A.Pushkin. A winter morning
Channel: Miklouho-Maclay Foundation
Date: 2021-01-28

Alexander Pushkin “A winter morning”
The video clip length - 02:25.
The poem "Winter Morning" was written in 1829.
English translation by Julian Henry Lowenfeld.
Recitation:  Daria Donova 

Alexander Pushkin always especially loved winter - he was fascinated by snow-covered landscapes and the magic of Russian nature.
In this poem, the poet has a conversation with a girl, telling her about the beauty of winter.

A WINTER MORNING
 
It’s frost and sunshine — morning wondrous! —
My lovely friend, that sweetly slumbers —
It’s time, my beauty, ope’ your eyes!
Ope wide your bliss enveloped gazing,
And to the North’s Aurora blazing,
As the North Star come forth, arise!

Last night, remember snowstorm’s raging?
In murky skies that gloom rampaging?
The moon was but a faint, pale stain.
Through gloomy clouds it yellowed, flitting.
And, oh, how sadly you were sitting!
And now — look out our windowpane!

’Neath blue cerulean heavens’ gleaming,
In wondrous carpets, softly keening,
In sunlight sparkling, the snow lies.
Transparent woods are all that darkens.
The fir greens o’er the frost and harkens,
The river shines beneath the ice.

And our whole room, with amber sparkling,
Gleams in the dawn. With merry gargling
The hearth-stove crackles, wood piled high.
It’s pleasant lying in bed thinking.
But say, though, shouldn’t we be ringing
To yoke the brown mare to the sleigh?

As we on morning snow go sliding,
My darling, feeling the full riding,
As our horse runs impatiently,
We’ll see the fields, their barren bleakness,
The woods, which recently were leafy,
The lakeshore, that’s so dear to me.

The video was edited by the Miklouho-Maclay Foundation as a part of the "RUSSIAN ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL LUMINARIES AND THEIR WORLDWIDE LEGACY" educational project 

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