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Greg Afinogenov

Greg Afinogenov is a historian in training. He was born in Moscow, Russia. He may be reached at gafinogenov собака gmail.com.

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Honors Thesis
Playing the Craftsman: Habermas, Free Speech, and the Public Sphere of Eighteenth-Century New York

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Poetry Translations

(original texts from Stixiya)

New Updates

1/2/2010: Many new poems by Arsenii Tarkovsky, David Samoilov, and Sasha Chernyi.

Anna Akhmatova

From the Cycle "Youth" (1940)

Requiem (1957)

Andrey Bely

Melancholy (1907)

Aleksandr Blok

"Through the narrow plazas..." (1902)

"I put my ear to the ground..." (1907)

Chased Down by the Blizzard (1907)
Beneath the Masks (1907)
"A blizzard sweeps across the streets..." (1907)
"I've accepted the world..." (1907)
"How hard it is to wander among men..." (1910)

The Painter (1913)
"Oh, I so want to live insanely..." (1914)

Sasha Chernyi

To a Critic (1909)
The Stylized Ass (1909)
The New Digit: 1910 (1909)
Simple Words (1910)

Ilya Ehrenburg

At the Train Station

Verlaine in His Old Age (1913)
"Gray hair, what of it!..." (1922)
"The heat trickles in through tiny shutters..." (1938)
"You’ve remembered it all..." (1939)
"I would give everything to lose..." (1940)
"How can the spoiled children of the South..." (1958)
"This fall is not a time of year..." (1964-66)

Nikolai Gumilev

Modernity (1912)

Memory (1921)

Osip Mandelstam

"The bread is poisoned, the air drunk up..." (1913)

"Insomnia. Homer. Taut-stretched sails..." (1915)

To Cassandra (1917)

"Take from my hands..." (1920)
He Who Finds a Horseshoe (1923)
Leningrad (1930)

"I hear, I hear the new ice..." (1937)

Vladimir Nabokov

The Giant (1924)

Boris Pasternak

"I want to go home, to the hugeness..."
Winter Night (1913)
The First Snows (1944)
"It is so homely to be famous..." (1956)

David Samoilov

The Vindication of Hamlet
Idyll for Later
Free Verse
The House-Museum
"Don't hurry the things you have lived through..."

Memory (1964)

Arsenii Tarkovsky

"If I had been proud, as I was before..." (1934)
Poems from a Childhood Notebook (1958)
"I'm sick and tired of all the words and words..." (1963-1968)
"I'm one of those shadows..." (1974)

Marina Tsvetaeva

Passerby (1913)
"My poems, written so early..." (1913)
"I dedicate these lines..." (1913)
"Today there was a melting, today..." (1913)
"I wrote my poems on a piece of slate..." (1920)
"I've opened my veins; unstoppably..." (1934)

Maximilian Voloshin

"To be black earth..." (1906)
"There was a sacred forest here..." (1907)
"An empty crag emerges from the depths..." (1907)
"The milk-gray day has bloomed..." (1910)
"Bowed blue, wreathed in night's blueness..." (1910)
"I wandered, a severe youth..." (1911)
To Our Descendants (During the Terror) (1921)
The Poet's Valor (1925)
To the Poet (1925)
The Poet's House (1926)

A translation of Aleksey Gastev's "A Package of Orders" is in Correspondence, Issue 2.