Poems Selected From Karamzin, Pushkin, Tyutchev, Lermontov, Count A. Tolstoy, Nikitin, Pleshcheyev, Nadson, and Sologub ( (1917-) )

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ACCENTED RUSSIAN READER,
POEMS
SELECTED FROM
KARAMZIN, PUSHKIN, TYUTCHEV, LERMONTOV,

A. TOLSTOY, NIKITIN, PLESHCHEYEV,
NADSON, and SOLOGUB.
COUNT
EDITED WITH
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS, and NOTES,
By
B. A.
RUDZINSKY,
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Lecturer in Russian, Glasgow and West 0} Scotland Commercial College.
Assisted by
STELLA GARDINER, M.A.
INTRODUCTION BY
Sir
DONALD MACALISTER,
K C.B.,
M.D..
LLD.
PRINCIPAL OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.
ALVA
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(1817-1875).
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67
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68
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74
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CONTENTS.
KARAMZIN.
"
Ah,
(1766-1826).
did not
know
thee.
."
CONTENTS
COUNT
To
TOLSTOY.
A.
(1817-1875).
69
Nature,
'
With sharp axe the birch tree

In a white mass rolls.
."
'
wounded.
is
."
...
NIKITIN.
(1824-1861).
Night's Stay in the Village.
"
Silently
night creeps down.
PLESHCHEYEV.
The
"
70
70
NADSON.
76
."
(1825-1894).
Christ-Child and the
Before thee
75
.
lies a
Hebrew
broad new way.
Children,
.
...
81
82
."
(1862-1887).
"
Awake, he in whose heart are

At the Bedside,
"
And
Remember.
alive.
88
."
88
89
."
90
Funeral,
SOLOGUB. (Bom
A Song,
"
O, my life is
"O,
I
Russia..
1864).
98
without bread.
100
."
."
love the sadness of thine endless plains,"
101
...
102
INTRODUCTION.
This
collection of typical Russian lyrics
who have
to aid learners
passed the
in their study of the language.
is
first
meant
stage
Mr. Rudzinsky's
'
Russian Reader," issued in 1916, has furnished

them with specimens of Turgeniev's prose,
accompanied by useful notes and vocabularies.

His second volume will introduce them to some
and to a number of
which the Russian outlook and
of Russia's national poets,
the
poems
in
temperament find expression. The short critical

and biographical notices will serve to indicate
each author's place in the literary history of his
country.
The
made
prose renderings of his verse are
A freer and more

severely literal.
idiomatic version might hinder rather than help
a student whose first concern is with the Russian
of design
language and its grammatical structure. When

he has mastered the translation of a poem, and
gained some insight into
he
will
do well
to
can sing or recite

give
in
him
their
first
of
meaning and mood,

learn it by heart, so that he
it aloud.
This method will
all
idiomatic
its
a store of beautiful
settings
and
forms.
words
The
INTRODUCTION
10
strongly- marked
of
recurring
rhythm
stress,
of the lines, the
will
rhythm
mind the
his
in
fix
and changing accentuation of the words.

He will thus accustom his organs to the difficulties of fluent utterance and articulation.
And,
he
will
the
catch
swing and
lastly, by degrees
elusive
of the
spirit
poem,
and thinking
its
feeling
art
its
for himself,
purport as the poet
in Russian, not in English.
If
he
is
thought
it,
of a literary
bent, he will find a fresh pleasure in the baffling

exercise of attempting to turn the terse
and vivid
Russian into good English (or Scots) verse of

the same lilt and measure.
have
pleasure in commending to British

a
Russian
students
text-book, printed in Scotland,
I
at the instance of a teacher
who
has done
much
Glasgow, and
already taking an
to further the study of Russian in
whose Scottish
active
part
in
pupils
are
transmitting
his
instruction
others.
DONALD MACALISTER.
The University
March
of Glasgow,
1917.
to
PREFATORY NOTE
This book has been prepared

that
value
to
all
literature, as
poetry has
fore
of
selection
in
Russian
to the present time
that
to
this
learners
will serve to give
and readers
them some
no volume
April,
1917.
in
this
great
language
collection, small though
and beauties of Russian verse.
Glasgow,
the
of
and
of Russian
There-
been published for British students.
we hope
be welcome
response to the suggestion
Russian Poems might be
interested
up
in
it
is,
will
country, and
insight into the inner spirit
KAPAM3HHT).
KARAMZIN
14
HMKOJIAM MMXAflJIOBMH'b KAPAM3MHT>,

1765-1826.
NICHOLAS KARAMZIN.
KARAMZIN'S
NICHOLAS
of great literary
of view,
he was the
as
Russian
of
first
sentimentalism,
"With Karamzin,"
and
poet,
from a
his
poems must
in the
was born
in
really
development of
says Prince Vyazemsky,

"
satirist),
are
historical point
to portray the true character
and
be considered as an important step

Russian poetry.
critic,
compositions
poetical
value, mainly
(1792-1878,
Russia the poetry
of sentiment, of love of Nature, of delicate reflections of

In Russian Poetry, for
thoughts, ideas, and impressions.
the first time, in spontaneous confession was said what the
heart feels, loves, hides, and guards."
Besides
his
poems, dissertations, and novels, Karamzin

"
produced
twelve
was
History
volumes.
of
the
Russian
Dominion
"
This publication was epoch-making.
the first time in Russian history that a prose
in
It
work en-
joyed such an immense success, and it may be taken as marking

the beginning of the linguistic and literary consciousness
of the Russian people.
Karamzin's greatest merit, however, consists in having

purified the Russian language from the dross of ChurchSlavonic words and constructions, by borrowing freely from
the store of the spoken language, and by following the simpler
construction and the shorter sentences of the French and
English languages.
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KARAMZIN
"AH,
"A
(From
Ah,
know
did not
life,
KNOW THEE!
DID NOT
17
to
Message
thee
didst disappear
..."
Women.")
thou, after giving
me
In the middle of bright spring days
Thou
I,
didst pass over to the abode of darkness
the
in
Destiny
I
hour of
first
my
was punished by
life,
could not caress thee, nor be caressed by thee
Others on the knees
Of beloved mothers have bloomed
And
Shed
tears
in
happiness,
amidst sorrowful shadows

in
streams
on
the
moss of
the
damp
ground,
On
the moss of thy grave
!.
But thine image dear and sacred

Is
imprinted
And
Thy
Thy
my bosom
united with the consciousness therein
gentle
to
in
disposition
remained
as
an
inheritance
me,
spirit
is
always with me.
With unseen hand
Thou
didst guard
my
inexperienced childhood
KARAMZ1N
18
the days of my youth didst draw

towards the good,
Thou
And
in
thou wast
my
conscience at the
moment
me
of
weaknesses.
I
shadow with
often embrace thy
And
recognise thee in the Hereafter
shall
love,
npecejiHTbCH = nepecejHiTkCH,
Letter b should here be pronounced like e (yo).
B-fcHHOCTi.
to
remove
to
another place.
eternity.
(lit.),
"
The above
Women
in
"
extract
is
from
printed in 1796.
vivid language the
of his mother,
who
It is
long
most
poem
Message
realistic as
it
to
portrays
and regret at the loss

769 when he was only three
poet's sorrow
died in
years old.
This
is
the whole
one of the most beautiful and touching parts of
poem
,,riocJiaHie kt> jKemiiHHaMT,."
KARAMZIN
19
THE SHORE.
After the storm and tossing
There
To
the dangers of the voyage,
all
(After)
of the waves,
no hesitation for the seamen
is
enter the peaceful port.
Let
Let
not be on the map
it
The
even be unknown
it
thought, the hope
There
if
delightful for them,
is
from troubles.
to free themselves
And
then they discover by a glance
On the shore, friends, kinsmen,

"
"
Oh happiness
they exclaim
!
And
fly into their arms.
Life
Death
There
thou art sea and tossing of the waves
thou art port and peace
will
be the reunion
Of those separated here by

I
Us
see,
see
you beckon
!.
Keep
place near you for (your) friends
EcTb-Jin
is
an old form of ecJiH,
This poem appeared for the

in
the wave.
to the mysterious shores
Dear shadows
1803.
It
is
2
if.
first
characteristic in
and thoughts about
life
Eperb^G6pen.,
shore.
time in a Russian magazine

its
and death.
melancholy sentiments
Death does not appear
KARAMZIN
20
terrible to the poet, but
of peace
same
many
Similarly in
takes place.
the
on the contrary he sees
in
it
the port
where the reunion with our dear departed ones
subject,
which seems
other
poems he develops
to have a peculiar fascination
for him.
In this
poem,
death of his
especially,
Karamzin was influenced by the
wife (1802).
first
THE SHADOW AND THE SUBSTANCE.

We
see
shadow
the
terrestrial
globe
somewhere
exists
Happiness
happiness in the dreams of this
of
there
is
no shadow without
substance.
Or
We
(less literally)
see joy's
Somewhere
shadow
is
joy
These two
poetry.
lines,
They
Karamzin,
in
our earthly dreaming,
no shadow without substance.
Cb-Stt.
(lit.),
world,
lighi.
written in 1822, are the last of Karamzin's
are
very
characteristic,
as
they
show
that
until his last days, remained, as he always was,
a genuine optimist.
nyuiKHirb.
PUSHKIN
22
AJIEKCAH^Pt CEPFBEBMHTj nyiHKMH'L.

17991837.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN.
PUSHKIN
"
ALEXANDER
the
Peter the
is
Russia's
Great of Poetry,"
national
who
poet;
out of foreign
material created something new, national, and Russian, and

left
imperishable models for future generations.
The chief
He is a poet
characteristic of his genius
of everyday
He
a lyrical poet.
life,
is
its
set free the
universality.
and above
a realistic poet,
all
Russian language from the
bondage of conventionalism. He was a great

is clear, plastic, and pure.
artist
his
style
'In
"
Soloviev (1853-1900, the philoso-
Pushkin," says
own
according to his
pher),
and
different
beings
separate
testimony, there were two
the
Apollo, and the most frivolous of

of the world.
calls
the
all
His youth was spent

of his youth the
poems
inspired
priest
of
the frivolous children
and Pushkin
in vanity,
pampered echoes of
folly
and passion."
"
"
Pushkin's works are
Ruslan and Ludmila
(romantic
"
poem)
Oleg
"
"
Boris
The Sage
Godunov (dramatic chronicle)
"
The Gypsies (poem)
The Prisoner
;
"
'
'
(ballad)
of the Caucasus
"
"
"
Eugene Onegin (Don-Juanesque

masterpiece, on which Tchaikovsky composed
(poem)
poem, his
his famous Opera)
"
The
"
Captain's Daughter
(prose story)
PUSHKIN
'
The Queen
23
"
of
Spades
(prose story), etc.; besides
many
other lyrics and occasional pieces.
"Russian poetry," said Merimee (1803-1870, well-known

French writer and admirer of Pushkin,
whom
he called the
"
greatest poet of his epoch),
seeks
first
of
all
for truth,
and
'
beauty appears after by itself ..."

blossoms in a marvellous way of
prose."
With Pushkin poetry

itself, from very sober
nyillKHHT^
24
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nyuiKHHi>
27
TaMi> BepcToio 2 He6biBajion

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Tyqii,
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28
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p'ekoh
Bt> uiaTpax-b n30,n;paHHbix'b HOHyiorb.
KaKi> BOJibHOCTb, Becejib hxtj HOHjien,
M MHpHbitt coht> no.n'b HeSecaMH.

Menmy KOJiecaMH Teji^Pb,
ri0Jiy3aB'BIUeHHbIX'b KOBpElMM,
nyiUKMHt
29
ceMbH Kpyroivrb
TOTOBHTb yJKHH-b; Bl HHCTOMt nOJTE
TopHTfe oroHb;
3a uiaTpoMi.
IlacyTCH kohh;
2
PyHHoii Me^B'BAb jiemHTi, Ha bojte.
Bee >khbo nocpeAH CTeneft:
3a66TH MHpHHH
ToTOBbix-B
M
M
ct>
ceMeft,
yTpoMi>
n-BCHH JKeH-b
3
,
bt>
ny-rb HeAajibHiii.
H KpHKT.
fl-BTei'l,
3BOH'b nOXOAHOH HaKOBEUIbHU.
Ho
Ha Ta6opb KoneBoft
HHCXOAHT'b COHHOe MOjrcaHbe
bott>
CJIHUIHO
BT>
THIHHH'E CTeilHOH
co6aK-b na KOHeii pmaHbe.
JlHuib
Jiafi
OrHH
Be-sji^
norauieHbi:
JlyHa ciflerb
OflHa cb He6ecH0ii BbimHHbi
CnoKoiiHO Bee.
THxitt Ta6opT> 03apneTb.
OEBAJTb.
MpaHHblH CKaJIbl,
n'BHHTCH
H
BaJIbl,
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M HaAO MHoii KpHârb opJibi,
/],po6HCb
M ponmerb
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nyiiiKMH
bo
f>
6jiemyTT> cpejjB bojihiictom Mrjibi
BepuiHHw ropt.
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M
ct>
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BCK)
rpoxoTOMt ynajTB,
TECHHHy MemjJJ
CKaJlT.
3aropoAHJTB,
11
TepeKa Morynitt
Baji-B
OCTaHOBHJI'b.
Bapyrt, MCTomaacb m npucMnpiBt,

TepeKt, Tbi npepBajrL cboh peBB;
HO
3a,HHMXTb BOJIHTj
TH'BB'B
ynopHBIM
npouiHS-B cH Bra.
r
TBI SaTOnHJITj,
OCBIip'fen'feB'B,
Cboh 6pera.
npopBaHHbiii ooBaJiT)
flOJiro
HeTajioii rpyijoio Jie>Kajn>,
TepeKi>
3Jioii
noflB hhmt> 6 hmkji'h

r
M nflJIBK) BOfll>
M uiyMHOH n^Hon opomaji'B
JleAflHBiii CBOA'B.
M
H
nyTB no HeMB uinpomH mejiB,

KOHB CKaKaJIB, II BJieKCH BOJIT>,
li
CBoero
Bep6jiioj],a Bejn.
GTenHott Kyneu.'B,
TjX'h
HBIH B MHHTCH JIMUI'B 96jTB, 2

r
He6ccB
?KHJieii,B.
PUSHKIN
31
A WINTER MORNING.
Last
thou
night,
grew
dost
remember, the snow-storm
furious,
Over the murky sky the mist
The moon,
like a pale
floated
Looked yellow through the sombre
And
thou wert
And now
Under
smear,
clouds,
sitting sorrowful,
window
look out from the
the blue skies,
Like magnificent carpets,
The snow
lies,
sun
glittering in the
The
leafless forest
And
the pine through the hoar-frost looks green,
And
the stream glitters under the ice.
'
alone looks black,
BeM6pi. -Biepa B64epoivn> yesterday evening.

Hpo3paHHbiii (lit.), translucent.
;
The above poem was

from the Caucasus,
in
written by Pushkin after his return
November,
1829.
PUSHKIN
32
TO THE
POET.
SONNET.
Poet, do not over-value public favour
The momentary noise of enthusiastic praises will

Thou wilt hear the judgment of the fool and the
the cold crowd
But remain
Thou
Go
and
firm, calm,
art a king
pass away,
laughter of
live
stern.
Along the
alone.
road
free
whither the free mind draws thee,
Maturing the
fruits of
Not claiming rewards
They
beloved ideas,
for the noble deed.
Thou
are in thee, thyself.
art
thyself
thine
own
highest tribunal,
Thou more
rigorously than
Art thou pleased with

Pleased ?
Then
it,
let
all
canst estimate thine
exacting artist ?
the crowd abuse
it,
And
spit
And
with childish petulance shake thy tripod.
Prince
on the
altar
Bariatinsky
where thy
fire
(1800-1844,
invited to examine the papers

of Pushkin, wrote in
own work.
one of
burns,
lyrical
poet),
which remained
who was
after the death
"
his letters to his friend
Can
you imagine what astonished me most in all these poems ?

Pushkin thinker
Who would
Abundance of thoughts
!
"
have thought it ?
"
And as an example of this the above sonnet
(written in 1830)
may be
taken.
To
the Poet
"
33
PUSHKIN
DEMONS.
BALLAD.
The
clouds scurry, the clouds whirl,
Unseen the moon

Lights up the flying snow,
The
I
sky
drive,
The
It
gloomy, the night
is
gloomy.
is
drive in the open plain,
little bell
ding-ding-ding
fearsome, fearsome in spite of one's-self,
is
Amid
unknown
the
plains
" Hey, go on, driver !"..." There's no

For the horses,
sir,
The snow-storm
heavy
is
it
my
shuts
All the roads are blocked,
Though
We
kill
(you)
are lost.
In the plain a
And
"
He
we
are
demon
to
is
not to be seen,
do
leads us, seemingly,
turns us aside.
Look
there, there he plays,
blows, he spits on
now
Here
The
eyes,
me, a track
What
me
into a ravine he pushes
shying horse
possibility
PUSHKIN
34
There
He
weird verst-post
like a
stood up in front of
There he flashed
And
me
a little spark
like
disappeared in the empty darkness."
The
Unseen the moon

The
We
sky
gloomy, the night
is
have no strength to
The
little bell
The
horses stopped
is
gloomy.
circle farther
suddenly became
.
silent,
What
is
there in the
plain ?
'
Who
knows them
"
:
a tree-stump or a wolf ?
The snow-storm becomes

wails
The
quick-witted horses snort
There again
Only
farther
his eyes
burn
in the
darkness
horses started off again
The
little
see
bell
on he jumps,
The
furious, the
ding-ding-ding
the phantoms assembled
In the midst of the whitening plains.
Endless, formless,
In the
dim
play of the moonlight
snow-storm
PUSHKIN
35
Whirled the manifold demons,

Like the leaves
How many
What do
of
November
in
them
Where
are they driven to ?
they sing so plaintively
Are they burying the hobgoblin,
Are they giving the witch
The
in
marriage
Unseen the moon

The
sky
is
gloomy, the night
The demons run swarm
is
after
gloomy.
swarm
In the boundless height,
With
Rending
my
m6hh (M04b,
H-6tt.
Bepcra, two
and moan
plaintive wail
n.f.,
thirds of
flOMOBOfi, familiar
heart
might, power), there
a mile
spirit,
is
no power, might.
also verst-post.
house demon,
who
lives,
according to the belief
of ancient Slavs, in every house.

4
BijibMa, witch, old hag who, according
acts with devil's
to
the people's superstition,
power.
In the above ballad, in a
charming
allegorical form,
gives a wonderful picture of a snow-storm,

just as a
Russian would
sledge through the

night.
feel
it
when
snowy and deserted
Pushkin
and describes
travelling in a
it
wooden
plains during the winter
PUSHKIN
36
THE
From
The
GYPSIES' CAMP.
the
poem "Gypsies."
crowd
gypsies in a noisy
In Bessarabia
wander about.
They to-day above
the river
In tattered tents spend the night.
As freedom gay
And
is
their night's stay
their peaceful sleep
Among
the wheels
under the
skies.
of the carts
Half-covered with rugs,
Burns the
fire
the family around
Prepares the supper
The
horses graze
The tame
bear
Everything
The
in the
open
field
lies at liberty.
lively
amid the steppes
peaceful cares of the families
Ready
And
is
behind the tent
for their short journey in the morning,
the songs of the
women and
the shout of
the children,
And
the clang of the field-anvil.
But there over the nomad camp
Descends a sleepy
And
one hears
Only the barking

horses.
silence,
in the stillness of the steppe
of dogs
and the neighing
of
PUSHKIN
The
fires
everywhere are put out
The moon
Everything quiet.
Lonely from the
And
1
Bessarabia,
It lies
S.W.
37
celestial
illuminates the
still
of Russia, taken finally
shines
height
camp.
by Russia from Turkey
in 1812.
between Austria, Rumania, the Black Sea, and Russia proper.
Most
of the gypsies in Bessarabia have a trained bear with
them
in their
As they pass through the villages and towns, they make the
bear perform and collect money from the spectators. This, along with
fortune-telling, singing, and dancing, is one of their means of livelihood.
wanderings.
>KeHi>.
gen. pi. of n<eHa, wife, here used in the sense of /KeHimrm,,
of women.
From
the Caucasus (KaBKa3T>) Pushkin went to Bessarabia
(EeccapaSin) through Crimea (KpbiMT>), and there he learned

the life and customs of gypsies wandering in the steppes.
Impressed by what he saw, he wrote
"
esque
poem
The poem
Camp
called
his beautiful
"
Gypsies
and pictur-
(LJuraHH).
begins with the description of the Gypsies'
given above.
PUSHKIN
38
THE AVALANCHE.
Dashing
The
against the
gloomy
rocks.
breakers howl and froth,
And above me
And
And
the eagles scream,
the pine forest murmurs,
amidst the wavering mists
The summits
From
glitter
of the mountains.
there once an avalanche tore
away
And
with heavy rumble
And
the whole pass between the rocks
fell
down,
Blocked up,
And
the mighty
wave
of
Terek
Stopped.
Suddenly, drained and quieted,
Terek, thou didst check thy roaring
But the stubborn wrath
of the
waves behind
Pierced the snow.
Thou, becoming
Thy
furious, didst overflow
banks,
And
for a long time the broken avalanche
Lay
in
And
an unmelted mass,
the angry Terek under
And
And
noisy froth
The
it
was running,
with the spray of the waters

it
icy vault.
splashed
PUSHKIN-
39
And
a broad path passed over
And
the horse galloped, and the ox sauntered,
And
led his camel
The
steppe merchant,
it,
Where now only (Eolus sweeps
A
1
Terek (TepeKi>),
rdpu) and
by,
dweller of the skies.
falling
a river rising in the Caucasian mountains (KaBKaacKift

into the
Caspian Sea (KacnittCKoe M6pe).
It
runs
along the Darial Gorge (JtapianbCKOe ym&iie), which crosses the Caucasian
Range (KaBKa3CKifi Xpe6eTT>) from north to south.
2
Sojit., CEolus, fantastic
being of the ancient Greeks
the king of winds.
Caucasus was for Pushkin what Switzerland and
Italy
were for Byron. He visited Erzerum (9p3epyMT>), principal

town in Turkish Armenia, in 1829, in order to witness the
war between the Russians and the Turks in Asia Minor.
"
"
Journey to Erzerum
(riyTeiii6cTBie bt> 3p3epyMt), and many poems, in which
he describes the various phenomena of nature, and gives
After his travels he wrote his diary,
In this poem we have a vivid

impressions of his travels.
description of an avalanche which fell towards the end of
June, 1827.
In his diary he tells us that such
phenomena
happen generally every seven years, often causing the death

of many travellers and mountain dwellers.
TOTHEBTx
TYUTCHEV
42
GEAOPT) MBAHOBMHTj TIOTHEBTj.

18031873.
THEODORE TYUTCHEV.
TYUTCHEVS
THEODORE
ing pictures of
his
work
is
composed
nature, and of yearning desire
of glow;
and
all
very melodious.
verses are
Turgeniev (1818-1883) says of him that he is one of the

most remarkable of Russian poets. In his works it is easy
to trace the great epoch to which he belonged, and which was
so brightly and strongly represented in Pushkin.
other elements in his poetry are the purely lyrical.
his
poems are merely technical compositions;
they are
all
invented,
in
but have
The
all
That
grown
Owing
tree.
him above
tions of
would seem
written to celebrate an actual event, as
with Goethe (1749-1832).
on the
it
is
to
say,
precious
is
that
the case
they are not
by themselves, like
to this
The only
None of
quality
the
we
fruit
can see
things the influence of Pushkin, the tradi-
whose school he continued.

thoughts of Tyutchev never appear to the reader
but they always harmonise with a picture
as abstractions
drawn from the world
of soul
and from nature.
TKDTHEBTj
43
CJIE3M.
Cjie3H jiioacKifl, o,
cjie3ti
jnojjcKm,
JIbeTecb bbi paHHefi h n63flHett nopoft, 1

JIbeTecb 6e3B fecTHHH jiteTecb He3pHMbm.
r
HeHCTOIU,HMbIH, HeHCHHCJIHMblfl,
JIbeTecb,
Bb oceHb
KaKb
jibioTCH CTpyii 2 flOHêBLifl
rjiyxyio, nopoio
hohhoA.
TIOTHEBt
44
BECHA.
3HMa HeâpoMt
3Jihtch:
IlpouiJia en nopa,
BeCHa
BT>
OKHO CTyHHTCH
rOHHTT> co ^Bopa.
Bee 3acyeTHJiocb
Bee rOHHTb 3IIMy
BOHT>,
HeS'B
?KaBOpOHKJI
b-b
YjKt nOflHHJIH TpeBBOHt. 1
3HMa eme xjiononeTt
Ha BeCHy BOpWTb,
Ta ett bt> rjia3a xoxoneTb, 2
H nyme
jihiiib
myMHTb
BsS'BCHJiacb B^^bivia
3Jian
M, CH^ry 3axBaT,
IlycTHJia, yS'Brafl,
Bt npeKpacHoe
BecH'fe
ii
ahth.
ropfl Majio:
yjviHJiacfl bt> CH'fery,
JIHIIIb
pyMHH'BH CTaJia
HanepeK6pT> Bpary.
TIOTHEBTj
45
BECEHHflfl TP03A.
JIk)6jik)
Koraa
rpo3y
bt>
HanajrE Man,
BeceHHiii nepBBiii rpoivrB,
KaK-B
6bi
rpoxo
iieTT>
p-EBBHCH
b"b
ii
iirpan,
HeS'B roJiy66ivn>.
rpeMHTT> pacnaTbi MOJio^bie,

BOTTb flOJK^HK'b 6pBI3HyjIT>, nblJIB JieTHTt,
riOBHCJIH nepjIBI flOJKAeBBIfl,
COJIHIl,e
HHBBI 30JIOTHT"b.
Cl. TOpBI 6'BTKIIT'B nOTOBTB IipOBOpHBIH,
Bt> jrEcy He MOJiKHerB nTHîii raivrB;
raivrB
Bee
jtechoh h iiiyMb HaropHBiii
BTOpiiT-B Becejio rpoMaivrB.
TYUTCHEV
46
TEARS.
HUMAN
You
You
fall
early
fall
In dark
nopa
(lit.),
and
fall in secret,
Inexhaustible,
You
human
tears,
late,
you
fall
unseen,
numberless,
as the rain-drops
autumn,
season, time.
tears
fall
in the night time.
CTpyn
(lit.),
stream, current.
TYUTCHEV
47
SPRING.
The
winter not without reason grows wroth
Her season
is
past,
Spring knocks
And
at the
window
drives her out of doors.
And
everything has begun to
stir,
Everything drives the winter away,
And
Have
the larks in the sky

already raised their chime.
Winter
makes trouble,
still
And grumbles
at the spring,
But she laughs
And
in
her face,
only clamours more.
The angry
witch grew furious
And, snatching up the snow,
Threw
it,
At the
pretty child.
running away,
For spring
She washed
And became
was but
it
little
herself in the
concern
snow,
only rosier
In spite of her foe.

1
2
3
Tpe3B6HT., chime or treble peal, ringing of
XoxoTaTb
bt,
ivia3a
(lit.),
to
BfeflbMa, see Pushkin's poem
bells, generally
laugh in the eyes.

"
Demons."
holiday ringing.
TYUTCHEV
48
A SPRING STORM.
I
LIKE the storm in the beginning of May,
When
As
if
Spring's
frolicking
Rumbles
first
thunder,
and playing,
in the blue sky.
The young thunder

There the
rolls,
rain splashes, the dust
flies,
Rainy pearls are pendant,
And
The
the sun gilds the cornfields.
brisk
stream rushes from the
hill,
In the forest the clamour of the birds never hushes
And
the clamour of the forest and the mountain uproar-
All merrily
accompany the thunders.
JIEPMOHTOBT).
LERMONTOV
3U
MMXAMJTL lOPbEBMHT, JIEPMOHTOB b.

18141841.
LERMONTOV.
LERMONTOV,
MICHAELa lyric
tially
He
romanticist.
is
Pushkin, was essen-
like
poet, but unlike Pushkin, he was a true

one of the most eminent and fascinating
whole range of Russian literature.

are very beautiful and touching, and many of
figures in the
are
poems
striking
examples
of
vividness
and simplicity of treatment.

Among his most celebrated works are
"
Days
(the
"
Russia)
first
psychological
"
The Demon
novel
of
"A
His
his
lyrics
longer
conception
Hero
of our
which appeared
in
a vivid description
(poem giving
"
The
and customs)
The
Merchant
Ivan
of
the
Tsar
Vasilievitch
Song
"
Kulashnikov
(poem, his masterpiece), etc.
and Caucasian
of Caucasian scenery
life-
"
'
Lermontov was
in
of Scottish extraction.
The founder
of his
George Learmont, who emigrated

company with other Scotsmen to Russia in the Seven-
family
is
said to have been
teenth Century.
Alexander Herzen
man
of letters,
French
(1812-1870) a distinguished Russian

to blend German philosophy,
who endeavours
political theory,
and English common-sense with his

Lermontov, who was a
"
Lermontov belongs
as follows
original Russian nature, characterises
personal friend of
his,
LERMONTOV
Our
entirely to our generation.
take
to
the
in
part
generation was too young
and
Roused by the
1826.
December,
conspiracy
51
revolt
great
executions and exile.

"
Silenced by force and suppressing
to conceal
its
and
feelings
were these ideas
Not
to live
upon
its
its
of
it
day,
tears,
ideas.
the
14th
saw only
it
learned
And what
those of civilising liberalism and of
but doubts, negations, and thoughts of madness.

Accustomed to such sensations, Lermontov could not find a
progress
in
refuge
poetry as did Pushkin.
lyric
scepticism weighted his spirit in
Sad and
enjoyments.
brows.
We
meet
this
all
stern thought left

in all
The
iron load of
his reveries, in all his

its
impress on his
his productions.
It
was no
abstract idea which sought to express itself in the imagery

of poetry.
No
in his writings are reflected his
To
own power.
his
own
anguish,
a truly great clearness of perception
he added boldness of utterance without dissimulation, with
no
fear of criticism.
idle children of
and
satiety.
struggled or
press
his
He was
considered to be one of those
an aristocratic house,
People refused to see
how much he had
who perish from ennui

how Lermontov had
suffered before daring to ex-
ideas, although these ideas were becoming
more
With the ordinary

generally accepted from day to day.
man resentment and hatred meet with more indulgence
than maturity of thought and that aloofness which does not
share his
common
hopes and fears."
JIEPMOHTOB'b
52
,,
KOTRA BOJIHYETCfl JKEJITBIOIIJAfl

."
HMBA
.
Koivja BOJiHyeTCH wtejiT'Eiomafl HHBa,

]/[
CB'BJKill
JTECb UiyMHT-B npii SBybTE B'BTepKa,
npHneTCH
bt>
ca^y MajiMHOBan cjiHBa
rioAt T'BHbio cjiaAOCTHOtt 3eueHaro jracTKa;
Korâ, pocofi o6pbi3raHHbra ayniHCTOii
PyMAHbiMt BenepoMi.
Hst-noflt KycTa
HJib
mh-b
yTpa
bt> âci. 3JiaTofi,
nkajûmrb cepeSpHCTbiii
IlpHB'BTJIHBO KHBaeTt rOJIOBOft;
Korâ
CTyêHLiii KJiionb
M, norpyjKaH
nrpaerb no OBpary
Mbicjib bt> KaKoft-TO
CMyTHbift coH-b,
JleneneT-b mh-b TaiiHCTBeHHyio cary
TlpO MHpHblH Kpaft, OTKyâ MMHTCH OHT.:
Torâ cMMpHexcH ayuiH
Moeii
TpeBora,
Tor,n,a pacxoflHTCH Mopinimbi Ha qejink,

14 cnacTbe h Mory nocrarHyTb Ha aeMjrfe,
BTb
HeSecax-b h BMjKy Bora.
JIEPMOHTOBT)
KA3AHBH
KOJIblEEJIBHAfl ITBCHH.
Ciih, MJiajjeHeHT.
mom npeKpacHbift,
BaiouiKii-Saio,
THXO
53
CMOTpiITTj M'ECHH'b HCHblft
Bl> KOJILl6eJIb TBOK).
CKa3biBaTb h CKa3KH,
OaHy
Il'BceHKy cnoio;
Tbi
jkt, jjpeiviJiH,
3aKpbiBinn rjia3KH,
BaiouiKii-Saio.
TIo
KaMHHM-b CTpyHTCH Tepeia>, 2

rijiemeTT) MyTHbitt Baji^;
3jioh neneH-b 3 noji3eTb Ha 6epen>,
ToHIITb CBOH KHHJKaJIT>;
Ho
OTeu,-b
tboh
3aKajieH-b
CTapbift b6hht>,
bt> 6016.
Cm*, MajiioTKa, 6y^b cnoKoeH'b,

BaK)uiKii-6ai6.
Caivrb
y3Haeuib
BpaHHoe
SyjjeTb
Bpeivin
/KHTbe;
Cm'Ijio Bfl'BHeuib
Hory
b-b
CTpeMH
fl
B03Menib pyjKbe.
câeJibne 6oeBoe
lIIejIKOM'b pa30IUbK).
JTEPMOHTOBt
54
Cmi, flHTH Moe po#Hoe,

BaK)inKH-6aro.
BoraTbipb
tbi
Syêmb cb
BHjjy
Ka3aKi> flyuiOH.
rTpoBomaTb Te6fl h Btiiiay:

Tbi MaxHeuib pyKoft.
CKOJIbKO ropbKHXB CJie3B yKpaAKOtt

fl BB Ty HOHb npOJIbK)
Cmi, moh aHrejit, thxo, cjiaflKO,
!
BaioinKH-6ai6.
CTaHy h tockoh TOMMTbcn,

Be3yT-BUIHO HKflaTB,
CTaHy
i^'Bjibift
Ilo
CTaHy
nyiviaTb,
Tbi
Cmi
jieuh mojihtbch,
HOâMB raâTb;
'/kt>,
bt>
hto CKynaeuib
nymoMB
Kpaio.
noKa 3a6oTB He 3Haeuib,
BaioHiKM-6aio.
,HaMB Te64 h Ha
.ijopory
06pa30KB cbhtoh;
Tbi ero, mojihch Bory,
â
CTaBB nepe^B co66h.

totobhcb bb Soft onacHbiw,
IIOMHH MaTb CBOK).
CnH, MJiaaeHeiTB
Mofi npeKpacHBitt,
BaK)HiKH-6ai6.
JIEPMOHTOBT)
55
qAIHA>KM3HM.
Mli nbewcL
m3t> nairni 6biTin
Ct 3aKpHTbIMH OHaMH,
Kpaa
Cbohmh me cne3aMH.
3jiaTtie OMOHiiBt
Korâ ?Ke, nepejrb CMepTbio,

3aBH3Ka ynaflaeT-b,
PI
ct> rjia3T>
Bee, hto oSojibinajio Hact,
Ob 3aBH3K0fi HCHe3aeT b,
,
Torâ mh
BH.niiM'b,
hto nycTa
BbiJia 3JiaTaH naiiia,
Hto
bt> Heii
HanwTOKb
hto OHa He
6bijib
Hama
MeHTa,
56
JTEPMOHTOBT,
HMiyin.
BpaT1> 06HTejIH CBHTOH
CTOfljit
npocflmift noflaHHbH,
Be3CHJibHtiH, 6ji4ahhh h xyôtt

Ott> rjiaâ,
I'l
rnkmnu h CTpajjaHbH.
KycKa
JiHiub xjrb6a oh-b npocHJi'b
B30pi>
HBJIflJIT,
yKHBVK) MyKy,
KTO-TO KaMeHb nOJIOKHJIT,
Bt
ero npoTHHyTyio
pyny
TaKT> h mojimjiT) TBoeft jiioSbh,

Cti cjie3aMH ropbKHMH, ctj tockoio;
TaKi. qyBCTBa Jiyqnim moh
HaB'iK b oSiwaHyTbi to66k>.

r
BOJIHbl M JIIO^M.
Bojihh KaTHTCH oflHa 3a flpyrow
Ct> iuiecKOM-b h uiyMOMT> rjiyxHMi;
npOXOJJHTb HHHTOJKHOH TOJinOK)
TaKJKe o^Hirb 3a flpyrHivn>
JIlOflH
BoJIHaM'b HXT> HeBOJIH H
XOJIOfl'b flopo>Ke
3H6HHbixT> nojiy^HH jiyHeii;

JIlOflH XOTHTb MM'BTb flyUIH.
.
^yiUH
BT>
HUX-b
H HTO
BOJIHT> XOJIOflH'BH
>Ke
!
JIEPMOHTOBTd
57
MOHOJIOFL.
riOB-fepb,
HMHTOHteCTBO eCTb SjiarO
Bl>
3fl'EUIHeMT.
CB'ET'E
Kt>
qeMy
rjiy66Kifl
no3HaHbH, majKAa
cjiaBbi,
TajiaHTt h ntuiKan jiioSoBb cboSo^w,
Korâ mh
hxt.
Mm, a^th
CBBepa, KaKi> sji.'BniHiH pacreHbH,
IJ,B'BTeMT>
ynoTpe6nTb He
Hefl6uro,
MOffieMi.
SbiCTpo yBflflaeMb.
KaKb cojraue 3HMHee Ha CBpoivrb HeSocKJioH'B,

TaKb nacMypHa Hui3Hb Hauia, TaKi> Hejjojiro
Eh OAHOo6pa3Hoe TeqeHbe.
.
M
M
flyiHHO
K&meTCK Ha pOAHHE,
cepauy th/kko, n Ayma TOCKyerb.

He 3Han hh jiioSbh, hh jipfm6u cjiaflKOft,
Cpe^b 6ypb nycTbixb tomhtch lOHOCTb Hauia
II
SbicTpo 3Ji66bi Hjjb ee
M HaMb
M yacb
o-CTHJioii
ropbKa
hhhto Ayuin He
Mpawn>,
>kh3hh Hauia,
BecejiiiTb.
!.
LERMONTOV
58
"WHEN THE YELLOWING CORNFIELD

IS
When
WAVING
the yellowing cornfield
And
the fresh forest
And
the crimson berry hides
Under
murmurs
is
."
waving,
to the wailing of the wind,
sprinkled with fragrant
When,
When
the chilly fountain
me
Lisps to
its
is
its
And
And
the furrows on
I
some sad dream,
a mysterious legend
my
the throbbing of
Then
head
playing along the ravine
thought into
About the peaceful land whence
Then
hour of morning,
the silvery lily-of-the-valley to
welcome beckons with
And, sinking
my
it
hurries
heart
is
stilled.
forehead are smoothed,
can attain happiness on the earth,
in
dew
In the purple evening or the golden
From under the bush

In
the garden
itself in
the sweet shade of the green leaflet
the
Heavens
see
God
me
LERMONTOV
59
COSSACK'S CRADLE SONG.

Sleep,
my
pretty child,
Rock-a-bye,
The
moon
bright
silently looks
Into thy cradle.

I
shall
I
And
tell
fairy-tales,
shall sing a
fall
song
asleep, thou, having closed thine eyes,
Rock-a-bye.
Over the stones
ripples the Terek,
The muddy wave splashes

The wicked Tchetchenian crawls on
;
his
Sharpens
But thy father
Hardened
Sleep,
my
in
little
dagger
is
an old warrior
battle
one, be calm,
Rock-a-bye.
Thou
The
shalt
know
warlike
the shore
life
thyself
the
time will come
Boldly thou shalt thrust thy foot in the stirrup
And
I
thou shalt take the
rifle.
the war saddle

Shall embroider with silk
Sleep,
mine own dear
Rock-a-bye.
child,
LERMONTOV
60
Thou
be a champion in figure
shalt
And
a Cossack in spirit.
shall
go out to see thee
Thou
shalt
How many
I
my
wave with thy hand
bitter tears secretly
shed that night
shall
Sleep,
off
angel, silently, sweetly,
Rock-a-bye.
myself with longing,
shall torture
shall
shall think that
Wait disconsolate.
pray all day long,

"
"
shall
in the nights
spae
thou
In a strange country
feelest lonely
.
Sleep then, while thou knowest not troubles,
Rock-a-bye.
I
shall give thee for thy
An
holy image
Thou, when praying

Set
it
in
And when
my
to
God,
front of thee.
preparing for the dangerous battle.
Remember
Sleep,
journey
thy mother
pretty child,
Rock-a-bye.
BaHTb means
and 6aiomKH-0aio
to
relate,
means
to
6afiKa = 6aioiJiKa means
tell;
"
literally
tell
the story,"
but
tale,
has
story;
here
no
LERMONTOV
special
It
significance.
is
the
usual
"
equivalent to the English

2
accompaniment of cradle songs,
Rock-a-bye."
"
TepeKT., see Pushkin's poem
Heqem.
Caucasian
tributary
or
Avalanche."
neqeHem,, Tchetchenian. The Tchetchenians are one
tribes,
on the banks of the
dwelling
of the
River Terek, and
its
Sunzha (CyHma).
The above poem

tic
61
and unadorned
native savour
is
good example of Lermontov's realisEvery word in it has the
style of writing.
and homeliness of
and every feeling expressed
is
Cossack mother's speech,
one that she would naturally
feel.
But
that
to understand this
the
Cossacks
male member
is
form
bound
poem, the reader must also realise

a special body in which every
to render military service to Russia,
practically for life (the exceptions that exist apply only to
a priest, a teacher, or one of four brothers).

calling,
every baby
is
To
devoted from the cradle.
this
high
LERMONTOV
62
THE CUP OF
We
LIFE.
drink from the cup of existence
With closed
eyes,
Moistening the golden rims
With our own
tears.
But when, before death, from our eyes
The band
And
all
that
falls
away,
charmed us
Disappears with the band,
Then we
Was
see that
That the drink
And
empty
the golden cup,
that
it
in
it
was
was not ours
dream,
LERMONTOV
63
A BEGGAR.
At
He
the gate of the sacred monastery
stood, asking for charity,
Weak,
From
He
And
pale,
and thin
hunger,
and
thirst,
only asked for a piece of bread

look bespoke living torment,
his
And someone
put a stone
Into his outstretched
Thus
With
suffering.
prayed for thy love,
bitter tears,
Thus my
hand
with longing
best feelings
For ever are cheated by
thee.
WAVES AND PEOPLE.

The waves
With
The
flow one after another
sullen dashing
and noise
people pass by in a meaningless crowd
Also one after another.
To
the waves their bondage and coldness are dearer
Than
the sultry rays of
People want to have souls
The
souls in
them
midday
.
and what then
are colder than the waves
?
!
LERMONTOV
64
MONOLOGUE.
Believe that to be nothing
To
is
boon
what end are deep knowledge,
in this
world
Talent, and ardent love of freedom,
Since
we cannot make
use of them
the children of the north, like the local plants,
We,
Flourish not for long
we
fade quickly
As
the winter sun on the grey horizon
So
is
Its
monotonous flow
And
And
our
it
the heart
Knowing
And
And
is
gloomy, as transient
.
feels stifling in the
mother country,
heavy and the soul yearns.
neither love nor sweet friendship,
Amidst the
And
as
life
futile
storms our youth pines away
quickly the poison of evil darkens

for us
is
bitter the chilled cup of
nothing cheers our soul again.
for fame,
thirst
it,
life,
TOJICTOH.
TOLSTOY
66
rPAa/L
KOHCTAHTMHOBMTb
AJIEKCBft
TOJICTOM,
18171875.
COUNT ALEXIS TOLSTOY.

ALEXIS TOLSTOY
COUNT
poet.
lyrical
All
his
His
lyrics are full
widely known as a
Pushkin.
is
versatility recalls that of
of charm, tenderness, music, colour,
No
and harmonious form.
Russian poet since Pushkin has

His
written such tender lyrics of love, spring, and dawn.
songs have inspired Tchaikovsky and
other
well
composers.
Besides a whole series of personal lyrics he wrote
"
"
Serebryany
Terrible";
(tragic
all
dramatic poems on
Damascus," and
Death
"
known
Prince
Ivan
of
the
Ivanovitch"; and "Tsar Boris"
written in verse,
trilogy,
various themes
of
novel)
(historical
"The Tsar Feodor
"
stage-plays)
Don
"
Mary Magdalene
";
on
epics
"
St.
Juan,"
and
John
number
of
satires.
It
may be added
that
no
surpasses
Prince Serebryany
scrupulous adherence to
English three times.
historical
novel
in
Russian
"
"
facts.
in
It
its
artistic
setting
and
has been translated into
TOJICTOK
67
KT) nPHPOfl-B.
EjiarocjiOBJiHK) BacT>,
ji-feca,
JJojIHHbl, HHBbI, ropbl, BOflbl,
EjiarocjiOBJiHK)
h CBo66ay
II
rojiy6bm He6eca
n6coxi>
M
14
mom
6jiarocjiOBJiHK),
9Ty 6-taHyio cyMy,

CTent orb Kpan 11 #0 Kpan,
H HOHH TbMy,
VI
COJIHIja CB'ET'b,
OflHHOKyK) TponHHKy,
Flo Koett, HMmift,
M b^
II
h nay,
nojrE Ka?K,iiyio SbiJiHHKy,
bt> He6'fe
O, eCJIH
6l,
KajK^yio SB'kafly
MOrTb BCK) ?KM3Hb CMBUiaTb H,
Bck) Ayiuy bm'ect'e
Mon>
ct>
bimh cjiMTb:
moh oS-bHTba
0, ecjiH
6t>
fl Baci>,
Bpani, Apy3bH h 6paTbH,
bt>
bck> npupofly 3aKJiK)HHTb
TOJICTOft
68
OCTPOK) CTBKMPOfl PAHEHA BEPE3A.
OcTpoio ckKHpott p&HeHa Sepeaa,

Ro Kopi cpe6piicToft * noKarajiHCb cnesM.
Th
He njiaib, 6epe3a, S-bflHaH, He cbryii,

PaHa He cinepTejibHa, BbijrBHHHibCH kt> jrBTy,
Byfleuib KpacoBaTbcn, jihctbamh

JIhhii>
y6paHa
SojibHoe cep^ne He 3aji'bwn> paHbi.
ifPRROVl KJIYBMTCH
B^BJIOK).
rpflflOH KJiySHTCH CrBJIOK)

Hafl-b oaepoMT, TyiwaHb;
TOCKOK)
,0,66pblfl MOJIOfleil.'b
r6peMT> odyHHb.
He
ô-B'BKy
6'BJi'BeTCfl
TyMaHHan rpnâ,
,
Pa3CBeTCH, pa3B BeTCH,
rope HHKor,o,a
."
TOLSTOY
69
TO NATURE.
I
BLESS you, forests,
Valleys, corn-fields,
I
And
hills,
waters,
Freedom
bless
blue skies
And my work
bless,
And
this
And
the steppe from end to end,
And
light of sun,
And
the lonely footpath
poor wallet,
Along which,
and darkness of
a beggar,
travel,
And
every blade of grass in the
And
every star in the sky
0,
if
0,
my
All
if
could mingle
could in
all
my
field,
my
life,
soul blend together with
You, enemies,
And
all
night,
you
embrace
and brothers,
friends,
nature enclose
TOLSTOY
70
"
WITH SHARP AXE THE BIRCH TREE

WOUNDED."
With
sharp axe the birch tree
On
the silvery bark the tears
Do
not weep, birch
The wound
is
tree,
wounded,
is
down.
roll
poor thing, do not grieve,
not mortal, thou wilt be healed by summer.
Thou
shalt
Bui a
sick heart will not heal
flaunt,
IS
adorned with leaves
up
its
wound.
Cper>piicTLrii=ceppupi'iOTMii, silvery.
"
IN
A WHITE MASS
."
In a white mass whirls
The
mist over the lake
The
noble-hearted youth with longing
And
with sorrow
Not
The
is
possessed.
forever appears white
misty mass
It will
disperse,
it
will float
But sorrow nevermore
away,
HHKHTHHT).
NIKITIN
72
I1BAHT> CABBMH'L HMKHTOHT*.

1824-1861.
IVAN NIKITIN.
NIKITIN
belongs to the better group of popular

was through his patriotic songs, written
during the Crimean War, that he first became known.
"
"
Kulak
His most successful poem is
(Peasants' Money
IVAN
poets,
and
it
Lender), which was a proof of his deep knowledge of the

life
of the people
and
his
remarkable powers of expression.

'
Among
his
best
verses
"
Wife of the Driver,"
are
"
Burlak
The Ploughman,"
(a
"
The
river Volga), while such
"
Swallow's Nest,"
The
labourer towing boats

'
up the
'
poems
as
Winter Night
The Morning,"
in the Village,"
belong to the most popular of Russian songs.
HHKMTMHTs
HOHJIErt
BT>
JlynmuVi BOSftyxt,
Howb HoraMH
73
ÊPEBH'B.
amni JiyqHHU,
copi.,
Copi. Ha JiaBKaxi, nayTHHti

Ilo yrjiaMT> y3opi>;
.SaKonT'BJiMfl najiaTH,
HepcTBHtt
xjte6t>, BOjja,
Kainejib nprixH, njian-B ahthth.
HyjKjja, HyjKjja
MbiKaTb rope,
B'BK'b
Tpy^HTbcn,
Hhuj,hmt> yiviepeTB.
BOTT>
Hy>KHO 6bl yHHTBCfl

BipHTB H TepiI'ETb
TJlfe
HMKIITHHTd
74
TMXO HOMb JlOmUTCH.

ThXO HCRb
Ha
1
JIOJKHTCH
BepuiHHbi ropt,
jiyHa
Bt
rjifl,n,HTCH
3epKajio 03ep"b.
Hafli, rjiyxoio crenbio
B-b HenBB'fecTHbiM
Be3KOHeHHOH
nyTb
U.'EIIbK)
06jiaKa njibmyT-b;
HaAT> p'BKOH UIHpOKOH,
CyMpaKOM-b noKpbiT'b,
Bt> tiiuihh'b rjiySoKoi!
JT fcc'b
rycTOH ctohtt,;
CB-BTJIbie 3aJIHBbI
Bt> KaMbiuiax-b GjiecTHTb,
HenOABMJKHbl HHBbI
Ha
nojiHX'b cronTb;
He6o rojiy66e
Becejio rjiHflHTb,
cejio Sojibiuoe
Be33a6oTHO cmirb.
NIKITIN
A NIGHT'S STAY
IN
75
THE VILLAGE.
STUFFY atmosphere, smoke from the torch,
Dust underfoot,
Dust on the benches, cobwebs
The ornament
Smoky
The cough
of the spinner, the cry of the child

!
want
lead a wretched
Here
is
To
bread, water,
want
To
corners
sleeping-shelves,
Stale
To
the
in
life,
die a beggar
to toil
where one would need

trust
all
one's days,
and be patient
to learn
NIKITIN
76
SILENTLY NIGHT CREEPS DOWN..."

Silently night creeps down
On
And
the tops of the mountains,

the
moon
looks at itself
In the mirror of the lakes.
Over the deserted
plain
Towards an unknown way

In an endless chain
The
Above
clouds are floating
in
Enveloped
In
deep
The
The
twilight,
stillness
thick forest stands
bright
Glitter
The
among
the
rushes,
motionless corn-fields
;
azure sky
Looks down
And
bays
Stand on the plains
The
the broad river,
joyfully,
the large village
Sleeps, free
from
care.
rUIEUJEEErb.
PLESHCHEYEV
78
AJIEKC/BM
HHKOJIAEBMTb
nJIEIIJEEB
b.
1825-1894.
ALEXIS PLESHCHEYEV.
PLESHCHEYEV
ALEXIS
age of eighteen, and in
tion of his
number
of
poems.
He
began writing poetry at the

1846 appeared the first edition
enriched Russian letters with a large
translations
from
various
languages
and with
original lyrical verses.
His poems bear the imprint of melancholy, disappointment, and renunciation, but they are also filled with the
aspirations
He was
of his youth.
the most cultivated and
the
most sympathetic
poet of his time.

Besides writing original poetry he translated
from the English, French,
Italian,
many
pieces
and German poets.
79
njIEIIJEEBT.
XPMCTOC L-MJIA#EHEU, L
r
M EBPEtfCKIfl A^TH.
Bhjit>
y XpHCTa-MJiaêHU,a ca^b,
M MHoro
po3i> B3pacTHjii> Oh-l bt. HeMi>;
Bt êHb HXTa nOJIMBaJIt,

MTo6t cnjiecTL Ce6 E b'bhok-b noTOMt.
OhT>
TpH'/Kflbl
Korjja
t-b
,3,'BTeM
eBpeHCKnxT> co3Bajrb Oht>;
Ohh
po3bi pacinrBjiii,
copBajiii
II cafli, Gbijitj
no
n.B'ETKy,
Beet onycTomeH'b
,,KaKT> Tbi cnjieTeuib
CeS^
B-BHOK'b
Bt> TBoeMT> ca/jy h'bttj 66jibiue po3T> !"

,,B faI no3a6biJin, mto irombi
OcTajincb Mh'b," cKa3ajn> XpHCxoct.

II
H3T> uiimoB-b
ohh
B'BHOK-b KOJironiM
PI
cnjiejiH
,o,Jifl
Hero,
KanJIH KpOBH, BM'ECTO p03T>,
Mejio yKpacHJiii Ero.
80
nJIElUREBT)
ÛEPEJl'b TOBOfl JIE/KMTb IIIMPOKIM
HOBBIM UYTh.
."
riepe^b to66m jiejKHTb imipoKiH hobhh nyrb.

FIpHMH me Moft npHB^Tt He rpoMKift, ho cepAenHbift:
,3,
a SyTjerb, KaKt SbiJia, tboh corp'ETa rpyijb
Kb
JlK)66BbK)
JIK)66BbK>
6jIH>KHeMy,
Kb
npaBfl'E
B'BHHOH.
,3,
th
a He yTparauib
bt>
6opb6'B co 3jiomt> ynopHofi,
Bcero, q'BMi huh-b TaKb ayuia tboh nojma,
B'Epbl
H JIK)6bH CB'ETHJIbHHKb ?KHBOTBOpHbIH

bt> TeSi TKHTeftcKan Bojraa.
,3, a He 3ajibeTi.
FIofl'bHB'b
MflH,
XpaHH
Hejio,
HflH
6e3TpeneTHOH CTonoio;
BT> flyUJ-B CBOft HHCTblft HfleaJTb,
Ha cjiesbi CTpaH^^ymnxb OTB'ETCTByH cjie30K>,

M o6oflpHH text* bt> 6opb6 B, kto .oyxoMb najib. 2
r
ecjiH
Bb
CTapocTH,
Bb
pa3ji;yMbH
Hacb
nenajibHHH,
Tbi CKawenib:
Bb
Mip-fe
h ocraBHJTb
jjoSpbiii cjrEflb,
BCTp-BTHTb h Mory cnoKOHHO MHn> npomajibHbin...

Tbi Syêuib cnacTJiMBb, .upyrb: HHoro cnacrbH H-BTb.
PLESHCHEYEV
81
THE CHRIST-CHILD AND THE HEBREW

CHILDREN.
The
Christ-child had a garden,
And many roses He planted therein

He had three times a day watered them,
;
In order to
When
He
weave
called the
They plucked
And
for Himself a garland later on.
those roses were in
Hebrew
off
full
bloom,
children
every flower,
the whole garden was devastated.
" How wilt Thou weave a garland for Thyself

In
Thy
" You
garden there are no more roses
Remained
forgot that the thorns

for
And from
Me,"
said Christ.
the thorns they
spiny garland for
And
wove
Him
drops of blood, instead of roses,
Adorned His brow.
"
!
PLESHCHEYEV
s2
NEW
'BEFORE THEE LIES A BROAD

BEFORE thee
lies
Accept then
my
bosom
a broad
WAY..."
new way.
not loud, but hearty
greeting,
warmed
May
thy
With
love of thy fellow-man, with love of the eternal truth.
Mayst thou not

which
All of
be, as
was,
lose in the hard struggle with evil,
at present
And
the life-giving
May
the
wave
it
thy soul
lamp of
so full
is
and love
faith
of life not extinguish in thee.
Raising thy forehead, go with unfaltering step
Go, preserving
thy soul thy pure ideal,
in
The
tears of the sufferers
And
comforting those
And
if
answering with a
tear,
who have
in the struggle
hour of
in old age, in the sorrowful
lost courage.
reflection,
'
Thou
And
wilt say
I
Thou
In the world
left a
can meet calmly the parting

wilt be happy, friend
IIOflT>HTb=noflHHTb (perf.
nacTb
v.), to
there
raise,
lift
good
moment
is
footprint,
.
."
no other happiness.
up.
(or najiaTb, imperf. v.) h^xomt., to be out of heart.
MRCOWb.
NADSON
84
CEMEHT* HKOBJIEBHqij HAftCOFTb.

18621887.
SIMON NADSON.
NADSON 'S
SIMON
he was
first
printed
but fifteen years old.
poem appeared when
Although he died
early age of twenty-five, he inaugurated a
Russsian
poetry,
form and through
through
a certain
the
great
at the
new epoch
in
he paid to
attention
deep melancholy which pervades
every line of his magically musical verse.

Nadson is the favourite of the Russian public.
Although
only twenty-nine years have passed since his death, there are
at least twenty-eight editions of his
idol of the
young
and sentiments of the
verses the ideas
youth
the
poems.
people, for he expresses
He
is
the eternal
and sings
in his
better part of Russian
desire of serving his country, the love of the
humiliated and the fallen, the
struggle towards high ideals,
His poems chase away from the heart

fraternity.
liberty,
all depraved temptations and plunge it into an idealistic
and
atmosphere.
The
day.
poets that
come
after
Nadson belong
to the present
HAflCOHt
85
,,nPOCHHCb >KE TOTb,

HbEUVTb CEP/JIJ'k /KMBbl
BTd
ElpocHHCb
me
HbeMt cepjmh
tott>, bt>
."
jkhbbi
>KejiaHtfl jiyHinHxi>, CB'ETJibix'b flHeft,
Kto 6jiaropoAHHe
He
M^h
nopbiBbi
3arjiyuiHjn> bt>
Bnepe,niT> kt> 3ap-E
rpy^M
CBoeft
!.
no3HaHbH,
BopHCb ct rjiySoKOtt Mrjioft hohhoh,

Hto6t> cbtW HpKoe cinHte
BjiecHVJio CHOBa HaAT> seMJiett
y KPOBATKH.
HacTO
tbi uiermeiiib,
ahth, 3acbinafl
h MHrKofi KpoBaTirE CBoefi:

,,BoHe, KoiTta me h 6yy 6ojibHiaH ?.
Bt> Tenjiott
0,
eCJIH 6bl TOJIbKO
paCTM IIOCKOp'Bft
CKyqHux-b ypoKOB-b ym-b h 6t> He yHHJia,
CKyHHbix'b 6bi raMMT> h He crajia nrpaTb;
Bee no 3HaK0MbiMT> 6u
Bee
6bi
bt, cajj-b
bt.
tocth xoflHJia,
yS'trajia ryjiHTb !"
rpycTHOH yjibi6K0H, CKJiOHHCb 3a pa66TOH,

M6jina pBMaM-b a BHHMaio tbohmt..
Ct>
86
HAflCOHT,
Cnw, moh pajjocrb, noKyâ
ct>
saSoTOft
He3HaK0Ma no^t kpobomt. poahhmt..

Cnw, moh nTHHKa
CypoBoe BpeMR
Tbi
BHCTpO
He maflHTb H He JKêTt.
JieTHTT>,
>KH3Hb, 9to qacTO THHejioe 6peMH.

CB'ETJIOe fl'BTCTBO, KaKVB npa3flHHKT>, MeJIBKHfeTB
KaKi> 6bi h paai>
Sbijib
cl to66h hom-ehhtbch,
Ht66bI, KaKT> TH, H p"E3BHTBCH, H n^Tb,

Ht66bI, KaKT>
TBI,
6e33a66THO CmIjHTBCH,
IlIyMHO nrpaTB h 6e3ne*mo tjiha'btb
,,W
nOMHIO
fl.
."
...]/[ noMHio u,epKOBb h, sajiHTyio orHHMii,

M nOMHIO MaTB MOK). Ct 6e3>KM3HeHHBIM'B qeJIOMT>,
yCTaMH O'jI'EflHblMH H BHaBIHHMH OHaMH,

MaTb cmiTt Bb rpo6y CBoeMB, yBHTan inrBTaMii,
C'b
CTOHMb BOKpyrB BT> MOJIHaHiH H'BMOMT..

CecTpeHKy aa pyny h Kp'tnKO b3hjit> pyKoio.
MBI
cepîje OKa.nocb
TaKb
bt>
nacb,
mm
njianeMi,, h BnepBbie
TpyflHO B'BpHTb HaMT., TaKb
66jIbHO
HaMT.
C03HaTb,
Mto
mbi
th,
flJiH
tbi
Bcfexb Bonpyrb
HeHy>KHbie, qyde,
He npHfleuiB onflTb Hacb npwjiacKaTb
!
HA^COHTj
87
noxopoHbi.
CjIblHIHHIb
BT> Cejl4,
3a p"EKOIO 3epKaJIbHOfl
Tnf xo pa3H0CHTCH 3BOHt norpe6aJibHbifi

Bt c6hhomi> 3aTHUib'fe nojiett.
rpo3HO n M-BpHo, yaap-b 3a yAapoivn>,

ToHerb bt> âJiH, 03apeHH0tt nowapoMt
Ajibix'b
Cjibimiiuib
BeHepHHXT,
3ByqiiTT>
3to an6cTOJiT> Tpyjja
Jiynett.
noxopoHHoe n'BHbe:
ii
Tepn'BHbH
HecTHbift paSonin noHHJTb.

JJoJiro oht> uiejn>
II
TpyÔBOK) floporoii,
^3,6.nro pojjHMyio 3eMJiio
n6TOMT>
KpOBbK)
ct>
TpeBoroM
nOMJIT>.
>Ken ero nojiêHb ropHMinvrb cinHbeMt,

B'ETep-b shoShjit^ jiefleHHiHiiM-b ^bixaHbeMt,
Tyna MOHHJia
AOJKfleM-b
Bbiorott
H36eHKy ero 3aMeTajio,

FpaAOMi. Ha HMBaxTb ero no6HBeuio
KoJIOCb, B3pOIHeHHHH TpyflOMt.
oht> Bbmeci. Moryneii ayinott,
Mnoro
Ct> A'BTCTBa npiiBbiKuieii
GopoTbcn
ct>
cyflb66ii,
TlycTb >Ke 3apbiTbiii 3eMJiew

Out. OTAOXHeTTj orb 3a66Tb u bojihchbh,
3tott> anocTOjn> Tpyâ n Tepn'BHbH,
Harnett
othhshm poRHoft.
88
NADSON
"AWAKE, HE
Awake, he
The
Who,
in
WHOSE HEART ARE ALIVE
whose heart
are alive
wishes for better, bright days,
stifle
forward
in his
in the
Struggling with
So
the noble impulses
Did not
Go
IN
bosom
dawn
the
of learning,
profound darkness of night,
that the bright shining of light
May
over the earth
flash again
AT THE BEDSIDE.
Often thou dost whisper,
In thy
"
warm and
God, when
0,
if
shall
bed
be big
only one would grow more quickly
Wearisome
lessons
Wearisome
scales
Continually
Continually
With
child, while falling asleep
soft little
Silently
should no longer learn,
should not have to play
would
visit
would run
a sad smile,
I
my
thy sayings
friends,
garden to take a walk
off to the
bending over
listen to
my
.
work,
.
"
!
NADSON
Sleep,
Thou
my
long as with trouble
under the paternal roof
art not acquainted
my
Sleep,
Quickly
Life,
joy, as
flies,
is
it
little
89
bird
has
glad
no
pity,
and does not wait
often a heavy burden.
Bright childhood, like a holiday, will flash past
How
stem Time
should be to change places with thee,
So
as, like thee, to
be gay and to sing,
So
as, like thee, to
laugh free from care,
Noisily to play and to glance unconcerned
"
AND
REMEMBER.
"
.
And
remember the church flooded with lights,
And
remember my mother. With lifeless brow
.
With
pale lips
Mother
And we
My
And
and sunken
eyes,
sleeps in her coffin,
stand around in
little sister's
arm
wrapped
dumb
in flowers,
silence.
firmly grasp with
the heart shrank within us,
my hand
we weep, and
for the
first
time,
It is
so difficult for us to believe, so painful for us to avow,
That we
And
for
thou,
all
around are unnecessary, strangers,
thou wilt not come
to caress us again.
NADSON
90
A FUNERAL.
Thou
hearest
behind the crystalline
in the village,
river,
Dully the funeral knell spreads

In the sleepy stillness of the fields.
Sullenly and with measured beat, stroke after stroke
Dies away in the distance, glowing with the
Of blood-red evening
Thou
It is
hearest
honest worker departed
Long he
He
rays
funeral chant sounds
an apostle of labour and
An
Long
the
fire
patience
.
travelled his difficult way,
his native earth in anxiety
nourished with sweat and blood.
The noonday burned him

The wind froze him with
The
with
its
its
hot sunshine,
icy breath,
cloud soaked him with rain
His poor cottage was blocked up with a snowstorm,
With
hail in the
fields
was beaten down
his
Corn, cultivated with labour.
He endured much
with mighty soul,
Accustomed from childhood
May
to struggle with fate,
then he, buried in the earth,
Rest from trouble and tumult,
That apostle
Of our
of labour
and patience
native fatherland.
(o.'K try B'b.
SOLOGUB
92
b.
1864.
THEODORE SOLOGUB.
SOLOGUB'S
THEODORE
Teternikov.
and
He
real
name
Fedor Kuzmich
is
equally distinguished as a
is
a writer of prose fiction, and drama.
as
came widely known only
He
of 1905.
is
and one of the
after the Revolutionary
now
greatest imaginative artists
a powerful novel
"
;
"
'
Little
by John Cournos
"
"
The Old House, and other Tales
'
(translated into English
(edited
living.
called
(translated into English recently
and Richard Aldington)

scented
Movement
a remarkable stylist in everything he writes,
His best known works are
Demon
poet
Sologub be-
by John
Name, and other Fairy

by Stephen Graham)
Cournos)
The Sweet-
Tales, Fables, and Stories

"
The Uniter of Souls
"
'
"
The Invoker
of the Beast
etc.
said that Sologub is a compound of Chekhov (1860and

Poe (1809-1879). Yet there is something in Sologub
1904)
It is
Chekhov nor
akin neither to
dreams of a
they are
fair
to
and lovely world,
realistic,
there
is
Poe.
for in
all
He
is
a poet with
his
a vein of fantasy
poems, although
and idealism, and
an echo of deep sympathy, springing from the
through
all
memory
of his
own
hardships
in
youth.
coJioryBi,
93
n-BCEHKA.
JXeHb TyMaHHLifi
HacTaeTt,
MOH JKeJiaHHHH
He Haert.
Mrjia BOKpyn>.
Ha nopork
fl ctoio,
Bch Bt
TpeBor-B,
noio.
moh npyrt
Tjifc >kt>
XoJIOflt B'BeT'b,
Gaflt
moh nycn,,
CnpoT'BeT'b
KaJKflLIH KyCTt.
CKyqHO
mh-b.
PacnpomaJiCH
Tli Jierno,
yMnajicfl
âjieKd
Ha
koh-b.
co.noryE b
94
Ilo floporfe
IVIHHKy,
Ben Bt TpeBor'fe,
Bch ,npo?Ky,
Mnjibitt Moii
,U,6jiro
CTaHy
Cjie3LI JIHTb,
Bt>
cepwfe pany
BepeAHTb,
Bon> ct> To66ii
cojioryBt
0,
95
>KM3Hb MOfl EE3T> XJl^BBA

0, HKH3HL moh oest XJTBGa,
3aT6 h 6e3i> TpeB6n>
!
OwfeeTCH He6o,
Mfly.
Jinny erb
bt>
HeS'B Eon>.
M^y BT> IlIHpOKOMTj nOJI'E,

B"L yHHHbH TeMHHXT. pOIl^t,
Ha Bceft Ha bojilhoh b6jte,
XOTb
6jI'BfleHT>
fl
TOIHT).
L^B-BTyTt, 6jiaroyxaK)TT>
Kpyr6MT>
Bt nojiHxt,
HB'BTij
M T^HKII THXO TaiOTb

Ha hchhxt, He6ecaxt.
XoTb mhIj hhhto He
Bee Ayuiy
mhjio,
BecejiHT-b.
BjiHBKa moh Morwjia,
Ho
9T0 He CTpaiHHT'b.
Hjjy.
CuffeeTCH He6o,
Jinny erb bt> He6 b Eorb.

O, VKH8Hb MOfl 6e3i> XJI'fiSa,
r
3aTo h
6e3T>
TpeBorb
cojioryEi,
96
Pycb
,,0,
."
bt> tock'e H3HeMorafl,

0, Pycb
Te6i cjiaraio thmhh h.
!
MMJiie h^ti. Ha ob^te npan,

0, poflHHa moh
TbOHXT> paBHHHT. H'EMblH flaJIH

IlojiHbi TOMHTejibHOH neqajni,
Tockok)
flbniiart He6eca.
6oji6rb, bt> 6e3CHJibH xhjiomt.,
Cpe^H
I^B'ETKOMb nOHHKIIIHM'L H yHblJIblM'b
BocxoflHTt
SjiiflHafl
npaca.
Tboh cypoBLie npocTopti

ToMHTb TOCKyK>m,ie B30pbl
II
Ayiira,
HOHBTi
noJiHHH tockoh.
OTHaflHLH eCTb CJiajJOCTb.
h paôcTb,
6e3Ha3e?KH0CTb, h hokoh.
Te6"i, 0TqH3Ha, ctoht>
Mvui&e
H'BT'b
0, Pycb,
TeGi,
bt.
o,
Ha
cb"et"e
Kpan,
moh.
poflHHa
tock'e H3HeMoran,
Cjiaraio rHMHbi h.
coaorvBT>.
JIK)BJIIO
fl
97
rPYCTb TBOMX'L
nPOCTOPOBt
..."
h rpycTb tbohxtj npocTopoBb,

MHJibifi Kpatt, cBHTan Pycb.
J1k)6jii6
Moh
CyflbSu yHbijibixb npuroBopoBt

He 60K)Cb H He CTblVKVCb.
M BCB TBOH nyTH
MHij MHJIbI,
nycTb rpo3HTb 6e3yMHbitt nyTb

TbMOH, H XOJIOftOMb MOTHJIbl,
He xoiy Cb Hero CBepHyrb.
He
3aKJiHHaio j,yxa 3Ji6ro,
M, KaKb MOJIHTBy HaH3yCTb,

TBepwy Bee te vkt> neTbipe cjioBa:
,,KaKoii npocTopb
KaKan rpycTb
!"
SOLOGUB
98
SONG.
Gloomy
Is
approaching,
My
loved one
Comes
not.
Mist
On
I
day
all
round.
the door step
stand,
All in anxiety,
And
sing.
Where
my
is
friend ?
Coldness blows,
My
garden
is
empty,
Becomes bare
Every bush,
I
feel lonely.
Thou
didst leave
Lightly
And
didst gallop
Far away
On
thy horse.
SOLOGUB
99
Along the road

I
look,
All in anxiety,
Al! atremble,
My
For
dear one
a long time
Shed
shall
my
heart
tears,
The wound
in
shall gall,
God
be with thee
SOLOGUB
100
"
0,
MY
LIFE
MY
0,
But
I
same time without worry
The
go.
rejoices.
broad
in the
go
sky laughs,
heaven
in
without bread,
life is
at the
God
WITHOUT BREAD
IS
field,
In the melancholy of the dark groves,
Yet
at
Altho'
my free will,
am pale and thin.
They bloom and
smell sweetly
round the flowers
All
And
the
in the fields,
clouds silently disappear
little
In the bright skies.
Altho' nothing
is
dear to me,
Everything gladdens
My
grave
But
this
0,
But
in
my
soul.
near,
does not frighten me.
The
go.
God
is
my
sky laughs,
heaven
life is
at the
rejoices.
without bread,
same time without worry
KM
SOLOGUB
"
RUSSIA
O,
O, Russia
For thee
There
is
The
Are
The
compose hymns.
no dearer country
silent
full
growing weak with longing,
my
0,
"
!
native land
in the world,
distances of thy plains
of weariful sadness,
skies pant with longing.
Amid
the marshes in feeble weakness,
In a drooping and dejected flower,
Rises a pallid beauty.
Thy gloomy
endless spaces
Tire our longing gaze
And
our souls,
full
of longing.
But even in despondency there
is
sweetness.
For thee, homeland, there are sorrow and
And
hopelessness and peace.
There
is
no dearer country
0, Russia, 0,
For
thee,
I
my
in the world,
native land.
growing weak with longing
compose hymns.
joy,
SOLOGUB
102
LOVE THE SADNESS OF THINE ENDLESS

SPACES
I
."
LOVE the sadness of thine endless spaces,
My
dear country, Holy Russia.
Of
the dismal decrees of Destiny
am
neither afraid nor ashamed.
And
all
thy ways to
And
let
the witless
me
way
are dear,
threaten
With darkness, and the coldness

I
do not wish
do not conjure the
And,
I
'
like a
to turn aside
evil
from
of the grave,
it.
spirit,
prayer by rote,
keep repeating always the same four words

"
What
vastness
What
sadness
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THE LIBRARY

ACCENTED RUSSIAN READER,

KARAMZIN, PUSHKIN, TYUTCHEV, LERMONTOV,

Lecturer in Russian, Glasgow and West 0} Scotland Commercial College.

STELLA GARDINER, M.A.

PRINCIPAL OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.

,,ThXO HO^b JIO>KHTCH.

,,OcTpoio cfeKHpofl paHeHa 6epe3a.

XpHCTOci-MJiafleHeil.t h eBpeiicKifl a'eth,

With sharp axe the birch tree

Night's Stay in the Village.

night creeps down.

Christ-Child and the

broad new way.

Awake, he in whose heart are

love the sadness of thine endless plains,"

collection of typical Russian lyrics

in their study of the language.

Russian Reader," issued in 1916, has furnished

accompanied by useful notes and vocabularies.

of Russia's national poets,

temperament find expression. The short critical

prose renderings of his verse are

A freer and more

language and its grammatical structure. When

can sing or recite

meaning and mood,

of the lines, the

and changing accentuation of the words.

purport as the poet

in Russian, not in English.

bent, he will find a fresh pleasure in the baffling

Russian into good English (or Scots) verse of

pleasure in commending to British

at the instance of a teacher

to further the study of Russian in

This book has been prepared

to the present time

will serve to give

collection, small though

and beauties of Russian verse.

been published for British students.

response to the suggestion

Russian Poems might be

insight into the inner spirit

HMKOJIAM MMXAflJIOBMH'b KAPAM3MHT>,

says Prince Vyazemsky,

to portray the true character

be considered as an important step

Russia the poetry

of sentiment, of love of Nature, of delicate reflections of

heart feels, loves, hides, and guards."

poems, dissertations, and novels, Karamzin

This publication was epoch-making.

the first time in Russian history that a prose

joyed such an immense success, and it may be taken as marking

Karamzin's greatest merit, however, consists in having

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