I
They have led you away at the sunrise,
I have followed, as to the grave,
In the dark chamber children were crying,
While a shrine candle melted away.
On your lips was the cold of the icon —
I recall – mortal sweat on your brow…
As the wives of Streltsy*, I will cry on,
By the towers of the Kremlin I’ll howl.
(from Russian)
РЕКВИЕМ. I
Анна Ахматова
Уводили тебя на рассвете,
За тобой, как на выносе, шла,
В темной горнице плакали дети,
У божницы свеча оплыла.
На губах твоих холод иконки,
Смертный пот на челе… Не забыть!
Буду я, как стрелецкие женки,
Под кремлевскими башнями выть.
1935
Москва
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* Streltsy — Muscovite riflemen executed by Peter I after the 1698 rebellion; their wives famously lamented them near the Kremlin walls.
Anna Akhmatova. Requiem. I
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