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Soyuzmultfilm

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From a Letter to Ya. N. Tolstoy, 1822
https://www.culture.ru/poems/5900/iz-pisma-k-ya-n-tolstomu
Translation by Niffiwan

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Are you alight, you lamp emboldened,
Our friend at vigils and at feasts?

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Are you aboil, you chalice golden,
When held by merry wits like these?

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Each hour, in exile tedious,
Lit with a yearning maddening,

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I fly to you by memory...

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I see you, my friends previous.

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Based on the drawings of A. S. Pushkin

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script writer and director
Andrey Hrzhanovskiy

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art directors
Vladimir Yankilevskiy, Yuriy Batanin

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camera
Igor Skidan-Bosin, Svetlana Kashcheyeva

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sound
Vladimir Kutuzov

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composer
Alfred Schnittke

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Pushkin's poems & prose read by:
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Sergey Yurskiy

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animators
Elvira Avakyan, Anatoliy Abarenov,

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Nataliya Barkovskaya, Yuriy Batanin,
Aleksandr Gorlenko, Yelena Malashenkova,

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Yuriy Norshteyn, M. Pashkevich,
Vlad Palchikov, Tatyana Fadeyeva

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background artists Geliy Arkadyev,
Roza Bikmayeva, Tatyana Kazantseva,
Zoya Monetova, Arkadiy Sher

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ass. dir. R. Makarova
montage L. Georgieva

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script editor Raisa Frichinskaya
production director Lyubov Butyrina

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photo-technicians
O. Galkina, G. Dorn, V. Fokin

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other film crew
V. Markov, V. Nepomnyashchiy

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consultant, Doctor of Philological
Sciences - Uran A. Guralnik

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The studio thanks the staff of the
Pushkin State Museum & the Institute

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of Russian Literature of the USSR
Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House)

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List of sources, 1:28-4:21
https://vos.olimpiada.ru/upload/files/Arhive_tasks/2022-23/mun/amxk/ans-amxk-8-mun-msk-22-23.pdf

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If Not for the Unsure Attraction... (1833)
https://www.culture.ru/poems/5649/kogda-b-ne-smutnoe-vlechene
Tr. by Niffiwan

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Where do these indistinct desires
Carry me to? Where, and for what?

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Autumn (1833)
https://ruverses.com/alexander-pushkin/autumn/12404/
Tr. by Niffiwan & Peter France

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October's here at last.

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The last reluctant leaves

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From off their branches bare
The grove of oaks has shaken.

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And I forget the world -
And in that blissful peace

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I'm sweetly lulled to sleep
By my imagination,

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And poetry awakens and bestirs in me:

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My soul is shy with lyric agitation,

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It flutters and it sounds,
And yearns, like in a dream,

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To pour out at long last
in free manifestation -

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And here I'm beset by
A host of guests unseen,

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Old-time acquaintances,
Fruits of my present dream.

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I recall school,
from early in my life.

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Pushchin.

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Delvig.

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Kuchelbecker.

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Pushkin.

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Pushkin... Pushkin...

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Pushkin... Pushkin...

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Pushkin...

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Eugene Onegin (ch.8, st.1)
Tr. by Stanley Mitchell

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In those far days, in dales mysterious,

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In spring, when swans call out, imperious

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Near waters shining tranquilly,

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The Muse began to visit me.

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Memoirs in Tsarskoye Selo (1814)
https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%B2_%D0%A6%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5_(%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D1%83%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%8E%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%89%D0%B8_%E2%80%94_%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD)
Tr. by Niffiwan

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The veil of sullen night hangs o'er

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The somnolescent heavens' vault;

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In voiceless silence slumbered
dale and grove;

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In gray mist slept the distant wood...

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To Pushchin (1815)
https://www.culture.ru/poems/6029/k-pushinu-4-maya
Tr. by Niffiwan

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Let Time, that old man winged,
Like the mail coach rush on:

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The only loss that we dread
Is that which spoils our fun!

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To Krivtsov (1817)
https://www.culture.ru/poems/5121/krivcovu-ne-pugai-nas-milyi-drug
Tr. by Niffiwan

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Bright will be our mortal moment;

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And the mischief-makers' mates

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Will their lightweight ashes gather

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Into urns on festive dates.

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To Delvig (Reply) (1815)
https://rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/01versus/03juv_misc/1815/0185.htm
Tr. by Niffiwan

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The poet is surrounded
By wits who smile at him.

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"Ah, sir," they have said to me,
"You scribble poesy?

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Could we, perchance, glance at them?

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We gather that you've dreamt up
Some little forest streams,

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A cornflower, of course,

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Or else a quiet breeze,
And groves, and flowers too?"

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To a Poet Friend (1814)
https://www.litres.ru/book/aleksandr-pushkin/stihotvoreniya-55306480/chitat-onlayn/page-2/
Tr. by Niffiwan

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Fear the sad fate of singers
without sense

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Who smother us with verses
thick and dense!

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Yes, fear ignominy!

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Parting / Separation (1816)
https://www.culture.ru/poems/4619/razluka
Tr. by Niffiwan

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One last time, before
separation's torments,

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Our school-house listens closely
to my verse.

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Dear fellow traveler on life's course,

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I share with you these
very final moments.

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Eugene Onegin, ch.6, v.46
https://www.litres.ru/book/aleksandr-pushkin/evgeniy-onegin-24779363/chitat-onlayn/page-4/
Tr. by Stanley Mitchell

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Let me glance back.
Farewell, you arbours

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Where, in the backwoods, I recall

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Days filled with indolence and ardours

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And dreamings of a pensive soul.

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To My Friends... (1817)
https://www.culture.ru/poems/5110/tovarisham
Tr. by Niffiwan

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Farewell awaits us at the threshold,

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The distant noise of light calls us,

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And each gazes upon the road,

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Thrilled by their proud and
youthful thoughts.

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St. Petersburg

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Eugene Onegin, ch. 1, v.20
http://www.poetry-classic.ru/1-20.html
Tr. by Stanley Mitchell,
Charles H. Johnston & Niffiwan

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The theatre's full; the boxes brilliant;
Parterre and stalls - all seethe and roar;

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Up in the gods they clap, ebullient,
And, with a swish, the curtains soar.

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Semi-ethereal and radiant,
To the enchanting bow obedient,

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Istomina, thronged all around
By nymphs, one foot upon the ground,

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The other twirls just as she pleases,
Leisurely and without a care.

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But hark! she jumps, flies through the air
Like fluff before Aeolian breezes;

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She'll spin this way and that, and beat
Against each other swift, small feet.

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Eugene Onegin, ch.1, v.29
Tr. by Charles H. Johnston

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In days of carefree aspirations,
The ballroom drove me off my head:

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The safest place for declarations,
And where most surely notes are sped.

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To Pushchin (1815)
https://www.culture.ru/poems/6029/k-pushinu-4-maya
Tr. by Niffiwan

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Gaiety, be our faithful guide,
Till grave's embrace we share.

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And may both of us die amidst
Our clinking goblets' flair!

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To Friends (1816, ed. 1825)
https://ruverses.com/alexander-pushkin/to-friends/4023/
Tr. by Andrey Kneller, ed. Niffiwan

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Today your gods do not deny you
These golden nights and golden days,

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And gentle, fragile ladies eye you
With an attentive fervent gaze.

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Play on, sing on, while you are blessed!
Squander away the fleeting night;

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Through tears, I'll smile at the sight
Of your light-hearted happiness.

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Pushkin's Commentary on Eugene Onegin
http://nabokov-lit.ru/nabokov/kritika-nabokova/kommentarii-k-evgeniyu-oneginu/4-epigraf-punkty-i-xxvi.htm
Tr. by Eus

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I was 20 years old in 1820.

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Rash speeches, satirical poems
brought me to the attention of society.

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Ode to Liberty (1817)
https://ruverses.com/alexander-pushkin/ode-to-liberty/
Tr. by A. Z. Foreman

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Listless Cytherean princess, sing
No more. Begone out of my view!

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But you, great scourge of tsar and king,
Proud Muse of Freedom, where are you?

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Come rip my laurels off. Bring stones
And crush this coddled lyre. Let me

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Sing to the world of Liberty
And shame that scum upon the thrones!

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Chisinau

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Alone, alone my path now wends (1822)
https://www.culture.ru/poems/5893/odin-odin-ostalsya-ya
Tr. by Niffiwan

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Alone, alone my path now wends.

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The feasts, and mistresses, and friends
Have vanished with my fleeting dreams,

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My budding youth has dimmed away,
With its capricious, fickle gifts.

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Like candles burning through the night
For frisky youths and maidens slight;

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When stopped are the wild revelries,
They pale before the morning's rays.

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Awakening (1816)
https://www.culture.ru/poems/4626/probuzhdenie
https://www.poetryloverspage.com/yevgeny/pushkin/awakening.html
Tr. by Yevgeny Bonver & Niffiwan

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My dreams, my dreams,
Where is your sweetness?

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The joy that brings
the night completeness?

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To V.L. Davydov (1821)
https://www.culture.ru/poems/5313/v-l-davydovu
Tr. by Niffiwan

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I've grown astute, I feign and play -
I pray, trust, and believe today

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That God will pardon my transgressions,
As my Tsar will my poet's confessions.

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To My Inkwell (1821)
https://rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/01versus/03juv_misc/1821/0302.htm
context: http://www.englishpoetry.ru/pushkin/p07.htm
(Katakazi was governor of Chisinau, Moldova)
Tr. by Niffiwan

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Yawning after morning mass,
I ride to Katakazi's home.

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What a ludicrous Greek farce,
What a shocking Greek sodom!

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My Friend, for Three Days Already... (1822)
https://www.culture.ru/poems/5898/moi-drug-uzhe-tri-dnya
Tr. by Niffiwan

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Jesting at hasty features,

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Caricatures I scribble -
All such familiar faces, -

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Those Oriental figures
With their refined graces,

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And, too, their husbands horned,
Shaved and with beards adorned.

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The Gypsies (1827)
https://www.bibliotekar.ru/rusPushkin/56.htm
Tr. by Niffiwan & Eus

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Gypsies, a family unbowed...

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The gypsies, a free folk unbowed...

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The gypsy folk, that noisy crowd,
Through Bessarabia do roam.

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To V.A. Zhukov (April 20-24, 1825)
Pushkin's commentary on "Gypsies" in a letter
http://feb-web.ru/febit/pushkin/texts/push17/vol13/y1321662.htm
http://www.as-pushkin.ru/index.php?cnt=31&sub=9&part=26
Tr. by Eus & Niffiwan

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You ask me what is the
purpose of "The Gypsies"?

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How'd you like that...

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The purpose of poetry is poetry -

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as Delvig said (if he didn't steal it).

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1820
Gurzuf

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Eugene Onegin, fragment from redacted
chapter "Onegin's Journey"
http://www.poetry-classic.ru/9-7.html
Tr. by Stanley Mitchell

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It seemed it was the wild I needed,

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The pearl-edged waves
that flowed, receded,

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The noise of sea, the rocks' cascade,
And my ideal of proud, young maid,

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And nameless torment, tribulation...

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00:13:19,700 --> 00:13:19,700
Thirst for Glory (1825)
https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8B_(%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD)
Tr. by Walter May, last line ed. Niffiwan

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Could rumours or rebukes
disturb my ways

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When, bending on me
your tormenting gaze,

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Your hand upon my head
you gently laid,

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And whispered: "Do you
love me, are you glad?"

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Do Keep Me Safe, My Talisman (1825)
https://ruverses.com/alexander-pushkin/preserve-me-precious-amulet/12441/
Tr. by Niffiwan, 1st line Yuri Menis

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Do keep me safe, my talisman;

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Keep safe through days of persecution,

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Of penitence, irresolution:

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Gift of a somber day, bar none.

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Eugene Onegin (Onegin's Journey)
https://godliteratury.ru/articles/2023/08/08/itak-ia-zhil-togda-v-odesse
https://stihi.ru/2014/10/26/7849
Tr. by Stanley Mitchell

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00:14:11,939 --> 00:14:15,605
And so I lived then in Odessa...

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Rephrasing of letter sent by Vorontsov to Pushkin
https://bigenc.ru/c/kak-pushkin-s-saranchoi-srazhalsia-k-istorii-vzaimootnoshenii-a-s-pushkina-i-m-s-vorontsova-78ae38
Tr. by Eus & Niffiwan

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To him who is on my staff

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of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs,
Collegiate Secretary Pushkin:

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I instruct you to go to the counties of
Kherson, Yelisavetgrad and Alexandria.

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Have a look at the most important places
where locusts are most resurgent...

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Pushkin's letter to A.I. Kaznacheyev (May 1824) asking to be relieved of duty
https://rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/10letters/1815_30/01text/1824/1257_74.htm
Tr. by Niffiwan

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Being completely alien
to the spirit of official documents...

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Being completely alien
to the spirit of official documents,

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Pushkin's letter to A.I. Kaznacheyev (June 1824), originally written in French, after he left his duty
https://rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/10letters/1815_30/01text/1824/1258_75.htm
Tr. by Niffiwan & Eus

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I'm tired of being dependent
on the good or bad digestion

179
00:14:53,940 --> 00:14:55,610
of one boss or another.

180
00:14:55,713 --> 00:14:59,726
I've had enough of being treated
with less respect in my homeland

181
00:14:59,843 --> 00:15:02,550
than the first English urchin
that chances by.

182
00:15:02,650 --> 00:15:06,260
The sole thing I aspire to
is independence.

183
00:15:07,060 --> 00:15:11,120
The word is unimportant,
but the thing itself is good.

184
00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:11,720
- see note on 14:16

185
00:15:12,708 --> 00:15:19,797
...And to review the success of the
methods used to exterminate them.

186
00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:26,500
Anything you find on this matter,
I recommend that you report to me.

187
00:15:27,412 --> 00:15:32,504
May 22, 1824.
Count Vorontsov.

188
00:15:32,630 --> 00:15:32,630
- see note on 14:39

189
00:15:32,780 --> 00:15:37,720
Being completely alien
to the spirit of official documents...

190
00:15:37,850 --> 00:15:37,850
- see note on 14:16
This silly poem was alleged to be the full text of Pushkin's
official report on the locusts

191
00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:45,035
The locusts flew and flew;
Then settled in;

192
00:15:45,144 --> 00:15:58,709
They sat and sat; ate everything;
And flew away again!

193
00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:05,480
Eugene Onegin, Onegin's Journey (st.34)
https://stihi.ru/2014/10/26/7849
https://vk.com/@-998865-neizvestnyi-evgenii-onegin
Tr. by Niffiwan

194
00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:12,760
I left behind sweet southern dames,
Fat oysters fished from the Black Sea,

195
00:16:17,943 --> 00:16:23,769
And opera, and lodges dark,
And, thank God, the nobility,

196
00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:30,440
And rode off to Trigorsk's dim woods,
Far north, away from anywhere.

197
00:16:32,535 --> 00:16:35,411
And sad was my arrival there....

198
00:16:51,420 --> 00:16:51,420
The Village / The Countryside (1819)
https://www.culture.ru/poems/4455/derevnya
Tr. by Niffiwan, with 2 words from Nicholas S. Racheotes

199
00:16:52,140 --> 00:16:55,400
Here, being unshackled from
fruitless endeavors,

200
00:16:55,601 --> 00:16:58,601
I'm learning to find bliss
in simple, honest truth,

201
00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:01,900
And not feel envy for the lot

202
00:17:02,001 --> 00:17:05,801
Of villain or of fool
in their majestic wrongness.

203
00:18:12,870 --> 00:18:12,870
Onegin, ch.3, st.14
http://www.as-pushkin.ru/index.php?cnt=8&sub=3&page=3
Tr. by Stanley Mitchell

204
00:18:13,180 --> 00:18:16,720
I shall recall the tender feeling,

205
00:18:16,971 --> 00:18:19,000
Love's aching words upon my tongue,

206
00:18:19,164 --> 00:18:21,198
Impassioned speeches made when young

207
00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:24,370
And courting a fair mistress, kneeling

208
00:18:24,496 --> 00:18:26,491
And uttering an ardent vow

209
00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,060
From which I'm disaccustomed now...

210
00:19:06,250 --> 00:19:06,250
Count Nulin (1825), 2nd stanza
https://ilibrary.ru/text/446/p.1/index.html
https://xixvek.wordpress.com/2024/06/20/translation-comparison-count-nulin/
Tr. by Antony Wood

211
00:19:07,122 --> 00:19:12,531
The period to September's close
(To use the lowly terms of prose)

212
00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,940
Can drive the country-dweller mad:

213
00:19:17,188 --> 00:19:20,094
The wind, the sleet, the mud, the haze,

214
00:19:20,115 --> 00:19:25,625
The howl of wolves - but then how glad
The hunter!

215
00:19:26,250 --> 00:19:26,250
Eugene Onegin, ch.1, st.59
http://www.poetry-classic.ru/1-59.html
Tr. by Stanley Mitchell (lines 1-4,7-8),
Charles H. Johnston (lines 5-6)

216
00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,190
Love passed, the Muse
resumed dominion

217
00:19:30,358 --> 00:19:33,725
And cleared the darkness from my mind.

218
00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,120
Free now, I seek again the union

219
00:19:37,220 --> 00:19:39,750
Of feelings, thoughts and magic sound;

220
00:19:39,858 --> 00:19:42,500
I write, my heart has ceased its pining,

221
00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,840
My thoughtless pen has stopped designing

222
00:19:44,942 --> 00:19:47,060
Sketches of female heads or feet

223
00:19:47,167 --> 00:19:49,320
Alongside verses incomplete.

224
00:19:49,420 --> 00:19:49,420
Pushkin's letter, Nov 1824
http://www.as-pushkin.ru/index.php?cnt=31&sub=8&part=30
Tr. by Eus and Niffiwan

225
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:56,000
Brother, here's a picture for "Onegin" -
find a skillful and quick penciller.

226
00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:02,480
The first one's good. The second one
should be resting on granite.

227
00:20:02,580 --> 00:20:08,940
The third one is a boat. The fourth is
the Peter and Paul Fortress.

228
00:20:16,450 --> 00:20:19,500
And send me some overshoes -
with Mikhail.

229
00:20:29,460 --> 00:20:29,460
Imaginary conversation with Alexander I (1824/1825) - including a section crossed-out by Pushkin
https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80_%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC_I_(%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD)
https://rvb.ru/pushkin/02comm/1161.htm
Tr. by Eus, Niffiwan, Tatiana Wolff ("Pushkin On Literature", 1971 p.110-111)

230
00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:32,460
If I were the Tsar,

231
00:20:33,540 --> 00:20:36,290
I would summon Alexander Pushkin

232
00:20:37,961 --> 00:20:39,644
and say to him:

233
00:20:41,940 --> 00:20:49,010
Alexander Sergeyevich,
you write excellent poetry.

234
00:20:49,610 --> 00:20:53,190
Pushkin would bow to me with
a touch of embarrassed modesty,

235
00:20:53,291 --> 00:20:54,691
and I would continue:

236
00:20:54,793 --> 00:20:58,744
I've read your "Ode to Liberty".

237
00:20:59,361 --> 00:21:04,277
Ah, Your Majesty, why bring up
that childish ode?

238
00:21:05,670 --> 00:21:10,460
You'd do better to read at least the
3rd or 6th cantos of "Ruslan and Ludmila",

239
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,352
if not the whole poem.

240
00:21:12,550 --> 00:21:15,010
Or the first part of
"The Prisoner of the Caucasus",

241
00:21:15,111 --> 00:21:17,061
or "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai"...

242
00:21:17,169 --> 00:21:20,850
"Onegin" is in the press: I shall be
honoured to send two copies

243
00:21:20,952 --> 00:21:24,090
to Your Majesty's library,
to Ivan Andreyevich Krylov.

244
00:21:24,194 --> 00:21:28,986
And, if Your Majesty
should have the time...

245
00:21:29,502 --> 00:21:32,252
Forgive us, Alexander Sergeyevich.

246
00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:37,320
Our royal rule is to not have
too many irons in the fire.

247
00:21:37,420 --> 00:21:41,950
Reading your poems will give us
a pleasant pastime.

248
00:21:42,061 --> 00:21:49,336
Pray tell, is it true that you haven't
ceased writing screeds about me?

249
00:21:49,961 --> 00:21:53,126
That is not good.
Confess, my dear man,

250
00:21:53,220 --> 00:21:57,885
our comrade the King of Hispania
or the Emperor of Austria

251
00:21:58,210 --> 00:22:00,526
would have dealt with you otherwise.

252
00:22:01,149 --> 00:22:05,752
Despite all your mischief, you've
been living in a warm climate.

253
00:22:07,244 --> 00:22:12,441
Your Majesty, I have always
honored and will honor you,

254
00:22:12,540 --> 00:22:17,160
as the best of Europe's present rulers.

255
00:22:17,877 --> 00:22:20,494
I would have let Pushkin go here.

256
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:27,800
But you can see that I would have
been mistaken in my reckoning...

257
00:22:27,900 --> 00:22:33,550
This is where Pushkin would have flared
up and said many things best left unsaid.

258
00:22:33,659 --> 00:22:38,318
I would have grown angry
and banished him to Siberia

259
00:22:38,420 --> 00:22:41,900
where he would have written a poem
called "Yermak" or "Kochum",

260
00:22:42,251 --> 00:22:45,401
in various rhyming measures.

261
00:22:57,810 --> 00:22:57,810
Pushkin's letter to Pletnev (July 1825)
https://rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/10letters/1815_30/01text/1825/1324_141.htm
Tr. by Niffiwan

262
00:22:58,650 --> 00:23:05,030
Autumn's come to us. The rain patters,
the wind blows, the wood rustles -

263
00:23:05,136 --> 00:23:08,476
It's noisy, yet dull.

264
00:23:10,010 --> 00:23:10,010
That Year, the Autumn Weather... (1826)
used in "Eugene Onegin", ch.5, st.1
https://www.culture.ru/poems/5095/v-tot-god-osennyaya-pogoda
Tr. by Charles H. Johnson

265
00:23:10,886 --> 00:23:15,910
That year the season was belated
And autumn lingered, long and slow;

266
00:23:16,243 --> 00:23:23,300
Expecting winter, nature waited -
Only in January the snow,

267
00:23:23,575 --> 00:23:29,701
Night of the second, started flaking.
Next day Tatyana, early waking,

268
00:23:29,813 --> 00:23:35,280
Saw through the window, morning-bright,
Roofs, flowerbeds, fences, all in white,

269
00:23:35,420 --> 00:23:40,060
Panes patterned by the finest printer,
With trees decked in their silvery kit,

270
00:23:40,163 --> 00:23:45,079
And jolly magpies on the flit,
And hills that delicately winter

271
00:23:45,438 --> 00:23:54,154
Had with its brilliant mantle crowned -
And glittering whiteness all around.

272
00:23:55,784 --> 00:23:57,194
Winter.

273
00:24:18,430 --> 00:24:18,430
Letter to Delvig (early Feb, 1826)
https://godliteratury.ru/articles/2015/02/10/stroki-dnya-pushkin-voloshin
Tr. by Niffiwan and Tatiana Wolff

274
00:24:19,270 --> 00:24:23,080
I await the decision concerning
the fate of the unfortunates.

275
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:23,200
Letter to Delvig (Feb 20, 1826)
https://rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/10letters/1815_30/01text/1826/1369_186.htm
Tr. by Eus & Niffiwan

276
00:24:23,340 --> 00:24:28,680
I'm told that on the 20th, which is
today, their fate is to be decided.

277
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,860
My heart is beside itself.

278
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:33,320
Personal note/sketch (July 29, 1826)
https://rvb.ru/pushkin/02comm/0415.htm
Tr. by Eus and Niffiwan

279
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:39,660
I was informed of the deaths of Ryleyev,
Pestel, Muravyov, Kakhovsky, Bestuzhev.

280
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:45,220
July 24, 1826.

281
00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:46,700
Arion (1827)
https://ruverses.com/alexander-pushkin/arion/12462/
Tr. by Yuri Menis, slightly ed. by Niffiwan

282
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,740
We were quite many in the boat;

283
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,340
Some strained the sail to keep it flying;

284
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,750
Some stubbornly continued prying

285
00:24:54,850 --> 00:24:57,240
The depth with strong oars.

286
00:24:57,340 --> 00:25:01,190
But afloat
We stayed led by our skillful helmsman,

287
00:25:01,290 --> 00:25:04,000
Who calmly steered the heavy craft,

288
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,897
And I, with jocund faith, stood aft -

289
00:25:11,374 --> 00:25:13,189
I sang for them...

290
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:20,400
At once a blast
Deranged the waves with force unwelcome...

291
00:25:20,522 --> 00:25:26,473
Dead was the helmsman, all the boys!

292
00:25:39,374 --> 00:25:44,315
And only I, mysterious voice,

293
00:25:45,030 --> 00:25:48,270
Was cast ashore amid the tempest.

294
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:52,200
Start of unfinished poem (1826)
https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%98_%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D1%8B_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B3,_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D1%88%D1%83%D1%82_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B2%D0%B8_(%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD)
Tr. by Niffiwan

295
00:25:52,357 --> 00:25:54,749
I, too, could have...

296
00:26:00,010 --> 00:26:00,010
October 19 (1825)
https://ruverses.com/alexander-pushkin/19-october/12444/
Tr. by Yuri Menis

297
00:26:01,172 --> 00:26:05,206
Our union, friends,
is glorious by right!

298
00:26:05,390 --> 00:26:08,360
It's like the soul
unbroken and eternal;

299
00:26:08,689 --> 00:26:11,564
Unswerving, free and blithe,
our bond fraternal

300
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,900
Was blessed by genial muses
to be tight.

301
00:26:16,390 --> 00:26:18,747
Wherever bitter fate
would send us trailing

302
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,820
Or blissful hope
accompany to roam,

303
00:26:21,823 --> 00:26:26,430
We're still the same and deem
the whole world alien;

304
00:26:26,607 --> 00:26:30,472
Tsar's Village is our country
and our home.

305
00:26:40,870 --> 00:26:40,870
Letter to Prince Pyotr Vyazemskiy (July 13, 1825)
concerning his classic work "Boris Godunov"
https://xn--h1aagokeh.xn--p1ai/journal/post/6974
Tr. by Eus & Niffiwan

306
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:47,400
Before me lies my tragedy. I can't
bear not to write out its title:

307
00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:51,230
"A comedy about a real misfortune
befalling the state of Moscow,

308
00:26:51,339 --> 00:26:54,170
about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otrepyev.

309
00:26:54,274 --> 00:26:58,800
Written by the servant of God,
Alexander, son of Sergeyev Pushkin,

310
00:26:58,916 --> 00:27:04,598
in the summer of 7333, in the
ancient settlement of Voronich."

311
00:27:04,875 --> 00:27:06,282
How does that sound?

312
00:27:09,750 --> 00:27:09,750
Sketches of the preface to the tragedy "Boris Godunov", originally written in French
https://rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/07criticism/02misc/1017.htm
Tr. by Niffiwan

313
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,050
It is no longer the smile
of fashion that I seek.

314
00:27:13,151 --> 00:27:16,851
I voluntarily withdraw
from the rank of its favourites.

315
00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:17,100
Draft letter to N. N. Raevsky
(after 19 July) 1825, Mikhailovskoe
https://rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/10letters/1815_30/01text/1825/1332_149.htm
Tr. by Eus & Niffiwan. Closer to original French version ("soul", not "spiritual powers")

316
00:27:17,194 --> 00:27:22,520
I feel that my soul has
reached its full development.

317
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:24,628
I can create!

318
00:27:45,610 --> 00:27:45,610
Andre Chenier (dedicated to Raevskiy)
https://rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/01versus/0423_36/1825/0376.htm
https://archive.org/details/sim_blackwoods-magazine_1845-08_58_358
Tr. by Thomas Budd Shaw, ed. Niffiwan

319
00:27:46,736 --> 00:27:48,652
Both hopes, and dreams, and pain,

320
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,980
And tears, and love, my friends,
those leaves contain,

321
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,070
Yea, they hold my life whole.

322
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,320
My full death's near. But ye,
who love my parting soul,

323
00:27:58,420 --> 00:28:01,780
Keep for yourselves, O friends!
my true though simple scroll;

324
00:28:02,150 --> 00:28:05,770
And when the storm is past,
in a fond crowd assemble

325
00:28:05,877 --> 00:28:09,686
Sometimes to read my lines -
to read, to weep, and tremble,

326
00:28:10,125 --> 00:28:13,410
And, having listened long, declare -
"Yes, this is he;

327
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:18,740
These are his words." And I,
from death's cold fetter free,

328
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,020
Will rise unseen and sit among ye
in the bower;

329
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,000
And listen, lost in thought.

330
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,640
The End
Subs by Niffiwan & Eus, after a Lemicnor
transcription, Aug 2024