an extremly odd question.

A lot of times, in foreign languages, you cannot literally translate the English into that tongue. What you read in the hstory book was most likely the transliteration of the actual Russian phrase which you had translated for you by whatever engine you used. It is very likely absolutely correct for the meaning and import of the phrase.

I would trust that phrasing, and know that 99% of your viewers aren't going to have a clue either way what it says! 

I guess you are right about that.  Ill keep searching, and if not, Ill go for the translatoin.

Умирать перед привождением к  Ленингрода.

Hope it turns out as more than just a bunch of boxes or symbols for you.

Transliteration is something like this: "oomirat pered privozhdyeniyem ka leningrada"

I can kinda read Russian, but I can't really translate it, so I don't know if this sentence is gramatically correct. The transliteration here is from my own head, as best I can rememeber. The little "b" looking character at the end of the first word indicates a  softened "T", so it really sounds more like between a "t" and a "d". Most of the "e" characters have the sound of "yeh" and the one that looks like an 'x', [ж] is more like 'g' in genre. The parts in bold are where the stresses fall, I think. Once again, this is as I rememeber it and it has been a few years since I took Russian, so it may not be exact.

Let me know if it is just some symbols, I can post it as a .jpeg.

edited for bold letters.

 

Jon....nice job. I can't vouch........

What is the Russian style of writing called? Cyrillic.....or something like that? Perhaps scrawled examples for the original poster could be found? 

Yup, Russian uses the cyrillic alphabet. I just thought about this: You can write it like it is printed here, or try to replicate it as best you can in your own handwriting, or you immitate a native writer's hand by using cyrillic script, which is much different than the print. Let me know and I can show you the handwriting.

I have my puter set up so I can read most non english characters, it sometimes has a problem with korean, thats really it.

It wasnt a slogan found on a poster, it was a blood oath taken by Russians defending Lenningrad when the Nazis first attacked.

 Thanks for your help, I am going to run it through a translator to see what that brings up

 

That would be interesting! 

Not sure if it would help, but my coworker's wife is Russian. He could get what you ask for. It would be Sunday/Monday timeframe though.

Is that the exact phrase? Or close enough??

 

Let me know. I'd be glad to help.