that is marked
with a ribbon.
"To the question how sciences
and arts affect
people's morals, Rousseau answered:
Negatively'."
Read only what is underlined
with the red pencil.
"Notwithstanding the..."
Oh no!
"The division of churches
separated us from Europe.
We remained excluded
from every great event
that had shaken it.
However, we had our own,
special destiny.
Russia, with her immense territory,
had swallowed up the Mongol
invasion.
The Tartars didn't dare
crossing our western borders.
They retreated to their wilderness
and Christian civilization
had been saved.
To attain that goal
we had to lead
a special kind of life
which, while leaving us Christians,
had made us alien
to the Christian world.
As for our historic
insignificance,
I cannot agree with you on that.
Don't you find
anything significant at all
in today's situation in Russia
that would strike
a future historian?
Although I'm heartily attached
to our sovereign,
I'm not at all delighted with
everything I see around me.
As a man of letters,
I'm being annoyed, insulted,
but I swear that for nothing
in the world would have made me
change my home country
or have any other history
than the history of our forbears,
such as it was given us by God."
From Pushkin's letter to Chaadayev.
October 19, 1836.
Go, open up.
I'm afraid I've got the wrong
address.
Ignat, how are you doing?
Did Maria Nikolaevna come?
No. Though some woman came,
but she's got the wrong apartment.
Find something to do
or invite somebody.
Do you know any girls?
You mean from my class?
Oh no!
At your age I was already in love...
During the war...
With a redhead...
Her lips were always blistered.
Our military instructor was chasing
after her, he was shell-shocked.
Are you listening to me?
What did you fire at?
You think I didn't see it?
You were firing up!
What's wrong with that?
There's no one there.
And what if somebody was there?
There're only trees there.
And what if somebody climbed a tree?
About face! I commanded
"about face"!
Put down your rifle.
That's what I did.
Did you learn drill regulations?
About face in Russian means
exactly what I did.
About face means a turn of
360 degrees.
What degrees? About face!
To the firing position
forward march!
I'm going to send you
for your parents.
What parents?
You'll know very soon
what parents.
What is the firing position?
Down on the floor mat!
His parents died during the siege.
The firing position is...
a firing position.
- Markov!
- Yes, sir!
Name the basic elements of...
The rifle.
The butt.
- The muzzle.
- It's you who's a muzzle.
What is the muzzle then?
Guys! A grenade!
It's a hand grenade!
Don't do it!
Down on the ground!
You'll be killed!
It's only a dummy grenade.
And you say you're from Leningrad
and been under the siege...
I don't believe in premonitions.
I have no trust in superstitions.
I don't run from slander or venom.
There's no death on earth.
All are immortal,
Everything's immortal.
Don't be afraid of death
at seventeen,
At seventy as well...
There's just reality and light.
There's neither death nor darkness
in this world.
At last we all have reached the shore,
And I'm the one who casts a fishing
rod
When immortality is coming
in a shoal.
Live in a house, and it'll never
fall.
To any of the centuries I'd nod
And enter it, a house I'd install.
That's why with me your children
share board,
Your wives join me at my table,
and all.
One table serves both granddad and
grandchild:
The future's being made right now.
Whenever I'm to raise my hand
in tide,
I all five rays of it on you bestow.
With collarbones, as if with
timber work,
I propped up every day of past age.
I measured time by a world-wide
walk,
I passed through it like through
the Urals range.
I chose the age up to my own measure.
We headed south, with dust flying
away,
The weeds smoked up, and at his own
leisure,
His feeler on