Stikhotvoreniye ~ latviyskaya devochka Pobezhdennyye nemtsy - vtornik , 8 fevralya 1916

Vpechatleniye eskiz latviyskoy devushka dayet narkoticheskoye vino nemetskim chasovymi - By Jamie

V boyevykh zemel' mezhdu Rossiyey
I Germaniya, vkhodit v zonu Latvii
A istoricheskaya oblast' Kurlyandii -
Eta nizmennaya, kholmistaya zemlya ozer
I bolotnyy, s sosny i yeli cherez
Drevesnyy dyuny obrazuyutsya rodinu latysham.

Baltiyskaya etnicheskaya gruppa, kotoryye razdelyayut obshchiy
Golos latyshey - s rasprostraneniyem voyny
Yanvarya 1916 goda uvidel bezhavshikh iz latyshi lyudey
Ot puti nemtsev, chto navodnil
V odnoy iz dereven' Kurlyandiya, chtoby skazat' khrabryy istoriyu.

Delaya svoi voyennyye dvizheniya nemetskoy
Otryad prishel na fermu Kurlyandii -
Nebol'shoye kolichestvo muzhchin vzyali dom
V silu, dlya togo, chtoby poyest' i otdokhnut' - na
Blizlezhashchiy kholm Chasovyye byli postavleny na strazhe,
Daly togo, chtoby ostavat'sya tam v gor'kogo kholod nochi.

V fermerskom dome teplo soldaty
Naydeno svoi postavki napitka nizkoy - nemetskiy
Leytenant obratilsya doch' fermera
17 let, prikazav yey, chtoby poluchit' ikh vina,
Ili ikh dom sgorel by dotla.

Naryadu s obeshchaniyem byt' podvergnutym
Dlya togo, chtoby nasiliye - s pritona starogo likera
V podvale, eta devushka byla ideya, prezhde chem
Sluzha im vino iz dvukh stvolov -
Prinimaya proyekt spal'nyy poroshok, obrazovannyy
Ot kolokol'chikov ona dobavila eto k napitku.

S odnoy bochki bystro opusteli, soldaty
Treboval bol'she - devushka sdelala, kak oni velyat -
Sbrosiv v dva raza bol'she tyagi
V etot vtoroy barrel' - v kachestve napitka proshel guby
Nemtsy nachali katit'sya na pol.

S p'yanyye muzhchiny dremlet vse o
Stvol, devushka zapolnila chashu i vzyal
Eto iz v gor'koy nochi, tuda, gde chasovymi
Stoyal na morozil'nuyu okhrannika - ulovkoy devushki
Byl skazat' im, chto ona nakhodilas' pod leytenanta
Zakazy prinesti vino dlya nikh, chtoby pit'.

Po vozvrashchenii v dom yeye otets
Uzhe svyazali kanatu o rukakh i nogakh
Bessoznatel'nogo nemtsev - V to zhe vremya
Ona sobrala vmeste svoye oruzhiye i spryatal
Ikh gluboko v zatemnennom podvale.

S etoy zadachey sdelano i otets okhrannyye
Nemtsy, devushka ostavila v nochi
Chtoby sdelat' svoy put' po putyam lesov i
Bolota - nakonets-to dostich' sibirskogo forpost -
Tam ona obratilas' k sotrudniku Sibirskogo
Vintovki, chtoby skazat' im, chto proizoshlo.

S vysokim volneniyem, latysh devushka soobshchil,
Ikh, kak ona preodolela i razoruzhili
Dvadtsat' nemetskikh soldat i ikh ofitser -
Etot fakt oni obnaruzhili, trudno poverit', kogda
Okonchatel'no ubedivshis', chto oni posledovali yeye domoy.

S razoruzhennykh Roped soldat zvuk
Spit v p'yanom ugare, veder ledyanym
Voda byli vybrosheny nad nimi - probudil
V ikh udivleniyu, bylo nayti sebya
Uzniki rossiyskikh voysk - potom
Devushka pozhala ruku russkogo generala.

Doch' fermera khvalili za eto
Khrabryy postupok, kotoryy, kak soobshchayetsya vyshe
Voyennaya vlast' - devochka byla vposledstvii udostoyennym
Za yeye geroizm, chtoby poluchit' ukrasheniye
Iz rossiysk.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1916. Russkiy Geroinya - Ruse krest'yanskiye devushki - ulavlivaniye nemtsev . The Daily Telegraph, [online] 8 February 1916. P.6. Col.3. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12138807/Daily-Telegraph-February-8-1916.html [Accessed: 8 February 2016].

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Poem ~ Latvian Girl Defeats Germans - Tuesday, 8 February 1916

Impression sketch of Latvian girl giving drugged wine to German sentries - by Jamie.

Within the fighting lands between Russia

And Germany, included the area of Latvia

And the historical region of Courland -

This low-lying, undulating land of lakes

And marsh, with pine and spruce across

Woody dunes formed homeland of Letts.

A Baltic ethnic group who shared a common

Voice of Latvians - with the spread of war

January 1916, saw fleeing of Letts people

From the path of Germans that overran

One Courland village, to tell a brave story.

Making their military movements a German

Detachment came upon a Courland farm -

The small number of men took the house

By force, in order to eat and rest - upon

A nearby hill sentries were put on guard,

To remain there in the bitter chill of night.

Within the farmhouse warmth the soldiers

Found their supplies of drink low - a German

Lieutenant addressed the farmer’s daughter

Of 17 years, ordering her to get them wine,

Or their house would burn to the ground.

Along with promise of being subjected

To violence – With a stash of old liqueur

In the cellar, this girl had an idea before

Serving them wine from the two barrels -

Taking a sleeping powder draft formed

From bluebells she added this to the drink.

With one barrel swiftly emptied, the soldiers

Demanded more - the girl did as they bid -

Having dropped twice the amount of draft

Into that second barrel - as drink passed lips

The Germans began to roll onto the floor.

With the drunk men slumbering all about

The barrel, the girl filled a bowl and took

This out into the bitter night, to where sentries

Stood on freezing guard – the girl's ruse

Was to tell them she was under Lieutenant's

Orders to bring wine for them to drink.

On returning to the farmhouse her father had

Already tied tight rope about arms and legs

Of the unconscious Germans - Meanwhile

She gathered together their weapons and hid

Them deep down within the darkened cellar.

With this task done and the father guarding

The  Germans, the girl left into the night

To make her way over paths of forests and

Swamps - finally to reach a Siberian outpost -

There she addressed the officer of Siberian

Rifles to tell them what had occurred.

With high excitement, the Lett girl informed

Them how she had overcome and disarmed

Twenty German soldiers and their officer -

This fact they found hard to believe, when

Finally convinced they followed her home.

With the disarmed roped soldiers sound

Asleep in a drunken stupor, pails of ice cold

Water were thrown over them – roused

In their surprise, was to find themselves

Prisoners of Russian Forces - afterwards

The girl shook hands with Russian General.

The farmer's daughter was praised for this

Brave act, which was reported to higher

Military authority - the girl was later awarded

For her heroism, to receive the decoration

Of the Russian army; a St Georges Cross.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1916. A Russian Heroine - Peasant Girl's Ruse - Trapping The Germans. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 8 February 1916. P.6. Col.3. Available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12138807/Daily-Telegraph-February-8-1916.html [Accessed: 8 February 2016].

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