The Paleys

[matushka]

This last one is really good. Is sounds a little like Verlaine, does'nt it? The others are more from a debutant.

[Alexandre64]

Le Chemineau

Pourquoi sangloter en silence,
Sachant, que dans son vide immense
Mn coeur n'a pas compris ton coeur?

Mon âme, vois-tu , est trop triste
Trop vague et trop egoiste
Pour s'etonner de ta douleur...

Pein d'une volonté maussade
Je vais, mystériieux nomade
Vers un but de gloire et d'encens...

La bise gémit sur ma route
Elle ne veut pas que j'écoute

La plainte des autres passants...

W.Hohenfelsen
Novembre 1913
St. Petersbourg

[Alexandre64]

Vieillesse

Quand les jours ont coulé dans le chemin des âges
Faisant de l'âme sombre un rayonnant crystal
Et que l'homme epuise dans la lutte du mal
Croit voir enfin le vrai de tous ces faux mirages

Alors avec sa main atrocement profonde
Qui dans un froid d'oubli, a les griffes du temps
La mort dans un rictus efface tout le nina
Pour ne pas lui laisser ce qui fut un instant

[Alexandre64]

[bednayaliza]

[bednayaliza]

[Alexandre64]

wonderful picture, thank you

[Sitka]

Such wonderful pictures and most are new to me! Thank you so much for posting them Bednayaliza! May I ask where you found them?

[bednayaliza]

Yes, plaase look hear you will find more   http://www.nashaepoha.ru/?page=obj85299

[Kalafrana]

I think they must be of Vladimir in Corps des Pages uniform.

Ann

[Sara Araújo]

Wonderful pictures! Thank you for the website, it's absolutely perfect!

[Carolath Habsburg]

Yes it is!! i love love the pictures of Constantin Constantinovich and Sergei Mikhailovich *0*!!

[Nicola De Valeron]

Beautiful photos!

I think they must be of Vladimir in Corps des Pages uniform.

Ann

Ann, exactly. Corps des Pages uniform at all photos (common uniform, white summer shirt, greatcoat, etc...)

Only the one photo where Vladimir is sitting alone - not Corps des Pages. This is War time (1916) and Vladimir here is Poruchik of the Guard's Hussar of HIM Regiment.

[Kalafrana]

Indeed.

Does anyone know who is the thickset elderly gentleman in the picture with Vladimir in corps des Pages summer shirt?

Ann

[Nicola De Valeron]

Indeed.

Does anyone know who is the thickset elderly gentleman in the picture with Vladimir in corps des Pages summer shirt?

Ann

This is his mentor/teacher from the Corps of Pages, Officer (Lieutenant Colonel) A.N. Fenu (1873-1954). He was teacher of the Corps des Pages and then (1917) it's director. Emigrated and died in Finland.