APH Russia - Cranes "Журавли" [Full AMV]

This video is not important. It's all about the lyrics!

Character name: Russian Federation (Российская Федерация). Human Name: Ivan Braginski
Anime: Hetalia

Does anyone read Dostoevsky novels? I'm reading Crime and Punishment right now and it's so good!

Russia still has an important place in my heart. I had a crush on a Russian boy, but I was only aware of that after he left.
I'm a hopeless romantic, don't mind me.

The fact that he was Russian only sparked my interest, but his personality and interests, gosh, he did contemporary dance and is a true gentleman. He once asked me if I could give him one of my self-made laminated autumn leaf bookmarks(*facepalm*)

So, about the video, THIS SONG! I CRY. You need to hear the Dmitri Hvorostovsky version! it's really good!
4 months or so ago I made a video about Russia as well, but I didn't find the song very representative for Ivan, so I was searching something I could use and found this masterpiece :)

I'm happy these days because it's winter. I bet some of you might remember how much I hated summer this year...

I hope you like it
ps I love you, Russian people~
lol jk I love you all 😂


English translation
The cranes

Sometimes it seems to me that the soldiers,
Which haven't returned from blood's fields,
Haven't layed in our land,
But have turned into white cranes.

From those distant times
They fly and we hear their voices.
Is it because so often and so sadly
We are falling silent and looking into heaven?

The tired crane flock flies, flies through the sky,
Flies in the mist at the end of the day.
And it is a small gap in this order -
Perhaps this place is for me.

The day will come, and in such crane flock
I'll swim in the same blue-gray haze.
Calling out like a bird from the heavens
All of you who are left on earth.

Sometimes it seems to me that the soldiers,
Which haven't returned from blood's fields,
Haven't layed in our land,
But have turned into white cranes.

Russian
Zhuravli (Журавли)

Мне кажется порою, что солдаты
С кровавых не пришедшие полей,
Не в землю нашу полегли когда-то,
А превратились в белых журавлей.

Они до сей поры с времен тех дальних
Летят и подают нам голоса.
Не потому ль так часто и печально
Мы замолкаем глядя в небеса?

Летит, летит по небу клин усталый,
Летит в тумане на исходе дня.
И в том строю есть промежуток малый -
Быть может это место для меня.

Настанет день и журавлиной стаей
Я поплыву в такой же сизой мгле.
Из-под небес по-птичьи окликая
Всех вас, кого оставил на земле.

Мне кажется порою, что солдаты
С кровавых не пришедшие полей,
Не в землю нашу полегли когда-то,
А превратились в белых журавлей.

Disclaimer:
nothing in this video belongs to me
Anime: Hetalia
Music by Jan Frenkel, lyrics by Rasul Gamzatov, singer Marc Bernes.