The whole world is divided for me in two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…

-The long-awaited Dawn Arrives, 1914-20

O, the new dawn awaits us!

  • Prince Dolgorukov Alexey Nikolaevich

    Hopeless and tongue-tied, yet I loved you dearly,

    With pangs the jealous and the timid know;

    So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely,

    I pray God grant another love you so.

  • Prince Lvov Yevgeny Georgievich

    Tatiana! Just a little mercy -

    I dare not even mention love:

    For sins I have been guilty of,

    My angel, of your care unworthy…

  • Prince Golitsyn Nikolai Mikhailovich

    I expect no more from this life

    And I’ve no regrets for the past.

    I look for freedom and peace:

    I want rest and oblivion at last…

  • Countess Bobrinskaya Anna Alexeyevna

    When winds pipe high, load roar the billows,

    And with a crashing bends the mast,

    It does not shun its luckless fortune,

    Nor haste to port before the blast.

  • Naryshkina Tatiana Feodorovna

    A heavenly harmony, tell me, do you not hear it?

    Ah, the marriage hymn is playing!

    They are preparing the rite for us! Oh, how happy I am!

    Oh joy that is felt but not said!

  • Richthofen Maria Pavlovna

    A flower shrivelled, lacking fragrance,

    Forgotten in a book I see,

    And instantly my soul awakens,

    Filled with a curious reverie.

If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince), and if the prospect of spending an evening with a poor sick lady is not too unnerving, I shall be delighted to see you at my residence between 14 and 20.