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Olga Berggoltz became the voice of a besieged city. During the nine hundred days of the Leningrad blockade, her poetry and speeches broadcast over the city's radio reached people who were starving, freezing, and burying their dead. She did not offer false comfort.

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In the Name Of the Word...

1949
In the name of the word that, my dear,
Is best one and single for us,
Again fall in love with me here,
And tell me all this and – at once.
Beware! You could loose the right moment!
So, call for, not looking at past,
The proud and happiest load
Of my love’s unusual thrust.
You’ll never find fate more delicious,
Nor heights, deeper sunk in the blue,
Because it contains our last wishes –
The last air to breathe for us two.
Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, March, 2002

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