Fickle as water,
our life is as dreamlike as smoke
- at our expense,
fate's private joke.
-The Bronze Horseman

“But even friendship like our heroes'Exist no more; for we've outgrownAll sentim…”

“I saw Derzhavin only once in my life but shall never forget that occasion. It w…”

“Уж небо осенью дышало,Уж реже солнышко блистало,Короче становился день,Лесов та…”

“It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who h…”