Otto von BismarckОтто фон Бисмарк
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Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
5. Тяжело у меня на душе. Во всю свою долгую жизнь никого не сделал я счастливым: ни своих друзей, ни семьи, ни даже самого себя. Много-много наделал я зла... Я был виновником трех больших войн. Из-за меня погибло более 800 000 людей на полях сражений; их теперь оплакивают матери, братья, вдовы... И всё это стоит между мною и богом.
5. My heart is heavy. In all my long life I have made no one happy: not my friends, not my family, not even myself. I have done much, much evil… I was the cause of three great wars. Because of me more than 800,000 people perished on the fields of battle; they are mourned now by mothers, brothers, widows… And all this stands between me and God.
From Words of Bismarck's at Varzin, 21 October 1877, recorded by Moritz Busch in Unser Reichs… · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
Not in Leo Tolstoy as EditorThe changes, the evil done, “more than 800,000” dead for “eighty thousand,” and “all this stands between me and God” for “That matter, however, I have settled with God,” are already in D. P. Makovitsky’s Russian record of Bismarck’s words, read to Tolstoy in January 1905, which the Circle follows with small changes.
What Tolstoy read · Д. П. Маковицкий, «Яснополянские записки», вып. 1, стр. 75, as quoted in the Jubilee com…Тяжело у меня на душе. Во всю свою долгую жизнь никого не сделал я счастливым: ни своих друзей, ни семьи, ни даже себя самого. Много, много наделал я зла... Я был виновником трех больших войн, из-за меня погибло более 800 000 людей на полях сражения; их теперь оплакивают матери, братья, сестры, вдовы... И всё это стоит между мною и богом …
Source text: tolstoy.ruIn English · William Beatty-Kingston, 1884He had never made anybody happy thereby, he said ; not himself, nor his family, nor any one else.
But for me, three great wars would not have been fought; eighty thousand men would not have perished ; parents, brothers, sisters, and widows would not be bereaved and plunged into mourning . . .
That matter, however, I have settled with God.
Source text: archive.orgRelated · Moritz Busch, Bismarck: Some Secret Pages of His HistoryHe had made no one happy thereby, neither himself, nor his family, nor others.
But for me three great wars would not have taken place, eighty thousand men would not have been killed and would not now be mourned by parents, brothers, sisters, and widows."
I have settled that with God, however.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Words of Bismarck's at Varzin, 21 October 1877, recorded by Moritz Busch in Unser Reichskanzler (Leipzig, 1884), in W. Beatty-Kingston's English, Our Chancellor (1884), Busch, Unser Reichskanzler (Leipzig, 1884), vol. I, pp. 115–116; Our Chancellor (London, 1884), vol. I, p. 114; Busch, Bismarck: Some Secret Pages of His History (London, 1898), vol. II, diary for 21 October 1877; Makovitsky's record, Jubilee vol. 42, commentary.
Bismarck's words as Busch recorded them, reached through a Russian record that changed them. Busch tells how at Varzin, by the stove after dinner, Bismarck complained that his political life had brought him little joy: he had made no one happy by it, not himself, his family, or others; “but how many have I made unhappy! But for me three great wars would not have been fought, eighty thousand men would not have perished, and parents, brothers, sisters, and widows would not be mourning … That, however, I have to settle with God” (the German, «Das habe ich indes mit Gott abzumachen», in a Fraktur OCR too garbled to quote, saved: sources/busch-unser-reichskanzler-1884/unserreichskanz01buscgoog_djvu.txt: «Das Ijabe ic^ inbes mit <5ott ab5umac^en»; both English versions say “I have settled”). The Jubilee commentary (vol. 42) says that on 8 January 1905 D. P. Makovitsky read Tolstoy a record of these words, “spoken once among people close to him”; Tolstoy asked for the German, and P. A. Boulanger corrected the translation; the record's own source is not named. Makovitsky's record (intermediary) already makes the changes: «Тяжело у меня на душе» (my heart is heavy) is added; «своих друзей» (his friends) replaces “andre” (others) among those he never made happy; “wohl aber viele unglücklich” (but many unhappy) becomes «Много, много наделал я зла» (I have done much, much evil); eighty thousand dead become «более 800 000» (more than 800,000); and “that I have to settle with God” becomes «И всё это стоит между мною и богом» (and all this stands between me and God). Against the record the Circle changes only small things: «ни даже самого себя» for «ни даже себя самого», «Много-много», «на полях сражений», and «сестры» (sisters) left out. Busch's diary for 21 October 1877, published in English in 1898 (related block), gives the same words and the date. The story went round the American papers in 1884, also with eighty thousand (The Anderson Intelligencer, South Carolina, 20 November 1884, consulted online and not saved).