Oh Katyusha won't you come back...

"She was walking, singing a song
About a grey steppe eagle,
About her true love,
Whose letters she was keeping"

Katyusha is another song I love; a wartime Soviet song about a girl waiting for her sweetheart soldier who goes to fight for the Motherland.
The Song was written by Mikhail Isakovsky in 1938.
There is so much history and beautiful mysteries about this song...


The language itself is magical to me--so complicated.
Someday I will travel to Russia and visit the Winter Palace where the last Romanovs used to live--oh the glorious halls where the five Romanov children ran!
I'm crazy,but I am smitten!!!

My father went to college there in Saint Petersburg way back when it was called the Soviet Union--wow.
He fell in love with the city and culture and brought back a little piece of knowledge and good old Russian customs.
Hence my facination!!!

Oh, Katyusha wait for me darling, I shall come to you with love and new horizons.
Katyusha your song and pale winters call for me at all times, why are you so beautiful--why must I wait?
The bittersweet sound of your balalaika makes my heart weep for you, though I have never touched your land.
Katyusha wait for me.