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Natalya Restivo

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Re: THIRTY THIRD EDITION - WOMEN OF COURAGE
6/24/2007 5:59:38 PM

My Dearest Friend Branka,

Thank you for your post. Yes, these are my favorite authors also. You have a big heart to understand Vladimir Mayakovsky's poetry, as not all Russian speaking people can understand him.

My native tongue is Russian, and I was born in Russian family, but in Latvia :) My family moved to Sevastopol in Ukraine after my father retired.

As for Lermontov, his Hero of Our Time novel, I love it like you, and it turned my world over, I felt like my eyes opened after reading it, and I started seeing and understanding this world much better.

Lermontov was a very gifted poet and also artist.
Here is his self-portrait.
Click on it and listen a song about Yugoslavia, it performed by Russian singer Lena Katina (of t.a.t.u.)

Your language and Russian are alike in some ways, and sometimes I could understand what I read.

Here is English version of Konstantin Simonov's poem Wait For Me (Zhdi Menya) that he devoted to his wife. It was written in  1941, when Great Patriotic War began:

Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait with all you've got!
Wait, when dreary yellow rains
Tell you, you should not.
Wait when snow is falling fast,
Wait when summer's hot,
Wait when yesterdays are past,
Others are forgot.
Wait, when from that far-off place,
Letters don't arrive.
Wait, when those with whom you wait
Doubt if I'm alive.

Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait in patience yet
When they tell you off by heart
That you should forget.
Even when my dearest ones
Say that I am lost,
Even when my friends give up,
Sit and count the cost,
Drink a glass of bitter wine
To the fallen friend -
Wait! And do not drink with them!
Wait until the end!

Wait for me and I'll come back,
Dodging every fate!
"What a bit of luck!" they'll say,
Those that would not  wait.
They will never understand
How amidst the strife,
By your waiting for me, dear,
You had saved my life.
Only you and I will know
How you got me through.
Simply - you knew how to wait -
No one else but you.

Russian version:

Жди меня, и я вернусь.
Только очень жди,
Жди, когда наводят грусть
Желтые дожди,
Жди, когда снега метут,
Жди, когда жара,
Жди, когда других не ждут,
Позабыв вчера.
Жди, когда из дальних мест
Писем не придет,
Жди, когда уж надоест
Всем, кто вместе ждет.

Жди меня, и я вернусь,
Не желай добра
Всем, кто знает наизусть,
Что забыть пора.
Пусть поверят сын и мать
В то, что нет меня,
Пусть друзья устанут ждать,
Сядут у огня,
Выпьют горькое вино
На помин души...
Жди. И с ними заодно
Выпить не спеши.

Жди меня, и я вернусь,
Всем смертям назло.
Кто не ждал меня, тот пусть
Скажет: - Повезло.
Не понять, не ждавшим им,
Как среди огня
Ожиданием своим
Ты спасла меня.
Как я выжил, будем знать
Только мы с тобой,-
Просто ты умела ждать,
Как никто другой.

1941

These are extracts from Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem Cloud In Trousers

"Of grandfatherly gentleness I'm devoid,
There's not a single grey hair in my soul!
Thundering the world with the might of my voice,
I go by-handsome, twenty-two-year-old."

More:

People sniff -
there's a smell of burnt flesh!
Here come some men.
All shining!
In helmets!
No heavy boots please!
Tell the firemen
to go gently when the heart's on fire.
(from Cloud in Trousers)

- Vladimir Mayakovsky "Cloud in Trousers," 1915

Vladimir Mayakovsky
Click and listen to this song!

You are a strong woman, Branka! You are flying in your life, you was not made to and you can't creep. 

I attended church this morning, said my prayers for you and your family, and asked God to console and strengthen all of you. I will keep you in my prayers.

God bless you and yours.

Natalya

NEWAYS HEALTHY HOMES: http://www.ineways.com/covina
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Re: THIRTY THIRD EDITION - WOMEN OF COURAGE
6/24/2007 7:13:09 PM

Dear Natalya,

That is an awesome poem.  Thank you for the history and for writing it here in English as well as Russian.

You are a Friend to treasure, Natalya!

Sincerely,

Terry

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Re: THIRTY THIRD EDITION - WOMEN OF COURAGE
6/25/2007 8:55:44 AM

Dear Natalya,

YOU MADE MY DAY,  just it`s the prettiest thing you could do for me!

                                   Жди меня

I know both: Russian and Serbian version by hearth, but translation cann`t lift spirit up as original do it.  I have lost , due war, my two huge libraries, and now I can count only with my (fortunately excellent) memory.

Dear Natalya, I am so happy to meet you. Thank you for your prayers and candles for my sister`s soul and my family. We have here in Belgrade Russian Church. St. Jovan Maksimovich, Episcop of St. Francisco,  Shanghai and West Europe lived here after 1917. as many Russians were. Our nations and churches are so close.

May God bless you and your son and always be on your side!

Sincerely,

Branka

 

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Re: THIRTY THIRD EDITION - WOMEN OF COURAGE
6/25/2007 9:09:01 AM
Dear Branka,

I very much am enjoying your Women of Courage forum.  All of your friends here present so much to be inspired about.  It is a joy to read the thoughts of where others have been or are in life.  The challenges that we all go through seem great until we learn what greater challenge someone else has overcome.  I think it would be wonderful to travel to your country someday.

Our prayers are still flowing out for you and your family.  Thank you again for our cherished frienship.
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Re: THIRTY THIRD EDITION - WOMEN OF COURAGE
6/25/2007 9:50:07 AM

Dear Joe,

I`m not a Gypsy but my soul is. We Gypsies have a special gift: our country is where our hearth is.

So,

As you are in my hearth, you don`t need to travel, you can already enjoy all beauties of my country.

I`d like to ask Natalya if maybe she hes one wonderful song of Russian`s Gypsies : MARJANJA.

                                      DEAR NATALYA, IF YOU HAVE THIS SONG, PLEASE  SEND IT TO OUR FRIEND JOE D.

What to say, Joe?  Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

B.

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