Schnurrbrat
Name:
42
Joined:
07.03.2019
Role:
Super Member
Points:
3734
Badges:
Top Commenter 2019Top Phraser 2020
Contributions:
222 translations, 1 transliteration, 1379 thanks received, 5 translation requests fulfilled for 4 members, 3 transcription requests fulfilled, added 274 idioms, explained 285 idioms, left 2987 comments, added 17 annotations
Interests
I welcome all corrections and discussions aimed at improving my translations and/or language skills.
I believe that the only proper way to translate poetry is through preserving the original meter and rhyme pattern.
My main contributions to LT are English translations of two great Soviet bards Vladimir Vysotsky and Yuri Vizbor.
Recently, I've ventured into translating poetry by Bella Akhmadulina
When I'm getting tired of this 50 years vintage poetry, I take refuge in Russian Rock bands of the '90s:
Plus, I did a small number of translations into Russian.
About me
“The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
(-80538738812075974)^3 + (80435758145817515)^3 + (12602123297335631)^3 = 42
"To a God-forsaken place, your aunt's, near Saratov."
- A.S. Griboyedov, Woe from Wit.
Languages
Fluent
English, Russian
Contact Me
222 translations posted by Schnurrbrat, 1 transliteration posted by SchnurrbratDetailsAll Translations
| Artist | Translation | Languages | Comments | Info | Info |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bravo (Russia) | The King of Auburn Orange Summer | Russian → English | 2 thanks received | Russian → English 2 thanks received | ||
| Osip Mandelshtam | Leningrad | Russian → English | 3 | 4 thanks received | Russian → English 4 thanks received | |
| Yuri Gulyaev | So Long, the Sheer Cliffs of the Mountains | Russian → English | 5 thanks received | Russian → English 5 thanks received | ||
| Yan Frenkel | What Can I Say Regarding Sakhalin? | Russian → English | 15 | 12 thanks received | Russian → English 12 thanks received | |
| Secret (Russia) | Leningrad Time | Russian → English | 8 | 5 thanks received | Russian → English 5 thanks received | |
| Nikolay Gumilyov | Giraffe | Russian → English | 20 | 13 thanks received | Russian → English 13 thanks received | |
| Valentin Gaft | Hooligan | Russian → English | 12 | 7 thanks received | Russian → English 7 thanks received | |
| Emil Gorovets | And I Will Stroll Along the Moscow Streets | Russian → English | 8 | 10 thanks received | Russian → English 10 thanks received | |
| Andrey Mironov | Ostap Bender's Song | Russian → English | 51 | 1 vote, 19 thanks received | Russian → English 1 vote, 19 thanks received | |
| Secret (Russia) | Sarah Barra-Boo | Russian → English | 6 | 6 thanks received | Russian → English 6 thanks received | |
| Bravo (Russia) | Sleepwalker | Russian → English | 7 thanks received | Russian → English 7 thanks received | ||
| Vera Jahnke | The Last Patrol of U-210 | German → English | 1 | 1 vote, 6 thanks received | German → English 1 vote, 6 thanks received | |
| Igor Sklyar | Komaróvo | Russian → English | 1 | 11 thanks received | Russian → English 11 thanks received | |
| Iremia | Golden Daydreams | Russian → English | 16 | 14 thanks received | Russian → English 14 thanks received | |
| Yuri Kukin | Chasing Foggy Mornings | Russian → English | 2 | 8 thanks received | Russian → English 8 thanks received | |
| Aleksander Yakushev | The Lay of Vladimir the Red Sun, of all Fine Russian Folks and the Vicious Virus | Russian → English | 18 | 1 vote, 9 thanks received | Russian → English 1 vote, 9 thanks received | |
| Joseph Brodsky | A Stop in the Desert | Russian → English | 3 | 6 thanks received | Russian → English 6 thanks received | |
| Mashina vremeni | The Crossroads of the Seven Ways | Russian → English | 1 | 2 thanks received | Russian → English 2 thanks received | |
| Palina | A Red Sundress | Russian → English | 2 thanks received | Russian → English 2 thanks received | ||
| DDT | It Just Whistled | Russian → English | 44 | 7 thanks received | Russian → English 7 thanks received | |
| Vasya Oblomov | What Is the Beginning of Motherland? | Russian → English | 9 | 1 vote, 8 thanks received | Russian → English 1 vote, 8 thanks received | |
| Joseph Brodsky | Odysseus to Telemachus | Russian → English | 6 | 4 thanks received | Russian → English 4 thanks received | |
| Splean | A Letter to Harry Potter | Russian → English | 8 | 1 vote, 21 thanks received | Russian → English 1 vote, 21 thanks received | |
| Anna German | Don't Make Haste | Russian → English | 7 | 8 thanks received | Russian → English 8 thanks received | |
| Grazhdanskaya Oborona | All like other people… | Russian → English | 6 | 3 thanks received | Russian → English 3 thanks received | |
| Alisa (Russia) | Highway E95 | Russian → English | 4 thanks received | Russian → English 4 thanks received | ||
| Andrey Makarevich | I Was Hoping to Walk a Hundred Paths | Russian → English | 2 | 5 thanks received | Russian → English 5 thanks received | |
| Mashina vremeni | Cardboard Wings of Love | Russian → English | thanked 1 time | Russian → English thanked 1 time | ||
| Rondo | Gosh, What a Tiny Bit... | Russian → English | 51 | 9 thanks received | Russian → English 9 thanks received | |
| Biplan | Lovely Morning! | Russian → English | 5 | 4 thanks received | Russian → English 4 thanks received | |
| Kalinov Most | Kamchatka | Russian → English | 15 | 6 thanks received | Russian → English 6 thanks received | |
| Bulat Okudzhava | Let's Grab Our Trench Coats and Go Home... | Russian → English | 8 | 1 vote, 10 thanks received | Russian → English 1 vote, 10 thanks received | |
| Marina Tsvetayeva | I Want to Ask the Mirror's Plane... | Russian → English | 13 | 7 thanks received | Russian → English 7 thanks received | |
| Arseny Tarkovsky | My Baby-Life | Russian → English | 8 | 7 thanks received | Russian → English 7 thanks received | |
| DDT | Galya, move on | Russian → English | 4 thanks received | Russian → English 4 thanks received | ||
| Mark Bernes | Cranes | Russian → English | 9 | 9 thanks received | Russian → English 9 thanks received | |
| Maria Shkapskaya | What Are You Doing, Old Mother of One?... | Russian → English | 4 | 4 thanks received | Russian → English 4 thanks received | |
| Lyube | Atas! | Russian → English | 4 | 3 thanks received | Russian → English 3 thanks received | |
| Rondo | Also Comprises a Part of Creation | Russian → English | thanked 1 time | Russian → English thanked 1 time | ||
| Zemfira | To Live Inside Your Head | Russian → English | 12 | 1 vote, 10 thanks received | Russian → English 1 vote, 10 thanks received | |
| Lev Barashkov | On the Unnamed Hill | Russian → English | 8 | 5 thanks received | Russian → English 5 thanks received | |
| Yuri Nikulin | The Song about Rabbits | Russian → English | 9 | 4 thanks received | Russian → English 4 thanks received | |
| Joseph Brodsky | New Stanzas to Augusta | Russian → English | 6 | 2 thanks received | Russian → English 2 thanks received | |
| Alexander Rozenbaum | Kamikaze | Russian → English | 4 thanks received | Russian → English 4 thanks received |
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