Утопленник [Utoplennik] [English translation]

"I'd gladly forget this.

As I remember, it makes me shiver

But I'll tell you how it was

Tired of your sour mugs "

Once, having drunk, I climbed out the window,

I glanced sullenly at the river.

The water was red like wine

Someone was drowning near the shore.

I could probably help the poor man

But the legs did not go there.

Suddenly the cry stopped, and he disappeared away,

And the water became calm.

And since then his pleading look

Chased after me

I began to drink wine more often

And I cursed that day!

The terrible night laughed with torrents of downpour

In the sound of the water I heard someone's footsteps

I saw a dead man on my doorstep

With a terrible voice he shouted : "HELP ME!!!"

A bottle of wine scattered on the floor

The guest seemed terrible to me!

And the pain, like fire, burned my shoulder,

And fingers dug into my bone.

Water rose in the damned river

Flooding islands.

I instantly sobered up and rushed there,

Where the fishing boat was.

The current carried the boat away,

I miraculously managed to catch on.

Holding on overboard, gathering strength,

Climbed into it, lay down on the bottom.

The terrible night laughed with torrents of downpour

In the sound of the water I heard someone's footsteps

I saw a dead man on my doorstep

With a terrible voice he shouted : "HELP ME!!!"

I spent the whole night without memory,

I woke up with a bad head.

My boat has moored to the shore.

I don't remember what happened to me!

There was a bottle of wine in my pocket

But I didn't wonder

I just opened it, started to drink straight from the bottle

And suddenly I saw above me

Like clouds cover the sky

And there is no end in sight!

Thunder rolls call

The body of a dead man from the river!

The terrible night laughed with torrents of downpour

In the sound of the water I heard someone's footsteps

I saw a dead man on my doorstep

With a terrible voice he shouted : "HELP ME!!!"