?But asking no her opinion
They brought girl to wedding crown.
To break her grief, to break her trouble
Her clever husband soon had gone
To his estate. She was surrounded
By random and unknown people.
First wanting run away and crying
She almost left her husband. Then
She took the household in her hands,
Became accustomed, satisfied.
The heaven gives for us a custom
Instead the happiness and luck.
The habit changed troubles into sweets
Despite the desperation. Then
She had got greatest revelation
That made her absolutely quiet.
She found between the work and leisure
The key for secret: how she may
Be Queen in family and farm.
So everything became all right.
She went to search a work of peasants;
She pickled mushrooms for the winter;
Held books and sent her people to troops;
In Saturdays she came to bath;
She punished their servant girls -
No asking any husband's will.
...They kept in their peaceful life
The heritage of ancient time;
While fat and reach spring-coming feasts
They baked a lot of Russian pancakes.
They had the fasts twice in the year.
They liked a merry-go-round.
They liked cake walk and round dance
In Day of Trinity when people
Are listening the mass and yawing.
While early morning for sunrise
They cried affecting like the child.
They needed much the quass like air.
And they was greeting their guest
Depending on his title and class.

A.Pushkin "Eugen Onegin",
2, XXXI, XXXII, XXXV

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