Everyone will get the habits in the house of our father

The struggle and verses of Natalia Gorbanevskaya

Natalia Gorbanevskaya left

Natalia Gorbanevskaya with friends during the action dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the demonstration on Red Square in support of Czechoslovakia. Moscow, Red Square, August 25, 2013

On November 29, in Paris, at the 77th year of life, Natalia Gorbanevskaya did not become the first editor and compiler of the Samizdat “Chronicle of current events”, a wonderful poet, mother of two children, one of those eight who in 1968 went to Red Square, protesting against the invasion of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia. Natalia Gorbanevskaya described the demonstration, arrest, court and punishment in a prison type of prison type in a prison type of prison type. In 1976, she left for Paris, where she edited the Continent magazine, the Russian Thought newspaper, translated from Polish, Czech, French and wrote poetry. There were several countries in which Natalia Gorbanevskaya loved to live, where she often went, which she considered her: France, Poland, Russia. In Russia, in recent years, it spent almost as much time as in Paris. Here they loved her, waited. Here they listened to her poems.

* * *

Waiting for the end

Do not crowd on the threshold.

Everyone will get the habits

In the house of our father.

Do not breathe in someone else's crown

fresh chips and resin.

Behind the embarrassed haze

There is a place, there is time.

Six -winged number

From excitement, wet

in the palm of the palm of any

Lilovo is blurring.

Do not crowd behind the hell

Do not languish in a nonsense

In the house of our father

Songs do not end.

Natalia Gorbanevskaya

Photo: Zurab Javahadze/ITAR-TASS