Alıntı yaparak yanıtla1905 yilinda Nobel Edebiyat Odulunu kazanan Polonyali yazar Henryk Sienkiewicz'in olum yil donumu (15 Kasim 1916)
"647 yili boyunca oyle garip seyler oldu ki, en iyimserler bile ulkenin uzerine buyuk felaketlerin cokecegine inandilar.Bir cekirge surusunun Yaban Topraklar uzerine indigi ve Tatar isgalcilerin ne bugday ne de ot bulamayacaklari kadar yagmaladigi yazilidir gunluklerde. Yine gunluklerde bir gunes tutulmasinin yazi bir an kararttigi, bir goktasinin da gokyuzunu atese verdigi okunur.Ayni doneme dogru Varsova'da kent sakinlerinin coguu havada dalgalanan kanli haclar ve tabutlar gorduler. Gunah cikardilar, oruc tuttular ve kesenin agzini yoksullara actilar. Dunyayi yok edebilecek bir vebanin ortaya cikmakta gecikmeyecegini dusunuyordu cogunluk.Bu alisilmadik yazin ardindan oyle tatli bir kis geldi ki, herkes korktu. Irmaklarin guney bolgelerinde, basibos kalmis buz parcalari sallana sallana, denize dogru iniyorlardi; sonra kar erimeye basladi, ardindan da yagmurla sel geldi, ve butun bozkir genis bir batakliga dondu. Kisin sonu gelmeden, cayirlarin yeserdigi, arilarin calismaya basladigi, kapali kalan hayvanlarin hareketlendigi goruldu. Doganin duzeni allak bullak olmustu.Boylece, bu olaylarin daha iyi izlenebildigi Ukrayna dolaylarında oturanlar, gozleri Yaban Topraklara donuk, korku icinde yasamaya basladilar. Tehlikenin burada geleceginden kimse kusku duymuyordu.Yalnizca buradan gelebilirdi."Ates ve Kilic
"The year 1647 was that wonderful year in which manifold signs in the heavens and on the earth announced misfortunes of some kind and unusual events. Contemporary chroniclers relate that beginning with spring-time myriads of locusts swarmed from the Wilderness, destroying the grain and the grass; this was a forerunner of Tartar raids. In the summer there was a great eclipse of the sun, and soon after a comet appeared in the sky. In Warsaw a tomb was seen over the city, and a fiery cross in the clouds; fasts were held and alms given, for some men declared that a plague would come on the land and destroy the people. Finally, so mild a winter set in, that the oldest inhabitants could not remember the like of it. In the southern provinces ice did not confine the rivers, which, swollen by the daily melting of snows, left their courses and flooded the banks. Rainfalls were frequent. The steppe was drenched, and became an immense slough. The sun was so warm in the south that, wonder of wonders! in Bratslav and the Wilderness a green fleece covered the steppes and plains in the middle of December. The swarms in the beehives began to buzz and bustle; cattle were bellowing in the fields. Since such an order of things appeared altogether unnatural, all men in Russia who were waiting or looking for unusual events turned their excited minds and eyes especially to the Wilderness, from which rather than anywhere else danger might show itself."
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