“In the Memory of North-Western Army“ — English subs and translation

Russian White Emigration, circa 1922 A poem by the White Guard poet A. Vasil’jev is dedicated to the unsuccessful campaign of the North-Western Army in Petrograd. Having missed the chance to occupy the capital, the White troops were forced to retreat to Estonia and lost their last hopes for a break in the course of the Civil War. In this song, the personal tragedy is added to the all-Russian tragedy, where a White officer, entering the suburbs of Petrograd, sees his own childhood home, occupied by the Reds