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.

91 How they loved us half-savages... How they loved us half-savages, from our district to the Kremlin, and from childhood they solemnly claimed that the Saami have their own homeland! I understood clearly and simply that there was no one for us to rely on - our Kola peninsula is rich, but not for my people. And nowadays it’s not prestigious to tend another man’s herd. But stern Grandfather somehow lived through it, and I am at fault before him, since I cannot carry on the prosperity of our family’s honest work! As long as the pay is low, our comfort w ill be valuable. In faceless brick houses, you’ll inevitably remember the tent, traditional and habitual, the secure shelter of warmth and thought. Of course there’s no returning to that tent. The hut and its fire are more dear to me. But really, is it the tundra’s fault that she has no one to take care of her?!