Cross my heart, the described scene was taken from the real life. It reminded me of Arkady Averchenko`s short stories. Life is a great author, after all.
Viktor Balthasar Emil Hoffmann (Виктор Викторович Гофман) (1884-1911) was born in a family of the Austrian German citizen who owned the furniture factory in Russia. He went to the Russian classical school and finished it with honours. One of his classmates was Russian poet Vladimir ...
`Napoléon, yes, Napoléon`. Russian folk song of 1812 dedicated to Prince Koutouzoff, Mikhail Illarionovich Koutouzoff, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army and guerillas. The song expresses a view-point of the ordinary Russians, peasants of that epoch. Sung by ...
Taffy was extraordinarily famous in Russia for her short stories full of humour. Fewer knows as well that she was a poetess. Of course, she was not as great as her sister Mirra (Maria) Lokhvitskaya-Gibert who was an immediate predecessor of Anna Akhmatova, Xenaida Gippius and Marina ...
Anarchists perform the Apple Small dance and song (a fragment from the film `Alexandre Parkhomenko`). In the beginning the Red Army commanders agreed that they had to remove the anarchists` armoured train. One of them went to meet anarchists and pursuade them to free the railway ...
Josie Carr-Harris, born from Russian mom and Canadian dad, then aged 11, sings `With Nanny` by Mussorgsky. Record of 2010. `With Nanny` is a song from The Nursery (Детская, literally Children's Room) cycle, composed by Modest Mussorgsky between 1868 and 1872 and set to his own ...
Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice (1505-1569) was a Polish poet and writer of the Renaissance in Poland, as well as a politician and musician. He was the first Polish author to write exclusively in the Polish language, and is considered (with Biernat of Lublin ...
The poem which is in the Russian school curriculum relates to a plot and some characters of the Russian fairy tales. The plot is the same as is in the Sleeping Beauty, as to the characters they are noble Prince Ivan and ordinary Ivan the Fool whose traditional roles were reconsidered ...
Кардиналу Катерине Сфорце грозит смертная казнь за государственную измену. Её верные агенты АХ едут в заснеженный Таллин, чтобы найти некого Херувима, который сможет доказать её невиновность.
Знаменитый роман Расселла Торндайка, полный иронии и теплого британского юмора, повествует о маленькой деревушке Даймчерч, где, по слухам, обосновались контрабандисты. Жители Даймчерча взволнованы! Что скажет доктор Син, приходской священник? Какие секреты он хранит? Что будет делать ...
A great Russian actor Spartak Mishulin (1926 - 2005) in the classical staging of the Small comedies of the big house by Andrei Mironov, Arkadiy Arkanov & Georgiy Gorin, Theatre of Satire (1974). This number staged by a groovy choreographer Vladimir Manokhin was so popular that sometimes ...
September 28 is Brigitte Bardot`s birthday! She`s my idol!https://youtu.be/Bbkwrf5lMqc https://youtu.be/h0xUjsxwrkE (Sorry for my complicated relationship with time, I thought it was October, so I`d written Oct. 28 before). A propos, слово la madrague означает "сеть для ловли тунца", ...
Have we got a treat for you! We are thrilled to share Open and Shut, an exclusive short story by Alastair Reynolds, today. Step into the futuristic world of Prefect Dreyfus for a fast paced new SF crime story. This is your new SF obsession. One citizen died a fortnight ago. Two a ...
The cruel love song `Go away, do not look!` set to music by Sasha Davydov, a Russian star of the Armenian origin is sung by Alexandre Mikhailovich Davydov (Isroel Moiseyevich Levenson (1872-1944), a Russian operatic singer of the Jewish descent and a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre ...
I`ve kept untouched the old vocabulary of the original text and chose the equivalent, intelligible words in Old Slavonic that are still being used in the Russian poetry.
Vadim Stepantsov has been one of the biggest modernists of the Russian literature, author of the quasi-naive and simple, but rather sophisticated and elegant erotic poems in a style of the courtly mannerism. (The poems written in that manner are supposed to be a combination of refinement ...
Russian Gipsy Song `Ah, you years` ("Ох, вы годы .."). Sung by Alexandre Borisov. Accompanist Sergei Sorokin. From the Russian TV Show The theatrical gatherings. Artistes of St. Petersburg in Moscow (1966) https://youtu.be/vwxscMN5pl0
The poem by Evgeniy Yevtushenko that I dared to translate has got an alliteration of `sh-sh` in the original that I replaced with the sound of `w-w` in English.
The voice of Anatoly Dmitriyevich Papanov (1926-2012), an iconic actor of the legendary Moscow Satire Theatre in the 60-70s of the 20 c., was a little bit grotesque (a fragment from the feature film `Beware of the Car` can serve as an illustration): Yuppie - Andrei Mironov. Father- ...
The Down Piterski Instrumental from the Russian Animation from the Lillebror och Karlsson pa taket (Karlsson-on-the-Roof) by a great Swedish children"s writer Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002). Russian Karlsson is dancing to this tune! (Film Director Boris Stepantsev, Karlsson - Vasiliy ...
Let"s watch a fragment from the motion picture The Balzamonov`s Marriage based on Alexandre Ostrovsky`s three pieces Two Dogs Fight, the Third Keep Away, Whatever You Look for, You'll Find and Holiday"s Afternoon Dream (1860s). In many respects it"s almost a replica of The Merchant's ...
A superstar of the 19 c., great Hungarian pianist and composer Ferenc Liszt , or as he was called that time Franz Liszt (Actor pianist Svyatoslav Richter), performing in front of the Russian High society. Young Slava Richter playing the part of Ferenc Liszt in the motion picture ...
Comedian Evgeniy Petrosyan & Matryona (Actor Sergei Chvanov from the famous Russian comic duet `The New Russian Grannies`): Reciting the Russian unprintable folklore in the allegoric guise of the Japanese Tankas https://youtu.be/d9-7YyMIURU
BEASTLY BEAUTIFUL, OR BEAUTY IN THE BEAST Beware of the Modern 2. Sergei Rost (plays Irena, 1st Member of the Jury, Guy on Motorcycle, Nina Zadova, Mother) and Dmitry Nagiyev (he plays Father, Sergeant Zadov, Tanya, Yulia, Pasha, 2nd Member of the Jury). https://youtu.be/Z3omyX21- ...
My favourite fragments of the Russian feature film `My dear man` ("Дорогой мой человек") (film director Iosif Heifitz) of 1959 from the Yuri Herrmann`s novel `The Lifework` (Юрий Герман "Дело, которому служишь") https://youtu.be/eIwsdvC5mOM2 from 6:45 to 30:59; from 31:26 to 32:12 ...
The text of this poem became an absolute champion of the contest `The anthology of the absolutely great poems` of the Russian poetry of the 20 c. initiated by Mikhail Abelsky and held in 1977. There was only one con! I agree with majority voting and consider this poem one of the best ...
Alexandre Nikolayevich Lobanovsky, one of the St. Petersburg bards composed music, having slightly changed the first line (`charmed` instead of `kissed`). (In my translation I kept Zabolotsky`s text intact. In any case it"s singable! - AAO) Declaration of Love. Music by Alexandre ...
`E la nave va` is an allusion of a Federico Fellini`s feature film of the same name that translates into English as `And the Ship Sails On` (1983) https://youtu.be/PIFxpgg6A1Q
FALLEN IN LOVE WITH A GOOD GIRL AISHANG NI, HAO GUNIANG A sexy beauty is arguing with her Lamborghini boyfriend, a rich businessman. We see him saying `Well!` (Hao ba!) and ordering her to return to his car (`Do take your seat!` Zuo!). Her response is, `Weishenme ne? Why then? Again?` ...
The picture of the music video I LIKE TO STROLL ALONG THE MOSCOW STREETS https://youtu.be/SuWLPI9C0kc shows knowledge of its authors with the Japanese lyrics of the song sung by the Dark Ducks (ダークダックス) under a title of the Kaze kaoru ...
GAGARIN: `HE WHO HASN`T FOUND THE GOD IN THE EARTH, HE WON`T FIND HIM IN SPACE EITHER!` The Underwood Group GAGARIN, I LOVED YOU! https://youtu.be/jeVHsi96ZAg
An episode from the Russian feature film `Ivan Vasilyevich changes his occupation` (1973) based on Mikhail Bulgakov`s comedy of `Ivan Vasilyevich`, 1936. Because of a time-machine dysfunction the house manager Ivan Vasilyevich Bunsha who occurred to be a replica of Ivan the Terrible ...
Попробовала ни с того ни с сего сделать перевод стихотворения Павла Тычыны (вот оригинал: https://www.ukrlib.com.ua/books/printit.php?tid=384) - и вот, что из этого вышло...
THE ROCK CLIMBER by Vladimir Vysotsky https://youtu.be/q1qNnNNpuC4 The poem-song was dedicated to Maria Gotovtseva, a legendary lady rock climber. Maria Gotovtseva: `You can`t conquer a mountain. It was and will be. Mountaineering is not a struggle with a mountain but a struggle ...
EXCESS WEIGHT? BULLSHIT! JUST EXTRA PLACES FOR KISSING! A humorous song by a Russian chansonnier Semyon Slepakov https://youtu.be/08fvOEtMxQk Slepakov`s other songs: Ты -очень красивая http://zhurnal.lib.ru/editors/p/prjahin_a_a/beautifullystupid.shtml Red Hot Chili Peppers ...
ST. ANDREWS (THE RUSSIAN NAVY BANNER): FOR FAITH AND FIDELITY Варяг / Varyag / Warjag (Русский Народный Хоръ / Russian National Choir, Conductor W.S. Warszawski, Disk of the Recording Co. `Janus-Rekord` (`Янусъ-Рекордъ`) # 523 (2890, Record of 1905). Music by Alexei Sergeyevich ...
The waltz `Autumn Dream` by a British composer Archibald Joyce (1873-1963) the Russian consider to be their own, because it sounds in a very Russian way. `Autumn dream` sounds as the best illustration of the Chekhovian epoch. Listening to it you feel like reading Anton Chekhov or ...
Gypsy love song `Two guitars` from `An unusual concert`. The Puppet Show (1972) of Sergei Obraztsov https://youtu.be/gf9_v-c1Bd4 (from 34:35) The refrain sung by the Gypsy choir is as in the below song https://youtu.be/uvkg7RGliFo. It`s a classical and surrealistic Gypsy refrain full ...
Хотя сие стихотворение и подразумевает не просто каменщиков, а кивает на "вольных каменщиков" и имеет политический подтекст, на самом деле к масонству имеет малое отношение, и в большей степени связано с реалиями русской общественной борьбы начала 20 в.
In 1969 Serge Gainsbourg composed and wrote the song the Helicopter for Mireille Darc. En 1969 Serge Gainsbourg compose et ecrit la chanson L'Helicoptere pour Mireille Darc https://youtu.be/WowRnp6pTVc
`The steamboat whistles, shouts: `Hi` is a song from the Russian feature film `The river banks` https://youtu.be/ZGRPbkkE_VQ, https://youtu.be/0qLbGtebw78
`I`m heart and soul to you` follows the style of the Russian traditional songs, and is usually sung with stressed pronouncing "o" as "o", rather than as "a" which is a distinctive feature of some Russian dialects of the Volga region. https://youtu.be/taaZn_I0ZBs Maxim Gorky spoke ...
The Na-Na group`s humorous song `Eskimo and Papuan` (1990) where `Eskimo` implies winter frost and `Papuan` implies summer heat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wM-YUWmb_I Unlike in the West the word of `eskimo` hasn`t got a negative meaning in Russian.
Authentic poetry of Freemasons - Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Аутентичная масонская поэзия (первоисточник) - Древний и принятый шотландский устав
Испанский баснописец из страны Басков. В баснях Саманьего, как и в баснях Ивана Крылова, чувствуется влияние (и напрямую заимствуются сюжеты) античных (Эзоп, др.), французских (Лафонтен ( La Fontaine) и др.) и английских ( J. Gay и др.) баснописцев, что, тем не менее, как и в случае ...
The song `OH, YOU CHILLING FROST` is a main table song in Russia. It`s a story about a guy coming home in a severe snowstorm in the Russian steppe. It seems to have been existing for ages. But it was created in 1954 and became the national hit in 1968. https://youtu.be/ywGebiBjJr8 ...
Juan Eugenio de Hartzenbusch (Мадрид, 6 сентября 1806 г. - 2 августа 1880 г.) - австрийская кровь испанской поэзии. В испанском произношении Хуан Антонио Арсенбуч (а не Харценбуш)
Joaquin Maria Bartrina y de Aixemus (Хоакин Мария Бартрина)(Реус, 1850 - Барселона, 1880)- двуязычный испано-каталонский поэт и драматург, предшественник испанского литературного авангарда. Чудак Бартрина хотел примирить физику и лирику. Он выдумывал и вставлял в стихи странные формулы: ...
The English lyrics of the Folk Singer's Song off-stagefrom Raphael by Anton Arensky (op. 37, 1894) Английский текст песни народного певца за сценойиз оперы Аренского "Рафаэль" (оп. 37, 1894)Translated from Russian by L.C. Перевёл с русского ...
Irony, satire and humour are main features of Pauline Sibagatullina`s witty poetry. Pauline is as well a permanent member of the theatrical company `Comedy Woman` (Moscow). One time her dramatic character in the company was Madame Pauline, the Russian nwriting Yugoslavia (Bosnian) ...
In 1945 Yara wrote a poem `Sweet Beauties of Russia` ("Милые красавицы России") where he expressed his gratitude to all the women of the USSR who sacrificed everything to victory. Yeah, he was a true gentleman, and he never joined men who several times after the war attempted to defame ...
Yaroslav Smelyakov was a `small` classical poet of Russia. His poetic career and success reached their climax in the 60s of the 20c. The youth of that time accepted him as one of their mouthpieces despite he belonged to the generation of their parents. Yevgeniy Yevtushenko, #1 in ...
Yaroslav Smelyakov wrote many iconic poetic texts that made him immortal as a classical Russian poet. The Soviet hippies and yuppies of the 60s loved not only his `Lida` but also his poem `If I ever fall ill ...`. `If I ever fall ill ...` (Если я заболею...) excellently recited by ...
A poem by a Russian artist and poet Marat Samsonov. A GOOD NEWS! AUTUMN WON`T COME BACK AGAIN! The song sung by Chinese pop star Wang Qiang (People`s Republic of China) What a beautiful song! Where`s my handkerchief, girls? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLL8329B7x0&feature=player_ ...
Svetlana Plakhutina lived in Vladivostok before she`d moved to Moscow. This is her poem from the collection of poems `An Apple on my Palm` issued in Vladivostok in 2002
A humorous sketch by The Ural Pelmenis theatrical company https://ok.ru/video/398386139602; https://youtu.be/lqDx1hcEzxI `Ural Pelmenis` lit. means Meat Dumplings from the Urals. The members of the company, comedians originated from Ekaterinburg, Ural Republic of the Russian Federation. ...
The poem `On perishability (To transience)` (На тленность) by Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (Гаврила Романович Державин) had been written three days before the last day of the Russian poet. While writing it the poet was looking at the then famous emblematic picture `The river of time`(`Der ...
JOY AND FIRE! WOW! Chinese pop star and beauty Ms. Jeannie Hsieh (Republic of China, Island of Taiwan) came upon a snag during her performance. That `snag` was ... see above! It`s really funny! I would hire him as a dance backup for me if I were a singer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHyvcIaPVpQ&list=PL12018C86ED451608 ...
Winterwäldchen - Winter Coppice is the German lyrics to the tune by Arno Babadjanian (at source: "Чёртово колесо"). Frankenfeld Show, ARD-1975, West Germany - Winterwaldchen (Winter Coppise) Sung By Larissa Mondrus https://youtu.be/DVLNK4I3g28 (from 1:39)
The historic and historical song dated back to the time of the Civil War in the 20s of the 20th c. in Russia. Due to the simple words, irregular grammar, excellent, catchy and slightly klezmerish melody that marching song acquired an iconic status in time of its creation. It was one ...
The Russian love song `Don`t go away, do stay with me` was composed, written and dedicated to Anastassiya Vyaltzeva by Nikolai Vladimirovich Zubov (1867- after 1906) in 1899. IMHO, the best performers of the romance song were Varya Panina before the Revolution https://youtu.be/4fsp71A9Y5U ...
Sasha Davydov (Саша Давыдов) (Alexandre Davydovich Davydov (Александр Давыдович Давыдов) (born Arsen Davidovich Karapetyan (Арсен Давидович Карапетян)(according to other references N.F. Karapetov (Н.Ф. Карапетов) was the full author of the love song. He graduated from the Lazarevsky ...
Humbert Wolfe was an Italian-born English poet. He was one of the most popular authors of the 1920s.He was also a translator of Heinrich Heine. His career was in in the Ministry of Labour. By 1940 he had a position of high responsibility. Wolfe's verses have been set to music by ...
A jocular English remake of the original song THE WIFE OF THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR by Alexandre Gorodnitsky https://youtu.be/-0z5EfqdF88 Alexandre Gorodnitsky is a prominent Russian professor, doctor of science (geophysics, oceanology) and one of the most prominent Russian singing poets. ...
An Old Russian Gypsy love song by Apollon Grigoriyev and Ivan Vasiliyev.`The Seven String Guitar` sung by Strongilla Irtlach http://kkre-28.narod.ru/irtlach/git.mp3
A door to a woman`s bedroom has been opened by a cockscrew! Cock-a-doodle-doo! A nice poem by a Russian artist and poet Marat Samsonov (Марат Самсонов)http://maratsamsonov.ru/, https://www.stihi.ru/avtor/werro1
Продолжение перевода базовой книги правил Pugmire. Здесь представлен частичный (практически полностью "вырезаны" правила по созданию персонажа) перевод второй главы, который рассказывает читателю о породах и призваниях (заменяющих привычные расы и классы) обитателей Мопсоболотии.
Авель, Эстер и Ион отправляются в Империю Истинного Человечества, чтобы встретиться с императрицей, но Орден замышляет нечто ужасное и всеми силами пытается им помешать. Сумеют ли они расстроить коварный замысел розенкрейцеров? Пролог. Лазурный купол. Часть 1. Сумеречный город.