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In June 1929, the twenty-nine-year-old Nikola Vaptsarov / born in December 1909 / arrived for the primary time in our Danube capital, collectively along with his colleagues, who had simply graduated from the Maritime College in Varna. The group took an tour on the Danube with the ship “Minerva”, then serving the passenger line alongside the Bulgarian coast of the river from Silistra to Vidin. Enthusiastic younger folks sing “Silent White Danube”, “Den denuvam”, recite poems by Botev, Vazov, Yavorov.
On the finish of the next yr, 1930, the already twenty-year-old Nikola Vaptsarov was despatched to an internship in Ruse – to work on the upkeep of the gear of the ships owned by the Danube Police Service. That is how the Danube Flotilla was referred to as for a interval, as a result of at the moment Bulgaria, defeated within the First World Battle, didn’t have the best to its personal military and navy. Maybe few Bulgarians at this time know that Ruse is the cradle of Bulgarian delivery, the birthplace of the Bulgarian navy, later moved to Varna, in addition to of Bulgarian shipbuilding.
Till January 1930, Vaptsarov interned on the well-known Bulgarian Danube ship “Stefan Karadzha”, after which on “Belomorets”. He additionally labored as a mechanic on the Ruse energy plant and on the pumping station throughout from Ledeck Island.
The Ruse interval of the poet, which is often omitted in most articles about him, lasts about 15 months, proving to be one of the vital helpful, essentially the most artistic in his quick, barely 33-year life journey. In response to his biographers, he wrote about 30 poems in our Danube capital. Amongst them are: “Nesreta”, “Wrestle”, “Doves Coo”, “Chimeras”, “Reminiscences of the South”, “Legend”, “Deceived”, “Raztroga”, “I am burning in a fireplace”, “Within the cubicle ”, in addition to the well-known “My Spring”… The Nice River additionally contributes to this early artistic flowering.
It’s attention-grabbing that the younger Vaptsarov was strongly attracted by the theater. At the moment, the Ruse Drama Theater was among the many leaders in our nation, with a wealthy and attention-grabbing repertoire, with first-class artists similar to: Nikola Ikonomov, Asparuh Temelkov, Mara and Stefan Karalambovi, Stoyan Bachvarov and administrators similar to Georgi Stamatov, Mathyo Makedonski, Vladimir Ilinski. Performs by Vazov, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ostrovsky, Anton Strashimirov, Zuderman, Somerset Maugham, John Goldsworthy are carried out… In his pocket book, he recorded that in this quick interval he was on the theater 17 instances. And likewise at live shows with chamber and choral music. At the moment, the star of the Bulgarian musical theater, Mimi Balkanska, typically visited her hometown. On Might 28, 1930, he wrote the poem Mimi, devoted to the legendary artist.
One other, little-known reality from his biography is that he himself took half in an newbie theatrical efficiency of Vaz’s drama “Hushes”, carried out on the stage of the Navy Membership, through which he performed one of many fundamental roles, the Strandjata.
Outdated Ruse – the Nineteen Thirties, the sq. in entrance of the port station
The worthwhile constructing / Drama Theater / in Ruse
Nikola Vaptsarov along with his classmates from the Maritime College
THREE ETERNAL POEMS OF THE POET
FAREWELL
To my spouse
Typically I’ll are available your dream
like an sudden and undesirable visitor.
Do not go away me exterior on the street –
don’t go away the doorways closed.
I am going to go in quietly. Meekly I’ll sit,
I’ll look into the darkness to see you.
After I’ve had sufficient of you –
I am going to kiss you and go.
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FAITH
Right here – I breathe
i work
i reside
and I write poems
(as I can).
With life underneath the eyebrows
we take a look at one another sternly
and I battle it
so far as I can.
We’re at odds with life,
however you do not perceive
that i hate life
Quite the opposite, quite the opposite! –
Even when I die
life with the tough
paws metal
I’ll love once more!
I’ll love once more!
For instance, now they cling up on me
the rope
and ask:
“How, would you like an hour to reside?”
I’ll instantly shout:
“Get off!
Take it down!
Relatively obtain
the rope, villains!”
For him – Life –
i might do something –
I might fly
with a check machine within the sky,
I might go right into a blast
rocket loner
I might search
into the open areas
distant
planet.
However I’ll nonetheless really feel
the nice tickle
to see how
up
the sky is blue.
I’ll nonetheless really feel
the nice tickle
that I nonetheless reside
that I’ll nonetheless be.
However to illustrate
take it, how a lot? –
wheat grain
by my religion
I might cry then
I might scream in ache
as wounded
within the coronary heart of the panther.
What is going to stay
from me then? –
Moments after the theft
I will likely be torn aside.
And much more clearly,
and much more instantly –
moments after the theft
I will likely be nothing.
Perhaps you need to
sure i’ll kill
my religion
on blissful days,
my religion
that tomorrow will likely be
life higher
life wiser?
And the way will you storm, please?
With bullets?
No! Inappropriate!
Resto! – It is not price it! –
She is armored
tight within the chest
and armor-piercing rounds
for her
none discovered!
None discovered!
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SPRING
My spring, my white spring,
not but lived, uncelebrated,
dreamed solely in lucid desires,
the way you go low over the poplars,
however you do not cease your flight right here.
My spring, my white spring –
I do know you’ll include rain and hurricanes
terribly stormy, fiery
to revive 1000’s of hopes
and wash the bloody wounds.
How the birds will sing within the wheat!
They’ll fortunately swim in house…
Individuals will get pleasure from their work
and they’re going to love one another as brothers.
My spring, my white spring…
Let me see your first flight
gave life to the lifeless squares,
let me see solely your solar
and – die in your barricades!
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