Бажанов, А. Стихи и поэмы о саамском крае = Verses & poems on the Saami land / Аскольд Бажанов ; English translation by Naomi Caffee ; with an essay by Johanna Domokos. - Berlin : Nordeuropa-Institut der Humboldt-Universitat, 2009. - 205 с. : ил., портр.

7 3 Youth2 If, suddenly, in the midst o f today’s hardships youth sought out a greeting, I would not have hurried to the airplane: you can’t afford plane tickets on a pension! Likewise, I am entirely at ease on the ascent, I would have gathered my unpublished books, and gone to Petersburg on foot, to once again become an »underclassman«. Grandfather raised me to be a herdsman, I got my education in the wolfish tundra. The cook-fire sang me verses w ith its quiet crackle o f pine wood. I’m used to getting drowsy in the evenings, reclining on a low ly plank-bed, remembering my inconsolable mother. Remarking: but grandfather doesn’t get old! And the hut is small, like the palm of a hand, but warm in spite of the frost. Memory, do not touch the secret of childhood! How vulnerable and serious it is! 2 - Section «Peoples of the Far North« at the State Pedagogical University »A. I. Gercen«, Leningrad