Re:A tribute to the Russian poet Sergey Yesenin
by forgotpwtomain on Saturday January 09, 2016 @02:12AM
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There used to be a pretty good website which had most Russian poets (in the original): https://web.archive.org/web/20110310062154/http://litera.ru/...
Not sure what happened to it though.
I didn't see Russian on site (just English and Croatian). I found this with Russian versions, not with too many ads:
http://samlib.ru/w/wagapow_a/yesen.shtml
but the English translation is off. For example in "Letter To Mother":
http://samlib.ru/w/wagapow_a/yesen.shtml#a_letter_to_mother
"Ты жива еще, моя старушка?" is translated too literally as "Are you still alive, my dear granny?". Granny means more grandmother while in Russian it means more old woman, not just necessarily grandmother. So the translation from OP's link is better: "Are you still alive, my dear old one?"