# Nikolai Nekrasov’s Old Naum’s Grief: A Poem Excerpt

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2070077942848250336
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- Source language: Russian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:43
- Published: 2026-06-25
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wCROrE6v4XpZ/en/nikolai-nekrasov-s-old-naum-s-grief-a-poem-excerpt) Nikolay Nekrasov, the poem "The Sorrow of Old Naum", written in 1874, fragment: "I thought with pride, who is not glad to leave a tribe to the world, but I was born at the wrong time, it was a grim time, the sun forgot to shine, the bright moon also went out, and it was hard to tell a gloomy day from the night.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wCROrE6v4XpZ/en/nikolai-nekrasov-s-old-naum-s-grief-a-poem-excerpt?t=21) Thunder rumbled incessantly, and the whirlwind was terrible, and man stood beneath it, frightened and voiceless.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wCROrE6v4XpZ/en/nikolai-nekrasov-s-old-naum-s-grief-a-poem-excerpt?t=28) There was a brief moment, the dawn magnificently lit the edge of the azure, and a new storm came to replace the old storm, and for new forces a new battle Was preparing; weary, I bowed my restless head.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wCROrE6v4XpZ/en/nikolai-nekrasov-s-old-naum-s-grief-a-poem-excerpt?t=41) The ideals perished.