Monument to Vladimir Vysotsky
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Monument to Vladimir Vysotsky
Near the Moscow bridge in Podgorica is a monument to Vladimir Vysotsky, who dedicated wonderful lines to the Montenegrin people ...
Vysotsky came here twice: the first time in 1974 to shoot a joint Soviet-Yugoslav film "The Only Road", the second time in 1975 with the tour of the Taganka Theater. But not the quatrain, which everyone knows - about the roots and the Motherland, but this is:
Water filled with handfuls
To the mouth they hurried to bring -
For future drinking water Montenegrins,
Also lived for future use - till thirty.
And it was honorable to die
From bullets and matte blades,
And take with you to the grave
Two or three enemies, two or three enemies.
While the trigger in the gun was not worn out,
They shot from their saddles and from their knees, -
And the Montenegrin was not taken prisoner -
He just did not surrender.
And they wanted to live up to a hundred,
Before life greedy - a century with a vengeance -
In the edge, where the mountains and the sky are full,
And the sea too - with a head:
Six hundred thousand equal portions
The water is alive in one handful ...
But the Montenegrins lived
Its long century - up to thirty.
And their wives will remember them with water;
And hide their children in the mountains
Until then, until they become
Keep arms in hand.
Silently put on mourning,
And they filled in the hearths,
And silently they shed tears in the grass,
So that the enemies will not hear.
Blackened women from grief,
As a fertile land, -
After them the mountains grew black,
Myself with fire burning.
That was true revenge -
It makes no sense to burn themselves:
People and mountains self-immolation -
How disagreement and rebellion.
And five centuries - as God's punishment,
As revenge of the son and the father -
Burning mountain fires
And Montenegrin hearts.
Tsars changed, courtiers,
But death in battle is always in honor, -
Montenegrins did not respect
They lived more than thirty.
Probably, these are the best lines about Montenegro, written by a foreigner.
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Potapov Roman
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