Thanks to Vlada

[Ilya Semenenko-Basin]

Mail Art from Russia to Russia. Thanks to Vlada Laptev for the collage postcard.

[Sabrina S]

Thank you so much for your explanation, Ilya. :) Beautiful!

[Ilya Semenenko-Basin]

Hello Carien! Hello Sabrina!

Vlada Lapteva lives in a city in the Urals, outside the city limits there are majestic forests and rivers. Vlada's postcard is influenced by the nature there. The words written in Cyrillic script are the first line of a song: "River, carry me!"

River, carry me to the sharp bends

Where are fields, my fields, where are forests, my forests.

River, carry me to my native places,

Where lives my beautiful (girl), she has blue eyes.

She is dark like night, she is fast like river,

She waits for me like lonely moon in the sky...

((The translator who did this translation appears online under the pseudonym Nemesida.))

[Sabrina S]

"You carry me, river" - maybe?

[Carien van Hest]

What does it say, Ilya?