Пушкин А.С.
Read this Russian poem in the original on Самовар — free, no account needed, with Charles Edward Turner’s English translation beside the text, and an audiobook to listen along to.
English by Charles Edward Turner (1899), public domain. Swipe right on the text to read it beside the Russian, or tap the EN button on the right. The dedication that opens the poem has no English — Turner began at the poem itself — so the English starts at «Песнь первая». A verse translation follows the sense and the music rather than the line. A literary translation is not a crib: the English follows the sense and the tone rather than the words, so a line here will rarely answer the Russian beside it one for one.
The power and glory of the war,
Faithless as their vain votaries, men,
Had pass'd to the triumphant Czar.
Byron
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