c. it was done by a Russian composer Alexandre Varlamov. Sung by Sergei Lemeshev (record of 1942) https://youtu.be/4FKEsTZuNKY ...
I`ve kept untouched the old vocabulary of the original text and chose the equivalent, intelligible words in Old Slavonic that are still being used in the Russian poetry.
Хотя сие стихотворение и подразумевает не просто каменщиков, а кивает на "вольных каменщиков" и имеет политический подтекст, на самом деле к масонству имеет малое отношение, и в большей степени связано с реалиями русской общественной борьбы начала 20 в.
Евгений Евтушенко "Со мною вот что происходит" (Evgeny Yevtushenko `What`s wrong with me, I don`t know` The poem was set to music by Mikael Tariverdiyev. It`s sung by Sergei Nikitin https://youtu.be/fZV4Ga0N_Jw
When in Germany they greet sportsmen, winners, they are used to shout: Heil! Heil! Heil! (in English: Hail! Hail! Hail!). And it`s nothing to do with Hitlerian Germany. So Zig Heil means Long live Zig! (i.e., Sigmund, in this very case Dr. Freud). By the way, the Nazi greeting is ...
`Once in presence of Irakliy Luarsabovich Andronikov I called a popular poet a genius. He immediately objected: `He`s too complicated to be considered a genius. All great is simple and clear. It is `I am going out on the road ...` that`s great. That sort of poems seems to contain ...
When Sasha Pushkin was just six years old, he wrote his first play l"Escamateur in the French language and staged it for his sister Olga. The sister did not appreciate it, and Sasha wrote the epigram and made fun of himself in a self-derogatory way.
ЛИРИЧЕСКОЕ ОТСТУПЛЕНИЕ из Глава 28 "Вдоводел Непокорный" Третьего тома "Вдоводела Непокорного" Александра Резникова. A LYRICAL DIGRESSION from THE Chapter 28 `The Rebellious Widow-maker` of the Third Volume of the THE REBELLIOUS WIDOW-MAKER by Alexandre Reznikov http://artofwar.ru/r/reznikov_ ...
Oh, yeah! The Feodor Dostoyevsky School`s Republic ("Республика ШКИД")(1926) by Grigori Belykh & LEONID Panteleyev (also true is ALEXEY Panteleyev, as his real name was Alexey Yeremeyev) is a classical book for teenagers in Russia. Their pupils once played in the Revolution and Civil ...
Стихотворение от лица Джакомо Казановы (Giacomo Casanova) как главного героя возможного в будущем сериала. Не обращайте внимание, я так прикалываюсь! Ведь это - чистое сю-сю! Разве мужчине можно так? Он должен быть добрым и ... свирепым! Впрочем, этот стих можно использовать как ...
HEARTBRREAKING IDA Boris Pasternak fell in love for the first time rather late when he was 20 years old. He fell in love with Ida Wissotzkaya, the daughter of a wealthy Moscow merchant. It was love at first sight. The parents sent Ida to learn abroad. By that reason Pasternak asked ...
Мира Шамвэй ХОЧЕШЬ, ПОДАРЮ ЗВЕЗДУ? THE STAR GIFT by Myra Shumway. Myra Shumway is a character of the novel `Miss Shumway Waves a Wand` (1944) by British writer James Hadley Chase.