slimmysline

Bonjour à tous!
Merci aux personnes généreuses qui aident les autres à comprendre et à parler!

Ma grand-mère m'a donné une lettre qui vient sans doute de sa mère, qui était d'origine russe et a vécu en Roumanie jusqu'à ses 17 ans, moment où elle est venue en Belgique et a rencontré mon arrière-grand-père.

Je ne sais pas si cette lettre a été écrite par mon arrière-grand-mère ou non, et je rêve de savoir ce qui est écrit!
Il semble que ce soit des poèmes...

Merci beaucoup!
Céline

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N'hésitez pas à me demander des conseils en français...
Can talk in English , Kan nederlands spreken

Je voudrais apprendre l'arabe (parlé marocain et puis écrit)
brete thalème el arbia

catlovesjam

It's sort of verse... It seems your great-grandmother was a poet ;-). Unfortunately, her handwriting is not really clear, so it will take time to "decode" some words ;-). Right at the moment I don't have time for this, but if nobody makes translation before me, I'll do it on the weekend.

slimmysline

Thanks for your answer catlovesjam! I hope you will find some entertainment reading it.
For me im so curious and impatient to know more about my great-grandmother! She died when my grandmother was 2 years old so we dont know much about her. Her name was Magdalena Spevakova, born in 1910, daugther of general Spevakov, living in Verkneoudinsk, Siberia. They flee from Siberia in 1917 and lived in Romania. In 30 she came alone in Belgium and found my great-grandfather. I wonder what these poems are...
There are 3 other pages if you or somebody find it interesting...

And thanks to the one who moved my message in the right discussion... I didnt regognize the cyrillic characters... Thank you!

catlovesjam

Well… I’ve got some minutes to look over the letter… Some words are really impossible to read, so I can just guess what they may be. Anyway, I’m 98% sure that I guessed right ;-). The letter looks like a dilettante verse, as I know, in the past it was popular entertainment for educated girls and women. Below I typed what I understood from hand-written text in Russian, and my attempt to translate it. My translation is not 100% correct, because any poems and verses are very difficult for translation, since some words there are placed just to build right sounds... Perhaps, somebody will correct my translation later. Anyway, here are both - the poem and my variant of translation:

Ðàç âåñíîþ â âîñêðåñåíüå, [Once in Spring, at Sunday]
Íà áîëüøîå óäèâëåíüå [To our great delight]
Èç Áðþññåëÿ òàê, áåç äåëà [From Brussels, for no particular reason]
Ëþñÿ Áåðëÿíä ïðèëåòåëà. [Lucy Berljand arrived]

Ëèäà, áðîñèâ çàíèìàòüñÿ [Lida left her studies]
Ñòàëà ñ Ëþñåé öåëîâàòüñÿ. [and started kissing Lucy]
È ðåøèâ, ÷òî âñå ðàâíî, [Then she decided that it’s all the same]
Ïîâåëà åå â êèíî. [and took her {Lucy} to the cinema]

Ñàððó ñ áðàòîì íàâåñòèëè, [They visited Sarrah and her brother]
Íî îñòàòüñÿ íå ðåøèëè, [But did not stay there]
È ïîøëè ïîòîì âòðîåì [And then they three together went ]
Ïðîãóëÿòüñÿ ïåðåä ñíîì. [to walk before sleeping]

Íî÷üþ Ëþñÿ ïëîõî ñïàëà, [At night Lucy slept bad]
Âèäíî áûëî ìåñòà ìàëî. [Perhaps her bed was cramped]
Íî îá ýòîì íàì íå çíàòü, [But we don’t know that exactly]
Íå ïðèøëîñü íàì âìåñòå ñïàòü. [since we did not sleep with her together]

Íà äðóãîé äåíü ê íàì ïðèøëè [Next day they came to us]
Íà ñåêóíäî÷êó çàøëè [Just for a second]
Ìíîãî äîëãî ìû ñìåÿëèñü, [We laughed a lot for a long time]
Ïåíüþ Ëþñè ïîðàæàëèñü, [We were astonished at Lucy’s singing]
È ðåøèëè ÷òî òàêîé [And we decided that ]
Íåòó äåâî÷êè âòîðîé. [there is no other girl like her.]

Íà áåäó ïîïàëñÿ Êîëÿ, [Unluckily there was Kolja {Nicola},]
Âåäü íà âñå ãîñïîäíÿ âîëÿ, [Well, everything is on God’s will]]
Ñèëüíî áåäíîìó ïîïàëî, [He caught it hot]
Õîòü ñèäåë îí î÷åíü ìàëî. [though he was there for a short time]

 îáùåì, âñåõ ïåðåòðóñèâ, [In short, she flurried everyone,]
Ìíîãèõ â ãîñòè ïðèãëàñèâ, [ invited many people to visit her]
Ëþñÿ Áåðëÿíä ðàñïðîùàëàñü [Lucy Berljand said good-bye]
È äîìîé â Áðþññåëü çàáðàëàñü. [and got back home to Brussels]

In the text there are some mistakes, which were made just to make words sound in right rhythm of the verse, so I did not correct them. And there are a lot of punctuation mistakes (I tried to correct them all in my typing).

slimmysline

Thanks a lot catlovesjam! My feeling reading this is undescriptible, it is good to learn something about my great grandmother! Its bring new signs and new questions to me! Really great! Thank you!

Please, if you have time to continue... or if you are curious... For me it is wonderful to know how she thought.

Céline

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catlovesjam

I'll surely try to translate all the rest textes, but it will take some more time, because these days I have too much work to get finished. Anyway, I saved textes on my comp, so as soon as I've got a free minute, I'll translate them for you.

slimmysline

Thanks catlovesjam! You know, its a great emotion for me and my grandmother. Her mother died when she was 2 years old, so every information is very precious. The song describes a day of my great grandmother with her friends. Lida was the godmother of my grandmother. Its is wonderful to read something written about them.