Alexander Pushkin | A magic moment I remember / Ricordo il magico istante..

Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov (1916-1995) | Pushkin in Mikhailovsky, 1969 (detail)

A magic moment I remember:

I raised my eyes and you were there,

A fleeting vision, the quintessence

Of all that's beautiful and rare

I pray to mute despair and anguish,

To vain the pursuits world esteems,

Long did I hear your soothing accents,

Long did your features haunt my dreams.

Vladimir Volegov🎨(1957) | French swing

Time passed. A rebel storm-blast scattered

The reveries that once were mine

And I forgot your soothing accents,

Your features gracefully divine.

In dark days of enforced retirement

I gazed upon grey skies above

With no ideals to inspire me

No one to cry for, live for, love.

Then came a moment of renaissance,

I looked up - you again are there

A fleeting vision, the quintessence

Of all that's beautiful and rare

Ilya Glazunov🎨 (1930-2017) | Aleksander Pushkin

Aleksandr Kravchuk (1956) | Pushkin sul lungofiume del canale Mojka a San Pietroburgo

Ricordo il magico istante:

Davanti m’eri apparsa tu,

Come fuggevole visione,

Genio di limpida beltà.

Nei disperati miei tormenti,

Nel chiasso delle vanità,

Tenera udivo la tua voce,

Sognavo i cari lineamenti.

Anni trascorsero, bufere

Gli antichi sogni poi travolsero,

Scordai la tenera tua voce,

I tuoi sublimi lineamenti.

E in silenzio passavo i giorni

Recluso nel vuoto grigiore.

Vladimir Volegov | Walking at arcachon dune

Vladimir Volegov | Sunny silence

Vladimir Volegov | New flowers

Vladimir Volegov | Your heart is playing it's barcarolle

Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov (1916-1995) | Pushkin in Mikhailovsky, 1969