I'm In Love With You to Tears (video and translation)

"I'm In Love With You to Tears"by Alexander SerovOriginal at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnfsynjSnYALift your lovely eyes up to Christmas heavens,Conjure up the substance of your dreams,Before you in my life I was never happy,Just for you, as you love them, it seems,Take...

Translation of Russian classical poetry

Perhaps you need me not this minute, night:From sea foams of the world -A shell without a pearl within it -Upon your shores I have been hurled. With mists the ocean you embellishAnd wordlessly you sing as well;But you will love, and you will cherishA pretense of a useless...

Vladimir Vysotsky in Translation

White Waltz       O what a ball! Intensity of movement, nerves and sound!       The hearts were beating in three beats and not in twain.       And ladies were inviting gentlemen       To a traditional white waltz -...

May Luminesce Your Name

For long on bitter earth I had forgotten Of honor, feats, accomplishments and fame When on the table luminesced before me Your lovely face adorned in simple frame. But time had come, and you had left the house. I threw the wedding ring into the night. You gave away...

We are turning the Earth

by Vladimir Vysotsky, translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat From the border we once had been turning Earth back -That was so at first, no denying.But our colonel turned it again in its track,Pushing with his foot off Ural mountains. At long last we were given the order:...