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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3653384" data-attributes="member: 24811">I have translated the dedication in [<a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=3274929#post3274929" target="_blank">post #25</a>] above.(As I understand it (I'd be happy to be corrected), невеста ('невѣста' before the spelling reforms), which Google translates as 'bride' (also in the first quote in [<a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=3274929#post3274929" target="_blank">Paul's post</a>] above), can mean a fiancee or a recently married wife. It can also simply mean a girl of an age at which she can marry, but this meaning is not compatible with her having been 'his' невеста.)</blockquote>