Karpenko-Kary Museum

Tarkovsky family
Exhibition for the 90th anniversary of the poet Arseniy Tarkovsky (1907 - 1989)

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A.Tarkovsky

The Middle Of The World

I'm just a man in middle of the world,
With infusoria behind me,
Before me - millions stars in dance.
I'm lying in between in my full length
The sea connecting two far banks,
The bridge uniting space with sense.

I'm Nestor, chronicler of time that dumb,
I'm Jeremiah of the days to come.
While holding calendar and clock,
I'm drawn in future of my Russia - Mom,
And curse the past like poor king who's mock.

I know more than corpse about death,
And more I have of life than nature hath.
Oh God! - some butterfly with pretty wings,
Like girl is laughing free of human wrath,
Like piece of golden silk that flings.

Translated by E.Mishina

Poet Arseniy Tarkovsky
1981


Aleksander Tarkovsky, Arseniy's father Beginning of 1880s.		Nadezhda Tarkovsky, the sister of Arseniy Tarkovsky's father 1860s		The 6th and 7th grades pupils of the Elisavetgrad zemsky real college February of 1880 A.K.Tarkovsky in the first on the right in the second row


Arseniy (on the left) and Valeriy Tarkovsky Elisavetgrad, 1911		Maria Danilovna Tarkovsky with sons - Arseniy (on the left) and Valeriy Elisavetgrad, 1914		Andrew and Marina Tarkovsky The 4th of April, 1948. Moskow


The director Andrew Tarkovsky The magazine "Figaro", Paris, 1986		The participant of the days of Tarkovskys The 19th of September,1992. Kirovograd. The second on the right in the first row is M.Tarkovsky