News: 2007-05-09

Victory day in St Petersburg 

On the 9th of may we celebrate Victory Day -the day on which The Nazis were defeated. We paid  for this Victory  an enormous cost-27 million people human lives. This is a poem  for you  to help you to understand why we  became winners,the poem in which Russian soldier is asking his beloved to wait for him in spite of all the hardships
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 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 will say,
Those that would not wait.
They will never understand
How amidst the strife
By your waiting for me, dear,
You has 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.

In the February 1942.. "Pravda" published a lyric which immediately won the heart of our troops. It was "Wait for me". Soldiers cut it out of the paper, copied it out as they sat in the trenches, learned it by heart and sent it back in letters to wives and girlfriends; it was found in the breast pockets of the killed and wounded. In the history of Russia poetry if would be hard to find a poem which  had such an impact on the people as "Wait for me". It made the soviet officer and Russian poet Konstantin Simonov- famous throughout the world.