Some day it was! Through flying smoke
Set out in swarms many a French bloke,
        And e'er for our redoubt.
The lancers in their motley guise,
Dragoons with horse-tails with loud cries –
They all would flash before our eyes,
        They all were near about.
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© BORODINO.hrest.info Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov. Poem of «Borodino» (1837), electronic version of edition (2012).
Design, programming: 
Arsenal (Kiev, 2012), with participation of project Kontrataka. Illustrations: A.Kondratiev
(Publishing house «Veselka», Kiev, 1974). Hosting is given to Ukrainian christian server
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