Old Pakhom's water-well		1956
updated: 2006-05-10 19:54:00

		original: Fântâna lui Pahoma
		translation: Пахом ҪӐлĕ	Author: Malov A. - translator
		translation: Pachoms Brunnen	Author: Warkentin Johann - translator
		translation: Old Pakhom's water-well	Author: Rottenberg Dorian - translator
		translation: Колодец Пахома	Author: Covalgi Chiril - writer, translator
		translation: Пахомова криниця	Author: Iuhimovici Vasili

OLD PAKHOM'S WATER-WELL Old-timers remember how poor he was; half his life he'd roamed over hill and dell then returned to his native parts because old age had arrived. And he dug that well. That time long remote I can picture today; in the steppe where water was rarer than gold, digging the earth, he had worked away, his hands all calloused, himself bent and old. Layer on layer of stony soil.... Again and again the sun rose and set. He never let go his spade until with clear spring water that spade got wet. 'Twas strong, the log well-shaft he built in old age! Nobody knows what he did later on. Perhaps old-timers-now dead-could have said... The well remains, but Pakhom's long gone. Both people and years disappear in the past.... Much changed round the village Pakhom called home. But nowadays folk on their way from the fields drink the icy-cold water and thank old Pakhom. The highway is full of unheard-of machines. Pakhom never dreamed of their like in his days. They often pull up at the brink of the well and cool their bosoms, with labour ablaze. No counting the numbers of passers-by- pedestrians, passengers-all who have gained new strength from the well that Pakhom once built. He certainly hadn't been working in vain. And none of them know who he was, just as simply they speak of Pakhom's well-the fruit of his feat- as they would of the hillsides aquiver with barley or the warm summer rain-shower that nurtures the wheat. Translated by Dorian Rottenberg

Published:

	Author	Book name	Publisher	Year	Page	Remark
	Andrei Lupan	Liţom k liţu	Editura de stat a Moldovei, Chişinău	1957	162	(trad. C.Covalgi)
	Andrei Lupan	Meşter Faur	Editura de stat a Moldovei, Chişinău	1958	16
	Andrei Lupan	Pro nas	Editura "Sovetskii pisateli", Moscova	1959	137	(trad. C.Covalgi)
	Andrei Lupan	Frate al pământului	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	1959	205
		Antologhia moldavskoi poezii	Gosudarstvennoie izdatelstvo hudojestvennoi literaturi, Moscova	1960	347
	Andrei Lupan	Stihi	Gosudarstvennoie izdatelstvo hudojestvennoi literaturi, Moscova	1961	104	(trad. C.Covalgi)
	Andrei Lupan	Frate al pământului	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	1962	209
		Izvor viu	Editura de stat a RASS Ciuvaşe, Şupaşcar	1964	16
	Andrei Lupan	Versuri	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	1967	77
	Andrei Lupan	Noşa svoia	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	1970	143	(trad. C.Covalgi)
	Andrei Lupan	Scrieri v.1	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	1973	214
		Antologia poeziei moldoveneşti contemporane	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	1974	53
		Pravo na imea	Editura "Hudojestvennaia literatura", Moscova	1974	48	(trad. C.Covalgi)
	Andrei Lupan	Noşa svoia	Editura "Hudojestvennaia literatura", Moscova	1975	150	(trad. C.Covalgi)
	Andrei Lupan	Dobro nosiaşii	Editura "Detskaia literatura"	1980	61	(trad. C.Covalgi)
	Andrei Lupan	Versuri/stihi	Editura "Literatura artistică", Chişinău	1982	106
	Andrei Lupan	Poezii	Editura "Literatura artistică", Chişinău	1985	137
	Andrei Lupan	Frate al pământului	Editura "Literatura artistică", Chişinău	1986	224
	Andrei Lupan	Dobrii znak	Editura "Radianskii pismenik", Kiev	1987	49	(trad. Vasili Iuhimovici)
	Andrei Lupan	Izbrannoe	Editura "Hudojestvennaia literatura", Moscova	1987	148	(trad. C.Covalgi)
	Andrei Lupan	Scrieri v.1	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	2002	174
	Andrei Lupan	Intrare în baladă	Editura "Cartea moldovenească", Chişinău	2007	125

Printed:

Journal	Date
Revista "Sovetiş Geimland", Moscova	03.1966
Revista "Sovetskaia literatura", Moscova	04.1972