Fairy tale is a legacy people love fairy tales. 神话故事是文化遗产，人人都喜爱神话故事。
VALERY GERGIEV Conductor People love something where they can travel with their minds, 指挥家瓦列里·杰基耶夫： 人们喜欢那种可以发挥自己的想像力的故事，
with their fantasies, with their hopes, in a way. 把自己的幻想和愿望都编织进去。
This film is about tales and storytelling 这一集是关于俄罗斯的神话故事和民间传说
and how their influence is present even today throughout Russian culture. 以及直至现在它们对俄罗斯文化产生的深远影响。
Woven into Russia's literary heritage, 这些故事和传说早已成为俄罗斯文学遗产的一部分，
they have become part of the whole way that Russians see the world. 是俄罗斯人认知世界的主要方式之一。
Every Russian child learns by heart words by the great poet Pushkin. 俄罗斯的孩子都是读着著名诗人普希金的诗长大。
His tale of 'Ruslan and Lyudmila' is told not by a human but by a cat. 他的叙事诗《卢斯兰与鲁密拉》， 主人公不是人，而是一只猫。
By the sea stands a green oak. 海边有一株橡树。
There's a golden chain around that oak and, day and night, 橡树上有一根金锁链，
a wise cat keeps walking around and around the tree on the end of the chain. 锁链上栓着一只聪明的猫， 它从早到晚绕着橡树转啊转。
He walks to the right and starts a song, he walks to the left and tells a fairy tale. 走到右边，他就会唱一支歌， 走到左边，他就会讲一个童话故事。
Fairy tales are based on many, many factors. 童话故事有各种各样的主题。
You read them, read them several times when you are 10 years old 十岁时读过许多次的故事，
and you are full of, you know, pictures, full of stories, you remember them. 直到现在还会有很多画面留在脑海中，记忆犹新。
Fairy tales are everywhere in a Russian childhood 俄罗斯人的童年离不开童话，
not only told by parents and by grandparents 不只父母、祖父母会讲给他们听，
but found in literature and painting and in the world of music, dance and theatre. 在俄罗斯的文学、绘画作品中，在这个充满音乐、 歌舞和剧院的国度里，到处都能找到童话故事的影子。
Tchaikovsky, who often wrote music for children and about their lives, 柴可夫斯基时常创作儿童和童年生活题材的音乐作品，
described the theatre as a place of fairy-tale enchantment. 他把剧场比做童话的梦幻宫殿。
He said that 'the theatre is a place where we come not just to listen but to see'. 他曾说过“在剧场，我们得到的不仅仅是听觉享受， 还有视觉享受”。
He observed that theatre music must be like scene-painting 柴可夫斯基认为，在剧场演出的音乐作品要像风景画一样，
simple, clear and colourful. 简洁、明快、富于色彩。
TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker 柴可夫斯基 《胡桃夹子》
VERA PROCHOROVA Teacher Childhood and the world of magic go together. 教师维拉·浦洛奇洛娃： 人在孩童时期，都会把世界想像的充满神奇与幻想。
My childhood was like a fairy tale and we are all the products of our childhood. 我的童年就像一个童话故事， 童年生活塑造了现在的我们。
NINA ZARKHI Film Critic For me childhood means something different. 影评人尼娜·扎科奇： 对我而言，童年意味着某种特殊的东西，
They're like a virtual reality a parallel world. 是真实存在的世外桃源。
The theatre takes you away from reality, especially from the boring side of reality. 剧场带着你离开现实世界，远离那些纷纷扰扰的烦心事。
In the theatre you can imagine that there are no borders, 在剧场里，你可以放任自己的想像力，没有边界，
there are no limits, only your belief in the beauty, 没有束缚，你只需相信美好的，
or belief in the depth, belief in the colour and the movement, 深处的东西，相信眼前的色彩和人物动作，
you know, because movement always means that you can do so many things, 动作总意味着你能做很多事情，
that's why ballet is so attractive. 正因如此，芭蕾舞才如此吸引人。
MUSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition - Tuileries 穆索尔斯基 展出的画－杜伊勒利斯
Pushkin wrote, in his verse drama 'Evgeny Onegin', 普希金在他的诗剧“奥涅金”中写道:
The dancer stands she brushing the floor with one foot, 舞者站起身来 一只脚贴着地面
turns slowly on the other one 慢慢的转了个圈
and suddenly she jumps, and flies as suddenly, flies like thistledown on the lips of the wind. 忽然间她纵身跃起，那样轻盈，就像薄公英飘荡在风中。
She coils and uncoils and clicks one foot against the other. 她蜷起身子，又打开，接着击足。
And they set out into the big wide world. 他们的眼前豁然开朗.
And they walked and walked and walked... 他们继续走啊走啊……
In the contemporary classroom, 在现代课堂上，
myth and fairy tale are still as resonant as they were 当讲到普希金在“鲁斯兰”序言中写到的神话和童话故事时，
when Pushkin wrote in his prelude to 'Ruslan' 仍能引起人们的共鸣。
We received from our forefathers a small legacy of folktales and songs. 我们从父辈那里继承了民间传说和民歌， 这是一笔小小的财富。
What can we say of them? 该怎么利用他们呢？
If we treasure even the poorest of old coins, 如果我们能对粗劣的古钱币视若珍宝，
should we not preserve the literary remains of our ancestors? 那么怎能把祖先留给我们的文学宝藏至之不理。
My sword is made of damask steel. And it will cut off your head. 我的剑由大马士革钢铸成。 我要用它砍掉你的脑袋。
MUSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition - Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks 穆索尔斯基 展出的油画——小鸡之舞
These friends are all active in Moscow's cultural life. 这些朋友在莫斯科的文化生活中十分活跃。
ALEXANDER TIVOFEYEVSKY Animator There was a tradition where the adults sat at the table and read Gogol 动画制作人亚历山大·蒂瓦费耶夫斯基 小时候，家里有这样一种习惯， 大人们围坐在桌前，读果戈理的书，
and I, a 4 year old child was allowed to sit and listen. 让当时只有四岁的我坐在一边听。
What an honour to sit for me. 对我来说那是多么骄傲的事。
Only later did I understand that it was done especially for me, 后来发现他们只对我才有这样的优待。
I thought it was they needed me to sit and read Gogol's fairy tales 我觉得他们要我坐下来，才能讲果戈理的童话故事，
and if I behaved properly I would be allowed to listen. 要是我守规矩，就允许我在一边听。
The roots of Russian fairy tale as a modern work of art are here, 俄罗斯童话和现代艺术一样
deep in the Russian countryside, 深深的扎根在农村地区，
in the little village of Mikhailovskoye where Alexander Pushkin spend much of his childhood. 扎根在开依洛夫斯科伊的一座小村庄， 在那儿，亚历山大·普希金度过了他的童年。
Here he first heard the traditional village fairy tales, 在村子里，普希金第一次听到了传统的乡村童话，
which he would later transform into his own poetry. 后来他把这些故事写进诗作当中。
Pushkin is very good, it's the best spiritual support 普希金非常棒。 他的诗有很高尚的精神层面，
it's the best mental and, I would say, 他的诗十分睿智，甚至可以说
brain training, brain sharpening and also brain empowering, friend you can find. 读他的诗能开发智力，使思维敏锐， 还有健脑锐智的效果，朋友，读他的诗你就会明白的。
'Pushkin is our everything' said the 19th century poet Appollon Grigoriev 19世纪诗人阿波罗·基高列夫说 “普希金是我们的全部。”
There would have been no Russian literature without Pushkin. 没有普希金，就没有俄罗斯文学。
ALEXANDRE BUKOVSKY Director Puskhin House You see his nanny Arianna Rodionova was illiterate 普希金纪念馆馆长亚历山大·布科夫斯基： 他的保姆亚莉安娜·罗迪欧诺娃虽然没受过教育，
but she knew many old talesegends, sayings and songs 但她知道很多古老的传说，谚语和民歌，
and Pushkin studied the oral form. 再讲给普希金听。
Nanny Arianna, began each one of her tales with: 亚莉安娜保姆每次讲故事之前，都会说：
In a cove by the sea stood an oak, 大海的港湾，有一株橡树，
and around the oak a gold chain and on the end of it a cat. 树上有一根金锁链， 锁链的另一端栓着一只猫。
In 1828 in 'Ruslan and Lyudmilla', there appeared the famous prologue 1828年，普希金为《卢斯兰与鲁密拉》加上了 这样一句著名的序言：
'ln a sea cove, a green oak, etc.' ‘在海湾，有株橡树，等等。’
Pushkin wrote: Nanny my only female friend 普希金写道： 保姆是我唯一的女性朋友，
and only with her am I not bored. 只有跟她在一起，才能让我忘却烦恼。
Or again this: In the evening I listen to nanny's tales. 他还说过： 晚上，听保姆讲故事，
I am amused about the holes in my damned upbringing. 让我觉得我那该死的漏洞百出的教育方式是多么可笑。
How wonderful are these tales, each one is a poem. 这些故事美仑美奂，每个故事都是一首诗。
Russia owes this woman a lot. 整个俄罗斯都得好好谢谢这个女人。
Pushkin owed her his deep knowledge of folklore 普希金也十分感激她， 是她教给他深厚的民俗知识。
and he made her name immortal. 而普希金也让她名垂千古。
You remember the poem: 还记得那首诗吧：
True friend in all my time of trouble, dear frail little dove of mine all alone 在我陷入困境时，我真正的朋友， 我亲爱的柔弱的小宝贝独自一人
languishing in a woodl and hovel awaiting my return. 在林间小屋里等我回家。
And that little house of ours with the slope down to the pond, 我们家外面有个斜坡直通池塘，
surrounded by lilacs and ponds which froze in winter 池塘周围开满了紫丁香， 冬天池水结了冰
and where we played on our sledges. 我们一起在那儿玩雪橇。
And then the full spring with the cherry orchard and the lilacs, 整个春天，那儿都有樱桃林和丁香花，
first the violet then the blue and last the white. 起初是紫色，继而变成蓝色，最后是白色。
And such a feeling of happiness and joy and sunlight. 我们快乐的享受着阳光。
No doubt there were rainy days but for me each season was equally lovely. 不必担心雨季，我们热爱着每个季节。
And when winter came we knew we'd go sledging again. 冬天到来，我们知道又要去玩雪橇了。
They could learn from their nurses, 孩子们会跟保姆学习，
hey could hear from their parents wonderful stories 父母也会给他们讲好听的故事，
and you would always have this very beautiful image, 俄罗斯童话世界的
of course, of Russian fairytale world. 美丽景致永远与你同在。
GLINKA Ruslan and Lyudmila 葛令卡 “卢斯兰与鲁密拉”
The flower of love and springtime will be resplendent at dawn 春天的爱情之花将在破晓时分盛放
with a magnificent beauty... 它美丽而高贵……
In ancient, legendary times, tales were told by the bard or 'bayan'. 在古代的传说时代， 神话故事是流浪诗人或“巴彦”讲述的。
As Pushkin wrote: Suddenly a pleasant sound rang out. 正如普希金写的那样： 突然传来愉快的歌声。
At the sonorous running sound of the dulcimer all fell silent, listened to the bard. 在悦耳的扬琴声中，人们安静下来， 听流浪诗人唱歌。
And the sweet singer gave glory to the enchanting Lyudmila and Ruslan, 歌者开始唱着迷人的鲁密拉和卢斯兰，
...The leaves are all scattered. ……树叶散落了一地。
You can always hear about wonderful costumes, miraculous transformations, 故事里描绘出美仑美奂的装束， 神奇的变化，
there would be always a danger, 故事里总有惊险的事发生，
there would be always, most probably, happy end. 又总会化险为夷。
...in answer to love's call, ……全靠有了爱的呼唤。
But fate, coming to meet him, 但命运降临到他面前，
prepares for him an evil contest with destruction... 还带来了邪恶的选择……
It provokes your own imagination, even if you are a child 5, 7, 10 years old, 即便是5岁、7岁、10岁的小孩， 听了这种故事也会引起想象力，
to work on many more scenarios of your own, 会按自己的喜好，编出更多的情节，
the fantasy is awakened and you become, 幻想力复苏了，
even without knowledge that it happened to you, 这时就算是不识字的人，
you become small but important Russian artist. 也会成为渺小却很重要的俄罗斯艺术家。
Making young children into artists 把小孩子培养成艺术家
is something Russians traditionally take very seriously. 是俄罗斯人一直以来非常注重的事。
The rigorous and sometimes harsh discipline of schools like the Gnessin 格涅钦音乐学院和瓦加诺娃舞蹈学校
and the Petersburg's Vaganova ballet academy has produced virtuosi for over a century. 管理严格，纪律严明，一百多年来培养了无数艺术名家。
Rachmaninov wrote: 拉赫玛尼诺夫写道：
Now began a life of discipline and serious study. 现在开始有纪律约束的生活和繁重的学业。
Zverev's sister supervised us with the utmost severity. 择维尔的姐姐以极其严厉的态度监督着我们。
Woe to him who began practice five minutes late 可怜的择维尔不管晚五分钟开始练习，
or finished five minutes early. He would be treated without mercy. 还是提前五分钟开始练习， 都会受到无情的处罚。
I was 10 years old when I realised that 我十岁的时候发觉自己
I had a very, very strong link to my piano teacher. 跟钢琴老师之间有解不开的渊源.
He put such high goals, such incredible horizons in front of me 他总把目标定的很高， 就像遥不可及的天堂摆在我的面前，
and told me 'Go there' and I knew I can't 然后对我说“到那儿去”， 我知道我做不到
but he always would tell me: 'This is what you have to do! ' 但他总对我说：“你必须做到！”
We shouldn't forget the tradition goes at least hundred and fifty years ago 我们不应忘记一百五十多年以来的传统，
and the rules didn't change very much. 规则至今也没有太大的变化。
There are very many schools in Russia, it was, in a way, a fashion, 俄罗斯的学校数不盛数， 这是一种风尚，
at least I remember it extremely well, 至少令我印象十分深刻的是，
it was still the feeling of importance that a boy or girl would go to normal school 人们仍旧认为让孩子上师范学校十分重要，
but it would be very nice and would be a matter of even pride for the family 那会让大人感觉很好，整个家族都面上有光，
that it would be a combination with lessons in a music school, 学校最好和音乐学院有合作的课程
maybe learn something about paintings. 或是让孩子也学学绘画。
They would also think of, maybe, giving you a chance to attend dancing lessons, 大概他们还认为，让孩子参加舞蹈课程
which was a very good thing. 是非常不错的选择。
You cannot by command, giving the orders, 孩子是不可控制的，给他一个指令，
find another Tolstoy or Pushkin, certainly not, 他就能成为另一个托尔斯泰或普希金， 这根本不可能，
but you can give a certain degree of acceleration. 但是他会得到一定程度的促进。
In this specialist children's world from which future artists grow, 这些孩子当中会培养出未来的艺术家，
the teacher is not merely a master and a severe disciplinarian, 他们的老师可不仅仅是主人或严厉的纪律执行者，
but a magician, a sorcerer and a guide, a pied piper, 还是魔术师、导师、吹笛人，
someone whose own example asa performer awakens the fantasy in children. 老师还是孩子们的榜样，激发他们内心深处的灵感。
This is Mark Pekarsky. 这位是马克·彼卡尔斯基。
In Stravinsky's 'Petrushka', 在斯特拉文斯基的“彼得鲁什卡”中，
the puppet theatre becomes a world of transformation 木偶剧院是整个世界的缩影，
and the artist, the magician, is the puppet master who brings the toys to life. 剧院的主人是艺术家，是魔术师， 他把玩偶带入现实生活之中。
STRAVINSKY Petrushka 斯特拉文斯基 《彼得鲁什卡》
And life was like a fairy tale, for example, 现实生活就像一个童话故事，
we lived in the state institute for theatrical art 比如，我小时候住在国立戏剧艺术学院里，
it was a splendid communal flat Professor Mikhailov lived there, 那儿有一个很大的公用平台， 米哈伊洛教授也住在那，
the famous expert in Russian Literature. 他是俄罗斯文学方面有名的专家。
He was separated from our family by a curtain 他住的地方跟我们家中间有一道帘子，
and behind the partition lived a policeman. 帘子后面住着一位警察。
On Sundays he got drunk and started shooting 一到星期天，他就会喝的酩酊大醉，开始练射击。
And I lived with my step brother and my grandmother 当时我同父异母的哥哥和我的奶奶跟我住在一起，
and she used to shout 'Hit the deck! ' 每到这时她总会大喊“打到地上了！”
KABALEVSKY Nash Krai 卡巴列夫斯基 《纳什·克莱》
The system allowed that much space that the media, 这一体系需要很多空间，
so to say in a modern language, would allow again 因此才使用现代语言， 此外还要利用
culture, literature, museums, symphonic or opera or ballet, 当地乃至全国范围的文化、文学、展馆、 交响乐、歌剧、芭蕾舞剧、
live activities locally or nationwide to be reported 现场活动等媒介展现给大众，
and to be always in the conscience of people that 并始终吸引着大众的关注，
this is what the best society in the world will bring to the whole world one day. 这就是世界上最棒的团队有一天要呈现给全世界的东西。
And this is what, again, our great leader Vladimir Lenin wanted everyone to share. 这就是我们的伟大领袖弗拉基米尔·列宁希望大家分享的东西。
When I was 7 or 8 or 10 years old, I was attending a normal school 七八岁的时候，我就读于一所师范学校，
in Vladikavkaz in Northern Ossetia in Caucasus, which is part of Soviet Union. 位于高加索地区北奥塞梯的弗拉季卡夫卡兹， 隶属苏联。
There was a normal teacher or teachers who would tell us, 那儿的一位老师跟我们讲过，
without much pressure on the kids, 当然并不是向小孩施加压力，
that Lenin was a very, very good boy 他说列宁小时候聪明懂事，
and after he was grown and became a very good young man, 后来长大成为一个善良的年轻人，
after he was grown and became a very important revolutionary, 最终成长为十分重要的革命者，
he transformed our country to the better. 他使我们的国家越来越富强。
That he tried to build the best society ever built, that he wanted everyone to be equal, 他要建立最佳的社会制度，他追求人人平等，
certainly everyone to be happy and not only Lenin but also smaller people. 让包括列宁本人和平民百姓在内的 每个人都过着快乐的生活，
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 7 普罗科菲耶夫 《第七交响曲》
That was structurally the way for us to live in the Soviet Union, 这是苏联的结构方式，
at least this is what some people thought was the best scenario 至少有些人认为这对
for this 220, 230 million people who lived in the Soviet Union. 苏联2.2-2.3亿人口来说是最佳方案。
Then it looked like a land of paradise, dreams, equality, brotherhood, freedom, 会让苏联变成梦幻般美好的国度，人人平等，兄弟般友爱，
freedom, freedom and freedom and peace, and peace. 充满自由和和平。
You have to understand the duality of this world. 你必须得明白，世上万物都有其两面性。
For example, I found myself in the siege of Leningrad 打个比方， 我小时候曾被困在列宁格勒，
and once again the siege is for me one of the happiest memories of my life 但这段时间是我一生之中最快乐的时候，
because I was surrounded by wonderful people 因为我周围都是些很棒的人，
who in dreadful conditions tried to ensure 他们自己的生活环境很糟糕，
that a child's life remained wonderful and so it was. 却千方百计让一个孩子过的舒服点。
I was full of love for everyone. 他们每个人都满怀爱心。
Over time it revealed itself. Because of that beginning and that love, 日久见人心。 正是因为这样的开始和人们的爱，
the Russian fairy tale and Russian poetry entered my life. 才让俄罗斯童话和俄罗斯诗歌深深印入我的生命。
I've given 40 years to poetry and cartoons for children. 我花了四十年的时间为孩子们编绘诗歌和动画。
One monster familiar to every Russian is a tsar who never dies, 俄罗斯人最熟悉的魔鬼是沙皇，它能长生不老。
Kashchei the Immortal. 是不死的魔鬼。
RIMSKY KORSAKOV Kashchei the Immortal 里姆斯基·科萨科夫 《不死的魔鬼》
it contains my death forever. 永远控制着我的生死。
The effects of her love are all-powerful, 她的爱的力量无所不能，
and many knights 追寻着我死亡之路的骑士
seeking my death have perished 也在她迷人的领地
in her enchanted realm! 魂飞魄散。
Princess! Come back to the castle. 公主！ 回到城堡来吧。
Come and sit beside me, and sing me a lullaby. 坐到我身边来，为我唱一支摇篮曲。
SHOSTAKOVICH Silly Little Mouse 肖斯塔科维奇 《愚蠢的小老鼠》
Goodnight children, goodnight, goodnight... 晚安，孩子们， 晚安，晚安……
It's time to sleep, time to go to bed. 睡觉的时间到了， 快到床上去。
Night is often presented not just as a time of fears and fantasies, 夜晚不仅有恐惧和魔法的喻意，
but also of dreams and freedom. 还象征着梦想和自由。
In Pushkin's famous lines it was a night-time animal, 在普希金著名的诗句里， 有一只夜行动物，
the cat, who created fairy tales by walking round and round a tree. 童话中绕着树一圈一圈走着的小猫。
And Pushkin's cat can take you anywhere you want, 普希金的小猫能把你带到任何想去的地方，
free from the logic of the grey realities of day 远离灰暗的现实世界。
GUBAIDULINA The Cat Who Walked by Itself 古拜杜丽娜 《自由自在的猫》
The cat is free. 猫是自由的。
She is by herself. 她随心所欲。
She went through the trees. 她在林间穿梭。
Sounds, echoes, sighs... 声音，回响，叹息……
In his song cycle 'The Nursery', 穆索尔斯基在声乐套曲“育儿室”中，
the composer Mussorgsky shows a petulant child rejecting the scary side of fairy-tale 表现了一个坏脾气的孩子拒绝听到童话中吓人的部分，
in favour of absurdity and slapstick. 荒谬而有趣。
Nursey dear! Wait a moment! 亲爱的保姆！ 请等一下！
I would rather hear about the King and Queen, 我宁愿听国王与王后的故事，
MUSSORGSKY The Nursery 穆索尔斯基 《育儿室》
who beside the sea dwelt in a lovely palace. He was lame and hobbled as he walked, 他们住在海边一座可爱的宫殿里。 国王走起路来一瘸一拐，
when he stumbled down, up a mushroom came! 他摔倒的地方会长出一只蘑菇！
The Queen had such a nasty cold, and in sneezing cracked all window panes. 王后阴险冷酷，她打喷嚏会把窗上的玻璃都震碎。
Yes, oh Nursey dear, I don't want to hear about the wolf again. 是的，亲爱的保姆， 我不想再听狼的故事了。
Let us leave him! Let me hear the other, yes! That funny tale! 别再讲了！让我听听别的吧！ 是的！有趣的故事！
It was Glinka who first chose to make fairytale and fantasy the seed bed 葛令卡是第一位把童话和传说当成
for a national operatic style. 国家歌剧素材的人。
The princess with whom every Russian girl can identify is Pushkin's beautiful Lyudmila. 提到公主，每个俄罗斯女孩都会联想到 普希金笔下美丽的鲁密拉。
The young princess quietly bloomed, and grew and grew, rose up and flowered, 小公主含苞待放，慢慢长大，长成美丽的姑娘，
white of face and black of eyebrow, meek and mild 白白的面孔，漆黑的眉毛， 亲切又温柔，
and a suitor came to seek her hand. 求婚者慕名而来。
GLINKA Ruslan and Lyudmila 葛令卡 《卢斯兰和鲁密拉》
Radiant Lel, be for ever with us, give us days brimming with happiness! 光芒万丈的神！永远与我们同在， 让我们每天都充满欢乐！
Shield our fate with your emerald wings! By your mighty will preserve her from sorrows! 用你碧绿的翅膀为我们守卫着好运！ 你强大的力量会让她远离悲伤！
Every heroine needs a hero. 女主角都要有一位英雄。
Glinka celebrates the noble knight Prince Ruslan, 葛令卡塑造了高贵的骑士卢斯兰王子，
Borodin conjures up Prince Igor. 鲍罗丁则创造了伊果王子。
The Soviet composer Gliere chose llya Murometz, 前苏联作曲家格利选择了埃伊莱·穆洛麦兹，
whose horse covered half a mile in one leap and who announced his presence with the words: 据说他的马能一步能迈出半英里， 他每次出场时都会说：
'A strong and mighty hero rode by here llya Murometz.' “强壮有力的英雄埃伊莱·穆洛麦兹来了！”
You can defend your motherland, you can find a hero, 你可以保卫祖国， 也可以找出一位英雄，
there will be always someone who can save your country 拯救了国家的英雄，
and I think not very different it looked for the children of 19th century 我认为19世纪的孩子和现在的并没有太大的差别，
with what I can remember as years of my own childhood. 我小时候的事现在还记得。
We came to believe that heroes are important 我们相信英雄十分重要，
and national treasures are of complete importance, 国家宝藏也有至关重要的意义，
never forgetting that you belong to something. 从来不会忘记自己属于谁。
BORODIN Symphony No. 2 鲍罗丁 《第二交响曲》
Borodin was very attracted to the opportunity simply 鲍罗丁对这一机会十分感兴趣，
to write something about what he himself described 'bogary bogartista' 他要写出他自己称之为“bogary bogartista”
which means, actually, like 'mighty knights', 的东西，意思是“大力骑士”，
'mighty', makes you feel, feel somebody with a huge sword “大力”一词让人感觉这个人有一把巨大的剑，
with, maybe, with a beard, dressed as a warrior but mighty. 长着络腮胡子，身穿战甲，力大无穷。
The mainspring of such heroic stories comes from the threat of supernatural powers 这类英雄故事产生的主要原因源自对巫师万能的法力的恐惧，
omnipotent wizards like Chernobor the dark god, who may strike at any time. 比如随时到来的黑暗之神切诺伯。
And then, of course, 在俄罗斯神话故事中，
in a Russian fairytale scenario everyone should wake up 随着情节的发展，人们觉醒了，
and there would be two or three or maybe more men, young men, 有二三个，甚至更多勇敢的年轻人，
most of them brave men, they should rescue Lyudmilla. 释放了卢米拉。
It was such a masterful end and such an unbelievable fantasy of Pushkin 故事的结局很精彩， 普希金这个不可思议的故事
would immediately make you believe in all of that 会让你立即深深相信，
and would transport you, you know, from realities of your class, 会带着你走出课堂，
realities of your, just small, apartment where you live with your parents, 走出你和父母一起住着的小屋，
you would really be totally taken away. 你会彻底沉浸其中。
To the Russian composer, 对俄罗斯的作家来说，
the greatest imaginative challenge is the quest 想象力方面的最大挑战是
the hero's journey to win treasure or to release the captured heroine 寻求英雄获得宝藏的路径，解救被抓走的女主角，
or conquer the forces of darkness. 以及打败黑暗势力。
And the vast territory of Russia offers endless possibilities. 俄罗斯辽阔的疆土孕育了无限的可能。
Russians in general understand even subconsciously 俄罗斯人潜意识里都认为
that they live in a very big Country. 自己生活在超级大国。
So there is a vast, enormous, huge space for fantasies, for folklore, as we say, 这是一片充满幻想和传说的广阔疆土，
for miraculous transformations, for incredible trips. 神奇的变化，不可思议的旅程。
You would be prepared to believe in it completely. 你会彻底被它征服。
RIMSKY KORSAKOV Sheherazade 里姆斯基·科萨科夫 《天方夜谭》
The earliest known Russian story of all 我们知道的最古老的俄罗斯故事
is the twelfth-century epic 'The Lay of Prince lgor's Host'. 是12世纪的叙事诗“伊果王子的主人之歌”
It describes the archetypal legendary quest: 诗歌表达了对传说中的人物原型的探索：
My men are renowned warriors, swaddled to the sound of trumpets, 我的战士训练有素， 听军号的命令，
nursed beneath helmets, fed from the point of a spear. 盔甲保护着身躯， 用长矛狩猎补给。
The roads are known to them, the ravines familiar to them, 他们对道路也很熟悉， 知道哪有深渊和沟渠，
their bows are strung, their quivers open, their sabres whetted. 他们的箭随时搭上弓弦， 他们的刀削铁如泥。
They race across the steppe like grey wolves, 他们像灰狼在草原上飞驰，
seeking honour for themselves and glory for their prince. 为自己赢来荣誉，为王子增光添喜。
In 'Ruslan', the climax to the archetypal quest 在“卢斯兰”中，从故事的高潮到对原型的追求
comes in a confrontation with a monstrous severed head. 与丑陋严肃的头目形成鲜明对比。
GLINKA Ruslan and Lyudmila 葛令卡 《卢斯兰与鲁密拉》
The eternal sleep of decomposing knights. 死去的骑士正逐渐腐烂。
I guard them from uninvited guests! 我守卫着他们的尸首，以防不速之客来袭！
I am slain! 我刺中了！
The sword which I so desired! 用我一直渴望得到的剑！
But who are you? And whose is this sword? 但你是谁？ 剑的主人是谁？
TCHAIKOVSKY The Sleeping Beauty 柴可夫斯基 《睡美人》
The language of fairy tales and fantasy 这部童话所使用的叙述方式
even finds its way into Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya'. 在契诃夫的“万尼亚舅舅”中也能觅到踪迹。
His dream of a better world at the end of the play 在故事结尾，他关于完美世界的梦想
inspired Rachmaninov's song 'We Shall Rest'. 引出了拉赫曼尼诺夫的歌曲“我们该休息了”。
The dream is equally resonant in today's very different Russia. 这个梦想在今天，在与当时大不相同的俄罗斯， 仍能激起人们的共鸣。
RACHMANINOV We Shall Rest 拉赫曼尼诺夫 《我们该休息了》
We shall rest we shall hear the angels 我们该休息了， 我们该听听天使的声音，
We shall see all the heavens 我们该看看美丽的天空，
Covered with stars like diamonds 布满钻石般的星星，
All our sufferings swept away by the grace 用美德驱散痛苦
which will fill the whole world 世界充满爱
And our life will become peaceful, gentle... 我们将过上和平安静的生活……
and sweet as a caress 像在爱人怀抱中一样甜蜜，
I believe it, I believe it 我相信，我相信
We shall rest... 我们该休息了……
I just want to say that we are small people 我们都是普通人
and we are lucky to have big ones as our predecessors, you know, 我们很幸运有不平凡的祖先
giving us such a gift 给了我们天赋，
and since some people do not believe in the future of Russia. 仍然有人对俄罗斯的未来没有信心，
I think that it's very simple to find the reasons 我认为找出原因很简单，
for enthusiasm, for optimism and for the hope 只要我们满腔热忱，保持乐观和希望，
and for confidence for people of my country. 对我们国家的人民永远充满信心。
They just have to look here, 他们必须留心着这个国家，
they shouldn't look in the over Atlantic anymore, 而不是遥望大西洋的彼岸，
they shouldn't look they always have to find it 他们务必要找到这个原因。
I don't mean literally in this room I mean here, within yourself. 我不仅仅指眼前这间屋子， 我是指这里，在你的心里。
It's people to people, person to person, person to persons, 神话故事是口口相传的，你想给别人， 他讲给大家，
and I give it to 10, 10 give it to 100, 100 give it to a million. 我把这个故事讲给十个人，十个人又讲给100个人， 100个人讲给一百万个人。
In this case you say tradition is living. 从这个角度来看，传统仍然充满生气。
There is no other way for my country to stay important to the world 我们国家要在世界保持其重要性，
then through culture. 只有靠文化这一途径。