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by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

Ходит Спесь надуваючись
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  FRE
Ходит Спесь надуваючись,
С боку на бок переваливаясь.
Ростом-то Спесь аршин с четвертью,
Шапка-то на нём во целу сажень,
[Пузо-то его всё в жемчуге,
Сзади-то у него раззолочено.]1
А и [зашёл]2 бы Спесь к отцу, к матери,
Да ворота некрашены!
А и помолился б Спесь во церкви Божией,
Да пол не метён!
[Идёт]3 Спесь, видит: на небе радуга;
Повернул Спесь во другую сторону:
Не пригоже-де мне нагибатися!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Borodin •   M. Musorgsky 

M. Musorgsky sets lines 1-4, 7-13

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1 Borodin: "Пузо-то у Спеси в жемчуге, / Сзади-то у Спеси раззолочено." ("Puzo-to u Spesi v zhemchuge, / Szadi-to u Spesi razzolocheno.")
2 Borodin: "пошёл" ("poshjol")
3 Borodin: "Ходит" ("Khodit")

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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), no title, first published 1856 [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 Aleksandr Porfir'yevich Borodin (1833 - 1887), "Спесь", 1884/5?, published 1890 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Viktor Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (1870 - 1927), "Ходит Спесь надуваючись" [ chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Dmitry Vitalyevich Morozov (1882 - 1942), "Спесь" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881), "Спесь", 1877, published 1882, lines 1-4,7-13 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov (1872 - 1964), "Спесь", op. 31 no. 7 [ mixed chorus a cappella ], Moscow, Leipzig: Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Hans Schmidt) , "Der Dünkel"


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 67

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