The
Gifts of Mother Earth and the Soul of Nature Mother, I come from you, you carry me, you nourish me, and you will take me after
my death Russian variant Born from the earth, fed by the earth, into the earth I will go! Soul of Nature I am the soul of nature That gives life to the
universe From me all things proceed And to me they must return The artists that joined
the Abramtsevo artists' circle in late 19th century Russia were attracted by Abramtsevo’s rural location on Radonezh soil. |