Памятник Пискаревского Мемориального Кладбища

[stpetersburg.livejournal.com]

This is the memorial passage on the main memorial of the Priskaryev Memorial Cemetary in St. Petersburg. It commemorates the over 500,000
soldiers, men, women, and children who died and were buried in unmarked, mass graves in the blockade of St. Petersburg during the Nazi assualt.
I will attempt to translate this passage, but I want to put down the original Russian first. Those of you I who can't read Russian, I promise: this passage is very moving.

Edit: typos and encoding removed, cut added. Apologies to anyone that I may have offended: this was absolutely unintetional. I know this is a serious subject, but failed to cross my mind to add a cut.

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Edit: here is my attempt at a translation (bob, I did not look at yours before hand; I did this yesterday evening offline). I originally posted this entry in learn_russian not only for the language benefit to the community, but also to provide something that I feel is a very important cultural aspect of Russia. I have been to the memorial there, and I was extremely touched. I know that it arouses strong feelings in Russians, and I think this verse puts those feelings into words. I wanted to translate it because I think that everyone (even though I can only translate it into English) should know about how tragic that period was for St. Petersburg (Leningrad), especially students of Russian language.

The last verse was especially difficult to translate; if anyone has any suggestions for better translations for any segment, please share. Thank you.

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