Friday, September 27, 2013

Russia. The 13th Song for those who left... ("Россия" - 13-ая песня Борковского из его 1999 альбома для тех кто покинул родину)


13. Russia
(Lyrics by hieromonk Roman)

There’s no place for me in Russia,
Though I’m not the first exile ;
Since old times  some other land
Gave shelter to my folk.

 My Motherland,  like Mother, you are my only,
That’s why I don’t demand,
For the freedom  you give to your sons,
The freedom to go up  the scaffolds.

Crucified! Is that you, my Land?
I’m standing and   wondering:
In the flags I recognize the shreds
Of Jesus Christ’s purple garments.

My Land! Are you heading the right way?

 The dirty fingers are poking  at the earthly things
And  you are rushing  to bow to them,
 Calling for Jesus Christ’s  traitors to be your leaders.

Why, turning your face away from Heaven,
D’ you hanker for the  western sparkles?
And casting  your own clothes off,
Why do you dress up in Lilliputian shreds?

Amusing mobs of good-for-nothing guys,
You choose another way to  go,
A stranger path is not yours,
It can’t imbibe your  aspirations.

 Many would  like to stand still
As guards of honor at your coffin,
Bearing malice, not knowing, blind,
They have infringed on God’s possessions.

Russia! Rus’! Wherever  you were flying,
In rags, profaned and wretched,
You won’t perish! You’re  safe!
With so many pious people in the God’s abodes.

 Translated by Eaja Borkovskaja.

13. Россия, ст. иеромонаха Романа

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He started in 1979 as IBM/370 system engineer. In 1986 he got his PhD. in Robotics at St. Petersburg Technical University (Russia) and then worked as a professor teaching CAD/CAM, Robotics for 12 years. He published 30+ papers and made several presentations for conferences related to the Robotics and Artificial Intelligent fields. In 1999 he moved to the US, worked at Capital One bank as a Capacity Planner. His first CMG.org paper was written and presented in 2001. The next one, "Exception Detection System Based on MASF Technique," won a Best Paper award at CMG'02 and was presented at UKCMG'03 in Oxford, England. He made other tech. presentations at IBM z/Series Expo, SPEC.org, Southern and Central Europe CMG and ran several workshops covering his original method of Anomaly and Change Point Detection (Perfomalist.com). Author of “Performance Anomaly Detection” class (at CMG.com). Worked 2 years as the Capacity team lead for IBM, worked for SunTrust Bank for 3 years and then at IBM for 3 years as Sr. IT Architect. Now he works for Capital One bank as IT Manager at the Cloud Engineering and since 2015 he is a member of CMG.org Board of Directors. Runs UT channel iTrubin