Owner of steamboat newspaper houses. Russian-American stories

Today let's talk about one poem. Its author has never been to the USA, but the image of an American created in this children's poem is familiar to every Soviet child. But mutual images of our countries are one of the main topics of our Saturday meetings.

The first edition of this poem was in 1933 - we have already discussed more than once that it was at that time that the racism of white Americans was discussed in the USSR, who (even members of the American Communist Party) could not get rid of it even in the Soviet Union.

Marshak recalled that he was able to publish the poem only thanks to the intervention of Maxim Gorky. Although its main content was the fight against racism, the appearance of such a text seemed inappropriate. Subsequently, Marshak excluded from the text the key episode with the doorman calling his colleagues: as he wrote to one of his acquaintances, the editors convinced him, “ as if foreign tourists would stop visiting us if a few doormen could boycott Mr. Twister... I very reluctantly agreed to the changes, but it was difficult to argue then ».

Cover of the magazine "Hedgehog", where the poem "Mr. Twister" was first published

“In 29 or 30 (I don’t remember more precisely), the late academician Mushketov told me about how one of the American tourists was left in Leningrad without an overnight stay after he refused to stay in the same hotel with a black man. This is how the idea of ​​“Mr. Twister” arose "."

But Marshak worked on the poem for a long time before its publication, and continued to make corrections to it long after it became a textbook.

"Mr. Twister"'s first name was "Mr. Pork":

Here is the famous Mr. Pork.
His address: America, New York City.
One hundred and first street, thirtieth floor
(you can write it down if you have a pencil).

What is Mr. Pork famous for?
The one that rings in Pork's pocket.
Pork makes the famous broth,
However, of course, he doesn’t do it.

There are bulls grazing somewhere on the prairie,
Necks like barrels, horns like bayonets.
A hungry cowboy grazes them in the steppe,
Then they are taken to the slaughterhouse to be slaughtered.

They beat you and throw you into a huge pot,
Their bones are dried and ground into powder.
You put the meat powder in the broth,
And the owner puts a million in his pocket

.

The next variation of the name was "Mr. Priester" (then "Mr. Blister"), and the poem took on a familiar rhythm:

Mister
Priester
Millionaire
I decided to go
IN THE USSR.

The initial stanzas of the poem, apparently, were written immediately (hereinafter - a reproduction of the first edition of the book with illustrations by V. Lebedev, the same year 1933):

From the rough drafts, Marshak only excluded such stanzas about Cook that looked openly edifying, explaining what was clear to the reader without explanation:

That's what he is like
Helpful Cook.
People without Cook
It's like having no hands.
Lots of coins
They pay Cook
To dispel
Green Boredom.

In the very first editions, this chapter ended in different ways: " Mr. Twister, a millionaire, decided to go to the USSR ", "Mr. Twister, a businessman and banker, decided to travel around the world in his spare time. ". IN in the first edition, as we see, there is another option:

Decided
Ride
Wife and daughter.
My wife agrees
And daughter
Do not mind.

Subsequently (in the 1951 edition), instead of this ending, a chapter appeared where Susie’s daughter fluently retells “Western clichés about Russia”:

Mister Twister
Former minister
Mister Twister
Businessman and banker
Factory owner
Newspapers, ships,
Decided at my leisure
Travel around the world.

Great!
- She exclaimed
His daughter Susie.
- Let's visit
In Soviet Union!
I will eat
Granular caviar,
Catch live sturgeon,
Ride a threesome
Above the Volga River
And run to the collective farm
For raspberries!

My friend, you have amazing taste!
Her father told her at dinner.
- Why do you need to go to the Soviet Union?
Let's go to the Danes and Swedes.
Let's go to Naples, let's go to Baghdad!
- But my daughter said: “I want to go to Leningrad!”
- And what the daughter demands,
Must be done.
Dot.

By the way, do you know what Susie looked like? An unpublished play based on this poem has been preserved in S. Marshak’s archive. Here's the description from there:

Very similar
On Twister
Daughter -
Red-haired Susie.
Daughter after father
Born exactly the same
As if someone narrowed it down.

Well, “Your Honor”, ​​Cook is in vain - it seems that Mr. Twister was not a judge.

In subsequent editions, Marshak replaced " the ocean is murmuring" on " the ocean thunders behind the high stern", explaining it this way:

"- I think that the meaning of the verb “murmurs” is familiar in relation to the stream and in in this case ironic about the ocean, could not reach the youngest readers. The mockery hidden here will be more likely to be appreciated an adult than a child . The poems turned out a little without an address. "

There were several options for spending time on the ship in drafts and reissues:

Mister Twister
Former minister
Mister Twister
Banker and rich man
Old businessman,
Famous in Chicago
On a steamship
Kicks the ball.

(famous in Chicago - isn't this Charles Crane meant? Probably a coincidence, huh.)

Mister jumps
And waves
Racket.
The distance of the ocean
Tightened
Grid.

corrected:

Part of a steamship
Covered with mesh.
Mister is running
And he waves his racket.

After this fast game
Twister, having run around to his heart's content,
Drives bone balls with a cue
Along the billiards field.

An earlier version had a more fun pastime:

Mr. Blister
And Blister
Daughter
On the ocean
They're dancing
All night long.

Then a stanza is added that was not in the first editions of the book:

The waves foam and rush forward
Multi-storey palace-steamboat.

Later instead of " looking around"a more ironic one appeared - "appreciating the Peter and Paul Spire..."

The only correction, which Marshak himself later regretted, was made at the insistence of the publishers in this stanza:

In the faces of passers-by
Gasoline
Breathing.

Marshak had "in the faces of passers-by..." Indeed, it's better.

Here, in a later version, an elevator was added:

- Eat, -
Answers
The gatekeeper is mustachioed, -
Number
Ninth
And the number
Tenth.
The first staircase
Third floor.
Following you
Luggage will be delivered!

Here's to the doorman
Pass
Chain
Twister
With my wife
Monkey
And my daughter.
In a mirrored cage
They come in.
Flashed in a cage
Colored lights,
And she drove smoothly and quickly

Up to the family of a retired minister

.

The description of the “doorman conspiracy” disappeared from later editions:

Number 59-4-00?
Is it possible to call
Hotel Metropol?

8-14-72?
Give me the office
Hotel "Moscow".

Illustration from a later edition, but the author is the same - V. Lebedev

Instead, Marshak added a comical scene of the Yankees leaving, and the doorman (did he previously work for the entire “reception”?) now only reports about the vacant rooms:

This is the replacement in the 1951 edition

In the new versions, Marshak describes in a little more detail the trip of Mr. Twister’s family in search of another hotel :

Next to the driver
Sits reclining
Twister
On soft
Leather pillows.

He listens to the rustle of running wheels,
Tightly dressed with rubber,
Looks like it's rushing
Silver Dog -
Brand on the car's traffic jam.

Now we even know the make of the car - “Lincoln”, his symbol was a hound, and we also added the streets along which the Americans drove:
Gogol Street... Pestel Street... Vosstaniya Square...

Well, instead of " Congress of Oppressed Peoples "became" international congress is preparing ", this is a small clarification

Korney Chukovsky quipped about the rhyme in the final part:
“This is such skill that you don’t even need talent! And there are parts where there is no skill, no talent - “above you is an Indian, below you is a Zulu” - and yet it’s wonderful!”

Marshak (to whom this review was probably conveyed) replaced these two lines with others in subsequent editions:
Number above you
Filmed by a Mongolian.
The number below you -
Mulatto and Creole!

There is a translation of the poem into English language(I'll just give you the beginning):

Tourists
Abroad
Do their touring
Through Cook.
Whenever
The wanderlust
Moves you
To book
A trip
Round the world
All its wonders to see -
The tower of Pisa,
The Kremlin, Paree -
Cook
In a flash -
Should you enjoy
The notion -
Will charter a ship
Or furnish a plane
For your personal use,
Or send you a camel,
Or maybe
A moose;
Reserve you
A room
In the finest hotel,
With breakfast in bed
At the touch
Of a bell.

To the highlands,
And lowlands,
To East
And to West -
To all lands
Cook
Takes you,
Each dressed
In its best.

Mister
Twister
Quondam
Minister,
Mister
Twister,
Millonaire,
Banker and broker,
Owner of stocks,
Newspapers, steamers,
And real-estate block,
Opined that he needed
A rest from his labors,
A trip around the wide world
Without all his neighbors.

And so
He decided
To trek with his wife
and Suzie,
His daughter,
The light of his life.
His Suzie
Was willing.
And likewise his wife.

"Let's go!"
Whooped Suzie.
"Call James!
Where's the car?
Let's all go and visit the U.S.S.R.!"

"But darling daughter"
Her fond parent said,
"Who planted
Such nonsense
In your pretty head?

"There"s Spain to visit,
There's bullfights to see..."
Said darlingest Suzie:
"Then go without me!
I want something different:
Fresh caviar
And shchi,
And loll
In the shade
Of a cranberry tree".

Old Twister,
Don't advertise
And fumed
Cried "Pshaw!"
But Suzie was firm,
And her word
Was law.
...
(Transl.by Sam Raphael Friedman)

In 1963, Marshak wrote a “sequel” to “Mr. Twister.” The change in the hero’s place of residence is curious - if in the first poem his address was New York and he was “known in Chicago,” now Mr. Twister is the son of Alabama. It is not surprising - in 1963 the USSR was already closely following the struggle American blacks for civil rights, against segregation. The poem also plays on the liberation of Africa from colonial status, it is not long, read:

Mr. Twister had a dream.
I dreamed that business required,
So that he can fly to sultry Africa,
To the homeland of the Negro Othello.

Getting ready, he tells his servant
Send a telegram quickly
About having a visa sent to him
From Africa to Alabama.

And Twister thinks, overwhelmed with confusion:
"How can I spend the night in a hotel,
Where are the black people sleeping next to me?
Or do they read a book in bed?..

How to get into a snow-white bath in the morning
And wash in it while sitting and lying down,
When this same bath yesterday
Touched a black woman's back?

And if student Meredith is at home
It took my appetite away all year,
Then here I will have to pay a visit
Merediths should go to the same people!..”

But what is this?.. Twister can’t believe his eyes.
What surprises there are!
From Africa they write: “Sorry, but you
The visa was refused."

And Twister thought... Here's one for you!
So much offensive irony
Conceals this politely firm refusal
Governments of the former colony!

"Over the years it becomes more and more difficult for us,
To the sons of Alabama, the racists,
Proud of family, like horses,
That they are famous for trotting!..”

As an afterword, I recall two stories from the late 1980s or early 1990s There was no Internet yet, so I rely on memory (I might be wrong about something).

Illustration for Mister Twister by post-Soviet artist G. Baliev. The caricature has disappeared...

One story is about how “Mr. Twister" was staged in some fashionable theater, as a play about totalitarianism. The main plot was, of course, doormen who apparently worked for the NKVD. Anti-racist discourse at that moment seemed completely irrelevant, and the viewer sympathized with the unfortunate visiting American who could not spend the night in a hotel at your own expense (today, Mr. Twister’s behavior again seems defiant, and in America, and he won’t be accommodated in a hotel under such conditions even in Alabama).

Another illustration by G. Baliev

The second story is about a visiting millionaire who was unable to get a hotel room in St. Petersburg , and even offered to buy it, but alas, there were still several years left before privatization. This was in the press of that time, and, of course, recalled the classic text.

And another one...

Sources: http://kid-book-museum.livejournal.com/163008.html, http://kid-book-museum.livejournal.com/17424.html,Boris Efimovich Galanov. MR BLISTER AND MR TWISTER , James Von Geldern; Richard Stites. Mass culture in Soviet Russia: tales, poems, songs, movies, plays, and folklore, 1917-1953, Yuri Leving. Mr. Twister in the Land of the Bolsheviks: Sketching Laughter in Marshak’s Poem // Slavic Review, Vol. 70, No. 2 (SUMMER 2011).

1
Eat
Abroad
Office
Cook.If
You
Will overcome
Boredom

And you will want
See the world -
Tahiti Island,
Paris and Pamir, -
Cook
For you
In one minute
On the ship
Will prepare the cabin,
Or he will order
Give me the plane
Or a camel
After you
He will send
Give you
room

In the best hotel
Warm bath
And breakfast in bed.
Mountains and depths,
North and South,
Palms and cedars
Cook will show you.

2
Mister
Twister,
Former minister
Mister
Twister,
Businessman and banker
Factory owner
Newspapers, ships,
Decided at my leisure
Travel around the world.

- Great! -
Exclaimed
His daughter Susie. -
Let's visit
In Soviet Union!
I will eat
Granular caviar,
Catch live sturgeon,
Ride a threesome
Above the Volga River
And run to the collective farm
For raspberries!
- My friend, you have amazing taste! -
Her father told her at dinner. -
Why do you need to go to the Soviet Union?

Let's go to the Danes and Swedes.
Let's go to Naples, let's go to Baghdad! -
But my daughter said: “I want to go to Leningrad!”
And what the daughter demands,
Must be done. Dot.

3


At that very moment
The device is crackling:
- Four cabins
New York - Leningrad,
With a bath
Living room,
Fountain
And a garden.
Just look
So that it doesn't happen
Near
Blacks,
Malays
And other things
Rabble.


Twister
Does not love
Colored people!
Cook
On the phone
Answers:
- Eat!
Will be done,
Your Honor.

4
Smooth
For ten
minutes
Before departure
Twister
appeared
On board the ship.
Near -
Old woman
With huge glasses
Near -
Maid
With a monkey in his hands.

Next
Four
They're coming
Giant,
Twenty four
They are carrying suitcases.

5
The ship is sailing
Along the green waves
The ship is sailing
From America to us.
He sails to the east
Dear direct.
The ocean is thundering
Behind the high
Stern.
Mister
Twister,
Former minister
Mister
Twister,
Banker and rich man
Factory owner
Newspapers, ships,
On the ocean
Plays ball.
Part of a steamship
Covered with mesh.
Mister is running
And waves his racket
At noon, tired of the game and the heat,
Twister, having run around to his heart's content,
Drives bone balls with a cue
Along the billiards field.
The waves foam and rush forward
Multi-storey palace-steamboat.


In white cabins
Palace-steamer
You won't find
Colored people:
Blacks,
Malays
And other people
Rocks in the sea
Another ship.


Negro,
Malays
Wet and hot.
A wave splashes
And the stoker smokes.

6
Mister
Twister,
Millionaire,
Traveling as a tourist
IN THE USSR.
There's a noise coming
Leningradsky
Porta.
The city rises
Because of the right
Boards.
gray waters,
Lots of columns.
Smoke filled factories
The sky is darkening.
Hold on mister
With my hand on my hat,
Fast
To the pier
Runs away
Along the ladder.
Here, appreciating
Petropavlovsky
Spire,
Important
sits down
Into the car.
The ladies are seated.
Things are stacked.
Automobile
Snarled ominously
And drove off
On the asphalt
rustling,
In the faces of passers-by
Gasoline
Breathing.

7
Mister
Twister,
Former minister
Mister
Twister,
Millionaire,
Factory owner
Newspapers, ships,
Enters the hotel
"Angleterre."
Holds in mouth
Golden cigar
And he says
In English
To the doorman:


- Whether there is a
In a hotel
Do you have numbers?
To you
Telegram
Sent
Yesterday.
- Eat, -
Answers
The gatekeeper is mustachioed, -
Number
Ninth
And the number
Tenth.
The first staircase
Third floor.
Following you
Luggage will be delivered!
Here's to the doorman
Pass
Chain
Twister
With my wife
Monkey
And my daughter.
In a mirrored cage
They come in.
Flashed in a cage
Colored lights,
And she drove smoothly and quickly
Up to the family of the retired minister.

8
Past the mirrors
According to carpet patterns
Slowly
Go to the rooms
Strict doorman
In a frock coat
With galloons,
Next -
Newcomer
In a wide panama,
Next -
Old woman
With travel glasses
Next -
Maid
With a monkey in his hands.
Suddenly a foreigner
He exclaimed: - Oh, God!
- God! - they said
Old woman and daughter.


Up the stairs
A black man walked
Dark as the sky
On a moonless night.
Walked
Black
Huge
Growth
Above
From the room
One hundred and ninety.
Black
by hand
Touching
railing,
He walked
Calmly
And the phone
Smoked.
And in the mirrors,
Each other
Similar,
We walked
blacks,
We walked
Blacks...


Every
by hand
Touched
railing,
Every
Short
Handset
Smoked.
Twister
Could not
Resist anger.
Looks
Right
And looks
Left…
- Let's go! -
They said
Old woman and daughter. -
Let's go from here
Get away immediately!
Where they rent
Numbers
To blacks,
We are for a moment
Stay
Can not!
Down
By steps
Large
Jumping
rushes
Newcomer
In a wide Panama hat.
Next -
Old woman
With travel glasses
Next -
Maid
With a monkey in his hands...
Got into the car
Angry Yankees
Tail pinched
To your monkey.
Strict doorman
He bows to them
Goes to the booth
And he booms into the phone:
- Twenty-zero-twenty,
Additional three hundred.
Who am I talking to?..
With the Tourist office?
I'll tell you
Good news:
At your service
There are two numbers -
With bathroom, living room,
Reception, dining room.
We are waiting for those coming.
Be healthy!

9
Winding down the street
Light dust.
Rushing down the street
Automobile.
Next to the driver
Sits reclining
Twister
On soft
Leather pillows.

He listens to the rustle of running wheels,
Tightly dressed with rubber,
Looks like it's rushing
Silver Dog -
Brand on the car's traffic jam.
The old woman and daughter are shaking behind.
The wind flutters their veils.
The sun is setting and night is approaching.
The ladies are terribly tired.
Gogol street,
Third entrance.
“No,” they answer, “
There are places in the hotel.
Pestel Street,
First entrance.
“No,” they answer, “
There are places in the hotel.
Vosstaniya Square,
Fifth entrance.
“No,” they answer, “
There are places in the hotel.
Arrived
A lot of
To the people
To the congress.
No, unfortunately
At the hotel
Places!
Right
Rear
The tire burst.
Soon
Motor
Not enough gasoline...

Former minister

Millionaire,
Factory owner
Newspapers, ships,
Returned to the hotel
"Angleterre."
Next -
Old woman
With travel glasses
Next -
Maid
With a monkey in his hands.
Only they
They called
At the door -
Instantly lit up
Entrance to Angleterre.


It struck
Above
Twelve
Hours.
Strict doorman
He pulled back the bolt.
- Late! -
Told them
Gatekeeper
Whiskered. -
Busy
Ninth,
And busy
Tenth.
International
Getting ready
Congress.
No available
At the hotel
Places!
- What should I do?
I'm very tired! -
Mister
Twister
The daughter whispered. -
If overnight stay
Nowhere
We won't find
May be,
Buy it
Some
House?
- Buy it! -
Father
Answers,
Sighing. -
You're not in Chicago
My dear.
House on the Neva
I would be happy to buy...
He won't want to
Sell ​​Leningrad!
We'll have to sleep
In some park! -
Twister said
And he headed towards the door.
daughter
And mother
A blow would strike
But I calmed them down
Mustachioed doorman.
One
He laid
In a Swiss bed,
Another
He suggested
Buffet counter.

A Twister
In the hall
Settled down
On the chair
Exclaimed:
- Oh my God! -
And also
Fell asleep...

Tired from the road
Fell asleep on the doorstep
Soviet hotel
"Angleterre"
Mister
Twister,
Former minister
Mister
Twister,
Millionaire…

11
Sleeping -
And in a dream
He shudders:
He can sleep
Amazing dream.
He dreams
What a tramp
Homeless
Sad
He wanders
Along the dark streets.

All of a sudden
Airplane
There's a knock -
From heaven to earth
Descends
Cook.
Twister
Throws
To Mister
Kuku,
Presses on the fly
An energetic hand
Sits down quickly
On the plane to him,
Slams the door -
And it floats towards the sky.
Here in front of them
Native America -
Mansion house
Near the green park.
Old servant
Unlocks
Entrance.

“No,” he says, “
In America
Places!
Tight
Closed
Oak doors.
Twister
Awoke
Again in Angleterre.
Woke up anxious
On the very threshold
Soviet hotel
"Angleterre"

Former minister

Millionaire…
He took off his jacket
And hung it on a chair.
I sat down more comfortably
And he fell asleep again.

12
In the morning
Quietly
I've arrived
Boy,
Box and brushes
I brought it with me.
Cheerful and fun
Got busy:
Collected the shoes
Walking around the corridor
White shoes
Whitewashed with chalk
Black -
Rubbed it with black ointment.
Brightly, to shine,
Cleaned it with cloth...
Suddenly on the platform,
Playing with the ball
Left the room
Two black girls -
Girl Jenny
And her brother Tom.


Children
On Twister
They looked silently:
- Poor old man!
He sleeps on a chair...
- Even a boot
He didn't take off
Before bedtime! -
He said quietly
Pensive Tom.
Guy with a brush
Answered: - Guys,
This is not a poor old man
And rich.
He flatly
Refused yesterday
Next door to you
Take rooms.
Very proud
He has white skin -
Here he spends the night
On a chair in the hallway!
That's it, guys! -
The boy said,
Taking up again
For cleaning boots -
Yellow and red
Wide and narrow
Swedish,
Turkish,
German,
French...
Cleaned out
Smooth
On time
Several pairs
Multi-colored boots.
Just pointed it out
For the latest
Gloss -
Sees:
From the chair
Rises
Foreigner,
Looks around
He takes out a cigarette case...


All of a sudden
From the office
The doorman comes out.
- Eat, -
He says -
Two rooms next to each other
With a bath
Living room,
Fountain
And a garden.
If you want to,
I'll guide you
Only in this case
Keep in mind:
The room on the right
A Chinese man is filming
The room on the left
The Malay is filming.

Number above you
Filmed by a Mongolian.
The number below you -
Mulatto and Creole!..
Millionaire
turned around

Threw him away
Expensive cigar
And he screamed
In English:
- Okay!
Give
From rooms
Keys
Hurry up!
Having taken
Under the arm
Daughter
And a monkey
rushes
Jump
According to "Angleterre"

Former minister

Millionaire.

"Mr. Twister"

When you arrive in the country, try
comply with its laws and customs in
avoiding misunderstandings...
From an old guidebook

Eat
Abroad
Office
Cook.
If
You
Will overcome
Boredom
And you will want
See the world -
Tahiti Island,
Paris and Pamir, -

Cook
For you
In one minute
On the ship
Will prepare the cabin,
Or he will order
Bring the plane
Or a camel
After you
Will send

Give you
room
In the best hotel
Warm bath
And breakfast in bed.

Mountains and depths,
North and South,
Palms and cedars
Cook will show you.

Mister
Twister,
Former minister
Mister
Twister,
Businessman and banker
Factory owner
Newspapers, ships,
Decided at my leisure
Travel around the world.

Great!-
Exclaimed
His daughter Susie.-
Let's visit
In the Soviet Union!

I will eat
Granular caviar,
Catch live sturgeon,
Ride a threesome
Above the Volga River
And run to the collective farm
For raspberries!

My friend, you have amazing taste!
Her father told her at dinner.
Why do you need to go to the Soviet Union?
Let's go to the Danes and Swedes.
Let's go to Naples, let's go to Baghdad! -
But my daughter said: “I want to go to Leningrad!”
And what the daughter demands,
Must be done. Dot.

At that very moment
The device is crackling:

Four cabins
New York - Leningrad,
With a bath
Living room,
Fountain
And a garden.
Just look
So that it doesn't happen
Near
Blacks,
Malays
And other things
Rabble.
Twister
Does not love
Colored people!

Cook
On the phone
Answers:
- Eat!
Will be done,
Your Honor.

Smooth
For ten
minutes
Before departure
Twister
appeared
On board the ship.

Near -
Old woman
With huge glasses
Near -
Maid
With a monkey in his hands.

Next
Four
They're coming
Giant,
Twenty four
They are carrying suitcases.

The steamer is sailing
Along the green waves
The steamer is sailing
From America to us.

He sails to the east
Dear direct.
The ocean is thundering
Behind the high
Stern.

Mister
Twister,
Former minister
Mister
Twister,
Banker and rich man
Factory owner
Newspapers, ships,
On the ocean
Plays ball.

Part of a steamship
Covered with mesh.
Mister is running
And he waves his racket.

At noon, tired of the game and the heat,
Twister, having run around to his heart's content,
Drives bone balls with a cue
Along the billiards field.

The waves foam and rush forward
Multi-storey palace-steamboat.

In white cabins
Palace-steamer
You won't find
Colored people:
Blacks,
Malays
And other people
Rocks in the sea
Another ship.

Negro,
Malays
Wet and hot.
A wave splashes
And the stoker smokes.

Mister
Twister,
Millionaire,
Traveling as a tourist
IN THE USSR.

There's a noise coming
Leningradsky
Porta.
The city rises
Because of the right
Boards.

gray waters,
Lots of columns.
Smoke filled factories
The sky is darkening.

Hold on mister
With my hand on my hat,
Fast
To the pier
Runs away
Along the ladder.

Here, appreciating
Petropavlovsky
Spire,
Important
sits down
Into the car.

The ladies are seated.
Things are stacked.
Automobile
Snarled ominously
And drove off
On the asphalt
rustling,
In the faces of passers-by
Gasoline
Breathing.

Mister
Twister,
Former minister
Mister
Twister,
Millionaire,
Factory owner
Newspapers, ships,
Enters the hotel
"Angleterre."

Holds in mouth
Golden cigar
And he says
In English
To the doorman:

Whether there is a
In a hotel
Do you have numbers?
To you
Telegram
Sent
Yesterday.

Eat,-
Answers
The gatekeeper is mustachioed, -
Number
Ninth
And the number
Tenth.
The first staircase
Third floor.
Following you
Luggage will be delivered!

Here's to the doorman
Pass
Chain
Twister
With my wife
Monkey
And my daughter.

In a mirrored cage
They come in.
Flashed in a cage
Colored lights,
And she drove smoothly and quickly
Up to the family of the retired minister.

Past the mirrors
According to carpet patterns
Slowly
Go to the rooms
Strict doorman
In a frock coat
With galloons,
Next -
Newcomer
In a wide panama,
Next -
Old woman
With travel glasses
Next -
Maid
With a monkey in his hands.

Suddenly a foreigner
Exclaimed: - 0 God!
- God! - they said
Old woman and daughter.
Up the stairs
A black man walked
Dark as the sky
On a moonless night.

Shel
Black
Huge
Growth
Above
From the room
One hundred and ninety.

Black
by hand
Touching
railing,
He walked
Calmly
And the phone
Smoked.

And in the mirrors,
Each other
Similar,
We walked
blacks,
We walked
Blacks...

Every
by hand
Touched
railing,
Every
Short
Handset
Smoked.

Twister
Could not
Resist anger.
Looks
Right
And looks
Left...

Let's go! -
They said
Old woman and daughter.-
Let's go from here
Get away immediately!
Where they rent
Numbers
To blacks,
We are for a moment
Stay
Can not!

Down
By steps
Large
Jumping
rushes
Newcomer
In a wide Panama hat.
Next -
Old woman
With travel glasses
Next -
Maid
With a monkey in his hands...

Got into the car
Angry Yankees
Tail pinched
To your monkey.

Strict doorman
He bows to them
Goes to the booth
And he booms into the phone:

Twenty-zero-twenty
Additional three hundred.
Who am I talking to?..
With the Tourist office?

I'll tell you
Good news:
At your service
There are two numbers -
With bathroom, living room,
Reception, dining room.
We are waiting for those coming.
Be healthy!

Winding down the street
Light dust.
Rushing down the street
Automobile.

Next to the driver
Sits reclining
Twister
On soft
Leather pillows.

He listens to the rustle of running wheels,
Tightly dressed with rubber,
Looks like it's rushing
Silver Dog -
Brand on the car's traffic jam.

The old woman and daughter are shaking behind.
The wind flutters their veils.
The sun is setting and night is approaching.
The ladies are terribly tired.

Gogol street,
Third entrance.
“No,” they answer, “
There are places in the hotel.

Pestel Street,
First entrance.
“No,” they answer, “
There are places in the hotel.

Vosstaniya Square,
Fifth entrance.
“No,” they answer, “
There are places in the hotel.
Arrived
A lot of
To the people
To the congress.
No, unfortunately
At the hotel
Places!

Right
Rear
The tire burst.
Soon
Motor
Not enough gasoline...

Mister Twister
Former minister
Mister Twister
Millionaire,
Factory owner
Newspapers, ships,
Returned to the hotel
"Angleterre."

Next -
Old woman
With travel glasses
Next -
Maid
With a monkey in his hands.

Only they
They called
At the door,-
Instantly lit up
Entrance to Angleterre.
It struck
Above
Twelve
Hours.
Strict doorman
He pulled back the bolt.

Late!-
Told them
Gatekeeper
Whiskered.-
Busy
Ninth,
And busy
Tenth.
International
Getting ready
Congress.
No available
At the hotel
Places!

What should I do?
I'm very tired!-
Mister
Twister
The daughter whispered.-
If overnight stay
Nowhere
We won't find
May be,
Buy it
Some
House?

Buy it! -
Father
Answers,
Sighing.-
You're not in Chicago
My dear.
House on the Neva
I'd be happy to buy...
He won't want to
Sell ​​Leningrad!

We'll have to sleep
In some park!-
Twister said
And he headed towards the door.

daughter
And mother
A blow would strike
But I calmed them down
Mustachioed doorman.

One
He laid
In a Swiss bed,
Another
He suggested
Buffet counter.

A Twister
In the hall
Settled down
On the chair
Exclaimed:
- Oh my God!-
And also
Fell asleep...

Tired from the road
Fell asleep on the doorstep
Soviet hotel
"Angleterre"
Mister
Twister,
Former minister
Mister
Twister,
Millionaire...

Sleeping -
And in a dream
He shudders:
He dreams about
Amazing dream.

He dreams
What a tramp
Homeless
Sad
He wanders
Along the dark streets.
All of a sudden
Airplane
There's a knock -
From heaven to earth
Descends
Cook.

Twister
Throws
To Mister
Kuku,
Presses on the fly
An energetic hand
Sits down quickly
On his plane,
Slams the door -
And floats towards the sky.

Here in front of them
Native America -
Mansion house
Near the green park.
Old servant
Unlocks
Entrance.
“No,” he says,
In America
Places!

Tight
Closed
Oak doors.
Twister
Awoke
Again in Angleterre.

Woke up anxious
On the very threshold
Soviet hotel
"Angleterre"
Mister Twister
Former minister
Mister Twister
Millionaire...

He took off his jacket
And hung it on a chair.
I sat down more comfortably
And he fell asleep again.

In the morning
Quietly
Came
Boy,
Drawer and brushes
I brought it with me.
Cheerful and fun
Got busy:
Collected the shoes
Walking around the corridor
White shoes
Whitewashed with chalk
Black -
Rubbed it with black ointment.
Brightly, to shine,
Cleaned it with cloth...

Suddenly on the platform,
Playing with the ball
Left the room
Two black boys -
Girl Jenny
And her brother Tom.

Children
On Twister
They looked silently:
- Poor old man!
He sleeps on a chair...

Even a boot
He didn't take off
Before bedtime!-
He said quietly
Pensive Tom.

Guy with a brush
Answered: - Guys,
This is not a poor old man
And rich.
He flatly
Refused yesterday
Next door to you
Take rooms.

Very proud
He has white skin -
Here he spends the night
On a chair in the hallway!

That's it, guys!
The boy said,
Taking up again
For cleaning boots -
Yellow and red
Wide and narrow
Swedish,
Turkish,
German,
French...

Cleaned out
Smooth
On time
Several pairs
Multi-colored boots.

Just pointed it out
For the latest
Gloss -
Sees:
From the chair
Rises
Foreigner,
Looks around
He takes out a cigarette case...

All of a sudden
From the office
The doorman comes out.

Eat,-
He says -
Two rooms next to each other
With a bath
Living room,
Fountain
And a garden.
If you want to,
I'll guide you
Only in this case
Keep in mind:

The room on the right
A Chinese man is filming
The room on the left
The Malay is filming.
Number above you
Filmed by a Mongolian.
The number below you -
Mulatto and Creole!..

Millionaire
turned around
To the doorman
Threw him away
Expensive cigar
And he screamed
In English:
- Oh okay!
Give
From rooms
Keys
Hurry up!

Having taken
Under the arm
Daughter
And a monkey
rushes
Jump
According to "Angleterre"
Mister Twister
Former minister
Mister Twister
Millionaire.

Eat
Abroad
Office
Cook.
If
You
Will overcome
Boredom
And you will want
See the world -
Tahiti Island,
Paris and Pamir, -

Cook
For you
In one minute
On the ship
Will prepare the cabin,
Or he will order
Bring the plane
Or a camel
After you
Will send

Give you
room
In the best hotel
Warm bath
And breakfast in bed.

Mountains and depths,
North and South,
Palms and cedars
Cook will show you.

Mister
Twister,
Former minister
Mister
Twister,
Businessman and banker
Factory owner
Newspapers, ships,
Decided at my leisure
Travel around the world.

Great! -
Exclaimed
His daughter Susie. -
Let's visit
In Soviet Union!

I will eat
Granular caviar,
Catch live sturgeon,
Ride a threesome
Above the Volga River
And run to the collective farm
For raspberries!

My friend, you have amazing taste!
Her father told her at dinner. -
Why do you need to go to the Soviet Union?
Let's go to the Danes and Swedes.

Let's go to Naples, let's go to Baghdad! -
But my daughter said: “I want to go to Leningrad!” -
And what the daughter demands,
Must be done. Dot.

At that very moment
The device is crackling:

Four cabins
New York - Leningrad,
With a bath
Living room,
Fountain
And a garden.
Just look
So that it doesn't happen
Near
Blacks,
Malays
And other things
Rabble.
Twister
Does not love
Colored people!

Cook
On the phone
Answers:
- Eat!
Will be done,
Your Honor.

Smooth
For ten
minutes
Before departure
Twister
appeared
On board the ship.

Near -
Old woman
With huge glasses
Near -
Maid
With a monkey in his hands.

Next
Four
They're coming
Giant,
Twenty four
They are carrying suitcases.

The steamer is sailing
Along the green waves
The steamer is sailing
From America to us.

He sails to the east
Dear direct.
The ocean is thundering
Behind the high
Stern.

Mister
Twister,
Former minister
Mister
Twister,
Banker and rich man
Factory owner
Newspapers, ships,
On the ocean
Plays ball.

Part of a steamship
Covered with mesh.
Mister is running
And waves his racket

At noon, tired of the game and the heat,
Twister, having run around to his heart's content,
Drives bone balls with a cue
Along the billiards field.

The waves foam and rush forward
Multi-storey palace-steamboat.
In white cabins
Palace-steamer
You won't find
Colored people:
Blacks,
Malays
And other people
Rocks in the sea
Another ship.

Negro,
Malays
Wet and hot.
A wave splashes
And the stoker smokes.

Mister
Twister,
Millionaire,
Traveling as a tourist
IN THE USSR.

There's a noise coming
Leningradsky
Porta.
The city rises
Because of the right
Boards.

gray waters,
Lots of columns.
Smoke filled factories
The sky is darkening.

Hold on mister
With my hand on my hat,
Fast
To the pier
Runs away
Along the ladder.

Here, appreciating
Petropavlovsky
Spire,
Important
sits down
Into the car.

The ladies are seated.
Things are stacked.
Automobile
Snarled ominously
And drove off
On the asphalt
rustling,
In the faces of passers-by
Gasoline
Breathing.

Mister
Twister,
Former minister
Mister
Twister,
Millionaire,
Factory owner
Newspapers, ships,
Enters the hotel
"Angleterre".

Holds in mouth
Golden cigar
And he says
In English
To the doorman:

Whether there is a
In a hotel
Do you have numbers?
To you
Telegram
Sent
Yesterday.

Eat, -
Answers
The gatekeeper is mustachioed, -
Number
Ninth
And the number
Tenth.
The first staircase
Third floor.
Following you
Luggage will be delivered!

Here's to the doorman
Pass
Chain
Twister
With my wife
Monkey
And my daughter.

In a mirrored cage
They come in.
Flashed in a cage
Colored lights,
And she drove smoothly and quickly
Up to the family of a retired man

Abroad

And you will want

See the world

Tahiti Island,

Paris and Pamir,

In one minute

On the ship

Will prepare the cabin,

Or he will order

Bring the plane

Or a camel

In the best hotel

Warm bath

And breakfast in bed.

Mountains and depths,

North and South,

Palms and cedars

Cook will show you.

Former minister

Businessman and banker

Factory owner

Newspapers, ships,

Decided at my leisure

Travel around the world.

Exclaimed

His daughter Susie.

Let's visit

In Soviet Union!

I will eat

Granular caviar,

Catch live sturgeon,

Ride a threesome

Above the Volga River

And run to the collective farm

For raspberries!

My friend, you have amazing taste!

Her father told her at dinner.

Why do you need to go to the Soviet Union?

Let's go to the Danes and Swedes.

Let's go to Naples, let's go to Baghdad!

But my daughter said: “I want to go to Leningrad!”

And what the daughter demands,

Must be done. Dot.

At that very moment

The device is crackling:

Four cabins

New York - Leningrad,

With a bath

Living room,

Fountain

Just look

So that it doesn't happen

Malays

And other things

Colored people!

On the phone

Answers:

Will be done,

Your Honor.

For ten

Before departure

On board the ship.

With huge glasses

With a monkey in his hands.

Giant,

Twenty four

They are carrying suitcases.

The steamer is sailing

Along the green waves

The steamer is sailing

From America to us.

He sails to the east

Dear direct.

The ocean is thundering

Behind the high

Former minister

Banker and rich man

Factory owner

Newspapers, ships,

On the ocean

Plays ball.

Part of a steamship

Covered with mesh.

Mister is running

And waves his racket

At noon, tired of the game and the heat,

Twister, having run around to his heart's content,

Drives bone balls with a cue

Along the billiards field.

The waves foam and rush forward

Multi-storey palace-steamboat.

In white cabins

Palace-steamer

You won't find

Colored people:

Malays

And other people

Rocks in the sea

Another ship.

Malays

Wet and hot.

A wave splashes

And the stoker smokes.

Millionaire,

Traveling as a tourist

There's a noise coming

Leningradsky

The city rises

Because of the right

gray waters,

Lots of columns.

Smoke filled factories

The sky is darkening.

Hold on mister

With my hand on my hat,

To the pier

Along the ladder.

Here, appreciating

Petropavlovsky

Into the car.

The ladies are seated.

Things are stacked.

Automobile

Snarled ominously

And drove off

On the asphalt

In the faces of passers-by

Gasoline

Former minister

Millionaire,

Factory owner

Newspapers, ships,

Enters the hotel

"Angleterre."

Holds in mouth

Golden cigar

And he says

In English

To the doorman:

Do you have numbers?

Telegram

Answers

The gatekeeper is mustachioed,

The first staircase

Third floor.

Following you

Luggage will be delivered!

Here's to the doorman

Pass

Chain

Monkey

And my daughter.

In a mirrored cage

They come in.

Flashed in a cage

Colored lights,

And she drove smoothly and quickly

Up to the family of the retired minister.

Past the mirrors

According to carpet patterns

Slowly

Go to the rooms

Strict doorman

In a frock coat

With galloons,

Newcomer

In a wide panama,

With travel glasses

With a monkey in his hands.

Suddenly a foreigner

He exclaimed: “Oh God!”

God! - they said

Old woman and daughter.

Up the stairs

A black man walked

Dark as the sky

On a moonless night.

Black

Huge

From the room

One hundred and ninety.

Calmly

And in the mirrors,

Each other

blacks,

Blacks...

Short

Resist anger.

And looks

Old woman and daughter.

Let's go from here

Get away immediately!

Where they rent

To blacks,

We are for a moment

Stay

Can not!

By steps

Large

Jumping

Newcomer

In a wide Panama hat.

With travel glasses

With a monkey in his hands...

Got into the car

Angry Yankees

Tail pinched

To your monkey.

Strict doorman

He bows to them

Goes to the booth

And he booms into the phone:

Twenty-zero-twenty

Additional three hundred.

Who am I talking to?..

With the Tourist office?

I'll tell you

Good news:

At your service

There are two numbers

With bathroom, living room,

Reception, dining room.

We are waiting for those coming.

Be healthy!

Winding down the street

Light dust.

Rushing down the street

Automobile.

Next to the driver

Sits reclining

On soft

Leather pillows.

He listens to the rustle of running wheels,

Tightly dressed with rubber,

Looks like it's rushing

Silver Dog

Brand on the car's traffic jam.

The old woman and daughter are shaking behind.

The wind flutters their veils.

The sun is setting and night is approaching.

The ladies are terribly tired.

Gogol street,

Third entrance.

Neg, - they answer,

There are places in the hotel.

Pestel Street,

First entrance.

No, they answer.

There are places in the hotel.

Vosstaniya Square,

Fifth entrance.

No, they answer.

There are places in the hotel.

To the congress.

No, unfortunately

At the hotel

The tire burst.

Not enough gasoline...

Mister Twister

Former minister

Mister Twister

Millionaire,

Factory owner

Newspapers, ships,

Returned to the hotel

"Angleterre."

With travel glasses

With a monkey in his hands.

Only they

They called

Instantly lit up

Entrance to Angleterre.

Twelve

Strict doorman

He pulled back the bolt.

Told them

Gatekeeper

International

Getting ready

No available

At the hotel

What should I do?

I'm very tired!

Twister

The daughter whispered.

If overnight stay

We won't find

May be,

Some

Answers,

You're not in Chicago

My dear.

House on the Neva

I would be happy to buy...

He won't want to

Sell ​​Leningrad!

We'll have to sleep

In some park!

Twister said

And he headed towards the door.

A blow would strike

But I calmed them down

Mustachioed doorman.

He laid

In a Swiss bed,

He suggested

Buffet counter.

A Twister

In the hall

Exclaimed:

Tired from the road

Fell asleep on the doorstep

Soviet hotel

"Angleterre"

Former minister

Millionaire…

He shudders:

He can sleep

Amazing dream.

He dreams

What a tramp

Homeless

He wanders

Along the dark streets.

Airplane

There's a knock

From heaven to earth

Descends

Throws

To Mister

Presses on the fly

An energetic hand

Sits down quickly

On his plane,

Slams the door

And floats towards the sky.

Here in front of them

Native America

Mansion house

Near the green park.

Old servant

Unlocks

No, he says

In America

Closed

Oak doors.

Awoke

Again in Angleterre.

Woke up anxious

On the very threshold

Soviet hotel

"Angleterre"

Mister Twister

Former minister

Mister Twister

Millionaire…

He took off his jacket

And hung it on a chair.

I sat down more comfortably

And he fell asleep again.

Quietly

Drawer and brushes

I brought it with me.

Cheerful and fun

Got busy:

Collected the shoes

Walking around the corridor

White shoes

Whitewashed with chalk

Rubbed it with black ointment.

Brightly, to shine,

Cleaned it with cloth...

Suddenly on the platform,

Playing with the ball

Left the room

Two black girls

Girl Jenny

And her brother Tom.

On Twister

They looked silently:

Poor old man!

He sleeps on a chair...

Even a boot

He didn't take off

Before bedtime!

He said quietly

Pensive Tom.

Guy with a brush

Answered: - Guys,

This is not a poor old man

And rich.

He flatly

Refused yesterday

Next door to you

Take rooms.

Very proud

He has white skin

Here he spends the night

On a chair in the hallway!

That's it, guys!

The boy said,

Taking up again

For cleaning boots

Yellow and red

Wide and narrow

Swedish,

Turkish,

German,

French...

Cleaned out

On time

Several pairs

Multi-colored boots.

Just pointed it out

For the latest

Foreigner,

Looks around

He takes out a cigarette case...

From the office

The doorman comes out.

He says

Two rooms next to each other

With a bath

Living room,

Fountain

If you want to,

I'll guide you

Only in this case

Keep in mind:

The room on the right

A Chinese man is filming

The room on the left

The Malay is filming.

Number above you

Filmed by a Mongolian.

The number is below you

Mulatto and Creole!..

Millionaire

turned around

To the doorman

Threw him away

Expensive cigar

And he screamed

In English:

From rooms

Hurry up!

Under the arm

And a monkey

Jump

According to "Angleterre"

Mister Twister

Former minister