16 October 1917. Boris Pasternak

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Boris Pasternak

Ushakovs' chemical plant, Tykhie Gory, Vyatsk guberniya, Russian Empire

…Не спорить, а спать. Не оспаривать,
А спать. Не распахивать наспех
Окна, где в беспамятных заревах
Июль, разгораясь, как яспис,
Расплавливал стекла и спаривал
Тех самых пунцовых стрекоз,
Которые нынче на брачных
Брусах — мертвей и прозрачней
Осыпавшихся папирос.

Как в сумерки сонно и зябко
Окошко! Сухой купорос.
На донышке склянки — козявка
И гильзы задохшихся ос.

Как с севера дует! Как щупло
Нахохлилась стужа! О вихрь,
Общупай все глуби и дупла,
Найди мою песню в живых!

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