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by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

Translation © by Anton Bespalov, Rianne Stam

Ты помнишь ли вечер, как море шумело

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Ты помнишь ли вечер, как море шумело,
  В шиповнике пел соловей,
Душистые ветки акации белой
  Качались на шляпе твоей?

Меж камней, обросших густым виноградом,
  Дорога была так узка;
В [молчанье]¹ над морем мы ехали рядом,
  [С рукою сходилась]² рука.

Ты так на седле нагибалась красиво,
  Ты алый шиповник рвала,
Буланой лошадки косматую гриву
  С любовью ты им убрала;

Одежды твоей непослушные складки
  Цеплялись за ветви, а ты
Беспечно смеялась — цветы на лошадке,
  В руках и на шляпе цветы!

Ты помнишь ли рёв дождевого потока
  И пену и брызги кругом;
И нам наше горе казалось далёко,
  И как мы забыли о нём!

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• S. Rachmaninov

S. Rachmaninov sets stanzas 1-2, 5

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Confirmed with А. К. Толстой, Сочинения : в 2 т., М.: Художественная литература, 1981. — Т. 1. Стихотворения.

¹ Rachmaninov: "молчании" ("molchanii")
² Rachmaninov: "к руке прилежала" ("k ruke prilezhala")

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Text Authorship:

by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), no title, written 1856, appears in Крымские очерки (Krymskije ocherki), no. 4 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Ты помнишь ли вечер как море шумело", op. 67 (Восемьнадцать стихотворении А.К. Толстого = Vosem'nadcat' stikhotvorenii A. K. Tolstogo (18 Poems of A. K. Tolstoy)) no. 14, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Moscow, P. Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]
by Georgy Eduardovich Konyus (1862 - 1933), "Ты помнишь ли вечер" [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Ты помнишь ли вечер", 1893?, stanzas 1-2,5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Anton Bespalov) (Rianne Stam) , "Do you remember the evening", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Rianne Stam

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 104

Do you remember the evening

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Do you remember the evening, as the sea was turbulent
In the dogrose sang the nightingale
The sweet-scented branches of the acacia
swayed on your hat?

Dense grapevines grew rank between the stones 
The road was so narrow
Silently, above the sea we rode side by side
Your hand lay in mine!











Do you remember the roar of the rain-swollen stream
and foam, and spatter all round?
And to us our sorrows seemed far away
O, how we forgot them!

Note: this is a translation of Rachmaninov's setting.

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), no title, written 1856, appears in Крымские очерки (Krymskije ocherki), no. 4
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 80