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Caption: [RUSSIAN]; THE FORMER ERSATZ LANDOWNER
Catalogue reference: MS 281/1/48
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MS 281/1/48
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Title (The name of the record)
- Caption: [RUSSIAN]; THE FORMER ERSATZ LANDOWNER
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Date (When the record was created)
- 3 July 1944
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Description (What the record is about)
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Text: Along the Berlin streets
Wandering about all day long
Is the Ukrainian landowner
With outstretched hand.
From former grandeur
He was left only
A feather in his hat
And nothing more!
By his side in a sorry state
Trudges his wife.
'Mein gott! What's happening to us!'
She gloomily repeats over and over again.
'Hitler gave us an estate
Near Poltava
With a shady oak-grove
And lions by the gate.
We used to ride out
In a carriage like princes
And we owned the souls
Of two hundred peasants.
We were very happy to have
Our own peasants.
But they all went off to join
The ranks of the Soviet partisans.
Everything's ended up terribly!
On one dark night we
Had to flee from
The Red Army.
We set off running through puddles.
Sometimes at a trot, sometimes at a gallop.
And my husband and I
Lost our last wardrobe!
All that we have left from the estate
Is a bicycle...
Have pity!
Give us dinner'.
Author: S. Ya. Marshak
Picture: Landowner, with wife, stand by bicycle: placard reads: Help the former Ukrainian landowner.
Artist: S. N. Kostin
Reference: TASS No 1007: 1200 copies
Dimensions: 200 x 82 cms
Condition: Fair
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/818c5dbe-558c-4dfc-9499-0ce24706ea36/
Series information
MS 281/1/1-129
Soviet Posters of the Second World War. Part One; the 'TASS Windows'
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Caption: [RUSSIAN]; THE FORMER ERSATZ LANDOWNER