Перстенёчек золотой,
Ненаглядный, дорогой!
Светлой памяти любви
В очи чёрные гляди.

Если грустно будет ей,
Ты потускни, почерней;
Если радость — изменись,
Весь алмазом разгорись!

День забвенья ли придёт,
Душа чувство [проживёт]1 —
Тогда, перстень золотой,
[Ты рассыпься]2 сам собой!

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Confirmed with А. В. Кольцов, Полное собрание стихотворений, Ленинград, Советский писатель, 1958.

¹ Varlamov: "изживёт" ("izzhivjot")
² Varlamov: "Почерней ты" ("Pochernej ty")

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Text Authorship:

• by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842), "Перстень", written 1836 [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 Aleksei Vladimirovich Abutkov (1875 - 1945), "Перстенёчек", op. 12 (10 Писен) no. 2 [ voice and piano ], Москва (Moscow), Советвенность Издателя `Симфония' [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Konstantin Nikolayevich Bozhanovsky , "Перстенёчек золотой" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Yuly Antonovich Kapri (1831 - 1918), "Перстенёчек" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Кольцо", op. 27 (Devjat' romansy = Neun Lieder von Kolzoff) no. 5, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801 - 1848), "Перстенёчек золотой" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August von Viedert ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English [singable] (Constance Bache) (William Stigand, né Stigant) , "The ringlet"
• ENG English (Johann Winkler) , "The little ring", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

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